Herding, polls of polls and Bayes’ theorem
You have probably heard of that outlier Iowa poll that gave a surprisingly large advantage to Harris in the 2024 election. Related to this is that is what forecasters call…
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…
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…
Whose responsibility is it anyway?
In our third installment of our new work in this issue of Mankind Quarterly, we're branching off into political science: Jensen, S., & Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2023). Who Believes…
The politics of sociology
Consider the following quote: Sociology has recently been subject to a severe critique by Alvin Gouldner (1970), who has repeated and sought to document the charge that the theoretical orientations…
Supreme Court, Supreme Issues
I have long been annoyed by how the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) seemed to work, so I decided to look more into this by reading a short textbook on the…
Why woke? What to do about it?
I am a little late to the party, but I too want to post my reviews of 2 recently high grade books on the woke phenomenon and what to do…
Jan-Erik Lönnqvist vs. Emil Kirkegaard on mental illness and the left
Occasionally, academics launch an unprompted attack on me. Unprompted in the sense that I had never previously heard of this person as far as I know. Recently a Swedish professor…
Is the past the future?
Edward Dutton (AKA. Jolly Heretic) and J.O.A. Rayner-Hilles has a new book out: The Past is a Future Country: The Coming Conservative Demographic Revolution (2022). The summary is: Since the…
Music preferences 2023
Anon asks on Twitter: i'm just curious. what's your favorite genre of music? It seems like a good diversion from the usual serious posting on the blog. What I listen…
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