I wrote a long blog post comparing the issue of trust among countries. One of my issues is that the measure asks people what they think rather than observing how they behave. As it turns out, someone did a study based on behavior. Scandinavian countries still come out on top.
Researchers left 17,000 wallets on the streets of 355 cities, some empty, some with money. Contrary to the predictions of economists, people everywhere were more likely to return wallets with money in them. But rates did vary from country to country. https://t.co/xpOC3fW1lG pic.twitter.com/mGT8A3v5pK
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) November 28, 2020
My post on formative institutions was about many things, but in one section I made the case for the necessity of media as an institution. Similarly, Tanner Greer makes the case for why Substack will not be as disruptive as many people think.
I wrote a blog post about my depression and how reading and learning something new is a way of drowing that out. Now it appears there is some science that backs up my behavior.
"In recent years, other dopamine pathways in the brain have been proposed that are strongly linked to the reward value of information. People who score high in the general tendency toward exploration are not only driven to engage in behavioral forms of exploration but also tend to get energized through the possibility of discovering new information and extracting meaning and growth from their experience....
"Don’t understand why everyone else around you is so interested in sex, drugs, and money, and you get so turned on by stimulating ideas and learning new and interesting things? Now you have a potential answer: You may be highly sensitive to the reward value of information."
I support ideological diversity. Now, science supports it.
One of the more interesting papers I've read lately: If you average your own best guess with your best guess from the perspective of someone you often disagree with, you'll tend to be more accurate. Disagreement is good! https://t.co/Xy0b65nwyF HT @ImHardcory pic.twitter.com/An74kKHiAl
— Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) October 31, 2020
Contrasts a previous study I read that showed teachers favoring boys over girls on math tests.
Boys Lag Behind: A comparison of gender-blind vs. non-blind test scores reveals a teacher marking bias in favor of girls. This appears to be part of the reason that boys fall behind girls at school. https://t.co/CQFFflJVGi pic.twitter.com/nzMHkFof2s
— Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) October 4, 2020
Again, my messy post on formative institutions was about many things. One of them was why I think it's a mistake to make police brutality a racial issue rather than a human rights issue. As a reminder, here is a list of unarmed white people killed by cops. This affects everyone.
Time for a thread.
— Leonydus Johnson (@LeonydusJohnson) August 28, 2020
I'm tired of insufferable circus clowns who are unable (read: unwilling) to research for themselves. So, I will do it for them.
December 2019:
Matthew Krupar was shot and killed by police in League City, TX while he was assaulting an officer. He was unarmed. pic.twitter.com/IRsey5Zq8Y
In my blog post "True, Kind, and Necessary" I cited a tweet from Bret Weinstein speculating about the coronavirus possibly being created in a lab. His intention wasn't to point the finger at China but to draw attention to the fact that, if true, it will shape how we go about creating a vaccine. However, after reading that Moderna developed the vaccine in just two freaking days, way back in March, I have to downgrade Bret as an expert on viruses.
My most viewed blog post, by quite a wide margin, is called "Ideology is a Pair of Sunglasses". I wrote about the power of viewpoint diversity in cancelling out false negatives and false positives. In a single tweet, John Wood Jr. summarized what I was trying to say.
There are many ways to not see something clearly.
— John Wood, Jr. (@JohnRWoodJr) December 15, 2020
One is to be too far away.
Another is to be too close.
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