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…
Women’s neuroticism, relationships, and fertility
There's a few findings that no one seems to have integrated, so this is my attempt. First off, women are higher in neuroticism than men. Neuroticism can generally be described…
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…
Autistic children attend a course delivered by a specialised teacher Caroline Berge (L) at the College du Parc in Aulnay-sous-Bois, northeast of Paris on October 9, 2019. (Photo by Christophe ARCHAMBAULT / AFP) (Photo by CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT/AFP via Getty Images)
Autism diagnoses are rising, yes, but autism, probably not
We can read in many outlets that the reason autism is increasing in prevalence is that clinicians are becoming more aware of it. The idea being that autism was already…
Unnatural hair color really is a danger zone marker (new study out)
Probably many of you have seen this meme about aposematic hair color: For those not into memes: the idea is that poisonous animals advertise their dangerousness by bright colors to…
Should you get off Twitbookgram?
You might be familiar with stuff like this: How heavy use of social media is linked to mental illness, The Economist, 2018 Looking over the chart a bit, we find…