National hiring experiments reveal 2:1 faculty preference for women on STEM tenure track
"The underrepresentation of women in academic science is typically attributed, both in scientific literature and in the media, to sexist hiring. Here we report five hiring experiments in which faculty evaluated hypothetical female and male applicants, using systematically varied profiles disguising identical scholarship, for assistant professorships in biology, engineering, economics, and psychology. Contrary to prevailing assumptions, men and women faculty members from all four fields preferred female applicants 2:1 over identically qualified males with matching lifestyles (single, married, divorced), with the exception of male economists, who showed no gender preference. Comparing different lifestyles revealed that women preferred divorced mothers to married fathers and that men preferred mothers who took parental leaves to mothers who did not. Our findings, supported by real-world academic hiring data, suggest advantages for women launching academic science careers."
https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/112/17/5360.full.pdf

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Story drag queens have a pedophilia problem

Minnesota: Drag Queen Flashes Crotch To Kids At Library Story Hour
https://thewashingtonstandard.com/minnesota-drag-queen-flashes-crotch-to-kids-at-library-story-hour/

Drag Queen Storytime Participant Turns Out to Be Convicted Child Sex Offender
https://web.archive.org/web/20190401105523/https://pluralist.com/drag-queen-storytime-sex-offender/

Second ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’ library reader exposed as convicted child sex offender
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/second-drag-queen-story-hour-library-reader-exposed-as-convicted-child-sex-offender/

Yet another drag queen reading to kids exposed for sexual crimes. This time it’s prostitution
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/yet-another-drag-queen-reading-to-kids-exposed-for-sexual-crimes-this-time-its-prostitution/

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Contrary to what some, especially a certain sort of conservative, might predict, this study finds that increases in academic standards failed to increase student performance in a data set of NAEP scores from 1990 to 2017.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3102/00028312211058460

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The Tulsa Myth

"Nearly every media account you will read on Tulsa will mention “up to 300 people” were killed, even though the 300 bodies have never been accounted for."

https://archive.md/G0KJN

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2019, gay and bisexual men made up 69% (25,552) of the 36,801 new HIV diagnoses in the US and dependent areas.
https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/msm/msm-content/diagnoses.html

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Source: https://skeptic.com/research-center/reports/Research-Report-CUPES-007.pdf

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#race #police #PoliceBrutality #unarmed
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Detransition-Related Scientific Studies
https://archive.md/Lbg4x

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Xia and Huang (2021)

A new preprint finds that East Asians have the most genetic distance from chimpanzees, and Africans the least distance. The chance that this study, conducted by Chinese scientists, will find a US journal courageous enough to publish it is next to zero

See this is why a lot of Chinese research will be the critical in coming years. They are investigating genetic distance and reporting it in a direct way.

"Even the Economist now will publish unwelcome truths about immigration economics. There is NO libertarian dream story to tell here. There is just the very obvious net economic loss from below average immigrants. It's not complicated." - Emil Kirkegaard

Why have Danes turned against immigration?
https://archive.vn/POvAs

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https://www.dropbox.com/sh/94bxnagssu0uyfp/AACRdSkzAqns_IrT-yXoOUAya?dl=0

Here is a folder full of studies on test-anxiety and iq. There is overwhelming support for the "deficit hypothesis;" test-anxiety doesn't have a causal-effect on iq. It's a correlate with no causal relationship.

Scientific Racism Attitudes Among Diverse Undergraduate Pre–Health Professions Students
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23733799211043136
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Genetic architecture of brain gene isoform expression
https://escholarship.org/content/qt8452f44q/qt8452f44q.pdf

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Sailer (2016)

This article really puts a huge hole in the "raycists r stooopid" narrative that we always hear. Intelligent people are more likely to recognize patterns which lead to stereotypes.

Heritabilities are usually underestimated
https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/heritabilities-are-usually-underestimated

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A review of the literature on suicidal ideation and behavior among LGBT youths found small effect sizes, publication bias, and a lack of stat sig. for things like the effects of stigma, for example, on suicidal ideation

Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among LGBTQ Youth: Meta-Analyses and a Systematic Review
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13811118.2019.1663329

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Parental characteristics and offspring mental health and related outcomes: a systematic review of genetically informative literature
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-021-01300-2

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It's now been consistently shown across three large experiments that giving people publicly funded health insurance fails to improve their health but does increase the amount of healthcare they consume.
https://www.overcomingbias.com/2021/12/karnataka-hospital-insurance-experiment.html

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Meta-analysis of RCTs on how financial literacy programs impact things like savings and budgeting finds that such programs on average have a very small effect, that this effect decays even more with time, and halves again correcting for publication bias...
https://nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w27057/w27057.pdf

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Edward O. Wilson, the famous naturalist who wrote Sociobiology, is said to have died today at 92.

In order to withstand the onslaught of his Harvard Biology department colleague Stephen Jay Gould, Edward O. Wilson taught himself in the mid-1970s how to write like a literary intellectual. He immediately won a Pulitzer Prize for On Human Nature.

E.O. Wilson’s whole life was like that. As Bill & Ted would say: Triumphant.

https://vdare.com/posts/edward-o-wilson-rip