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Scientists should be allowed to recommend their own peer reviewers
https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/scientists-should-be-allowed-to-recommend?s=r

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#peerreview #nepotism
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No evidence of racial discrimination in criminal justice processing after accounting for verbal IQ and violent history.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886913000470

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#discrimination #race #intelligence #crime #violence
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This 2021 paper found bisexuals to be the highest in dark triad traits overall

The dark side of the rainbow: Homosexuals and bisexuals have higher Dark Triad traits than heterosexuals
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886921004177

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#LGBT #darktriad #psychology
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Evidently, the high rate of poverty among LGBT Americans is largely driven by bisexual women who make up a significant proportion of LGBT Americans and who have a poverty rate much greater than gay or straight women.
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/National-LGBT-Poverty-Oct-2019.pdf

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#LGBT #poverty #women
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Who wants to hire a more diverse faculty? A conjoint analysis of faculty and student preferences for gender and racial/ethnic diversity
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21565503.2018.1491866

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#diversity #race #gender #hiring #university
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Predicting personality from movie preferences: Big 5 personality profiles of fans of different genres.

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#bigfive #psychology #movies #personality #genres
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TikTok Tics and Mass Sociogenic Illness
https://bprice.substack.com/p/tiktok-tics-and-mass-sociogenic-illness?s=r

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#tiktok #psychology #mentalhealth #illness
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Science Hack Adam Rutherford, Himself The Product Of Eugenics, Gets Emotional About Eugenicsโ€”A Symptom Of Our New Dark Age
https://vdare.com/articles/science-hack-adam-rutherford-himself-the-product-of-eugenics-gets-emotional-about-eugenics-a-symptom-of-our-new-dark-age

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#eugenecs
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Forwarded from House of Wagner
Rebuttal to the popular claim that personality is a better predictor of life outcomes than intelligence

"We found that for educational attainment the average R2 of intelligence was .232 whereas for personality it was .053. For GPA it was .229 and .024, respectively and for pay it was .080 and .040, respectively."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289622000125
Why intellectuals gush over despots
https://edwest.substack.com/p/a-long-line-of-useful-idiots?s=r

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#intellectuals #left
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Twin study finds that roughly two thirds of the association between an adolescent being bullied and their risk of attempting suicide is explained by genetics and psychological problems that existed prior to them being bullied as a teen.
https://gwern.net/docs/genetics/correlation/2021-oreilly.pdf

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#bullying #genetics #twin #twinstudy
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More waves in longitudinal studies do not help against sampling error
https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/more-waves-in-longitudinal-studies

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Highly Heritable and Functionally Relevant Breed Differences in Dog Behavior

"We integrated behavioral data from more than 17,000 dogs from 101 breeds with breed-averaged genotypic data (N = 5,697 dogs) from over 100,000 loci in the dog genome. Across 14 traits, we found that breed differences in behavior are highly heritable."
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/509315v1#:~:text=Variation%20across%20dog%20breeds%20presents,basis%20of%20complex%20behavioral%20traits.&text=Across%2014%20traits%2C%20we%20found,behavior%20accurately%20recapitulates%20genetic%20relationships

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#dogs #breeds #behavior #heritability #genetics
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