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Emil Kirkegaard Profile picture
@KirkegaardEmil
Aug 2, 2020 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
The Netherlands has the world's most democratic democracy. With 150 seats in their house, they have 13 parties in parliament right now!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_… Image
The only country where one can almost do a political compass with a full board.

#nlpoli #nlpol Image
The reason for this pluralism is that countries differ in how many % a parties must at least get to have any seats. Most countries impose an artificial limit, called election threshold. Netherlands does not.

DK has 2nd lowest at 2%. 12 parties right now.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral… Image

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Jun 29
Lewis Terman thought that the average American would be a believer in egalitarianism regarding sexes, races etc., and that was in 1922. Image
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"Once dull, always dull". Special education classes have very good metrics for teacher education and students per teacher, but they don't seem to improve much from this extra effort. So Terman infers from this that these factors cannot be of great importance. Image
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Jun 28
New study of 2700 Indian whole genomes shows that Indo-European/Yamnaya/Steppe is quite low, about 15%. It is a bit higher in the north (almost 20%) and among those who speak IE languages, but not impressively so. Too much mixing since the arrival. Image
Inbreeding is strong. The median person had identical blocks in their genome at the level suggesting their parents were 3rd cousins, whereas the human average is about close to 4th cousins (Africans less). Image
Annoyingly, the data is not public, even though American taxpayers paid for this. Can't wait for Trump admin to maybe do something about this abuse (inb4 fell for it again award). Image
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May 25
Not everybody commit scientific fraud at the same rate. Let's look at some data. First retraction rates. Image
We can also look at the top list of most fraudulent researchers ever (so far those that were caught). Note: data from 2019 list. There's quite a few non-Europeans. Image
This is important because we want a per capita measure of sorts. For highly regarded journals, European built countries produced about 75% of science (Nature Index), but maybe 30% of top fraudsters. Image
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May 15
You have maybe seen this plot. It shows ratings of races in USA by race. The key result is that each race favors their own, except for Whites who are apparently race-blind. Image
Since it only covered a single year, 2020, I wondered if this would replicate across years of data. So I downloaded the data for 1964-2024.

So we see that the result replicated (I didn't use survey weights). And indeed, in 2020 and 2024, Whites have about zero ethnocentrism. Image
But this pattern among Whites is more complex. Here are the ratings by political ideology (self-rated 1-7 scale). The below average attitude towards fellow Whites is concentrated on the left, just as @ZachG932 found before. Especially the far left. Image
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May 13
Mental issues roughly follow a hierarchical pattern, like cognitive abilities, like a general factor on top. At least, statistically. Image
The motivating factors behind this approach compared to the categorical (diagnostic) approach are: 1) evidence of continuity between clusters, 2) binary encoding of continuous data loses information, 3) correlations among diagnoses are the norm, 4) a given person may not quality for any particular diagnosis, yet have severe symptoms.Image
Some aspects of mental problems haven't been integrated into the hierarchical model yet. Say, unusual sexual interests (from foot fetishes to pedophilia and rape fetishes). Image
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May 9
What makes a good computer game?
An analysis of 60k Steam game ratings Image
First ratings were adjusted for small sample bias using empirical Bayes Image
Games seem to be getting better. The higher ratings in the past probably reflect selection bias for which games are listed on Steam. Image
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