Who values academic rigor and freedom?
I was browsing studies out in Lee Jussim's newish journal, The Journal of Open Inquiry in Behavioral Science (JOIBS), and saw this one: Rausch, Z. M. (2023). The value gap:…
Bad blog posts and their costs
It's time for another unpopular post, but the principle is right. During human history, there has been a very large number of civil wars, coups, and state collapses due to…
My first politically motivated retraction
I finally managed to join the cool kids retraction club. The Scandinavian Journal of Psychology (SJoP) published a paper of ours about wokeness and mental health. I wrote about it…
Michael Ryan’s The Genetics of Political Behavior (2021)
The book is described as: In this unique amalgam of neuroscience, genetics, and evolutionary psychology, Ryan argues that leftists and rightists are biologically distinct versions of the human species that…
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…
Why are female intellectuals crazy?
I have a speculative model of sex differences among people with extreme beliefs. Here I just mean extreme in the sense of statistically uncommon, say, being a full-blown libertarian, HBD…
Danish women also don’t like nuclear power
Here's a fun analysis I did as a side-project. I have a dataset of ~620 Danes who took a long vocabulary test, as well as answered 30 political questions. One…
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…
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…