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End Of The World Approaches—This Time Via A “State Shift”

"Humans," the species nobody asked for, "now dominate Earth," the brutes, "changing it in ways that threaten its ability to sustain us and other species," for it is our duty…

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Statistics Of Drinking, Emailing, Pupil Size

Today, three studies from loyal readers. Drinking Creatively First up, the New York Post's Kyle Smith with an anecdote: Father O'Brien was driving home after lunch when a policeman pulled…

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Bias Against Conservatives In Academia: Shocking New Study

Gander at this picture: This shows self-reported political affiliation of a group of academic social and personality psychologists (this included some graduate students and post docs). The graph is difficult…

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A Peculiar Prevalence Of P Values Just Below .05

Today's title is lifted directly from the paper of E. J. Masicampo & Daniel R. Lalande, published in The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. The paper is here, and is…

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Stressed Men Prefer Chubby Chicks

Here's a title for you, "BMI Not WHR Modulates BOLD fMRI Responses in a Sub-Cortical Reward Network When Participants Judge the Attractiveness of Human Female Bodies." How about that? I…

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USA Homicide Rates: 1950-2010; By Race And Sex

How has the homicide rate changed through time? The Bureau of Justice Statistics of our great government compiles statistics on just this kind of thing. This data arises from the…

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Question About Non-Normal Distributions

Thanks to everybody who sent in links, story tips, and suggestions. Because of my recent travel and pressures of work, I'm (again) way behind in answering these. I do appreciate…

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More Proof Music Is Growing Worse

New proof (which wasn't really need) that popular music is, as has long been claimed, been growing worse has arrived thanks to the diligent work of Joan Serrà and his…

JH on I Don’t Want Immigrants Is All The Reason I NeedJanuary 21, 2025
People, “I don’t want immigrants” != “I don’t want illegal immigrants.” Briggs, though I think your responses are a bit…
BDavi52 on I Don’t Want Immigrants Is All The Reason I NeedJanuary 21, 2025
The 'Xenophobic Argument' is the most interesting, because it is both the easiest to make and the most inherently flawed.…
Cary Cotterman on I Don’t Want Immigrants Is All The Reason I NeedJanuary 21, 2025
The argument I usually get is "compassion". The thing is, I just don't care. Too bad, so sad. I have…
Johnno on I Don’t Want Immigrants Is All The Reason I NeedJanuary 21, 2025
BRIGGS YOU XENOFOOL! You don't want immigrants, do you???!!! Well, I don't want NEIGHBORS!!! Not in my apartment condominium, not…
Brian (bulaoren) on I Don’t Want Immigrants Is All The Reason I NeedJanuary 21, 2025
Thank you Briggs, for your pithy statements, though I fear that most Latin-American migrants would have trouble pronouncing "pithy"... pensular…