Emil Kirkegaard
@KirkegaardEmil
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Months ago, Davide Piffer and I sat down to discuss progress in ancient genomics, polygenic scores and tracing human evolution. 53 minutes. Enjoy! emilkirkegaard.com/p/video-davide…
Imputation and polygenic score performance of low coverage whole-genome sequencing and genotyping arrays in diverse human populations biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Brief thread on male / female differences in popularity by sport, leveraging data on wikipedia profiles. Seems like most of the variance in male/female wikipedia profile popularity is attributable to the popularity of profiles overall.
Does Noah Smith ever say anything interesting and true? I don't get his appeal. His mistake here is rather obvious: data unreliability does not necessarily affect mean estimates much. E.g., we know that Africa is very poor, even if our estimates may be quite wrong relatively…
Roy Black didn't kill himself either.
BREAKING: Jeffrey Epstein’s attorney, Roy Black, has died.
Just about every male sport has better players and people obviously prefer this. The few exceptions for women's sport mainly relate to sex appeal (beach volley).
Society still clings to outdated views that men’s sports are more exciting, aggressive, or entertaining. That’s not fact, it’s bias. It’s reinforced every time people dismiss the WNBA without watching a game.
The credibility problem isn't just in the social sciences or clinical med stuff. In materials science, lots of papers describe methods that don't match the images
Academic tenure is made so you can safely explore unpopular topics? More like enjoy your time and produce less. Maybe this is one of the reasons why USA lacks so far behind in science.
New PNAS paper on US academics' publication rates during tenure-track and post-tenure. Publication rates rise steeply until tenure and then plateau for lab-based fields, while declining for other fields.
It's hard to find a country that is too hard on repeat criminals. Swedish data suggest that a simple 3 strikes law could lower crime by 60%.
They want people to think that going after criminals is wrong, because they want those criminals to run rampant on Swedish streets and destroy your beautiful country from within. Just like they’re doing across much of the world. It’s all by design.
Money waste in the public sector is interesting. I feel like the Trump big man types do more of the overt stuff. The typical bureaucracy left instead spends a lot more money on covert NGO grants, and infinite entitlements. More expensive but less obviously wasteful.
It's bad that the White House is banning WSJ from the trip -- but I think the bigger scandal is that the president of the United States and his entourage are flying to Scotland on the public's dime so he can "open a new 18-hole golf course at his resort." theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
The correlation is inconsistent across time, suggesting no reliable causal relationship. Relatedly, a meta-analysis I read recently found if you follow the same people over time and measure their life satisfaction before and after having a child no significant change occurs. (By…
Who wants to tell @Aella_Girl? Increasingly, childless adults are the least happy Americans.
Fits with other data. In northern Europe, many immigrants are relatively happy to be put in jail. Free housing and food, equivalent to a decent hotel at home. When they get out, they can continue stealing. It's a vacation.
Using this as an argument against immigrants is pretty wild.
Any institution not explicit right wing will...
Heterodox Academy is baffling. It's been around for ten years, hasn't accomplished much of anything, then feels the need to lash out at those of us who have scored real-world wins, generally in the same direction. The main conceit is that Heterodox still believes academia can…
Yet another money transfer, no strings attached, randomized study finds no benefits.
1000 low income adults were randomly selected to receive $1000/month for 3 years, with a control group receiving $50/month over that same period. Many of them had children in the household. How did it affect how they parented and their kids?