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Perspectives on Politics isn't exactly a top-drawer journal. It's the sort of outlet where articles (often more on the philosophical side) end up that lack the scientific rigor nec…

Trust-by-default is pretty much the definition of social capital, which is thought to be incredibly important for a functioning society. Basically, it's more efficient to trust peo…

Don't blame algorithms for human nature. That thing is ultimately just minimizing a loss function and if recommending garbage gets the best results, that's what it will do.

I will concede that you make some good points, however: These statistics simplify things a little because they rely on measures of central tendency - mostly the mean, from what I c…

As a German living in the US, I wholeheartedly agree with this article, especially the bit about everything being somewhat lower quality. And despite the lower quality, things usua…