The worldwide prison rates mystery
I regret to inform you that they are at it again. That is, blocking me on Twitter for the wrong ideas. It started benignly, as it usually does, with a…
How many people get arrested?
A friend of mine sent me this article for evaluation. Basically he thought the findings were too wild to be believed: Brame, R., Bushway, S. D., Paternoster, R., & Turner,…
13/52 is out, 3/18 is in
The American Jewish hate organization ADL famously has a funny list of forbidden words and numbers. One recent addition to their list of 'hate symbols' is 13/52. For the uninitiated,…
“public policy never necessarily follows from scientific findings”, yes and no
I am currently reading Bryan Caplan's new book collection of old blogposts in book format. One of them was pretty interesting: Behaviorial Geneticists versus Policy Implications from 2009. He quotes…
Psychotics are bad, anti-psychotics are good
Remember this guy? His name is Noah Esbensen. Actually, he is not a big deal outside of Denmark, but he made a brief stir in the media by going into…
Big Tech censors the Buffalo shooter’s manifesto
Once again, Big Tech are censoring a manifesto written by a terrorist, in this case, the Buffalo shooter Payton Gendron. It used to be on Google Drive, but was deleted.…
The Unz compositional data fallacy
Readers may recall that about 12 years ago, Ron Unz (of Unz.com) posted an article The Myth of Hispanic Crime. In this article he tried to show that Hispanics were…
Sweden finally publishes new immigrant crime rate data, which shows no surprises
Back in 2017, I wrote about how Sweden has a policy of hiding their immigrant crime rate statistics. (See also this tweet.) One cannot even buy them from the statistics…
The 30x (actually 25x) problem
This figure is flowing around Twitter recently: The usual commentary is simply to notice the Y axis. Chicago men having a homicide rate of 900, and those in England and…
Crime measurement and the black-white crime gap
A lot of instant experts have appeared on the black-white crime question. Many of these are somewhat unfamiliar with the quite large literature on the topic. The people who mostly…