Social Science
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Favorite 2022 I've reread this year 1. "Be Wary of Imitating High-Status People Who Can...Countersignal" @robkhenderson "If you’re a top executive, turning up to work on a bicycl...
Here's a Twitter thread summarizing Nassim Taleb's concept of "Skin in the Game"
Greg Clark dropped a paper last year showing that status persistence in England (and probably WEIRD countries in general) is actually about the same level as in India, because "lov...
@datepsych Not sure if you've dived into humour's effect on attractiveness yet, but this may be of interest to you. It's been famously stated by Hitchens that "women aren't funny"...
Yeah, don't trust "data" or "research" on dating if it can't even figure out if men value looks more than women. And if you're going to trust data, use markets (revealed preferen...
1/ How did conservatives get into this situation? The core explanation has to do with personality: On average, they score lower on the Big 5 openness trait than do progressives....
You don't need to argue that something is false. You don't need to argue that something is right. There is a way to win any verbal confrontation by leveraging human nature. You c...
Genetic ancestry of a Chamar from the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The Chamars are a traditionally non-elite dalit caste that comes under the Scheduled Caste category and w...
There is an implication in this very famous chart that I think many men miss - it is that women are simply more attractive than men. 🧵 https://t.co/cgSF2vUfJH
Couples who look the same are happier than couples who don’t. 9 reasons why psychology says couples tend to look alike:
Psychologists wanted to test social desirability bias in self reports - do people lie about their past sexual partner count - so they hooked people up to polygraph ("lie detector")...
Genetic ancestry of the traditionally non-elite Kurmi tiller caste from Uttar Pradesh. Uttar Pradesh Kurmi Russia_MLBA_Sintashta: 15.7 ± 2.28% Indus_Periphery_Gonur: 46.6 ± 3.76%...
Female "short term" mating strategies in actual practice are more rare than people seem to think. 🧵
@dancerinspace This is how I am leaning toward interpreting it as well. The relationship between intelligence and attractiveness in the main Driebe study in that article was null,...
"PLANNING, SCIENCE AND FREEDOM" by Friedrich Hayek https://t.co/Ij40VAxQgY
Good article here, strong points against the selection for IQ as a sexually attractive feature. The paper by Driebe et al (2021) referenced within also has a very good design. htt...
*PRIDE AND ORDER: A STUDY OF THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN SOCIAL THOUGHT* by Daniel Luban https://t.co/RjOrsuumDv
What factors (individual and social) influence a tendency toward monogamous relationships? 🧵
Interesting poll. How masculine and feminine men and women report feeling, by age. The younger the age, the less masculine / feminine respondents felt. https://t.co/K1flZCfcpJ
What makes a man "high value?" Thread on the Dual Evolutionary Model of Social Hierarchy 🧵 https://t.co/UQwHAlekzH
A lot of people do not understand the terms clan, tribe, or country properly. So what are they you ask? https://t.co/QIHcdv6ob5
Social Circle on steroids = Tribe. In 2010 Harvard medical researchers lived with the Hadza Tribe and discovered that they have a very unique way of organizing their social circle...
(😴) theres something ive learned about how to create social wealth that im good at doing but im not so good at explaining. written two books around it, tens of thousands of tweets...
" Preface" to *Epistemology of the Social Science* by Walter Weimer ABSTRACT A truism of the biological and social studies is that topics such as “the methodology of scientific...