Inquisitive Bird
@Scientific_Bird
A curious bird trying to understand the human condition.
The Assimilation Myth — new post published! Using data from a variety of countries, I show that ethnic disparities in human capital, economic performance, crime and cultural values tend to show substantial persistence across generations.
One of the funniest incidents in Mungo Park's book (1799), on his travels into the interior of West Africa, is when a group of curious Moorish women wanted to personally “inspect” whether Christians were circumcised like Muslims.
African homicide rates are completely dubious That's what I argue in a recent piece. Consider, for example, Nigeria's homicide rate. An organization that monitors homicides from news reports find >3x homicides than official counts, and household surveys suggest >10x.
How Newton expressed his 3 laws of motion in his Principia Mathematica, 1687 (from the 1729 Latin-to-English translation by Andrew Motte)
Harvard professors upon seeing a single observational study be like:
5 minutes in a sauna 4x/week reduces cardiovascular risk by 50%
The Chinese and Malays are objectively *extremely* closely related. Fst of 0.012 according to one study. For comparison, the genetic distance (as measured by Fst) between Europeans and East Asians is almost an order of magnitude higher.