New from David's Reich's lab: "In the past ten millennia [in Europe], we find that many hundreds of alleles have been affected by strong directional selection," including those influencing human intelligence.
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5/ "We also document one-standard-deviation changes on the scale of modern variation in combinations of alleles that today predict complex traits. This includes decreases in predicted body fat and schizophrenia, and increases in measures of cognitive performance."
4/ Now the bad news has arrived.
From Reich's study: "In the past ten millennia [in Europe], we find that many hundreds of alleles have been affected by strong directional selection," including those influencing human intelligence."
3/ Reich himself warned liberals in 2017 that they needed to prepare for some bad news, and that if they didn't they were going to end up on the wrong side of the scientific revolution occurring in genetics. But rather than accepting his argument, Reich was attacked....
2/ ... it's been accelerating over the past 10,000 years, and the proof is in our DNA, and the DNA of our ancient ancestors. Bigger data sets and improved scientific techniques are exposing the ideologically-motivated lie that population groups are biologically all the same under the skin...
1/ Population genetics just dropped an atom bomb in the pages of Nature.
We were told that evolution could not have meaningfully operated on the human brain in the "short period" of time since humans left Africa for Europe and Asia around 50,000 years ago. In fact,
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Huge gender gap on toy choices.
California population stagnation and state employee growth.
Low populations can skew stats sometimes.
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Suicide mortality rate by county.
Pew polled people in 25 nations, asking them to select attributes that make them proud of their country.
Only 6% of Americans mentioned "diversity and multiculturalism."
Percentage of French who selected it: 12%
Germans: 10%
Swedes: 7%
South Africans: 7%
Indians: 5%
Diversity is a strength for young Republicans who enjoy holocaust denial.
Counties by whether they grew or shrank.
Self-reported mental health by generation.
In 2024, the US murder rate was among the lowest it's been since the late 1960s, the property crime rate was the second lowest it's been since 1960, and all types of serious crime but rape were much lower than they were in the 80s.
But crime fear porn dominates rightwing social media.
The mean IQ of whites identifying as "extreme liberals" (107) is considerably higher than the mean for "extreme conservatives" (98) in the US.
You literally led a multi-day mob against my Twitter account after I tweeted a link to a study in a journal published by black academics analyzing SAT results by race and SES, and you explicitly expressed an interest in doxing me.
Findings from new data analysis of homicides of transgender people:
— Blacks murder transgender people at 19 TIMES the rate that whites do
— Transgender homicide rates are below the general population rate
— Only 3% of cases are hate crimes
dont-shoot-the-data.github.io/TCLEAR/
Charitable giving by county.
Home prices by county.
Obesity rates by country.