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The Assimilation Myth — new post published!
Using data from a variety of countries, I show that ethnic disparities in human capital, economic performance, crime and cultural values tend to show substantial persistence across generations.
Inquisitive Bird
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Inquisitive Bird
@Scientific_Bird
A curious bird trying to understand the human condition.
Joined January 2019
- The Rotherham scandal is so gruesome, so grotesque–no words can describe it. The details of a single offender will make a tough person feel nauseous. Not only what the offenders did, but also the institutional cover-up. Easily one of the worst crimes in recent Western history.
- This story gets more and more distorted, further and further removed from reality. Here are the actual facts: 1) Franklin did not take Photo 51. 2) Watson and Crick did not steal Photo 51. 3) Photo 51 was not central for the discovery of the DNA structure.70 years ago, a woman discovered the structure of DNA. But 2 Cambridge men stole her work and won the Nobel Prize. She was erased from history and died of cancer. Here’s how the biggest theft in science buried Rosalind Franklin’s name in history… 🧵u
- The open problem -- the "moving sofa problem" -- has possibly just been solved! This mathematical problem basically asks "what is the largest area of a 'sofa' that can be maneuvered through a right-angled corner in a hallway of width 1?" Short thread 🧵
- The best predictor of living to 120+ years old is lack of proper documentation
- Many responses to this misunderstand it. A lot of commenters, in their confusion or ignorance, assume that it must necessarily simply be due to abject poverty and lack of access to other food. In reality, this is an old cultural tradition that persists from West Africa.Haitians eat dirt cookies called bonbon tè. Women buy sacks of dirt, often on credit, and mix them with a bit of fat and salt.
00:00 - Violent crime conviction rate in Denmark, by country of origin
- The new paper from David Reich's lab regarding evolution in Europeans in the last 10,000 years is very interesting. Genetic changes include: - Increased intelligence - Less body fat disposition - Less risk for psychotic disorders - Paler skin color. A short thread.
- It's funny when people try to insinuate that bigotry of various kinds (sexism, anti-semitism, etc) are recent phenomena. I was reading this account of a young Danish man who was captured into slavery by Algerian pirates in 1724.
- A survey in Denmark showed that 76% of immigrants/descendants from majority-Muslim countries believed that criticizing Islam should be illegal. I'm not presenting this in a misleading way either. They were just asked whether it should be illegal "to criticize Islam".What Rupert actually wants to say is:- Free speech means protecting the right to offend Muslims.
- Why is this 3D spherical object distorted when projected onto a 2D plane? I'm not sure yet, but I think the answer starts with R and ends with acism.
- According to Carole Cadwalladr of The Guardian, Elon Musk is planning to fly to Mars to rape its rare earth minerals.
- New study has released personality profiles of 263 occupations. Short thread of the occupations that are the most extreme with respect to each of the five personality dimension (I will mention only occupations with a sample of at least 100).
- It's pretty funny to see the left-wing gender wage gap position transform in real-time, while pretending that they never changed at all. But anyone who lived through the 2010s knows that the "77 cent on the dollar for the exact same work" version was completely dominant.
