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Oct 14 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
“Just be kind.”

Feminization made the West acutely better but chronically worse. For each time we favored kind lies over unkind truths, we functioned momentarily better by sparing feelings but permanently worse by weaving lies into the fabric of social reality Image
My favorite study on the matter
Different method, same pattern

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Sep 21
Wokism arises from a population unusually selfless, increasingly led by low-testosterone people, made to believe all groups are psychologically identical, and whose women feel evermore guilt, shame, trust, and unmet nurturing needs 🧵 Image
“Wokism arises from a population unusually selfless”
“increasingly led by low-testosterone people”
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Sep 8
Suicidal Empathy isn’t merely ideological, it’s more fundamentally biopsychosocial.

Research shows free, affluent societies maximize guilt, shame, trust, and altruism in women🧵 Image
My insight is based on a recent systematic review of the Gender-Equality Paradox. It summarizes 27 meta-analyses and large-scale studies as well as 54 other studies
“Results indicate that those sex differences in negative emotions that are more prevalent or stronger in females [such as guilt and shame] are larger in countries with higher living conditions (p.20)." Image
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Jul 21
Zero-sum thinking is the belief that gains for one individual or group tend to come at the cost of others. According to the National Bureau of Economic Research (2025), U.S. Black and Hispanic people are more likely to hold that belief. Race durably influences political beliefs Image
Full figure with x-axis Image
Despite the authors’ best efforts at minimizing the explanatory value of race by controlling for variables that race also predicts, like being born abroad, household income, and educational attainment—a statistical sleight of hand ritualized among social scientists—the authors are stuck with a sizable Black-White gap they resort to explaining with…racism, essentially without further evidence. Can they also tell us how racism makes Asians have lower levels of zero-sum thinking?

It is worth mentioning that “Black respondents are more zero-sum even after controlling for whether their ancestors were enslaved.” p. 6

For social scientists to start publishing honest, consequential research again, a good first step would be not to use the blank slate—a lie—as their foundational premise.

I should add, however, that the authors are probably not to blame here. These are the rules of the social science game. You either sugarcoat racial realities or you don’t get published.Image
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Jul 4
Mamdani comes from a culture where lying is normal.

26,000 people from 60 countries were asked how much they believed they had to be selfish [disregard others, cheat, lie, etc.] to get ahead. Indians scored highest Image
“The rich are richer than the
poor because they have been more selfish in life than the poor.”

5-point scale from “strongly disagree” (1) to “strongly agree” (5)

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This belief is conceptually similar to vulnerable narcissism. In a high-trust, meritocratic society, we could expect a moderately strong positive correlation (~0.45, corrected for unreliability) between the two constructs
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Jun 28
“I am begging you to stop debunking the foundation of my leftist beliefs.”

Some countries are rich, others are poor — and average IQ explains most of it Image
And the Y-axis is a log scale, the real relationship is exponential! It looks more like this one
Naturally, there is some level of circular causality to the first graph, but wealthy countries with high-quality education don’t magically turn low-IQ populations into high-IQ ones Image
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Jun 16
Harvard economist Raj Chetty’s study of 20 million Americans shows that Black men are incarcerated at 3 to 10 times the rate of White men raised in households of similar income. What’s your environmental explanation?🧵 Image
Source, original graph and data.

U.S. Census—National Statistics by Parent Income Percentile, Gender, and Race: opportunityinsights.org/data/?geograph…Image
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If the cause of this disparity is racism, can you tell us how racism uniquely increases Black incarceration rates and not that of Jews or Asians?
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