Links (11)

Collection of papers and articles that I’ve spotted since my previous links post that seem interesting.

Psychology

• Précis of Social Perception and Social Reality: Why accuracy dominates bias and self-fulfilling prophecy (Jussim, 2017)
  • Stereotypes are more accurate than you think
  • Reality causes stereotypes in general
  • Sometime, stereotypes causes reality (a self-fulfilling propecy), but this tends to work in a good direction (Pygmalion effect types of things)
• Imagine of the results went the other way
  • Regarding male and female abandonment rates of gender atypical degrees
• The impact of tobacco control policies on smoking initiation in Europe (van Ours & Palali, 2017)
  • Anti-smoking policies don't work, except for taxation.
• Rumors of the nonreplication of the motivated numeracy effect are greatly exaggerated (Kahan & Peters, 2017)
• Prevalence and correlated of psychiatric disorders among former juvenile detainees in the US (Vaughn et al. 2015)
• Reasoning ability predicts irrational worldview but not conspiracy belief (Jastrzebski & Chuderski, 2017)
• Book review: surfing uncertainty
• The Lynn-Becker World IQ dataset
  • This is the best source available for crosscountry comparisons
• The early emergence of sociomoral evaluation (Van de Vorvervoort & Hamlin, 2017)
• Understanding the therapist contribution to psychotherapy (King et al., 2016)
  • Therapy is as good as self-help?

Politics

• Return of the city state
• Individuals with greater science literacy and education have more polarized beliefs on controversial science topics (Drummond & Fischoff, 2017)

Economics

• Why attacks on multinationals and sweatshops are often misguided and excessive
• Bitcoin's academic pedigree
  • Where Satoshi's ideas came from
• The Selgin-Lord Keynes debate on Lydian coinage
• Does presuming you can take a person's organ save lives?
• Too lucky to be true - fairness views under the shadow of cheating (Bortolotti et al. 2017)
  • If people think the rich cheat, then they will demand more redistribution
• Capital income and the rising wealth of the rich
• Turnpikes, canals, and economic growth in England and Wales (1800-1850) Bogart et al. (2017)
• Consumption inequality just hasn't gone up that much

Philosophy

• A politically incorrect guide to affirmative action
  • If the goal of an institution is to accept the best candidates, it ought to discriminate against people that belong to groups with lower mean ability.
• The history of science as a graveyard of theories: A philosophers' myth (Mizrahi, 2016)
• The moral status of animals (updated SEP)
• Tyler Cowen on Stubborn Attachments
• Amanda Askell on Pascal's Wager
• A liberal theory of externalities?

Other (plus the Google memo stuff)

• What the fuck python?
• Semantic segmentation using FCN over the years
• Cross-sectional association between soda consumption and BMI (Eney et al. 2017)
  • Drinking soda does not in general cause fatness. People predisposed to drink more soda are also predisposed to be fatter regardless.
• STEM pathways: Do men and women differ in why they enter and exit? (Maltese & Cooper, 2017)
• School stunts development
• Gender bias in STEM - an example of biased research?
• Statistical abracadabra: Making sex differences disappear
• Debunking the male-female brain mosaic
• Comments on split brain: divided perception but undivided consciousness
  • See also
• Why men don't believe the data on gender bias in science
• The prevalence of discrimination across racial groups in contemporary America (Boutwell et al. 2017)
• "Yeyo" comments on a critique of the Google memo
• Women and men in the IT profession
• Paranoid egalitarian meliorism: An account of bias in the social sciences (Winegard & Winegard, 2017)
• Recordings of former slaves describing their lives
• You don't expand because the universe does. 
• Hype or not? Some perspective on OpenAI's DotA 2 bot

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