Is polygamy bad for society?
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No
When did humans first domesticate cats?
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9,000 years ago
Is it all right for infants or toddlers to have small amounts of exposure to television?
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Yes
How many boys are born in China for every 100 girls?
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About 125
Is Michele Bachmann stupid?
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Yes
True or False? "Driving while high on marijuana is as dangerous as driving drunk."
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False
True or False? "The Bush tax cuts favored the rich."
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False
Does meditation help lower your stress level?
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No, meditation does not lower your stress level more than simple resting.
True or False? "A martian meteorite contains fossils of extraterrestrial life."
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False
How many Americans are members of the Ku Klux Klan?
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About 4,000
How long ago did Neanderthals die out?
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30,000 years ago.
True or False? "Polygamy is good for men and bad for women."
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False
Why polygamy is good for women. - By Tim Harford - Slate Magazine
A lot of the knee-jerk reactions against polygyny are from people who can't add up.
In the Sahel region of Africa, half of all women live in polygynous households.
The other half have a good choice of men and a lot more bargaining power.
How many Buddhists are there in the United States?
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4 million
Did Democrats or Republicans win the battle of 2010?
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Democrats won.
Did Hitler have only one testicle?
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No, Hitler had two testicles.
What is the dollar value of a human life?
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$8 million
True or False? "President Ronald Reagan won the Cold War."
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True
How many women did early Mormon leader Brigham Young marry?
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20
Did legalizing abortion reduce crime?
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No.
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Yes.
Should prostitution be legal?
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No
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Yes
True or False? "Getting an epidural during childbirth makes it more difficult for women to push when it comes time to deliver."
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False
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True
When did humans learn to make fire?
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1.8 million years ago
What is the economic cost of a murder in the United States?
Who started the American Civil War?
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The Confederate states
True or False? "Cheap wine in the United States is good."
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True
True or False? "Methamphetamine use is increasing."
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False
What percentage of women change their names after marriage?
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90% - 94%
True or False? "Meditation is effective in treating depression."
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False
Are anti-oxidants beneficial to your health?
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No
True or False? "Getting an epidural during childbirth prolongs labor."
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True
Was Adolf Hitler a vegetarian?
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No
True or False? "Life that uses Arsenic instead of Phosphorus has been discovered."
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It is unclear -- more tests are needed.
The NASA study of arsenic-based life was fatally flawed, say scientists. - By Carl Zimmer - Slate Magazine
Almost unanimously, they think the NASA scientists have failed to make their case.
But, he added, "none of the arguments are very convincing on their own."
"This Paper Should Not Have Been Published"
But, he added, "none of the arguments are very convincing on their own."
Is Scientology a cult?
Should the United States implement a higher tax on gasoline?
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Yes
Is it better to have one designated study area, or to change locations?
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Different study locations.
Was Sarah Palin's account of Paul Revere's ride correct or incorrect?
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Incorrect
Can you die of sleep deprivation?
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Yes
What is the Russian language word for "freedom"?
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"Svoboda"
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No such word exists in the Russian language.
How many spaces should you use between sentences?
True or False? "The female contraceptive pill is in part responsible for male infertility."
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False
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True
True or False? "A 51-star American flag would be irregular."
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False
Who talks more on average: men or women?
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Men and women talk roughly the same amount.
When did humans first domesticate dogs?
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30,000 years ago
Should polygamy be legal?
Should homosexual couples be allowed to adopt children?
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Yes
How old is the dog species?
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20,000 years old
True or False? "Abraham Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, was insane."
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It is unclear.
Has Chuck Hagel received money from a group called "Friends of Hamas"?
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No
Is Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan a lesbian?
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No, Elena Kagan is heterosexual.
Is wine art?
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No
Is George W. Bush stupid?
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Yes
Where are the earliest bones of dogs?
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Goyet Cave, Belgium
Is the science behind global warming settled?
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Yes
Should the West intervene militarily in Libya's civil war?
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Yes
Do organic fruits and vegetables have more nutrients than conventional ones?
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It is unclear.
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No -- there is no difference.
Is homosexuality genetic (at least in part)?
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Yes
True or False? "Sweden has charged Julian Assange with sexual assault because his condom broke accidentally."
