Monday, February 13, 2023

We find that bans or restrictions that specifically target “assault weapons” increase demand for handguns, which are associated with the vast majority of firearm-related violence

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Preferences for Firearms and Their Implications for Regulation. Sarah Moshary, Bradley Shapiro & Sara Drango. NBER Working Paper 30934, ...
Sunday, February 12, 2023

The Pure giving advice to the hoi polloi... Stop answering centrist questions: The Left can only win when it answers the questions it was founded to pose

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Johnson, Matthew, Johnson, Elliott and Nettle, Daniel (2023) Stop answering centrist questions: The Left can only win when it answers the qu...

Polarization of the Rich: The New Democratic Allegiance of Affluent Americans and the Politics of Redistribution

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Polarization of the Rich: The New Democratic Allegiance of Affluent Americans and the Politics of Redistribution. Sam Zacher. Perspectives o...

Being in the sexual minority is comparable to the other well-documented sociodemographic predictors of attitudes; unlike these other sociodemographic characteristics, sexuality consistently predicts more liberal attitudes among sexual minorities

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Denise, Eric J. 2020. “Does Sexuality Matter? A Comparison of Heterosexuals’ and Sexual Minorities’ Sociopolitical Attitudes.” SocArXiv. Nov...
Saturday, February 11, 2023

There is little evidence of systematic support for wokeness among executives or the population; many firms embrace wokeness because middle managers engage in woke internal advocacy, which may increase their influence & job security

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Foss, Nicolai J. and Klein, Peter G., Why Do Companies Go Woke? (November 23, 2022). SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4285680 Abstract: ...

Pervasively, not only in seminars: "Each intervention in a seminar is incomplete, and gets things wrong. Each subsequent intervention is also incomplete, and also gets things wrong"

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A Black Professor Trapped in Anti-Racist Hell. Vincent Lloyd. Compact, Feb 2023. https://compactmag.com/article/a-black-professor-trapped-i...

The Shawshank Redemption Effect: In the US, the public's desire for harsh criminal punishment (including capital punishment) has been steadily declining

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Public support for second look sentencing: Is there a Shawshank redemption effect?. Kellie R. Hannan, Francis T. Cullen, Amanda Graham, Cher...

Same race teachers do not necessarily raise academic achievement

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Same race teachers do not necessarily raise academic achievement. Jeffrey Penney. Economics Letters, Volume 223, February 2023, 110993. http...

Rolf Degen summarizing... Almost 60% of the population succumb, at least occasionally, to the "strange face illusion," where their own face can take on strange or even uncanny features

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Strange face illusions: A systematic review and quality analysis. Joanna Mash et al. Consciousness and Cognition. Volume 109, March 2023, 10...