The violent gang crisis shaking Sweden
https://www.ft.com/content/79f0d181-bdae-4c81-a971-861ccd8d512c

Heritability, within and between groups
https://www.emilkirkegaard.com/p/heritability-within-and-between-groups

Beware of the bots that use my username

Scientists censor themselves and each other largely for prosocial reasons, to protect reputations from public scrutiny & to protect vulnerable groups from potentially harmful scientific findings. However these harm concerns are largely based on intuitive assumptions rather than empirical evidence, and the immediate and downstream costs of censorship are rarely weighed against the supposed harms.

Prosocial motives underlie scientific censorship by scientists: A perspective and research agenda
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2301642120

Twitter thread:
https://nitter.net/ImHardcory/status/1726694654312358041#m
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#censorship #research #bias
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Americans’ Trust in Scientists, Positive Views of Science Continue to Decline
https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2023/11/14/americans-trust-in-scientists-positive-views-of-science-continue-to-decline/
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#science #trust #USA
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"The truth is that, in many cases, elite groups are genetically different from the rest of the population."

How do elite groups form?
https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/how-do-elite-groups-form

Socio-Demographic Indicators, Intelligence, and Locus of Control as Predictors of Adult Financial Well-Being

General intelligence measured at age 10 predicts financial well-being at age 38.
https://www.mdpi.com/2079-3200/5/2/11
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#intelligence #wealth #money
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Hype in Science: An analysis of 2,300,000 abstracts from scientific papers shows that scientists are increasingly hyping their findings.

Presence and consequences of positive words in scientific abstracts
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-023-04864-6

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#research #science #hype #words
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"Standard deep learning models can be trained to predict race from medical images with high performance across multiple imaging modalities... We demonstrate this detection is not due to trivial proxies or imaging-related surrogate covariates for race..."
"We show that performance persists over all anatomical regions and frequency spectrum of the images."

AI recognition of patient race in medical imaging: a modelling study
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(22)00063-2/fulltext
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#brain #AI #race
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Taking the human extended phenotypes seriously
https://www.emilkirkegaard.com/p/taking-the-human-extended-phenotypes

Harvard’s Shocking Admission: Affirmative Action and Critical Race Theory Killed South Africa
https://www.amren.com/news/2023/12/harvards-shocking-admission-affirmative-action-and-critical-race-theory-killed-south-africa/

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#SouthAfrica #race #diversity #CRT #AffirmativeAction
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PISA scores continue to fall across the board among the developed nations (they have a .9 correlation with intelligence)

Children with liberal parents more likely to suffer mental health problems: Study

"Conservative parents have several key distinctions in their relationships with their children that inform mental health outcomes, Rothwell explained, including being able to "effectively discipline their children, while also displaying affection and responding to their needs." The right-leaning parents also have better quality relationships with their children, "characterized by fewer arguments, more warmth, and a stronger bond.""
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/community-family/children-liberal-parents-suffer-mental-health-issues

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#parenting #children #ideology #liberal #conservative
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The rise and fall of social psychology

The field's reliance on cute studies, small samples, and political activism led to its collapse.
https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-social-psychology?r=abvmd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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#psychology #research #ReplicationCrisis
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Fertility questions: the role of population density?
https://www.emilkirkegaard.com/p/fertility-questions-the-role-of-population

Any good White liberal knows to stay the fuck away from Black people

One in five young Americans think the Holocaust is a myth
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/12/07/one-in-five-young-americans-think-the-holocaust-is-a-myth

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#history #holocaust #USA
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A study ennoscriptd “Borderless Welfare State: The Consequences of Immigration on Public Finances” shows that the Dutch spent €400 billion (!!) in net costs to the immigrants who are replacing them over the period 1995-2019

https://archive.is/YatZ4
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#immigration #economy #Netherlands #money
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13 Years of (UK) Conservatives promising to reduce Immigration
https://twitter.com/kunley_drukpa/status/1734169027449114763

Majority of Americans feel US economy is in recession: survey
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/majority-americans-us-economy-recession-survey