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Political deletionism at Wikipedia
https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/political-deletionism-at-wikipedia?s=r

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#wikipedia #censorship
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America’s Abortion Quandary

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2022/05/06/americas-abortion-quandary/

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#US #abortion
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Wide partisan gaps in abortion attitudes, but opinions in both parties are complicated
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/05/06/wide-partisan-gaps-in-abortion-attitudes-but-opinions-in-both-parties-are-complicated/

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#abortion
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Forwarded from House of Wagner (Wagner)
"Our results support the notion that education is not a source of enhanced intelligence, but it can help specific skills."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360296514_The_Generality_of_Educational_Effects_on_Cognitive_Ability_A_Replication
Study finds that IQ predicts academic and professional success up to 90 times better than grit and determination.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1948550620920531

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#intelligence #grit #success #determination
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The genetics of mental illness
https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/the-genetics-of-mental-illness?s=r

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#genetics #mentalillness
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New meta-analysis involving 86 studies and over 26,000 individuals: "Brain size and IQ associations yielded r = 0.24, with the strongest effects observed for more g-loaded tests and in healthy samples that generalize across participant sex and age bands."

Of differing methods, disputed estimates and discordant interpretations: the meta-analytical multiverse of brain volume and IQ associations
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.211621

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#brain #size #intelligence
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Forwarded from House of Wagner (Wagner)
In three randomized control tests of the effects of monetary incentive on test scores (total N = 1201), incentive effects were statistically non-significant in each study, showed no dose dependency, and jointly indicated an effect one quarter the size previously estimated (d = 0.166).

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289622000332
There is a significant amount of variation in hand grip strength between ethnicities of both sexes, but especially among men. The strongest female group has roughly the same amount of hand grip strength as the weakest male group.

Global variation in grip strength: a systematic review and meta-analysis of normative data
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4776623/

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#strenght #sexdifferences #handgrip
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