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Author: Emil O. W. Kirkegaard

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Reader survey 2025 results

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:19. June 2025
  • Post category:Meta/Personal/Political science/Politics/Science

OK, I got tired of waiting for more willing subjects (that is, maybe you), so here's the results of this year's survey. There were 664 subjects of which 320 complete…

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Read more about the article What is scientific racism really?

What is scientific racism really?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:17. June 2025
  • Post category:Language/Science

I said it was the last reminder, but I was inspired to write this post first, so if you haven't yet, you can still participate in the 2025 reader survey.…

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Video with Noah Carl: how heterodox can a science conference realistically be?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:17. June 2025
  • Post category:Interview/Political science/Psychology/Video

Final chance to participate in the 2025 reader survey. I will analyze the results in a few days once the data from the last stragglers are in. While I was…

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Read more about the article What is dangerous for pregnant women?

What is dangerous for pregnant women?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:11. June 2025
  • Post category:Medicine

Remember to participate in the 2025 readers survey! There's a very large literature on the outcomes of children to mothers who did X. The problem with most of these is…

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Read more about the article Reader survey 2025 (survey)

Reader survey 2025 (survey)

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:27. May 2025
  • Post category:Uncategorized

It's time for the sort of annual reader survey. Click here to participate. It should take 10-15 minutes. Prior years survey results: 2024 results (I apparently forgot in 2023) 2022…

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Read more about the article On having negative knowledge

On having negative knowledge

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:25. May 2025
  • Post category:Math/Statistics/Political science

I'm reading Jason Brennan's 2016 book Against Democracy, actually in favor of votes weighted by competence, which he calls epistocracy. In discussing the very low levels of political knowledge seen…

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Read more about the article Cancer research funding seems biased against men

Cancer research funding seems biased against men

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:20. May 2025
  • Post category:Medicine

You have no doubt seen headlines like these: You might also have concluded this might have been true in the past (and maybe not even that) and probably isn't true…

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American race relations 1964-2024

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:15. May 2025
  • Post category:Political science/Social psychology

The American National Election Studies (ANES) is a series of surveys that has been administered to broadly representative samples of Americans since 1948. They asked thousands of questions, though most…

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Read more about the article Effective Africanism

Effective Africanism

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:14. May 2025
  • Post category:Ethics

In moral philosophy, there's a variety of competing theories of normative morality. Normative meaning actual claims about what is good and bad, and what actions are correct and which are…

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Interview in Aporia about stereotype research

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:12. May 2025
  • Post category:Interview/Stereotypes

My interview with Noah Carl over at Aporia Magazine has just been released. This was 90 minute long interview where we discussed the historical background of stereotype research, the evolutionary…

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