The new way to find ebooks and papers online: Anna’s Archive
Glædelig jul og godt nytår. 🎄🎊 Following my prior post on how to use LibGen (Library Genesis) and Scihub, here's a new post on the most recent tool in the…
Money and crime: the relationship that wasn’t
There must be 10,000s of studies and news articles reporting findings that wealth or income is negatively related to crime. In other words, poverty causes crime. The popular theory being…
If cities are bad, why do people move there?
This is a natural follow-up to my prior post about fertility, and how cities (or population density in some sense) cause fertility to decline. In fact, cities seem to be…
Circumvent the Twitter/X embedding blockade of Substack links
I thought this was general knowledge by now, but I still see quite a bit Substacks that are still suffering from this dumb Elon suppression move. Here's the problem: Such…
Supreme Court, Supreme Issues
I have long been annoyed by how the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) seemed to work, so I decided to look more into this by reading a short textbook on the…
Measurement error and group differences explained
I have often talked about how measurement error impacts correlations between two variables. Here we are talking about classical measurement error, which is theoretically understood as adding a normally distributed…
Why woke? What to do about it?
I am a little late to the party, but I too want to post my reviews of 2 recently high grade books on the woke phenomenon and what to do…
Fertility questions: the role of population density?
There is a worldwide decline in fertility: The COVID-19 years seem to have been particularly bad on some countries. The poster child for future problems is South Korea: Even Reuters…
My conversion story, or a brief autobiography
I sometimes get asked how it is that I got into this unusual field. Of course, as with all autobiographies, there will be some distortions and poor memory along the…
The role of censorship in science
A new many-author paper makes the case that censorship is rampant in science: Clark, C. J., Jussim, L., Frey, K., Stevens, S. T., Al-Gharbi, M., Aquino, K., ... & von…