No Change in California’s K-12 Performance Despite 60% Spending Increase Since 2011
https://californiaglobe.com/legislature/no-change-in-californias-k-12-performance-despite-60-spending-increase-since-2011
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https://californiaglobe.com/legislature/no-change-in-californias-k-12-performance-despite-60-spending-increase-since-2011
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California Globe
No Change in California’s K-12 Performance Despite 60% Spending Increase Since 2011
The 60 percent increase in Kindergarten through 12th grade spending in California's schools, just since 2011, hasn't made a difference in student performance. And it's apparent the money isn't making it into the classroom.
“An analysis of data from 1.5 million people has identified 579 locations in the genome associated with a predisposition to different behaviors and disorders related to self-regulation, including addiction and child behavioral problems.”
https://www.news.vcu.edu/article/2021/08/study-identifies-579-genetic-locations-linked-to
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https://www.news.vcu.edu/article/2021/08/study-identifies-579-genetic-locations-linked-to
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VCU News
Study identifies 579 genetic locations linked to anti-social behavior,
The study, published today in the journal Nature Neuroscience, is one of the largest genome-wide association studies ever conducted.
Study review: Epigenetic supersimilarity of monozygotic twin pairs
https://biorealismbrx.home.blog/2019/11/18/study-review-epigenetic-supersimilarity-of-monozygotic-twin-pairs/
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https://biorealismbrx.home.blog/2019/11/18/study-review-epigenetic-supersimilarity-of-monozygotic-twin-pairs/
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BioRealismBRx
Study review: Epigenetic supersimilarity of monozygotic twin pairs
Original article can be found on Information Nation (Author unknown) informationnation.home.blog/2019/05/16/study-review-epigenetic-supersimilarity-of-monozygotic-twin-pairs/ In the early part of 2…
Sweden’s migrant rape crisis
"According to the researchers, Swedish-born offenders with Swedish-born parents accounted for 40.8% of the offenders. But, strikingly, almost half of the offenders were born outside of Sweden (47.7%). Of those foreign-born offenders, 34.5% were from the Middle East/North Africa, with 19.1% hailing from the rest of Africa"
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"How far does this signify over-representation? On the basis of population records kept by the official agency Statistics Sweden (SCB), approximately 20% (19.7%)"
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"Moreover, if we piece various statistics together, we find there are 565,902 foreign-born people living in Sweden who were born in North Africa and the Middle East, representing 4.9% of Sweden’s population."
https://unherd.com/2021/04/swedens-migrant-rape-crisis/
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"According to the researchers, Swedish-born offenders with Swedish-born parents accounted for 40.8% of the offenders. But, strikingly, almost half of the offenders were born outside of Sweden (47.7%). Of those foreign-born offenders, 34.5% were from the Middle East/North Africa, with 19.1% hailing from the rest of Africa"
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"How far does this signify over-representation? On the basis of population records kept by the official agency Statistics Sweden (SCB), approximately 20% (19.7%)"
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"Moreover, if we piece various statistics together, we find there are 565,902 foreign-born people living in Sweden who were born in North Africa and the Middle East, representing 4.9% of Sweden’s population."
https://unherd.com/2021/04/swedens-migrant-rape-crisis/
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UnHerd
Sweden's migrant rape crisis
European liberals never ask uncomfortable questions about immigration
Denying the Neuroscience of Sex Differences
A review of The Gendered Brain: The new neuroscience that shatters myth of the female brain, by Gina Rippon.
The anti sex difference folk rely on bad science
https://quillette.com/2019/03/29/denying-the-neuroscience-of-sex-differences/
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A review of The Gendered Brain: The new neuroscience that shatters myth of the female brain, by Gina Rippon.
The anti sex difference folk rely on bad science
https://quillette.com/2019/03/29/denying-the-neuroscience-of-sex-differences/
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Quillette
Denying the Neuroscience of Sex Differences
No one seems to have a problem accepting that, on average, male and female bodies differ in many, many ways. Why is it surprising or unacceptable that this is true for the part of our body that we call “brain”?
More than a third of UK births now involve at least one foreign-born parent; in parts of London, 80% of births are to foreign-born mothers
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/would-you-want-london-to-be-overrun-with-americans-like-me
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https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/would-you-want-london-to-be-overrun-with-americans-like-me
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The Spectator
Would you want London to be overrun with Americans like me?
