Cognitive ability and the Big 5 explain 28% of the variance in academic performance. Cognitive ability is the most important predictor, accounting for 64% of the explained variance; conscientiousness is the second most important, accounting for 28%.

Big Five personality traits and academic performance: A meta-analysis

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jopy.12663
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#education #BigFive #intelligence
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Honesty as a surprisingly strong marker of intelligence

New paper out: Honesty, Intelligence, and Race
https://www.emilkirkegaard.com/p/new-paper-out-honesty-intelligence

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#intelligence #honesty #race
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"Two groups are more likely to stay single: unattractive, low-educated men and unattractive, high-educated women."

Brains or beauty? Causal evidence on the returns to education and attractiveness in the online dating market

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047272721000086
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#dating #men #women
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Rates of suicide remain elevated for those who identify as transgender despite widespread access to medical transition services.

STUDY ANALYSIS: Transgender Identity and Suicide Attempts and Mortality in Denmark
https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/study-analysis-transgender-identity

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#trans #LGBT #MentalHealth #suicide
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Confidence in U.S. Military Lowest in Over Two Decades

https://news.gallup.com/poll/509189/confidence-military-lowest-two-decades.aspx
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#military #USA
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Stability and Change in Intelligence From Age 12 to Age 52: Results From the Luxembourg MAGRIP Study

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233410556_Stability_and_Change_in_Intelligence_From_Age_12_to_Age_52_Results_From_the_Luxembourg_MAGRIP_Study

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Scientific productivity by country

https://www.emilkirkegaard.com/p/scientific-productivity-by-country

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Happiness data in the US, a thread

https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1687601611542278144

This is interesting

You probably heard about that recent study that claimed women in modern foraging societies have played a major role in hunting, here is a link to it:

The Myth of Man the Hunter: Women’s contribution to the hunt across ethnographic contexts
https://web.archive.org/web/20230728193812/https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287101

Well i just stumbled upon this critique of said study, here are the main points:

-The sampling methodology is likely biased toward reports of female hunters, producing an inflated estimate of the frequency of women’s hunting (80%). More realistic estimates are offered.

-The claim that women commonly participate in the hunting of large game does not hold up under closer scrutiny.

Link:
https://www.vivekvenkataraman.com/blog

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https://justdad7180.substack.com/p/lies-trans-lies-and-statistics

Here is a good article that explains some basic information about statistics and relates it to how the pro-trans side can be debunked by using this knowledge

Hostile sexism is live and well, but mostly in favor of women

https://www.emilkirkegaard.com/p/hostile-sexism-is-live-and-well-but
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Gen Z will be last generation with white majority in US, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/08/gen-z-americans-white-majority-study

Most Canadians See Immigration Increase as Negative for Housing Costs

https://archive.is/icy4O

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#Canada #immigration #housing
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The mod is still up on ModDB and the comments are interesting. Feel free to chime in, but please be as diplomatic and reasonable as you can.

https://www.moddb.com/mods/grounded-commonwealth

I know this is offtopic, but give a man some support, he put alot of work to this mod.

Eleven years of student replication projects provide evidence on the correlates of replicability in psychology
https://psyarxiv.com/dpyn6

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#psychology #ReplicationCrisis
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Inbred mice, studied alone or in combination, do not accurately reproduce the genetic diversity of human populations and of rare human patients. https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-immunol-101721-065201

Genetic adaptation to pathogens and increased risk of inflammatory disorders in post-Neolithic Europe. https://www.cell.com/cell-genomics/pdf/S2666-979X(22)00211-7.pdf

Left-wing German politician who was raped by migrants admits she LIED to police about her attackers' nationality because she did not want to encourage racism

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3675154/Left-wing-German-politician-raped-migrants-admits-LIED-police-attackers-nationality-did-not-want-encourage-racism.html

The data is clear, sexual assault and rape are disproportionately committed by non-Western migrants, overwhelmingly those from Africa, the Middle-East and South Asia.

The Imported Rape of Europe
https://archive.is/7ZG26

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#Europe #crime #immigration #rape #sweden #norway #finland #denmark #spain #italy #austria #UK #Germany
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