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May 18 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Some people think the implicit association test is a sneaky way to see hidden biases. The researchers being left-wing, mainly those against non-Whites and women. However, a better method is the list experiment. Image
This method was applied to an American sample of 830 Whites in 2008-2009. No hidden bias was found however. Somewhat surprisingly maybe. Image
What Can We Learn with Statistical Truth Serum? Design and Analysis of the List Experiment

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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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May 1
We just published a study showing that national stereotypes of intelligence are also accurate. It looks like this. Image
You may be able to see that the pattern is quite nonlinear, and a spline test confirms this. Image
But let's step back. We asked ~500 Americans to estimate country's average intelligence from "far below average" to "far above average". Image
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Apr 27
It looks like the more women we get into academia, the less of a university it will be and the more of a left-wing emotional playground it will be. Image
emilkirkegaard.com/p/who-values-a…
Original study researchers.one/articles/23.03…
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Apr 12
US Naval Academy: "a white applicant with a 5% chance of admission would have a 50% chance if evaluated as Black, and more than 70% of Black admits would not have been admitted under a race-neutral system"

Whites the most systematically discriminated against race. Image
The usual SAT gaps among applicants. Image
US military looks like other publicly funded institutions. A jobs program for non-Whites. Image
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