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Are knowledgeable voters better voters?

"Empirical work in psychology and political science indicates that politically knowledgeable individuals are often highly partisan and that partisans tend to be biased, dogmatic, and polarized."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1470594X211065080

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Economics research is mostly untrustworthy because economists cheat so much with the statistics
https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/economics-research-is-mostly-untrustworthy

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#economics #cheat
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“The area measures of cortical surface and total brain volumes of European descendants in the United States correlate significantly with their ancestral geographic locations in Europe.”

A geographic cline of skull and brain morphology among individuals of European Ancestry

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21849792/

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#brain #USA #Europe
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Forwarded from Thuletide
Pew Research 2022 summary:
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/12/13/striking-findings-from-2022/

- Christians will be a minority by 2070.

- Reparations supported by 18% of Whites, 77% of Blacks, and only 8% of Republicans.

- ~70% of Democrats who experienced bad weather attributed it to climate change, vs ~30% of Republicans.

- 70% of Americans view Russia as an enemy of the US after the invasion of Ukraine vs 49% pre-invasion.

- Abortion: 19% support legal in all cases, 8% illegal in all cases, 71% in between.

- 5% of Americans under 30 believe that they are "transgender" or "non-binary."

- Most journalists support censorship: 55% think that "all sides do not deserve equal coverage" vs 22% non-journalists.

- Blacks now suffer more overdose deaths than Whites and Amerindians.

- The middle class is shrinking.

- Party polarization has increased since 2016.
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Just-published study finds that "associations between childhood psychopathology and adult traits like insomnia and subjective well-being may be primarily driven by genetic factors that influence adult major depression."

Multivariate analyses of molecular genetic associations between childhood psychopathology and adult mood disorders and related traits

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36380638/

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#genetics #WellBeing #disorder
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Forwarded from The War Monger Channel (War Monger)
Militarization of police reduces crime

Trilling (2017)

A 10 percent increase in the total value of military aid [given to a community] leads to a decrease of 5.9 crimes per 100,000 population. Military aid is associated with a fall in local citizens’ complaints about crime.

Based on the average cost of a crime, the authors conduct a cost-benefit analysis that reasons $5,800 worth of military gear can save society about $112,000. Thus, military aid is “a very inexpensive crime-reducing tool” when compared to the costs and benefits of hiring additional police officers.
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"Intelligence contributes 48–90 times more than grit [perseverance of effort] to educational success and 13 times more to job-market success."

In a Representative Sample Grit Has a Negligible Effect on Educational and Economic Success Compared to Intelligence
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1948550620920531

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#grit #intelligence #education #job #success
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