Failing your exam because you can’t understand your Chinese professor is okay because it embodies multiculturalism and multiculturalism is always good!

https://uh.edu/~adkugler/Cortes.pdf

https://papers.tinbergen.nl/04134.pdf

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w12518/w12518.pdf

https://gspp.berkeley.edu/assets/uploads/research/pdf/h1b.pdf

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w23153/w23153.pdf

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w13887/w13887.pdf

https://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/feds/2010/201003/201003pap.pdf

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w21588/w21588.pdf

Short list of studies I compiled on immigration and wages. There’s probably more I haven’t thought of but this is a good starter

A lot of the health-related ones should be abolished. Telehealth restrictions for seniors, interstate physician licensing, caps on the number of hospital beds, etc.

Data Dump

Spearman's Hypothesis - Black-White differences on IQ tests positively correlate with the tests' g-loading.

Evidence:


Blacks and Whites

"The analysis of all 15 data points yields a mean vector correlation of 0.57. Spearman’s hypothesis is confirmed comparing Black and White adults."

https://www.mdpi.com/2079-3200/4/2/6

Amerindians, Canadians and Americans

"We carried out a meta-analysis based on 25 data points and a total N = 2706 Amerindians. Spearman's hypothesis was strongly confirmed with a mean r with a value of .62."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289615000367

Latin Americans

"Spearman’s hypothesis was strongly supported with a mean r of 0.63. After correction for various statistical artifacts this value became rho = 0.91. Therefore, we conclude that Spearman’s hypothesis also holds true for White/Latin-American Hispanic differences"

https://www.mdpi.com/2624-8611/1/1/8

Jews

Spearman's hypothesis is tested comparing European Jews and Oriental Jews in Israel.

Two meta-analyses strongly confirm Spearman's hypothesis.

"In both meta-analyses Spearman's hypothesis was strongly confirmed with mean rs with values of, respectively, .80 and .87."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289614000130

Koreans

"Spearman's hypothesis was strongly confirmed with a sample-size-weighted r with a value of 0.63."

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31006388/

The Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) is a standardized exam undergraduate students take in hopes of getting into a medical school. Davis et al. (2013) find that although ethnic groups differ significantly in their mean MCAT scores, there is no evidence that the test itself is racially biased after analyzing its validity.

https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/fulltext/2013/05000/Do_Racial_and_Ethnic_Group_Differences_in.19.aspx

Wait until passengers see the score distributions for the pilot aptitude exam.

Women with septum piercings are disgusting

Some “expert” writing for Vox is gaslighting people to believe that George Floyd was “emotionally appropriate and behaving rationally.” You don’t need some stupid fuck in a lab coat to tell you that Derek Chauvin’s knee wasn’t on the neck the whole time, and that Floyd was having trouble breathing before he was on the ground.

And the media is going to further the narrative by making it seem like the defense is making really dumb arguments (not true) using headlines like this and when Chauvin gets acquitted of murder 2 and 3 the reason is racism in the criminal justice system. Messed up world!

The man just never learns. He might as well endorse John Kasich for Ohio senator

Engzell et al. (2021) examine the effects of school closures using data from the Netherlands. They find either a significant negative learning loss, a moderate negative learning loss, or no learning gain from online learning. This is true across all income levels. The negative learning losses are most pronounced among students of low SES.

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/17/e2022376118

Several results stand out from the meta-analysis. We find a statistically significant negative relationship between ethnic diversity and social trust across all studies. The relationship is stronger for trust in neighbours, and when studied in more local contexts. https://www.amren.com/news/2019/10/ethnic-diversity-and-social-trust-a-narrative-and-meta-analytical-review/

https://humanvarieties.org/2019/12/22/the-persistence-of-cognitive-inequality-reflections-on-arthur-jensens-not-unreasonable-hypothesis-after-fifty-years/

Charles Murray linked this on his Twitter today. It’s very thorough

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/the-false-promise-of-quick-fix-psychology-11617981093

Excellent essay on the problems with social psychology

https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/ect-dangerous-either-side-pond
Turns out that subjecting your brain to 150V of electricity might not be safe after all

500 views on my last study and not a single new subscriber. Many such cases! Sad!

Hunter is so dumb lmao

Good news. Frampton et al. (2021) examine the new covid-19 strain (B.1.1.7) in the UK and although they find that it spreads at higher rates than the original strain, patients don’t die at higher rates nor do they have worse outcomes after contracting it.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(21)00170-5/fulltext

You can’t question who immigrants will vote for when they come here but you can openly call for cleansing against right-wingers and be embraced by a somewhat mainstream news outlet. Makes sense