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Study: There has been a continuous chipping away at direct democracy (e.g. initiatives, referendums) at the state-level in the US over the last 70 years. "The strongest predictor of anti-direct-democracy proposals is Republican control of the state legislature."

In a study of Greek-speaking participants, the strongest predictor of failure to attract mates was poor flirting ability: One unit increase in flirting capacity was associated with a more than three times increase in the probability to be in an intimate relationship than involuntarily single.