They Hook You When You’re Young

How do events from our childhood shape our adult preferences?

I recently studied this question using a classic American example: baseball. I tested how a team’s performance at every age of our childhood affects which team we root for as adults. From Facebook’s publicly available advertising platform, I downloaded data on how many fans every baseball team has, broken out by gender and age. CONT.

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, New York Times

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