Women don’t like bodybuilder physique
William Costello spawned discussion at X over his polling results: The same man before and after going hard in the gym. Women preferred the before picture and men the after…
The content economy on X
After Elon Musk acquired Twitter/X, he started monetizing it. There are two types of monetization schemes: 1) subscribers, which work the same way as every other platform (monthly sub, some…
Bad blog posts and their costs
It's time for another unpopular post, but the principle is right. During human history, there has been a very large number of civil wars, coups, and state collapses due to…
Military intelligence and racial discrimination
By now, you've probably heard that the US military, and many other militaries around the world, has some kind of intelligence test that they use for admission. The US even…
Can we boost fertility with paid leave?
In every country some women get pregnant and give birth from time to time, and there is some kind of social support system in place for taking care of the…
Race and crime in Japan
(Guest post by anon.) Many are aware of disparities in crime rates among ethnic and racial groups in Western countries. But what patterns emerge in Japan, a country far from…
Family lore about the German occupation of Denmark 1940-1945
Today marks the 85th anniversary of Nazi Germany's invasion and occupation of Denmark (9th April 1940-5th May 1945). Denmark wasn't originally a member of the allied forces, but was a…
Worldwide subnational intelligence estimates
It is already known that intelligence causes social status for persons. There's a very large amount of cross-sectional data, and causal conclusions are derived from various family studies, such as…
Hanabi strategy and heuristics
Hanabi is a very interesting co-op card game. It's one of the very few games that manage to combine low complexity of rules with very high skill ceiling (like chess,…
My first politically motivated retraction
I finally managed to join the cool kids retraction club. The Scandinavian Journal of Psychology (SJoP) published a paper of ours about wokeness and mental health. I wrote about it…
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