Forwarded from House of Wagner
On the accuracy of abstracts
https://vinumdiaboli.wordpress.com/2021/08/09/on-the-accuracy-of-abstracts/
https://vinumdiaboli.wordpress.com/2021/08/09/on-the-accuracy-of-abstracts/
Vinum Daemoniorum
On The Accuracy of Abstracts
We should read studies fully instead of simply relying on abstracts, especially since abstracts tend to be misleading.
Forwarded from Raza y Sociedad/Race and Society
Clear Language, Clear Mind
"There’s been no biological change in humans in 40,000 or 50,000 years."
Marxist ideologue Steven Jay Gould famously claimed this in a 2000 interview called The Spice of Life. It follows a questions-answers format, and the entirety of this question is:
L2L: Finally, given all the analogies and imposed models that you see—what…
L2L: Finally, given all the analogies and imposed models that you see—what…
Meta-analysis finds that correcting for publication bias reduces the relationship between lead exposure and crime to virtually nothing.
https://gla.ac.uk/media/Media_774797_smxx.pdf
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https://gla.ac.uk/media/Media_774797_smxx.pdf
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The ‘Hereditarians bad people’ objection
https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2021/08/the-hereditarians-bad-people-objection/
https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2021/08/the-hereditarians-bad-people-objection/
Clear Language, Clear Mind
The 'Hereditarians bad people' objection
Bo Winegard has a thread on this piece here. I didn't know about it at the time of writing.
Boomer woman journalist Cathy Young has a new piece out: The Reality of "Race Realism". Actually, it's supposed to be a book review of sorts, but Cathy tells us…
Boomer woman journalist Cathy Young has a new piece out: The Reality of "Race Realism". Actually, it's supposed to be a book review of sorts, but Cathy tells us…
Forwarded from House of Wagner
New study from top Harvard political scientist confirms that the few right-leaning academics in the West are experiencing a much greater loss of freedom than the leftist majority
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00323217211037023
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00323217211037023
Forwarded from House of Wagner
Black officers shooting black suspects gets picked up by the national news in just 9% of cases. By contrast, 38% of the cases of a white officer shooting a black suspect get national coverage.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2870189
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/07/08/selective_media_reporting_further_fuels_our_racial_divide_143649.amp.html?__twitter_impression=true
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2870189
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/07/08/selective_media_reporting_further_fuels_our_racial_divide_143649.amp.html?__twitter_impression=true
Ssrn
Do White Police Officers Unfairly Target Black Suspects?
Using a unique new data set on police-involved homicides, we apply several discrimination tests to determine if white police officers discriminate against black
New article by Noah Carl about the great awokening
https://noahcarl.substack.com/p/indicators-of-the-great-awokening
https://noahcarl.substack.com/p/indicators-of-the-great-awokening
Noah’s Newsletter
Indicators of the Great Awokening
I’ve written about aspects of the Great Awokening several times in this newsletter. But what exactly is the Great Awokening? I would describe it as the rapid adoption of woke ideology by journalists, academics, politicians, business leaders and other elites…
Forwarded from House of Wagner
Women with nice personality traits don't talk politics on the web.
https://tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1962944
https://tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1962944
Taylor & Francis
It’s a man’s (online) world. Personality traits and the gender gap in online political discussion
Despite initial optimism, a gender gap seems to exist in online political engagement. In this article, we focus on online political discussion and show that women use the internet to discuss politi...
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some interesting stats about people's views about related things LGBT and prevalence of non heterosexuals
https://www.unz.com/akarlin/rainbow-ascendant/
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https://www.unz.com/akarlin/rainbow-ascendant/
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Afghanistan: 20 Years, $2 Trillion, 20 Days
https://www.unz.com/akarlin/afghanistan-finale/
https://www.unz.com/akarlin/afghanistan-finale/
The Unz Review
Afghanistan: 20 Years, $2 Trillion, 20 Days
First thought is that the US spent 20 years and $2 trillion trying to build a democracy in a half-literate country of goatherders that disintegrated within 20 days. Think what you could have done with that (dependent on your preferences). \
2013 meta-analysis of US black-white IQ gap among 3 year olds.
Complete stability since 1960s.
This kind of thing rules out a lot of possible non-genetic causes, anything directly school related, for instance.
https://humanvarieties.org/2013/05/26/the-onset-and-development-of-b-w-ability-differences-early-infancy-to-age-3-part-1/
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Complete stability since 1960s.
This kind of thing rules out a lot of possible non-genetic causes, anything directly school related, for instance.
https://humanvarieties.org/2013/05/26/the-onset-and-development-of-b-w-ability-differences-early-infancy-to-age-3-part-1/
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Human Varieties
The Onset and Development of B-W Ability Differences: Early Infancy to Age 3 (Part 1)
At what age does the cognitive ability gap between blacks and whites first appear? At what age does the black-white ability gap stop growing? Knowing the answers to these questions is vital to unde…
Forwarded from House of Wagner
Wagner Doc.pdf
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Miscellaneous Research Doc
Voter ID Laws Literature by Wagnerocks.pdf
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Looking at the literature surrounding Voter ID laws and addressing frequently cited studies
Tl;dr they're not racist
Tl;dr they're not racist
Ideas and Data .pdf
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Ideas and Data (Sean Last inspired) research doc
This study finds that race has no relation with sentencing after controlling for IQ and other confounders.
https://sci-hub.se/10.1080/0735648X.1996.9721533
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https://sci-hub.se/10.1080/0735648X.1996.9721533
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Forwarded from House of Wagner
This paper finds that past positive associations between immigration and local native wages are misleading because those economically hurt by immigration often have to move. Adjusting for this, the positive impact of immigration on native wages goes away.
https://www.nber.org/papers/w27156#fromrss
https://www.nber.org/papers/w27156#fromrss
NBER
The Winners and Losers of Immigration: Evidence from Linked Historical Data
Using recent innovations in linking historical U.S. Census data, we study the economic impacts of immigration on natives, including their geographic migration response. We find that the arrival of foreign immigrants significantly increases both native out…
Is the Political Right More Credulous? Experimental Evidence against Asymmetric Motivations to Believe False Political Information
"In a contrast with previous results, we find no evidence that citizens on the political right are especially likely to endorse false political information."
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/711133
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"In a contrast with previous results, we find no evidence that citizens on the political right are especially likely to endorse false political information."
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/711133
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The Journal of Politics
Is the Political Right More Credulous? Experimental Evidence against Asymmetric Motivations to Believe False Political Information…
Recent political events have galvanized interest in the promulgation of misinformation—particularly false rumors about political opponents. An array of studies provide reasons to think that harboring false political beliefs is a disproportionately conservative…