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Politics and Academic Values in Higher Education: Just How Much Does Political Orientation Drive the Values of the Ivory Tower?

https://robkhenderson.substack.com/p/academic-values

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Transmaxxing: the Incel-To-Transwoman Pipeline

why a community of depressed young men with nothing to lose is convinced the only way out of their misery is gender transition

https://www.piratewires.com/p/transmaxxing
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Forwarded from The War Monger Channel
A study that tried to find discrimination in college admissions found said discrimination. But, it was Anti White discrimination they found!

Carnevale et al (2019)

This study, paid for by the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, found that white people were discriminated against in college admissions

If students were admitted solely on the basis of their test scores, the white student population would soar from 197,000 to 225,000. Every other ethnic group’s numbers would fall. Asians would decline from 56,000 to 32,000; Hispanics from 32,000 to 29,000; and blacks from 16,000 to 14,000 (Page 9)
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Though secularism and education are broadly associated, When comparing siblings in the same family to control for environmental and genetic confounding the more religious sibling is more academically accomplished.

Not a family matter: The effects of religiosity on academic outcomes based on evidence from siblings
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0049089X20300247?via%3Dihub

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Forwarded from American Krogan
Amnesty International is getting ratioed here, if you want to join in. Lots of great responses.
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Self-control is about 60% heritable, according to this meta-analysis of 31 studies.

The heritability of self-control: A meta-analysis
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763418307905

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82% of published humanities articles are never cited. Of those that get cited, only 20% get read. Half of all papers get read only by their authors, reviewers, and editors.

Why Academics Are Writing Junk That Nobody Reads
https://intellectualtakeout.org/2023/01/academic-writing-nobody-reads/
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Most Intro Psych textbooks ignore the many criticisms that have been raised against the Implicit Association Test (IAT). "Overall, 82% of the texts were rated as biased or partially biased on their coverage of the IAT."

The Implicit Association Test in Introductory Psychology Textbooks: Blind Spot for Controversy

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/14757257211055200

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University of Michigan Spends More Than $18 Million on DEI Staff Salary, Benefits

The University of Michigan will spend more than $18 million this academic year on salary and benefits for its diversity, equity, and inclusion staff

https://www.amren.com/news/2023/01/university-of-michigan-spends-more-than-18-million-on-dei-staff-salary-benefits/
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How bad is low level lead poisoning? Probably not that bad
https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/how-bad-is-low-level-lead-poisoning

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#lead #poison
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Forwarded from House of Wagner
Women are 70% more likely to initiate and seek out couples therapy to try and save their broken marriage

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-0606.2003.tb01198.x
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"While only 23% recommend 'reject' when the prominent researcher is the only author shown, 48% do so when the paper is anonymized, and 65% do so when the little-known author is the only author shown."

Nobel and novice: Author prominence affects peer review

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2205779119

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#bias #PeerReview
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