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False.
Does earning $250,000 a year make a family rich?
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It depends.
The deluded business pundits and Obama critics who think $250,000 ...
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Yes.
The deluded Obama critics who think $250000 is a middle-class ...
But income data can surely tell us something.
So a household that earned $250, 000 made five times the median.
True or False? "On average, more expensive wines are better."
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False
True or False? "Obama's grandmother, Sarah Obama, said Obama was born in Kenya."
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False
True or False? "Television and radio stations are legitimate military targets."
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True
How many people are members of the NRA?
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4.0 million
Is global warming occurring?
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Yes.
Do epidurals interfere with breastfeeding?
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Merged Viewpoint: It is unclear.
When did humans first domesticate horses?
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3500 BC
Is Buddhism more rational than Christianity?
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No
True or False? "Buddhism is functionally theistic."
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True
True or False? "Getting an epidural during childbirth increases the risk of needing a Caesarian section."
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False
What is the projected maximum world population?
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9 billion.
True or False? "Balancing the federal budget requires raising taxes."
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True
Is Christianity a cult?
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Yes
When did the tradition of giving diamond engagement rings start?
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A DeBeers advertising campaign in the 1930s.
Is Rick Perry crazy?
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Yes
Are we winning the War on Drugs?
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No
Does lying to your child about Santa Claus cause psychological damage?
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No
Will the Antichrist be Jewish?
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Yes
Does lying to your child about Santa Claus cause post-traumatic stress disorder?
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No
Does lying to your child about Santa Claus make him more likely to doubt religion?
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No
Do people have free will?
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No
Are Creationism and Intelligent Design essentially the same?
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Yes
Does putting two spaces between sentences improve readability?
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It is unclear.
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No
True or False? "Atheism is gaining in the United States."
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True
Does using an epidural during childbirth cause the newborn to be less alert?
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No
When will global population peak and begin to decline?
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2070
True or False? "Professional wine critics can distinguish between high- and low-cost bottles in blinded experiments."
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True
True or False? "The left is wrong to wish the association between minorities and crime away only by pointing out how unfair it is."
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True
True or False? "The right is wrong to believe the association between minorities and crime must be accurate merely because it is widespread."
Is it normal to associate minorities with crime?
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Yes
True or False? "47.6% of high school freshmen boys have sex. "
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True
True or False? "50.1% of high school senior girls have sex. "
True or False? "Sheep and goats were first domesticated roughly 11,000 years ago."
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True
True or False? "The gene for male homosexuality persists because it promotes—and is passed down through—high rates of procreation among gay men's mothers, sisters, and aunts."
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True
True or False? "This theory doesn't account for female homosexuality, which another new study (reviewed in Human Nature last week) attributes to nongenetic factors."
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True
True or False? "Mammals all descend from a common ancestor."
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True
True or False? "In fact, all that cognitive science has revealed is that the mind is an emergent phenomenon, which is difficult to explain or predict in terms of its parts; few scientists would equate the property of emergence with nonexistence, as anatta
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True
True or False? "Chogyam Trungpa, who helped introduce Tibetan Buddhism to the United States in the 1970s, was a promiscuous drunk and bully, and he died of alcohol-related illness in 1987."
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True
True or False? "But what troubles me most about Buddhism is its implication that detachment from ordinary life is the surest route to salvation."
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True
True or False? "Humans are an accidental event."
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True
True or False? "Most people prefer cheap wine to expensive wine."
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True
True or False? "Most people can pick out expensive wines in a blind taste test."
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False
What percentage of first-time pregnant American women get epidurals?
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70%
Is organic meat better for your health than conventional meat?
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No
True or False? "By the time children learn the truth about Santa Claus (which is usually by age 8, according to Jacqueline Woolley, a psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin), they typically understand the difference between these types of lies,
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True
What percentage of American women will be raped at some point in their lives?
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13%
Should environmentalists support nuclear power?
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Yes
True or False? "no one has died in the United States as a consequence of a nuclear power accident."
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True
Can solar power and wind power solve our energy needs?
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No
True or False? "Tomatoes were once thought to be poisonous."
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True
When did Homo erectus first appear?
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1.8 million years ago