Distrust, Heat Deaths, Power Laws
Links and recommendations
From the archives:
Why You Should Trust Trust and Distrust Distrust
The Psychology of Morality:
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Links and recommendations:
Ambassadors of Ugliness by Theodore Dalrymple
How Europe Became the World Champion of Heat Deaths by Maarten Boudry
Race, Income and Why Some Democrats Have the Luxury of Opposing School Choice by Brian Kisida
America the Beautiful by Norman Podhoretz
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Three interesting findings:
1. Men’s child care time has increased in the past few generations. Millennial dads are now spending as much time with their kids as baby boomer moms once did. Interestingly, though, modern fatherhood shows a class-based divergence: Highly educated dads are investing more time and energy into parenthood, while working-class fathers are spending slightly less time with their kids than they did a generation ago (source).
2. Professors at leading US universities were asked to evaluate applications for a tenure-track STEM position. The applications were identical for all participants. The study revealed a 2:1 preference for the female applicants. (source: A Billion Years of Sex Differences by Steve Stewart-Williams).
3. Power laws exist even within the top 10 richest people. Elon Musk is worth more than the bottom 5 combined. (source).
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The tenure-track STEM position study that resulted in a 2:1 preference for female applicants is infuriating. With what we are seeing in current gender discrimination and black anti-white behavior, the clear conclusion is that white males, the category of people that primarily founded and built the country, are more sophisticated in their moral behavior to have previously drafted, passed, accepted and adopted Civil Rights laws to achieve gender and racial equality. Contrastingly, females and blacks are prone to the more primitive group tribalism and when given power, will exploit that power to oppress people outside of their tribe.
Rob, anyone who's ever sat at a poker table where one player had a bigger stack of chips than the others should be able to figure out that power laws exist amongst the richest of the rich.
Thanks for the post. Yours are always interesting. As was your Free Press Orwell discussion.