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Diana S. Fleischman @sentientist
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The "Lesbian Wage Premium" - Lesbians make 9% more than heterosexual women on average. Gay men make 11% less than hetero men, on average.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ir…
Posted the original numbers rather than any analysis which ties itself in knots trying to explain this in terms of discrimination. There is a parsimonious explanation that no one seems to like very much...
Here is a great breakdown of why lesbians earn more and gay men earn less

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Ian J Deary on why smart people often question IQ "clever people develop a kind of cognitive noblesse oblige; they know they have won the lottery on a valuable trait, but they think it is bad form to acknowledge it"
Great primer on Intelligence in Cell cell.com/current-biolog…
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I do not dismiss IQ scepticism purely because of motivation. Nor have I implied anything wrong w @nntaleb. In his original IQ thread Taleb questioned motivations and intelligence of IQ endorsers many times. I just said Taleb isn't humble, and he isn't.
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Nonsense is the belief the scientific endeavor can discover nothing true about human nature but simultaneously believing that we can understand culture and harness it to improve the human condition. Culture is an outgrowth of our animal nature rather than an outside cause.
Nonsense is marveling at the hubris of humanity, endorsing environmental harmony but rejecting the insights that seeing humans as animals provides - the only insights to improve our condition. Denigrating the capitalism which has harnessed our animal self interest for benefit.
Nonsense is rejecting the alteration of the biology of our species, rejecting the notion of intelligence. Rejecting gene editing and integration with technology that would improve us as a species because we want to signal we are good, a signaling that is itself deeply primitive.
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I had a fun and wide ranging conversation with @JohnDanaher on evolutionary psychology, sex differences, casual sex, the replication crisis, incels, male violence, porn, and why women don't want sex robots. …ilosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2018/08/episod…
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"Incels are just one example of a group of men who can't get sexual access but men who cannot get sexual access have always represented a much greater threat to society than men with mates" 49:12 …ilosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2018/08/episod…
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1/n To what extent did anti-PC sentiment influence voting in the recent midterm elections? Absent the relevant survey data, there's no way to know. All I can say is that it did *appear* to influence (if only modestly) voting for GOP Congressional candidates in the 2016 election.
2/n To show this, we'll begin with a basic logit model, which regresses votes for GOP (Senate and/or House) candidates on measures of anti-PC sentiment, economic pessimism, and the standard series of demographic/political controls.
3/n As shown, net of all other predictors, anti-PC sentiment significantly predicts voting for a GOP Congressional candidate (OR=1.47; p < 0.001).
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In preparation for submitting my Soc of Anti-Muslim Racism syllabus soon: an incomplete thread on relevant scholarship (adding to it today/tomorrow!). Jump in if you have the time & energy!
An important precedent for this effort is #IslamophobiaIsRacismSyllabus
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More on networks and their influence on robustness & evolutionary dynamics in today’s “Beyond Networks” lecture (ufind.univie.ac.at/en/course.html…). Slides available here: drive.google.com/open?id=1kfA7R…. @univienna
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Jealousy at work: The role of rivals’ characteristics 2018
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1/Here is a thread about the evidence regarding diversity and trust.

Many immigration restrictionists allege that diversity decreases trust. For example, @DouthatNYT: nytimes.com/2018/01/27/opi…
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The most famous of these is Robert Putnam's finding that diversity causes social isolation ("hunkering"): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.…
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thread for ppl, I’m assuming mostly men, who were surprised + dismayed @ no. of women who had been sexually harassed and/or assaulted #metoo
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