Big families are more conservative, but that doesn't affect public opinion much
Analysis using the Generations and Gender Survey
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I went to the Heterodox Social Science Conference 2026
But did I have a good time? Now read on...
Hanging a cat on the Sabbath
Why I don't love regressions using "genetic ancestry"
A quick note on liberal family values
Looking at family values in a 2022 survey. There will be graphs.
Fertility and social liberalism in Europe
A bunch of graphs from the European Values Survey
Training AI will take longer than you think
Are we on our way to superintelligence wiping out humans by 2027? Or are we in a bubble of hype? My take:
What we talk about when we talk about "ancestry"
Political decisions versus scientific descriptions; ancestry versus ethnicity; ancestry proportions versus individual variants
The Palestine plan
It shows how much the West has changed since Iraq
Immigration and anti-semitism in Britain
Economists tend to be pro-immigration, and to think of people as following their self-interest.
🍾🍾 Thought bubbles: cancelling people is fine 🍾 there are too many researchers 🍾 Plato's wheel of fortune 🍾 AWOL political science 🍾🍾
Short pieces from the windmills of my mind, about pile-ons, political science and Plato