The Institute for Family Studies is running an article about Incels, Male Sexlessness is Rising But Not for the Reasons Incels Claim, which uses data from the General Social Survey. The GSS is easy to process and use, so I decided to try to replicate the chart in the...
One of my long-term irritations with nonprofits is that donors can get deductions for donations to organizations that don’t have as much social impact as other organizations. I don’t think that donations to most large-city symphonies, or yet another $100M...
Last September, Columbia Journalism Review reported on American’s low and declining trust in the media. In hope of exposing some reason for hope, they asked if that trust might be restored, and about 75% said it could be, if the media improved accuracy by...
The Internet should be a transformative technology for political debates; in a matter of seconds you can verify or reject nearly any conjecture, relieving bloggers from the embarrassment of posting complete nonsense. Unfortunately, few ideological adherents avail...
Finding one article on pre-natal exposure to testosterone and giftedness, I figured that this was probably only one paper showing a tentative connection. Then I found all of the other papers. Martin Mrazik, Stefan Dombrowski. The Neurobiological Foundations of...
While reading a bit about KIPP schools, a compensatory education program for minority students, I found a report that has some interesting, adjacent paragraphs: [The KIPP Performance gains do] not appear to be attributable to a selective admissions process. KIPP...
The US has been shedding manufacturing jobs since about 2000. ( Not 1970 as many people believe . ) But, a capital spending report for the same period shows that capital spending has not dropped: Furthermore, manufacturing revenue has been climbing over the...
Here is an excellent comment to an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The commenter, mark_r_harris, is a teacher in South Korea who explains what happens when, as the Obama administration would like, every student in a country graduates from college. On 60...
Here’s a good example of how to turn a negative into a positive. Much more poetic than ” keep out”. Posted via email from Eric’s...
There are certain dangers of speculating on the limits of science. From What it Means to be 98% Chimpanzee, by Jonathan Marks, referring to the possibility of humans inbreeding with Neandertals: Could an extinct form of near-humans have interbred with us? Not only...
