Explaining global variation in internet speed
I saw this on Twitter earlier today: The narrative seemed right, so at first I retweeted. But then I looked closer at the map and realized it couldn't be right.…
Conspiracies and their believers
Summary Conspiracy theory has negative connotations of falseness, implausiblity or irrationality, but we also know many conspiracies are true, ranging from the ordinary criminal case (conspiracy to commit murder) to…
Direct genetic evidence for ethnic differences in aggressiveness
My recent blogpost about Africans propensity to violence got some attention. In the post I noted that direct evidence was mostly missing. I've done some further reading, and discovered that…
Does racial diversity cause lower fertility?
I know, it sounds like a far right conspiracy theory, however: Gurun, U. G., & Solomon, D. H. (2024). E Pluribus, Pauciores (Out of Many, Fewer): Diversity and Birth Rates.…
Norwegian cognitive inequality and its social consequences
There's a new kickass study based on Norwegian register data: Bratsberg, B., Fjell, A. M. M., Rogeberg, O. J., Skirbekk, V. F., & Walhovd, K. B. (2024). Differences in early…
The myth of Danish Social Democrats being hard on immigration
One can find quite a number of news articles like this one in Politico from 2024: Or this one in Foreign Policy from 2021: Or this one in The Irish…
Is language dumbing down?
In the media, we can read that political speeches are getting simpler (2013): This kind of article is typically used to bash the current right-wing president if such exists. E.g.,…
How strongly is leftism correlated with mental illness? Is it real?
Earlier this year, Finnish researcher Oskari Lahtinen published a new scale of wokism or critical social justicism: Lahtinen, O. (2024). Construction and validation of a scale for assessing critical social…
Tattoos and piercings, what do they tell you about someone?
Richard Hanania and I recently wrote on Twitter/X: Naturally, my reply and his general level of trolling on the platform attracted a lot of angry, dumb replies from people with…
Africans, violence and genetics
Over on Twitter/X, science journalist i/o writes: I get replies all the time under my posts that suggest or claim that wildly disproportionate black violence and the apparently unmovable US…
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