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This study finds that kids with gender identity issues tend to be smart white males from economically well off 2 parent homes who exhibit behavioral problems especially when it comes to getting along with others.

Gender-Dysphoric Children and Adolescents: A Comparative Analysis of Demographic Characteristics and Behavioral Problems
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/239320361_Gender-Dysphoric_Children_and_Adolescents_A_Comparative_Analysis_of_Demographic_Characteristics_and_Behavioral_Problems

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“After accounting for general intelligence at an average age of 20, additional education, occupational complexity, or engagement in cognitive activities accounted for little variance in late midlife cognitive functioning in men age 56-66.

Influence of young adult cognitive ability and additional education on later-life cognition
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30670647/

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#intelligence #education #cognition
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Long thread containing research findings on male-female brain differences.

https://mobile.twitter.com/PaoloShirasi/status/1526571772342149127

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#brain #men #women #SexDifferences
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Multiple studies show that who non-heterosexuals are attracted to often changes over the course of a decade or two.

https://psych.utah.edu/_resources/documents/people/diamond/Sexual%20Fluidity%20in%20Males%20and%20Females.pdf

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#LGBT
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Britons are evolving to be poorer and less well-educated
https://archive.ph/jzLam

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#Britain #dysgenics
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"Over the last 50 years in developed countries, evidence has accumulated that only about 10% of school achievement can be attributed to schools and teachers while the remaining 90% is due to characteristics associated with students."

Education and Intelligence: Pity the Poor Teacher because Student Characteristics are more Significant than Teachers or Schools
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/spanish-journal-of-psychology/article/abs/education-and-intelligence-pity-the-poor-teacher-because-student-characteristics-are-more-significant-than-teachers-or-schools/F73D9839D7E1398C33A117CB37E084E8

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#education #intelligence #teaching
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A huge-sample study of over 200,000 individuals found a 99.47% correspondence between genetic ancestry clusters and self-identified race/ethnicity.

Harmonizing Genetic Ancestry and Self-identified Race/Ethnicity in Genome-wide Association Studies
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31564439/

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#race #genetics
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Another study replicates the finding that conservatism is associated with better mental health

A Longitudinal Test of the Conservative-Liberal Well-Being Gap
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01461672221096587?journalCode=pspc&journalCode=pspc&casa_token=K596z_hjYZIAAAAA%3A0JI-h3gFm99c59zs9nGBZiAaVwC2XjMOddH07WIJQ5iJN3OPphS_GOY0nIFaX9Z4U0dZ07AVk4g_

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#conservative #liberal #MentalHealth
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Forwarded from 📍UBERSOY📝 (UBERSOY)
Larger fields lead to worse research output.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2021636118
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https://thosewhocansee.blogspot.com/2022/06/whos-replacing-whom-western-europe.html?m=1

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#immigration #france
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To improve the reproducibility of findings, brain imaging studies relating to cognitive and other psychological trait differences need sample sizes in the thousands -- and the bigger the better.

Reproducible brain-wide association studies require thousands of individuals
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04492-9

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#brain #cognition #psychology #neuroscience
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"The most important reason for the reproducibility of behavioral genetic results is that genetic effect sizes are large. Heritabilities for behavioral traits... are by far the largest effect sizes in psychological science."

Top 10 Replicated Findings from Behavioral Genetics
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4739500/

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#genetics #BehaviorGenetics #heritability
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A "combination including both race and geographic ancestry" is the most accurate way of identifying and classifying population groups in biomedical and scientific research.

Multiple Measures Reveal The Value of Both Race And Geographic Ancestry For Self-Identification
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/701698v1

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#race #medicine
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"public policy never necessarily follows from scientific findings", yes and no

https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/public-policy-never-necessarily-follows

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#policy
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