Mapping Honesty and Property Crime

Sep 18, 2016 by

Mapping Honesty and Property Crime

[This post was originally published in October 2013] Honesty, like other personality traits, is notoriously difficult to test, let alone map. A rather ingenious new study attempted to measure honesty in an unusual way. Instead of...

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The Geography of Sin

Sep 18, 2016 by

The Geography of Sin

[This post was originally published in February 2012] As discussed in earlier posts, abstract concepts such as personality or happiness can be mapped. A few years ago, geographers from Kansas State University tried to map the spatial...

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