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A Diagnosis Only Works If Somebody Hears It
Researchers at Yale linked the Health and Retirement Study to Medicare claims covering 1998 to 2020, and compared what was written in the clinical record with what people said about themselves. Among respondents with probable dementia and a claims-based diagnosis, 67 per cent did not report having been diagnosed. That is more than double the underreporting rate for other conditions in the same population. For hypertension it was 23 per cent....
Busy Is Not the Same as Producing
Korn Ferry's Workforce 2026 Global Insights Report surveyed people at every level from entry positions to chief executives, across eleven markets including Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, India, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States. Sixty-two per cent said their workload had become significantly heavier over the past two years. Forty-four per cent said they were stretched beyond...
They Bought the Tool, Not the Change
Eagle Hill Consulting commissioned Ipsos to survey senior business leaders in early March. More than half said their organisation's recent technology investments had failed to fully achieve their intended outcomes. The most commonly cited reason was not cost, not vendor failure and not the technology itself. It was underestimating the impact of new technology on day-to-day work. Only 35 per cent said their organisation had considered day-to-day...
Ten Minutes Is a Low Bar to Clear
A study has found that people who listened to NPR's Up First came away knowing more about the news and trusting it more. One of the researchers' own framings is the part worth dwelling on: it is generally not easy to change people's attitudes about anything. That caveat is not modesty. It is the finding's context. Most interventions aimed at shifting what people believe about institutions do nothing measurable at all. Campaigns, corrections,...
Judged for How, Rather Than Whether
Researchers looking at how people on GLP-1 medications talk about their treatment found something specific in the behaviour. Participants carefully assessed the attitudes of the people around them before deciding whether to disclose at all. That is not secrecy. It is a calculation, run repeatedly, in real time, about each individual listener. The surrounding evidence is consistent. UK survey work covering more than three thousand patients found...