Does diversity make teams work better?

Apparently not!

A new, comprehensive preregistered meta-analysis found that, whether the diversity was demographic, cognitive, or occupational, its relationship with performance was near-zero.

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/nscd4

At all 8 Ivy League universities, there are at least 3x as many liberal as conservative students.

The left-right % by campus:
Harvard: 61%-20%
Cornell: 67%-17%
Dartmouth: 70%-16%
Yale: 73%-15%
Princeton: 75%-13%
Columbia: 77%-14%
UPenn: 77%-9%
Brown: 83%-9%

Source: https://twitter.com/data_depot/status/1783247913738711169

51% of Americans, including 42% of Democrats, support mass deportation of illegals.

https://twitter.com/axios/status/1783440041244528785

"It may fairly be said that in America and Australia the English race has already entered into and begun the enjoyment of its great inheritance. When these continents were settled they contained the largest tracts of fertile, temperate, thinly peopled country on the face of the globe. We cannot rate too highly the importance of their acquisition. Their successful settlement was a feat which by comparison utterly dwarfs all the European wars of the last two centuries; just as the importance of the issues at stake in the wars of Rome and Carthage completely overshadowed the interests for which the various contemporary Greek kingdoms were at the same time striving."

📜 Theodore Roosevelt, The Winning of The West, Volume I, 1889
📍Minnesota State Capitol, Saint Paul, Minnesota

Race, economics and homicide

Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?

https://inquisitivebird.substack.com/p/race-economics-and-homicide

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42,000 likes for pro-mass deportation tweet.

Ironically, mass deporting pro-Palestine demonstrators would disproportionately impact Jews, who are significantly overrepresented among pro-Palestine campaigners.

The Vanity of Online Self Improvement

Another insightful video by Gerbert Johnson, the best "self-improvement" YouTuber.

True assimilation is only possible between ethnic groups that are extremely similar in phenotype. Even today, White Americans of non-Northwest European descent are disproportionately left-wing.

Who are the most right-wing Americans? (2024)

The average 1940s American was racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, and anti-Communist.

The notion that "anti-fascism" or any contemporary left-wing value inspired the average American soldier to fight in WW2 is absurd. Many of those sent to Europe wondered why they weren't in the Pacific fighting the Japanese, who they regarded as racial enemies.

Thread of highlights from Trump's Time Magazine interview: https://twitter.com/barbquehour/status/1785367876158861460