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1) Some research from about a year ago on the personality traits that predict interest in EA. The finding isn’t very surprising, but the whole thing is…

Jan 30

Happy holidays all, and thank you to everyone who donated in response to my matching offer, the full £300 limit was reached (plus quite a bit more)! I…

Dec 31, 2022

1) An oldie but a goodie: guess the correlation. 2) I really, really enjoyed this 80k episode on probability. One thing that stood out (and I’ll…

Nov 29, 2022

1) FDB on the odd claim that Kanye West’s recent behaviour could not be caused by his mental illness: There’s a meme that’s arisen in the past few…

Nov 2, 2022

1) The Scandinavian Prison Project: The Scandinavian Prison Project seeks to empirically assess what happens when certain practices and principles from…

Oct 3, 2022

1) This Raj Chetty study on Social Capital: The share of high-SES friends among individuals with low SES—which we term economic connectedness—is among…

Aug 31, 2022

1) Tom Chivers’ piece on the evidence about the advantages of breastfeeding: The study’s authors found “no benefit of a breastfeeding promotion…

Jul 31, 2022

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