"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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"Our studies demonstrate that many psychology researchers overestimate the evidence in favor of a theory if one or more results from a set of replication studies are statistically significant, highlighting the need for better statistical education."

How do psychology researchers interpret the results of multiple replication studies?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-022-02235-5

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The Problem of Bias in Psychological Assessment

"the current evidence largely supports the proposition that most commercially developed widely use tests of achievement and aptitude are not culturally biased."

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-59455-8_15

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Texas A&M medical school bragged about removing photos of white male alumni
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/texas-a-m-medical-school-remove-white-photos

“A study using fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) data to estimate IQ achieves a correlation of 0.68 with intelligence scores.”

Towards a “Treadmill Test” for Cognition: Reliable Prediction of Intelligence From Whole-Brain Task Activation Patterns
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/412056v1

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The distribution of attractiveness

https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/the-distribution-of-attractiveness

Artificial intelligence predicts patients’ race from their medical images

Study shows AI can identify self-reported race from medical images that contain no indications of race detectable by human experts.
https://news.mit.edu/2022/artificial-intelligence-predicts-patients-race-from-medical-images-0520

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Fury as teaching activist admits selling Georgia schools and kindergartens ILLEGAL critical race theory lesson plans: Footage shows him bragging about being an 'evil salesman' who does not care what parents think because 'I still get paid'

'If you don't say the word critical race theory you can technically teach it.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11656695/Fury-Georgia-teaching-activist-admits-selling-ILLEGAL-critical-race-theory-schools.html

Almost All Scientific Fraud in Psychology Backs Up Leftist Dogmas
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hg3lqlYHb_4&feature=youtu.be

"Colin Flaherty devoted an entire chapter to violence and crime on public transit. At the chapter’s outset, Flaherty writes ,“It is amazing how many of the more than five hundred examples of racial violence in this book are connected to public transit.”[2] The chapter documents a whole litany of incidents in a dozen American cities from Boston to Seattle and points in-between. In one particular instance, public transit facilitated a violent race riot in Venice, California in 2011"

Public Transit in Multicultural Hell
https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/public-transit-in-multicultural-hell/

Colonialism did not cause the Indian famines

"Failure of the Monsoon caused the Deccan famines. The Raj learned lessons. The results were famine codes, canal construction, railways, sanitation, cholera control ... a sharp fall in death rates from 1901."

https://historyreclaimed.co.uk/colonialism-did-not-cause-the-indian-famines/

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Michigan school board member facing calls to resign after tweeting ‘whiteness is evil’
https://nypost.com/2023/01/20/michigan-school-board-member-slammed-for-tweeting-whiteness-is-evil/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons