Random links
- Academic urban legends
- Spinach may not be as healthy as you think: "a decimal point error appears to have misled millions into believing that spinach is a good nutritional source of iron. Through this example, I demonstrate how an academic urban legend can be conceived and born, and can continue to grow and reproduce within academia and beyond."
- When to go to war
- "How can we tell a necessary from an unnecessary war? It’s not easy, but here’s one test. If they say you should fight to make the world a better place, decline. If they say you should fight to prevent the world from becoming worse, consider it."
- Women Are Underrepresented In Politics, But It's Not For The Reason You Think
- One reason to be cautious in listening to feminist tales: they might make things worse for women. "Women are very likely to believe that when they run for office, they don’t do as well as men. There’s no empirical evidence to support that ... When women run, they actually perform just as well on Election Day, they’re able to raise just as much money, and generally speaking, their media coverage looks very much the same. But what we found was that women who are well-situated to run for office don’t know that and don’t think that. So they believe they’re not qualified because they think women have to be twice as good to get half as far."
- This Is The One Area Where Women Earn More Than Men
- "At the lowest end of part-time positions — people who work only one to four hours per week — men earn 14.3% more than women. Then, as weekly hours increase, women consistently make more than men until hitting the 40-hour-a-week mark. From there on up, their median weekly earnings taper off in comparison to men."