Good immigrants, bad immigrants: Dutch edition
People have been posting results from this new Dutch study of immigration, so I thought I would cover it here to increase the reach. van de Beek, J., Hartog, J.,…
Did the New York Times inform readers about Rotherham?
I saw this amusing exchange on Twitter some days ago: I don't think Matthew had investigated this claim, it was maybe revealed to him in a dream. But was it…
Who was politically intolerant in 2016?
i/o posted this figure on X: Leftist women were the most intolerant, an expected result. However, is this due to their ideology and sex, or something else, say, where they…
Selective migration and regression towards the mean
There is much discussion in these days about immigration to the West, and in particular, skilled migration to the United States. Critics of migration often point to regression towards the…
Mike Huemer tells truths about progressive myths
American philosopher Mike Huemer published a book a few months ago called Progressive Myths. He was kind enough to send me a review copy. You can return the favor by…
Somalis in the USA: also not a success
Western countries are experimenting with solutions to their population aging problem. For instance, one of the countries with the worst age pyramids is Germany: Since the welfare state is effectively…
BMI vs. body fat %
In my previous post I discussed commonly found normal distribution in humans. In general, these result from many small independent causes in different directions which when averaged result in a…
Power laws and human society
Granted, it is a bit of a strange name, a power law. Is that a particularly powerful piece of legislation? Not at all. It is a kind of statistical distribution,…
Sexual promiscuity by sex and orientation
There's debate about the decline of sex, or how the young people these days aren't what they used to be. There's plots like this one: I'm pretty sure there is…
Yes, Elon should clone himself now
Speaking of other science advances we could make right now, human cloning is a good opportunity. Why spend time optimizing embryo selection if we can just take a genome we…
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