As students advance in school, courses become more genetically stratified.
Kids who have greater genetic endowments related to education end up taking higher mathematics courses than kids with poorer genetic endowments.
Society genetically stratifies as people with certain traits succeed better in certain areas. This crops up for occupational class, tax brackets, and more.
Today makes two years of having a Twitter account.
I'm glad that 244,400 of you have decided to follow me in that time, and it's hard to overstate my astonishment that so many would even want to in the first place.
So, thank you, and here's the last month's review of posts!
South Korean industrial policy: as overrated for economic success as industrial policy everywhere else.
Still might be good for national security reasons!
The first empirical evaluation of New York's congestion pricing has just been published.
Spoiler: It worked really, really well🧵
First, what is congestion pricing?
It's an added fee sent to drivers when they drive on certain roads, at certain times, in order to dissuade people from using the road when they don't need to.
The initiative aims to cut down on needless overuse, leading to slow roads.
Congestion pricing, in New York, acts as a sort of redistribution:
Because people pay to get into Manhattan, fewer go in, and the payments that would go to paid parking lot owners are effectively redistributed to the city government.
Recent survey results suggest Republicans dominate public perception when it comes to things people really care about and Democrats dominate when it comes to issues that people don't really care about.
That's probably a significant part of the story of why Kamala lost.
Democrats really did just decide to leave a lot of important 60/40 and 80/20 issues for Republicans to pick up and crush them with, and that was not a smart move.
No wonder this was the electorate.
These results are really staggering.
Never before have Republicans been winners among non-Whites, until the 2024 election.
For years, non-Whites have tended to vote Democrat regardless of their personal ideology, but now, e.g., Hispanic conservatives vote Republican.
Demographic change refers to changes in sample qualities like age, race, sex, wealth, and so on over time. In the case of these samples with consistent ages, it's mostly race, immigration status, etc.
Take Finland as an example:
Measurement invariance is still simple, but it's a bit harder, and it's almost universally neglected.
Consider an example where you're asking a group of humans and a group of robots questions about moral condemnation.