{"id":15689,"date":"2017-09-14T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15689"},"modified":"2017-09-14T07:25:01","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T11:25:01","slug":"fear-the-dragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/fear-the-dragons\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear The Dragons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/091417_1122_FearTheDrag1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"473\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Economist wrote about how the Chinese zodiac calendar can affect life outcomes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dragons are a respected symbol in China and those born in the year of the dragon are thought to have a bright future.<\/li>\n<li>Chinese births dramatically increased in 2000 and 2012 \u2013 the two most recent dragon years. This is particularly remarkable since China&#8217;s one child policy makes it difficult to time births.<\/li>\n<li>Dragon children get higher grades and are 11 percentage points more likely to go to university.<\/li>\n<li>This seems to be because parents invest more in dragon children by educating them, giving them more pocket money, and reducing their chores.<\/li>\n<li>This self-fulfilling prophecy effect demonstrates the power of expectations in driving success.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/graphicdetail\/2017\/09\/daily-chart-0?fsrc=scn\/tw\/te\/bl\/ed\/\">The Economist<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist wrote about how the Chinese zodiac calendar can affect life outcomes: Dragons are a respected symbol in China and those born in the year of the dragon are thought to have a bright future. Chinese births dramatically increased in 2000 and 2012 \u2013 the two most recent dragon years. This is particularly remarkable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/091417_1122_FearTheDrag1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15689"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15692,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15689\/revisions\/15692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}