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Survey: Should voters be required to show a photo ID when voting in person?
Source: https://archive.is/3ONmP

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Survey about Derek Chauvin
Source: https://archive.is/PyarG


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Forwarded from DE - Geopolitics Edition
🇸🇪🇳🇴 SCANDINAVIANS ON TRACK TO BECOME MINORITIES IN THEIR OWN COUNTRIES

📉 In a shocking demographic study from 2018, the predictions for the future of the Northern European peoples are far too grim, if nothing is done.

👨🏻‍🦰 As native British people are set to become a minority in their own country by the 2060s, the same prediction is made for both Norwegians and Swedes.

🧕🏾 If nothing is done, in 40 years, projections predict that by 2065 Sweden becomes 1/3 Muslim/MENA.

🛡 The time to resist demographic replacement and create awareness of these trends is now. If you're Scandinavian (or not) share these infos everywhere!

🔗 Source : Population projections for Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland, 2015–2065 (Aalto University/ Archive)
Peaceful parenting is slowly but steadily gaining acceptance:
Source: https://www.unz.com/anepigone/the-politics-of-peaceful-parenting/

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Immigration and the Wages of Native Workers: Spatial versus Occupational Approaches

"Using data from the Current Population Survey, we study the impact of the increasing proportion of immigrants on the wages of native workers. Two different approaches are contrasted. The most common method has been the spatial approach that uses some geographic unit of analysis to investigate the multivariate association between the proportion of immigrants and the wages of native workers. Previous studies using the spatial approach have generally found little evidence of a significant negative effect. We propose, however, a contrasting method that represents an occupational approach in which occupations are the unit of analysis to investigate the impact of the proportion immigrant. This occupational approach avoids the bias that is inherent in the spatial approach due to the endogenous nature of immigrants' decisions about where to reside and the economic opportunities of local areas. In contrast to the spatial approach, our results using the same data but employing the occupational approach yield consistently negative net effects of the proportion immigrant on the wages of native workers during the period from 1994 to 2006."

Source: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00380237.2013.766834

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Net support for (opposition to businesses getting involved in politics as more than 100 companies recently did in Georgia
Source: https://archive.is/yK3qP

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"We show that the 3D geometry of cortical surface is highly predictive of individuals’ genetic ancestry in West Africa, Europe, East Asia & America, even though their genetic background has been shaped by multiple waves of migratory & admixture events."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4786069/

"In this work we predicted genetic ancestry from rs-fMRI connectivity data at very high performance (area under the ROC curve of 0.93). Thereby, we demonstrated that genetic ancestry is encoded in the functional connectivity pattern of the brain at rest"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/440776v1

Regional selection of the brain size regulating gene CASC5 provides new insight into human brain evolution

"We proved that this between-population allelic divergence was caused by regional Darwinian positive selection in East Asians."
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00439-016-1748-5

Educational attainment polygenic scores are associated with cortical total surface area and regions important for language and memory
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811920301786

Cortical thickness & the connectivity contrast between brain regions — more specially between the low-order regions in charge of simple sensory and perception functions and the high-order areas responsible for high-level cognitive tasks
https://neurosciencenews.com/behavior-brain-thickness-connectivity-16703/amp/

Differences in cortical structure between cognitively normal East Asian and Caucasian older adults: a surface-based morphometry study
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-77848-8

"Our results provide evidence that cumulative genetic load influences g-factor via cortical structure."
https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article-abstract/30/4/2708/5673285


Credit goes to @CatfishFishy for finding these studies, follow him on twitter:
https://mobile.twitter.com/CatfishFishy

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Significant neuroanatomical variation among domestic dog breeds
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31477568/
Peaceful Parenting by Race and Ethnicity
Source: https://archive.is/JkG30

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"The European Union faced an unprecedented influx of asylum seekers during the 2014–2016 refugee and migration crisis. The admitted refugees pose a critical challenge, but at the same time represent an opportunity for the host countries’ public finances. If the fiscal balance of immigration is positive, then migrants become net contributors to public budgets, helping to alleviate the aging related fiscal burden. However, we argue that this is highly unlikely to happen with refugees entering extensive European welfare states, at least in the short and medium term. By reviewing the existing empirical literature, we demonstrate that the research on the fiscal effects of refugee (or non‐Western) immigration almost uniformly supports the conclusion that the fiscal balance is going to be negative. The noble aims of humanitarian obligation to accept refugees seem to be in conflict with the pragmatic economic interest – a fiscally beneficial immigration – this time."

Fiscal Consequences of the Refugee Crisis https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.12520

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Survey: American businesses should (not) publicly support LGBTQ rights organizations, by various demographic groups
Source: https://archive.is/Hfm2C

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