Dogs with larger brains are better at the doggy equivalent of the marshmallow task: placing a treat in front of them and obeying the command not to eat it.

Absolute brain size predicts dog breed differences in executive function
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-018-01234-1
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#intelligence #brain #dogs #size
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Twitter thread with more studies
thttps://twitter.com/notcomplex_/status/1746286184978944221

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1746286184978944221.html

Ideology and Performance in Public Organizations
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.3982/ECTA20355

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The dark side of environmental activism
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886923004294

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#Environmentalism #psychology #activism
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-Two in three Americans say the Supreme Court’s decision is “mostly a good thing”

-Black adults are split on whether the decision is good (52%) or bad (48%)

-48% of Black prospective students say it impacts which schools they apply to

Post-Affirmative Action, Views on Admissions Differ by Race
https://news.gallup.com/poll/548528/post-affirmative-action-views-admissions-differ-race.aspx
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#AffirmativeAction #race
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Correlation between immigration and criminality, a thread:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1731305590050160827.html

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#immigration #crime
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Immigration will not "save" social security or the welfare state.

Native born Americans will only use 95% of the benefits they pay into social security. Leaving a small but healthy surplus for the future of the program.

While foreign born workers will collect 120% of the benefits they pay in, representing a major deficit for the program.

50% of all immigrant households, including 55% of all non-citizen led households in the US receive some form of welfare benfit in the United States. Just 32% of native born American households receive any kind of state welfare benefit.

Excluding the earned income tax credit just 28% of native born households make use of the welfare state, while 45% of immigrant households, and 51% of non-citizen households, still collect on some other form of state benefit.

Only 14% of immigration ot the United States is based upon employment, the remaining 86% is overwhelmingly composed of family members of immigrants.

Immigration is bankrupting the United States, driving down wages, and driving up the cost of living and housing.

Bias is Often Unpredictable
https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/bias-is-often-unpredictable
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"Are mental health professionals likely to have or have had mental health problems? The answer seems to be yes"

How Sad Are Psychologists?
https://www.mentaldisorder.ca/p/how-sad-are-psychologists
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#psychology #MentalHealth
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Twitter thread
https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1747550947465953767

https://nitter.net/sleepy_devo/status/1747350127579136264#m

Graph is from this article:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/does-raj-chetty-practice-what-he-preaches/

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#race #crime #SES #wealth #income #poverty
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“Starting June 2020, Massachusetts began temporarily letting anyone with a bachelor’s degree teach… their students saw about the same rate of growth in math and reading as children taught by regularly licensed educators.”

Emergency-Hired Teachers Do Just as Well as Those Who Go Through Normal Training
https://www.the74million.org/article/emergency-hired-teachers-do-just-as-well-as-those-who-go-through-normal-training/
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#education #school #teachers
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Putin promotes mixed marriages as the basis of Russian national unity 🤡

The Goldilocks zone between inbreeding and outbreeding

https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/the-goldilocks-zone-between-inbreeding
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You probably heard those claims that say James Watson has some non european DNA, but thats most likely not true

Fake news on James Watson's DNA
https://www.emilkirkegaard.com/p/fake-news-on-james-watsons-dna

A widely reported 2015 study purported to show that men are highly likely to divorce their wife if she falls sick. However, it was actually retracted quickly by the authors themselves because of one serious error:

People who fell out of the study were miscoded as divorces.

Thread:
https://twitter.com/Scientific_Bird/status/1743746334551658931

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1743746334551658931.html
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#men #divorce #health #relationships #retracted
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Who are the most right-wing Americans?
https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/who-are-the-most-right-wing-americans

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#USA #conservative #liberal
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An ideological divide is emerging between young men and women in many countries around the world.

https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1750849189834022932

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1750849189834022932.html
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#women #men #division
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Do human races exist?

A second look at Richard Lewontin's argument
https://peterfrost.substack.com/p/do-human-races-exist
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#race #Lewontin
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GSS survey data on political ideology among single americans

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-Surveys of sociologists from the 1950s to 2020s show that it is an extremely left-wing field even by comparison with other academic social science fields.

-Surveys that include explicit questions about communism are hard to find, but one such survey found that 25% of sociologists identified as "Marxists", which was the highest among any field in the survey.

-A seemingly forgotten survey of college students from the 1960s showed that their stereotypes of professors' politics was amazingly accurate, r = .98, and still tended to underestimate the degree of leftism among the professors.

-Other data shows that the public is still largely ignorant of the extremity of leftism among professors, but that among those who are aware, are much less trusting of professors and science in general.

-Leftist sociologists, like other academics (e.g. psychologists), play a two-faced game where they seek to dominate their fields to maximize influence, while at the same time trying to appear as mere objective scientists to the public, so they don't get defunded or lose social influence.

-There doesn't appear to be any known political methods that is consistent with classical liberal values of free inquiry that doesn't result in an extreme political imbalance in academic fields like sociology.

The politics of sociology
https://www.emilkirkegaard.com/p/the-politics-of-sociology
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#politics #sociology #ideology #leftwing
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Danish survey experiment shows that when mainstream left Social Democrats change their position -- or appear to do so -- on immigration, this moves quite a lot of voters over to them from anti-immigration parties.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fb3974fee5f4e6e91c1fef1/t/60759cb70a1091620c10c5b0/1618320568425/when-does-accommodation-work-electoral-effects-of-mainstream-left-position-taking-on-immigration.pdf
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#denmark #immigration #SocialDemocrats
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