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Taking Sex Differences in Personality Seriously
Scott Barry Kaufman - Scientific American Blog Network 41h 16 tweets
New approaches are shedding light on the magnitude of sex differences in personality and the results are so strong and pervasive that they can no longer be ignored.
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Nicole Barbaro Sex differences in personality profiles are large. But, rather than looking at just one trait, *combinations* of personality traits in men & women show big diffs—knowing a persons personality profile can predict their sex w/ >85% accuracy. By 31h
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Scott Barry Kaufman "New approaches are shedding light on the magnitude of sex differences in personality and the results are so strong and pervasive that they can no longer be ignored." My latest article for (been working on this one awhile trying to get it right) 41h
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Steve Stewart-Williams An important point: Even small sex differences at the average are often associated with very large differences among the minority at the extremes of the distribution. This applies, for instance, to sex differences in agreeableness... HT 34h
How Labour Lost the Culture War
The Atlantic 16h 8 tweets
The broad socioeconomic coalition that once buoyed Labour has broken in two, leaving the party shattered.
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Yascha Mounk Corbyn claimed that he could rebuild Labour by moving far to the left. He only succeeded in decimating his party and losing the working-class to the Tories. Unless Democrats learn the lesson of the UK election, they will lose in 2020. Me . 16h
The False Romance of Russia
The Atlantic 45h 18 tweets
American conservatives who find themselves identifying with Putin’s regime refuse to see the country for what it actually is.
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Anne Applebaum Those who are disappointed with America are more likely to believe in the fake utopias offered by her enemies 44h
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Yascha Mounk In the past, useful idiots on the left hated their country so much they ended up doing the bidding of Stalin or Mao. Today, the useful idiots of the right hate America so much they do the bidding of Putin and Orban. on fire . 39h
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Morning Joe The False Romance of Russia 21h
The Christian Withdrawal Experiment
Emma Green - The Atlantic 43h 12 tweets
Feeling out of step with the mores of contemporary life, members of a conservative-Catholic group have built a thriving community in rural Kansas. Could their flight from mainstream society be a harbinger for the nation?
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Caitlin Flanagan Profound and ravishing by - it lured me into a world of the sacred, and it illuminated the beauty and silence of Catholicism. Yet it also contains the slight but necessary shiver of the sinister. I admire it so much. 34h
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Eric Kaufmann The high-fertility, high retention model of religion is the most successful in the modern world, mathematically set to take over first Israel (late this century), then America (2200s) unless something radical happens. Catholics have now joined the trend: 40h
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Conor Friedersdorf Always read 33h
The Political Inconvenience of the Jersey City Shooting
The Atlantic 45h 4 tweets
If the debate about structural racism is highly complicated, the moral truth about the anti-Semitic shooting is nevertheless straightforward.
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Yascha Mounk For those who believe that racism is exclusively structural, Jews can never be truly at risk. This helps to explain why, faced with the politically inconvenient terror attack in Jersey City, so many are remaining silent. My latest . 45h
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Anne Applebaum The events in Jersey City do not fit popular narratives. adds nuance 42h
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Psyarxiv.com 21h 2 tweets
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Dr Margherita Malanchini Our review of how behavioral genetic research has helped to advance our knowledge and understanding of the association between cognition and education is out Wonderful to work with and Robert Plomin 21h
Britain needs its own Mueller report on Russian ‘interference’ | Glenn R Simpson and Peter Fritsch
the Guardian 40h 13 tweets
Conservative-leaning media in the UK and US see little mileage in exposing meddling that helped their own side, say the founders of the research firm Fusion GPS
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Christina Sommers 🧢 WTAF: “Britain needs its own Mueller report on Russian ‘interference’” Just out in ⁦⁩ #UKElection #BorisJohnson 33h
Antifa's deadly year shows the extremism on the far left | Opinion
Newsweek 34h 4 tweets
The threats from the far right are real and undeniable, but there is far-left violence, too. Americans don't seem to recognize that.
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Andy Ngo 2019 is the deadliest year for those in and around antifa since the movement became an American phenomenon after Trump’s electoral win. I chronicle the deaths and murders involving antifa extremists from the past 12 months. My latest for 34h
The polling that shows Corbyn is to blame for Labour’s decline
Coffee House 36h 10 tweets
The reason Jeremy Corbyn is not preparing to lead the first majority Labour government since 2010 is Jeremy Corbyn. The Labour leader is proving the falseness of the cliché that ‘oppositions don’t win…
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Nick Cohen The reason Jeremy Corbyn lost is Jeremy Corbyn. It’s really that simple. Me in 36h
The Politics of Exhaustion
David Brooks - Nytimes.com 30h 11 tweets
Voters pick whichever candidate exhausts them less.
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David Brooks When conservatives attack their enemies, they do so from a position of social inferiority, so their attacks are resentful. When left attacks, it does so from a position of perceived moral superiority, so its attacks are filled with ridicule and scorn. 19h
BREAKING: U.S. Senate Unanimously Recognizes Armenian Genocide, Rejects Turkey's Gag-Rule against American Remembrance of this Crime
ANCA - Armenian National Committee of America 39h 2 tweets
WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Senate struck a historic blow today against Turkey’s century-long obstruction of justice for the Armenian Genocide, unanimously adopting S.Res.150, an Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA)-backed measure that locks...
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ANCA BREAKING: U.S. Senate Unanimously Recognizes #Armenian #Genocide, Rejects Turkey’s Gag-Rule against American Remembrance of this Crime Powerful remarks by co-sponsors & #ThankfulThursday #ArmenianGenocide #TurkeyFailed 40h
Mikhaila Peterson's survival guide to troll culture
The Post Millennial 38h 5 tweets
Trolls are a bipartisan problem, and we need to know how to deal with them.
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Mikhaila Peterson Wrote an op-ed :) 37h
Patients die as lawyers ransack Pakistan hospital
BBC News 45h 7 tweets
Three patients died when lawyers attacked a cardiac hospital in Lahore in a dispute with doctors.
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Andy Ngo Pakistan: 3 patients have died after a mob of hundreds of lawyers attacked a hospital in Lahore. They ransacked the hospital, destroying medical equipment & attacking staff. Pakistan has a culture of mob justice that affects both rural & urban areas. 40h
SHAPIRO: The Problem With 'Common Good' Conservatism
The Daily Wire 17h 7 tweets
Over the past two weeks, a fascinating intellectual conflict has broken out on the Right over pornography, of all things. The debate was prompted by a letter from four Republican congresspeople to Attorney General William Barr, calling on Barr to...
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David French Great work from here 16h
There’s a conservative civil war raging — over porn
Vox 43h 9 tweets
The stakes are lot bigger than they might seem.
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Jane Coaston The intraconservative battle over pornography is a battle that’s really over what conservatism even is. 44h
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Nick Gillespie OK Boomer journalists! Time to dust off/update those old late 1980s/early '90s col about weird coalition between evangelicals and feminists about porn! "Andrea Dworkin was right" 's tells Vox 40h