Explaining HIV’s effect on life expectancy in Africa
There's this figure floating on Twitter: Can anyone explain why insanely HIV rates in southern Africa have absolutely no impact on life expectancy? Botswana has 10X the rate of HIV…
Are right-wingers more accepting of lying?
Richard Hanania likes to emphasize how right-wingers (in the USA) are more accepting of lying, pointing to grievous examples from Trump, Musk, the usual scams and low quality ads on…
Special issue of Swiss magazine Schweizer Monat about intelligence
The Swiss libertarian (classical liberal) leaning magazine Schweizer Monat ('Swiss monthly') has a new issue out focused on intelligence. For a magazine, it has a quite impressive roster of authors,…
The US congress is also an intelligence meritocracy
S. Lant had a good idea over on Twitter: Fellow poaster Jerome Sneed Democrat had a second good idea: There was that IQ study that showed that Episcopalians were the…
What is the average IQ of holocaust deniers?
I made a troll poll on Twitter, and it's going well. 100s of those people showed up in the replies to insult me or provide stupid arguments for why it…
Large scale remigration is possible
In Western countries there is a broad sentiment that one cannot really just expel a bunch of foreigners. Sometimes, this is just a legal claim that this would not currently…
Reader questions from 13th Feb 2025
Back in February I posted the first of a series of paid subs ask me questions threads. Readers has some questions, so I'll attempt to answer them. This is in…
Are babies in Denmark becoming relatively more Danish?
Over on Twitter we have this claim by Marko Jukic about the speed of the Danish population replacement is getting a lot of attention: It sounds unlikely given that migration…
Do you (also) have a bullshit job?
I just ran this poll on Twitter/X: (I consider non-profits/NGOs to be public sector because they have tax benefits.) The attentive reader will notice that the ratios are not the…
People did not used to marry early in the good old times
If you look at a plot of age of first marriage and age of first birth (usually following marriage), you might get the idea that the 1960s cultural revolution, feminism…
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