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Trump is Handing Africa to the Chinese for the Sake of Social Media Clout – The Daily Sceptic

1 week ago | dailysceptic.org | Noah Carl

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is now the second world leader that Trump has openly admonished in a White House press briefing (Volodymyr Zelensky being the first). Trump was asked by a journalist, “What will it take for you to be convinced that there’s no white genocide in South Africa?” And in response, he played a pre-planned video showing supposed evidence for the genocide, which Ramaphosa, like a schoolboy in detention, was made to sit and watch.
Do Researchers’ Views on Immigration Affect the Results of Their Studies?

1 week ago | thenewconservative.co.uk | Noah Carl

What effects does immigration have on society? Some are obvious and can be seen with the naked eye. Immigrants may look different. They may dress differently and have different habits. Other effects are less obvious and must be studied using social science. Do immigrants commit more or less crime than natives? Do they pay more in taxes than they take in public services? Do they shift the culture one way or the other? These questions are not straightforward to answer.
Do Researchers' Views on Immigration Affect the Results of Their Studies? – The Daily Sceptic

2 weeks ago | dailysceptic.org | Noah Carl

What effects does immigration have on society? Some are obvious and can be seen with the naked eye. Immigrants may look different. They may dress differently and have different habits. Other effects are less obvious and must be studied using social science. Do immigrants commit more or less crime than natives? Do they pay more in taxes than they take in public services? Do they shift the culture one way or the other? These questions are not straightforward to answer.
Can Monkeys Teach Us About Fairness? – The Daily Sceptic

3 weeks ago | dailysceptic.org | Noah Carl

In 2003, a study titled ‘Monkeys reject unequal pay’ was published in the leading journal Nature. The authors, Sarah Brosnan and Frans de Waal, reported evidence that capuchin monkeys exhibit ‘inequity aversion’. They conducted an experiment where pairs of monkeys exchanged tokens for rewards with a human. In one condition, both monkeys received cucumber (an inferior reward). In the other, one of the two monkeys received grapes (a superior reward).
Noah Carl and Bo Winegard: probing the intellectual darker web

3 weeks ago | razibkhan.com | Razib Khan |Noah Carl |Bo Winegard

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -14:55Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib talks to Bo Winegard and Noah Carl, the editors behind the online publication Aporia Magazine, founded in 2022. Winegard and Carl are both former academics. Winegard has a social psychology Ph.D. from Florida State University, and was an assistant professor at Marietta College. He was an editor at Quillettebefore moving to Aporia.
The Backlash to the War Against Boys – The Daily Sceptic

3 weeks ago | dailysceptic.org | Noah Carl

When elites try to impose feminism on ordinary people, do they become more or less receptive to it? In a 2022 paper, Brian Wheaton of UCLA found that they become much less receptive. He studied “Equal Rights Amendments”—changes to US state constitutions that explicitly mandate gender equality. Comparing changes in gender attitudes in states that did and didn’t pass such amendments, he found that Americans became less supportive of gender equality when such amendments were passed.
Which Ideology is Most Receptive to Bullshit? – The Daily Sceptic

1 month ago | dailysceptic.org | Noah Carl

In his famous work On Bullshit, the philosopher Henry Frankfurt defined bullshit as speech intended to persuade or manipulate someone without regard for truth. He distinguished it from lying, which refers to speech intended to persuade someone of a falsehood. So while the liar attempts to steer his interlocuter away from truth, the bullshitter is largely unconcerned with truth—seeking instead to impress or bamboozle his interlocuter.
We Already Have a Migrant Crime League Table – The Daily Sceptic

1 month ago | dailysceptic.org | Noah Carl

It was reported this week that “for the first time” Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, has ordered officials to publish an official “migrant crime league table”. Her decision is being heralded as a big win for opponents of mass immigration. Robert Jenrick, the former Tory leadership candidate, was quoted as saying that “following over a year of pressure from campaigners, including my own attempt to change the law”, there has been a “breakthrough”. However, this seems like an overstatement.
How much has life expectancy fallen in Gaza?

1 month ago | thecritic.co.uk | Noah Carl

Grim new estimates are more plausible than critics have suggested How has the war in Gaza affected overall mortality among Gazans? According to a paper published in the Lancet in February, life expectancy in Gaza fell by 35 years during the first 12 months of the war. This is a remarkable figure. For comparison, life expectancy fell by “only” 21 years during the war and genocide in Bosnia during the 1990s. But can the figure be trusted?
The Health Effects of Cousin Marriage in British Pakistanis – The Daily Sceptic

1 month ago | dailysceptic.org | Noah Carl

In most of Europe and the Americas, cousin marriage is extremely rare — only a few percent of people are married to their first or second cousins. But in other societies — mostly in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia — it’s much more common. By some estimates, more than 50% of Pakistanis are married to their first or second cousins. A major problem with cousin marriage is that the children of such unions are more likely to have mental and physical health problems. Why?