PODCAST: Lionel Shriver discusses this column with Dr Remi Adekoya in our The Edition podcast. Listen here. The Afghans the Home Office is scrambling to resettle in Britain present one of immigration’s most sympathetic cases: translators and other support…
Forwarded from House of Wagner
Review of an anti-IQ book
"Although cloaked as a history of intelligenceresearch, one gets the impression that Murdoch cameto this project with a deep-felt antagonism against thestudy of intelligence, especially the field's relationshipwith the study of eugenics. Consequently, he uses thistext as a platform for his anti-eugenicists opinions and,to a lesser degree, his agenda for abolishing IQ tests.However, when not ill-informed, Murdoch's ideas areneither original nor perspicacious, and his historiogra- phy is very undisciplined, which ultimately leaves thereader questioning the purpose of this treatise. Murdochwould have been better off entitling his book,
“Selected personal and historical anecdotes to show why I hateintelligence research, eugenics, and related ideas.”
It would be a much more accurate description of the work he produced, and would save the reader from any false expectations"
https://www.academia.edu/22452211/Stephen_Murdoch_IQ_A_smart_history_of_a_failed_idea
"Although cloaked as a history of intelligenceresearch, one gets the impression that Murdoch cameto this project with a deep-felt antagonism against thestudy of intelligence, especially the field's relationshipwith the study of eugenics. Consequently, he uses thistext as a platform for his anti-eugenicists opinions and,to a lesser degree, his agenda for abolishing IQ tests.However, when not ill-informed, Murdoch's ideas areneither original nor perspicacious, and his historiogra- phy is very undisciplined, which ultimately leaves thereader questioning the purpose of this treatise. Murdochwould have been better off entitling his book,
“Selected personal and historical anecdotes to show why I hateintelligence research, eugenics, and related ideas.”
It would be a much more accurate description of the work he produced, and would save the reader from any false expectations"
https://www.academia.edu/22452211/Stephen_Murdoch_IQ_A_smart_history_of_a_failed_idea
www.academia.edu
Stephen Murdoch, IQ: A smart history of a failed idea
Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers.
Correlations between estimates of state IQ and FBI crime statistics
"State IQ was significantly and negatively correlated with the violent crimes of murder, aggravated assault and robbery as well as the property crimes of motor vehicle theft, theft and burglary. Additionally, regression analyses were conducted for each crime significantly related to state IQ, controlling for significant state demographic variables."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886909005169
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"State IQ was significantly and negatively correlated with the violent crimes of murder, aggravated assault and robbery as well as the property crimes of motor vehicle theft, theft and burglary. Additionally, regression analyses were conducted for each crime significantly related to state IQ, controlling for significant state demographic variables."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886909005169
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An interesting thread about Afghanistan war, check it out
https://mobile.twitter.com/cryptochondrion/status/1433917934682918918
https://mobile.twitter.com/cryptochondrion/status/1433917934682918918
Twitter
S. McMetal
Afghan soldiers had to be taught the concept of caring for their own weapons, instead of just grabbing whatever weapon was available at hand. Some couldn't count how many siblings they had. teaching them to drive was a nerve-racking experience:
Interesting thread about flood disasters
https://mobile.twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1433424444295303169
https://mobile.twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1433424444295303169
Twitter
Michael Shellenberger
The people blaming climate change for floods in New York are spreading misinformation & pseudoscience The damage caused by floods in the U.S. has *declined* dramatically last 70 years The reason New York is flooded is because of bad infrastructure not a few…
From a progressive website :
Why Remainers shouldn’t mock Brexiteers over the lorry driver shortage
"This is the reason many low-paid workers voted for Brexit, even if Remainers do not wish to hear it. But then, perhaps they don’t want to acknowledge that they themselves are shielded from the vicissitudes at the bottom of the labour market. Britons in well-paid jobs have never had much to fear from low-skilled EU migration. The same is not true of those in low-paid occupations"
https://www.newstatesman.com/business/2021/08/why-remainers-shouldn-t-mock-brexiteers-over-lorry-driver-shortage
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Why Remainers shouldn’t mock Brexiteers over the lorry driver shortage
"This is the reason many low-paid workers voted for Brexit, even if Remainers do not wish to hear it. But then, perhaps they don’t want to acknowledge that they themselves are shielded from the vicissitudes at the bottom of the labour market. Britons in well-paid jobs have never had much to fear from low-skilled EU migration. The same is not true of those in low-paid occupations"
https://www.newstatesman.com/business/2021/08/why-remainers-shouldn-t-mock-brexiteers-over-lorry-driver-shortage
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New Statesman
Why Remainers shouldn’t mock Brexiteers over the lorry driver shortage
In the lead-up to the 2016 Brexit referendum, I was having a conversation with my mother about the pros and cons of leaving the EU. She was a Brexiteer whereas I was a Remainer (albeit a reluctant
"Skeptic Research Center in February 2021 found that 54% of Americans who “identify as very liberal” believe that the average number of unarmed Black men killed annually by U.S. police is somewhere between “about 1,000” and “more than 10,000.”"
