Massive status bias in peer review.

534 reviewers randomized to review the same paper revealing the low status, high status, or neither author. 65% reject low status, 23% reject high status.

Nobel and Novice: Author Prominence Affects Peer Review
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4190976

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“Individuals with lower intelligence levels (typically measured as IQ) tend to be more likely to engage in criminal behavior," and there is "consistent evidence of a mostly linear" association between low IQ and criminality.

Intelligence and criminal behavior in a total birth cohort: An examination of functional form, dimensions of intelligence, and the nature of offending.
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2015-31412-011

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Thread on negative effects of immigration in Sweden

https://mobile.twitter.com/Composite_Guy2/status/1569252000730079236
https://archive.ph/cLTvS

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Regardless of a person's political ideology, reasoning ability ("cognitive sophistication") is generally associated with pro-science beliefs.

Science beliefs, political ideology, and cognitive sophistication
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35925740/

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Simple models predict behavior at least as well as behavioral scientists

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.01167.pdf

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"Feminist-identified men were substantially more likely to report EDM (erectile dysfunction medication) use than non-feminist men, even after controlling for alcohol use before sex, erection difficulties, sexual arousal, sexual health, mental health, and physical health."

Men’s Feminist Identification and Reported Use of Prescription Erectile Dysfunction
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224499.2022.2029810?journalCode=hjsr20

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Sweden's paradise: 40-45% of men born in Sub-Saharan Africa have at least one conviction for the penal code by age 34.

For Swedes, it's 12%.

Unfortunately the article is paywalled
https://kontrast.dk/sektioner/artikel/artikel/ny-undersogelse-tallene-vil-ryste-den-svenske-indvandrerdebat

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Twitter thread:
https://mobile.twitter.com/MrGeorgeFrancis/status/1570821626132049920


Study:

National Intelligence and Economic Growth: A Bayesian Update
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363583751_National_Intelligence_and_Economic_Growth_A_Bayesian_Update

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"Counterfactual simulations show that exposing low-income households to the same products and prices available to high-income households reduces nutritional inequality by only about 10%, while the remaining 90% is driven by differences in demand. These findings counter the argument that policies to increase the supply of healthy groceries could play an important role in reducing nutritional inequality."

Food Deserts and the Causes of Nutritional Inequality
https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/134/4/1793/5492274?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false

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Factor structure of intelligence and divergent thinking subtests: A registered report

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0274921

Thread:
https://twitter.com/Russwarne/status/1571924422306725888

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Greater political knowledge is associated with more intense dislike of the political opponent.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/20570473211063237
Affective political polarization increases as people age.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-022-09784-4
Meta-analysis finds intelligent people to be less influenceable:
https://sci-hub.ru/https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.111.1.156
Although more libertarian on average, intelligent people are more extremist on economics in both directions (i.e. have a larger standard deviation, and there's heteroskedasticity in the association):
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289622000800

Intelligent people think for themselves, which is anathema to centrism where you let society think for you. The effect size is a bit smaller here than it would be on other issues, as econ is an exception where the polarization effect is put at odds with libertarian econ, with some exceptions, generally being objectively beneficial.

If the mainstream is full of radical contradictions, then you'll have to believe in radical things if you don't want your beliefs to contradict themselves. If the mainstream believes radically-retarded shit, then you'll have to believe in radically deviant positions if you want to maintain any shred of your intellectual honestly.

Robust misinterpretation of confidence intervals
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24420726/

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Recent study found that the sex of 83% of participants could be correctly identified based on differences in the spontaneous activity patterns of different brain networks that in turn were associated with sex differences in patterns of gene expression.

Sex differences in the functional topography of association networks in youth
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2110416119

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2021 NCVS data is out:
https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv21.pdf

My doc is now 400+ pages of studies and sources

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18sUYfPEz1FfCWv27_dEXjuV5Wa-oJNQzGTJJNS3v7mY/mobilebasic

"We found that 79.3% of [introductory psychology] textbooks contained inaccurate statements and 79.3% had logical fallacies in their sections about intelligence."

What Do Undergraduates Learn About Human Intelligence? An Analysis of Introductory Psychology Textbooks

https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2018-07714-001.html

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Despite experiencing a higher poverty rate than blacks, whites, and Hispanics, Asians in New York City had consistently low arrest rates for violent crime.

Poverty and Violent Crime Don’t Go Hand in Hand
https://www.city-journal.org/poverty-and-violent-crime-dont-go-hand-in-hand?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Organic_Social

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In Sweden, talking about race and intelligence will get you a fine
https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/in-sweden-talking-about-race-and

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A meta-analysis of 57 studies found that males obtain higher IQ averages (on the standard and progressive matrices) from the age of 15 through old age, with the male advantage being equivalent to 5 IQ points.

Sex differences on the progressive matrices: A meta-analysis
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289604000492

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