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Read more about the article How strongly is leftism correlated with mental illness? Is it real?

How strongly is leftism correlated with mental illness? Is it real?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:28. August 2024
  • Post category:Political science/Psychiatry/Stereotypes

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…

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Read more about the article Whose responsibility is it anyway?

Whose responsibility is it anyway?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:30. January 2024
  • Post category:intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability/Political science

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…

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Read more about the article The politics of sociology

The politics of sociology

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:29. January 2024
  • Post category:Metascience/Political science/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…

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Read more about the article Supreme Court, Supreme Issues

Supreme Court, Supreme Issues

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:15. December 2023
  • Post category:Book review/Political science/Politics

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…

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Read more about the article Why woke? What to do about it?

Why woke? What to do about it?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:11. December 2023
  • Post category:Book review/Political science/Politics

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…

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Read more about the article Jan-Erik Lönnqvist vs. Emil Kirkegaard on mental illness and the left

Jan-Erik Lönnqvist vs. Emil Kirkegaard on mental illness and the left

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:13. September 2023
  • Post category:Political science/Psychiatry

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…

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Read more about the article Is the past the future?

Is the past the future?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:6. August 2023
  • Post category:Book review/Differential psychology/psychometrics/Immigration/Political science

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…

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Read more about the article Music preferences 2023

Music preferences 2023

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:17. July 2023
  • Post category:Differential psychology/psychometrics/Political science

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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Actual communism is bad for your health

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:2. May 2023
  • Post category:Medicine/Political science

Saw this anti-communism meme today: (I couldn't find a higher res version.) Looks true enough, but perhaps cherry-picked. There were more than 6 countries in the ex-USSR. So I downloaded…

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Read more about the article Social media, mental health, and political polarization

Social media, mental health, and political polarization

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:4. March 2023
  • Post category:Media studies/Political science/Psychiatry

Richard Hanania has a nice post: How I Changed My Mind on Social Media and Teen Depression. He looked into the trends of mental health problems and whether this could…

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