Blacks Will Be Blacks

https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/blacks-will-be-blacks/

Amnesty International is getting ratioed here, if you want to join in. Lots of great responses.

Smart fraction theory vindicated
https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/smart-fraction-theory-vindicated

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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Ex-Virginia Tech Soccer Player Allegedly Benched for Refusing to Kneel Gets $100K Settlement
https://www.amren.com/news/2023/01/ex-virginia-tech-soccer-player-allegedly-benched-for-refusing-to-kneel-gets-100k-settlement/

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/

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/

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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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

"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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Facing the Facts About Test Score Gaps

https://psyarxiv.com/863cv

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It’s Official: Leftist Researchers Lie. That’s Why Universities Are Doomed.
https://www.unz.com/article/its-official-leftist-researchers-lie-thats-why-universities-are-doomed/

Achievement Gains Are Unrelated to Increased Spending

http://hanushek.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/publications/Hanushek%202016%20EdNext%2016%282%29.pdf

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New study. 62% of British universities use "trigger warnings". 56% reference "white privilege" in guidance for staff & students. 59% reference "anti-racism" in training & resources. Elite 'high tariff' universities especially likely to do so

The Radical Progressive University Guide
https://www.civitas.org.uk/publications/the-radical-progressive-university-guide/

Civil Rights in 2023: Wells Fargo Pauses Its Mortgage Lending Program to White Applicants, Prioritizing Non-White Lenders
https://www.unz.com/sbpdl/civil-rights-in-2023-wells-fargo-pauses-its-mortgage-lending-program-to-white-applicants-prioritizing-non-white-lenders/

Does school make students kill themselves?
https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/does-school-make-students-kill-themselves

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New study suggests that circumcision doesn't protect males against HIV infection, contrary to widespread belief

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-biosocial-science/article/abs/ageincidence-and-prevalence-of-hiv-among-intact-and-circumcised-men-an-analysis-of-phia-surveys-in-southern-africa/CAA7E7BD5A9844F41C6B7CC3573B9E50

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A major argument in Adam Rutherford's book + the culture generally is that the races have been in gene-flow contact throughout history and that this somehow means that major differences can't arise.

The thing is, speciation is possible in the presence of gene flow:
https://sci-hub.ru/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2005.02.010

These things are a matter of degree. It of course makes sense that this is the case, as even if the boundary between two gene pools is merely clinal, the two gene pools can still be different enough on net that said differences between gene pools have to be taken into when 'deciding' if a new allele is adaptive in one or the other. When this sort of gene-gene interaction structure starts to develop, this can make a difference between groups which was once purely clinal stop being so.

People like Rutherford who think that gene flow has something to do with the plausibility of group differences are also more right than they know; as it turns out, countries with larger genetic distances tend to have larger absolute IQ gaps:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S019188691630174X

Now how continuous are the human group differences?
A) Although genetic distance increases with geographic distance, genetic distances between genetic clusters are larger than what would be predicted from the geographic distances between the clusters:
https://sci-hub.ru/https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.0010070
B) This of course makes sense gives that the boundaries between groups tend to align with geographic barriers like mountains + deserts + bodies of water + etc:
https://sci-hub.ru/https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msz280

Rationality and the fair sex

A review of sex differences in rationality

https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/rationality-and-the-fair-sex

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