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The cause of sex-related ability tilt is irrelevant with regard to the consequences on STEM employment. Whether due to socialization alone, innate ability alone, some combination o…

In my experience, qualitative arguments of the form above rarely change people's minds but a quantitative model will help. The question asked is the causal network that contributes…

That's an entirely reasonable skeptical point of view to take in the absence of other evidence. However, this question has also been examined. Using typical measures of socioeconom…

The article's author also wrote a book advocating a universal basic income, “In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State,” which was first published in 2006. In that book he …

From the article: >Or consider the unemployed young man who fathers a child. Today, society is unable to make him shoulder responsibility. Under a UBI, a judge could order part of …

tl;dr - a refutation of statistician Cosma Shalizi’s essay at http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/523.htm... in three parts: (1) "Shalizi’s first error is his asse…

Anyone interested in this topic should read the primary research papers. The pattern of differences in IQ test answers between generations is not congruent with the pattern of diff…

This is a good intro: http://www.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/reprints/1997whygmatter...