"The actual number of unarmed Black men killed by police last year was 17. Given the grave importance of this issue, it’s worth repeating that number—17—across the tens of millions of annual police-citizen interactions."
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/assault-empiricism-wilfred-reilly
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"The actual number of unarmed Black men killed by police last year was 17. Given the grave importance of this issue, it’s worth repeating that number—17—across the tens of millions of annual police-citizen interactions."
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/assault-empiricism-wilfred-reilly
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Tablet
The Assault on Empiricism
From crime to climate change, the hostility of ‘movements’ to data is making it impossible to address real-world problems
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10519-021-10044-0
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SpringerLink
The Augmented Classical Twin Design: Incorporating Genome‐Wide Identity by Descent Sharing Into Twin Studies in Order to Model…
Behavior Genetics - The Classical Twin Method (CTM) compares the similarity of monozygotic (MZ) twins with that of dizygotic (DZ) twins to make inferences about the relative importance of genes and...
Thread about how "Alt-Right" views are more popular than expected given how taboo they are
https://mobile.twitter.com/TruueDiscipline/status/1403862591856775170
https://mobile.twitter.com/TruueDiscipline/status/1403862591856775170
Twitter
True Discipline
Thread about how "Alt-Right" views are more popular than you would expect given how taboo they are: 1/ About half of whites prefer a relative marrying within their race:
Forwarded from No Name
Although “economists” like Richard Wolff cite graphs showing that extreme poverty began to plummet in China during Mao Zedong’s rule, Ravallion (2021) finds no basis for this argument. In fact, he finds that the overwhelming amount of poverty in China could be attributed to Mao’s communist policies, and poverty then sharply declined following Deng Xiaoping’s free market reforms in the 90s.
https://www.nber.org/papers/w28370
https://www.nber.org/papers/w28370
NBER
Poverty in China since 1950: A Counterfactual Perspective
The other side of the coin to post-reform success is often pre-reform failure, and the policy lessons are found on both sides. The paper estimates how much of China’s poverty rate around 1980—near the outset of Deng Xiaoping’s pro-market reforms—is attributable…
Genetics of Domestic Dog Behavior
https://www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-3223(21)00125-6/fulltext
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https://www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-3223(21)00125-6/fulltext
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Shared heritability of human face and brain shape
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-021-00827-w
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-021-00827-w
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Nature
Shared heritability of human face and brain shape
Nature Genetics - A multivariate genome-wide association study highlighting loci that influence both face and brain shape suggesting shared developmental axes during early embryogenesis. These loci...
Genetic variation, brain, and intelligence differences
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-021-01027-y
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-021-01027-y
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Nature
Genetic variation, brain, and intelligence differences
Molecular Psychiatry - Genetic variation, brain, and intelligence differences
Education and income show heterogeneous relationships to lifespan brain and cognitive differences across European and US cohorts
“The findings underscore that SES has no uniform association with, or impact on, brain and cognition.”
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C31&as_ylo=2021&q=brain+structure+genetics+European&btnG=#d=gs_qabs&u=%23p%3DRYvyvILij34J
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“The findings underscore that SES has no uniform association with, or impact on, brain and cognition.”
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C31&as_ylo=2021&q=brain+structure+genetics+European&btnG=#d=gs_qabs&u=%23p%3DRYvyvILij34J
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