Removing antisemitism won't change the Middle East debate much
Here is a silly and offensive anecdote told to me by a Thai guy I was skiing with.| wyclif.substack.com
Here is a silly and offensive anecdote told to me by a Thai guy I was skiing with.| wyclif.substack.com
Are we on our way to superintelligence wiping out humans by 2027? Or are we in a bubble of hype? My take:| Wyclif's Dust
Political decisions versus scientific descriptions; ancestry versus ethnicity; ancestry proportions versus individual variants| Wyclif's Dust
Economists tend to be pro-immigration, and to think of people as following their self-interest.| wyclif.substack.com
Short pieces from the windmills of my mind, about pile-ons, political science and Plato| Wyclif's Dust
An intuitive reason I disbelieve the "parents make no difference" thesis| Wyclif's Dust
Liberalism is challenged by gains from scale| wyclif.substack.com
People may want to increase fertility for different reasons.| wyclif.substack.com
Why I'm still not a polygenic score nihilist| Wyclif's Dust
Here is a good, very comprehensive introduction by Scott Alexander to the debate about missing heritability. This post is much shorter and is going to just focus on one aspect — the value of polygenic scores.| Wyclif's Dust
I haven’t fitted this into the main data posts, but we can also divide up the European Values Survey data by birth cohort.| Wyclif's Dust
Religion, work and attitudes| Wyclif's Dust
This conflict can easily spill beyond economics into something worse| Wyclif's Dust
To parents besieged by expert advice, a new scientific idea offers relief: it’s no big deal how you raise your children....| wyclif.substack.com
All just data journalists with pretensions| wyclif.substack.com
Data on marriage and family| wyclif.substack.com
The first of three posts about my new paper with Abdel Abdellaoui| wyclif.substack.com
After 4 years, I’m adding a paid option to this newsletter.| wyclif.substack.com
Is it OK to smack, spank or physically punish your children? Billions of parents have a deep interest in this question. But answering it is very difficult, because it comes with horrible methodological problems. Obviously, there is a huge problem of reverse causality. Suppose children who are regularly spanked are naughtier. Did the punishment make the kids worse? Or did the bad behaviour get them spanked?| wyclif.substack.com
Someone is wrong on the internet....| wyclif.substack.com
God, what a horrible fortnight.| wyclif.substack.com
A work in progress, a.k.a. a cry for help| wyclif.substack.com
William Topaz McGonagall achieved fame as soon as his “Poetic Gems” were published in 1879, as the worst poet in the English language.| wyclif.substack.com
Free societies need institutions which do one job| wyclif.substack.com
