Showing posts with label social science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social science. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 13, 2023

PISA 2023 and the Gloomy Prospect

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I'm in the Philippines now. I flew here after the semester ended, in order to meet with outsourcing (BPO = Business Process Outsourcing)...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

SMPY 65: Help support the SMPY Longitudinal Study

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The Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) needs your help to support the Age-65 phase of their unique longitudinal study.  For...
Thursday, August 24, 2023

Aella: Sex Work, Sex Research, and Data Science — Manifold #42

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  Aella is a sex worker, sex researcher, and data scientist.  Aella on X: https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl   Interviews with ex-prostitutes on...
Thursday, July 13, 2023

Richard Hanania & Rob Henderson: The Rise of Wokeness and the Influence of Civil Rights Law — Manifold #39

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  Richard Hanania, Rob Henderson, and I were scheduled for a June 2023 panel as part of the University of Austin (UATX) Forbidden Courses se...
Thursday, March 02, 2023

Prof. Gilles Saint-Paul (Ecole Normale): the Yellow Vests, French Politics, and Hypergamy (Manifold #31)

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  Audio (podcast only) Transcript   Gilles Saint-Paul is Professeur à l'Ecole Normale Supérieure. He is a graduate of Ecole Polytechniq...
Thursday, January 19, 2023

Dominic Cummings: Vote Leave, Brexit, COVID, and No. 10 with Boris — Manifold #28

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  Dominic Cummings is a major historical figure in UK politics. He helped save the Pound Sterling, led the Vote Leave campaign, Got Brexit D...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

The Future of Human Evolution -- excerpts from podcast interview with Brian Chau

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The transcript excerpts below are from my recent conversation with Brian Chau (aka Cactus Chu) on his podcast. Segments begin at 47m and 1h0...
Thursday, June 16, 2022

Greg Clark: Genetics and Social Mobility — Manifold Episode #14

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  Gregory Clark is Distinguished Professor of Economics at UC-Davis. He is an editor of the European Review of Economic History, chair of th...
Thursday, March 03, 2022

Manifold Podcast #6: Richard Sander on Affirmative Action, Mismatch Theory, and Academic Freedom

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  Richard Sander is Jesse Dukeminier Professor at UCLA Law School.  AB Harvard, JD, PhD (Economics) Northwestern.  Sander has studied the st...
Monday, January 10, 2022

Recent Papers on Socio-Economic Status and Student Achievement: Marks and O'Connell

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I received the message below from Michael O'Connell , University College Dublin, and Gary Marks , University of Melbourne.  See also thi...
Saturday, November 27, 2021

Social and Educational Mobility: Denmark vs USA (James Heckman)

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Despite generous social programs such as free pre-K education, free college, and massive transfer payments, Denmark is similar to the US in ...
Saturday, October 30, 2021

Slowed canonical progress in large fields of science (PNAS)

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Sadly, the hypothesis described below is very plausible.  The exception being that new tools or technological breakthroughs, especially thos...
Saturday, May 08, 2021

Three Thousand Years and 115 Generations of 徐 (Hsu / Xu)

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Over the years I have discussed  economic historian Greg Clark's groundbreaking work on the persistence of social class. Clark found t...
Sunday, March 21, 2021

The Contribution of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills to Intergenerational Social Mobility (McGue et al. 2020)

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If you have the slightest pretension to expertise concerning social mobility, meritocracy, inequality, genetics, psychology, economics, educ...
Friday, March 05, 2021

Genetic correlation of social outcomes between relatives (Fisher 1918) tested using lineage of 400k English individuals

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Greg Clark (UC Davis and London School of Economics) deserves enormous credit for producing a large multi-generational dataset which is rele...
Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Election 2020: quant analysis of new party registrations vs actual votes

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I think we should ascribe very high uncertainty to polling results in this election, for a number of reasons including the shy Trump voter e...
Tuesday, June 02, 2020

Re-Post: Joe Cesario on Police Decision Making and Racial Bias in Deadly Force Decisions (Manifold Episode #11)

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Re-posting this because of its relevance to the terrible events in Minneapolis. Manifold Episode #11: Joe Cesario on Police Decision Makin...
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Thursday, March 05, 2020

Kaja Perina on the Dark Triad: Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and Psychopathy - Manifold Podcast #36

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Kaja Perina is the Editor in Chief of Psychology Today. Kaja, Steve, and Corey discuss so-called Dark Triad personality traits: Narcissism...
Wednesday, October 02, 2019

Harvard Discrimination Lawsuit: Judge Burroughs on Racial Balancing and "Unhooked" Applicants

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As has been widely reported (WSJ): U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs found that Harvard’s practices were “not perfect” and could use ...
Thursday, September 05, 2019

Manifold podcast #18: Rebecca Campbell on Identifying Serial Perpetrators, Rape Investigations, and Untested Rape Kits

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Dr. Rebecca Campbell is Professor of Psychology at Michigan State University. Her research focuses on violence against women and children ...