Give women what they want: more babies
Central to the decline of the West and now almost all high income countries is that they have too low fertility. Just a reminder from the prior post: Why the…
Why are there so few women and Blacks in some fields? And so many Asians?
Joseph Bronski and I have a new study out: Bronski, J., & Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2024). Diversity in STEM: Merit or Discrimination via Inaccurate Stereotype? OpenPsych, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.26775/OP.2024.03.05 Leslie…
Too many women in the wrong places: Norwegian navy edition
As women increasingly are hired into traditionally male jobs via affirmative action laws or indirect pressure via media, we see more and more incompetence. This is true whether it is…
Women, taxes and voting
Many libertarians defend women's voting rights (women's suffrage) by reference to general principles about equality of legal rights. The historical reason for this move, I think, is that libertarians and…
Battle of the sexes: island survival edition
I don't know of any scientific studies, but there's been a bunch of shows where they put teams of women and men on islands and had them try to survive…
Quote: /lit/ anon on female writers
OP: "I've been pondering. Why have so few significant female writers been produced (or auteurs for that matter)? Visual media is overflowing with female talent. However, behind the scenes where…
Paper: R. Lynn and P. Irwing – Sex differences on the Progressive Matrices a meta-analysis
A frend wantd this. It is a reconstruction based on a scan. Som of the tabls ar mising, but it is reedabl. R. Lynn and P. Irwing - Sex differences…
Roy F. Baumeister – Is There Anything Good About Men?
Caine at FRDB posted a very nice article that I will post here as well for others to enjoy. Do not be fooled by the title. It is very much…
Excerpt from David M. Buss – Evoltuionary Psychology
Some science about the inference about sexual interest in the other sex, showing that males infer it much more often than females. David M. Buss - Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology