As with many findings in academic psychology, the connection between childhood conscientiousness and adult well-being simply proves common sense.
It's that we can't even implement proven common-sense solutions that others have long mastered — some form of national health care, gun control, road pricing, a gasoline tax to escape our budget and carbon bind.
We need effective, proven, common-sense practices that will strengthen our existing schools, rather than undermine them.
Any original thinking was sacrificed at the altar of time-proven, common sense process.
Tracking property transactions across time, the researchers found prices had completely adjusted to a new tax system after just four months that is, prices had become bunched at new points—even when the government changed tax rates unexpectedly.What works, what doesn'tIf this proves what common sense would predict, another discovery was surprising.
Though we are disappointed that Congress has proven unable to pass common sense climate legislation, if the plans laid out... by President Obama are implemented, they promise to advance U.S. efforts to address the climate crisis that threatens people and communities around the world.
But he insisted that after the scorecards were filled out, the system that emerged from a year of debate would prove "a victory for common sense".
It even stars Toni Collette again, this time playing an eccentric force of nature whose straight-talking common sense proves vital in restoring a broken family.
Brian Wansink is a psychologist (author of Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think) who has done numerous experiments to prove what you would hope common sense might already tell us: that oversized tableware makes us consume bigger portions.
Yet for all his experience in government and his worldly common sense, Nye proves in his analyses how mired we all are in the mud of nationalism, unable to devise a genuine transnational policy that would let us begin to function as citizens of the world.
Not that we needed studies to prove this – it's just common sense.
