Racial diversity: does it matter? How do we know?
A lot of people on the right are concerned about the negative effects of ethnic and religious diversity. Sometimes, they produce plots like this one: The plot shows racial homogeneity…
What’s the right dose of democracy?
If you haven't done so already, take the reader survey here! In medicine, there's the occasional discussion of the dose response function of some drug. People wisely assume that it…
The persistent denial of the intelligence meritocracy: Gary Marks
Gark N. Marks has a new review article out. And it doesn't pull punches! Marks, G. N. (2022). Cognitive ability has powerful, widespread and robust effects on social stratification: Evidence…
Ukrainians in our countries: what are we getting, what can we expect?
As the war rages on, the war refugees are starting to come and more are announced. They are being widely accepted even by the nationalist parties. For instance, Danish New…
Immigration economics for economist dummies
Some time ago, I published a 50 minutes long video walkthrough of some research on economics effects of immigration for Nordic countries. Since some people don't really watch videos, I…
Authoritarianism and fertility: maybe, probably
Last year, this meme was floating around: The data are real enough, and the years are right. It seems that Franco was able to sustain fertility in Spain during his…
Do something else for Denmark
A lot of people are interested in fertility. As a matter of fact, there is no more important metric for long term viability of a civilization (Romans knew it too).…
Testosterone battles
Back in October Razib Khan had Carole Hooven on his podcast. She's the author of a new popsci book on testosterone: T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates…
Sweden finally publishes new immigrant crime rate data, which shows no surprises
Back in 2017, I wrote about how Sweden has a policy of hiding their immigrant crime rate statistics. (See also this tweet.) One cannot even buy them from the statistics…
Math scores for 2nd generation immigrants in Norway by country of origin
A reader sent me this interesting report that I had previously somehow not heard of: Rune Jørgen Sørensen, Jon Marius Iversen, Johan From, and Hans Bonesrønning. Culture and school performance:…
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