LIBERTARIANISM = MASCULINITY = AUTISTIC SPECTRUM
—“The researchers found that libertarians had the most “masculine” psychological profile, while liberals had the most feminine, and these results held up even when they examined each gender separately, which “may explain why libertarianism appeals to men more than women.”—
Libertarians are rational. Because we’re less feminine. 😉
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-12 04:20:00 UTC
MODELS ARE FOR SMART PEOPLE
–“I’ve been telling EconLog readers about my article with Steve Miller on intelligence and economic beliefs for years. Now our piece has finally been published in Intelligence. Quick version of the paper:”–
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Adding a measure of intelligence to the list of independent variables and re-estimating confirms that ability bias is present and substantial. Adding intelligence as an independent variable does not simply shrink our estimates of the effect of education. It is more important than education in both statistical and economic terms. In fact, intelligence turns out to be the single strongest predictor of economic beliefs.
First, even though intelligence is the most important overall predictor of economic beliefs, it is not the most important predictor of beliefs in any of the four categories. Party, ideology, and male gender are stronger predictors for the anti-market questions. Education and “other race” are stronger predictors for the anti-foreign questions. Black is a stronger predictor of the make-work questions. Income growth is a stronger predictor for the pessimistic questions. Intelligence is the most important overall predictor of economic beliefs because it has a strong effect in all four categories, not because it has an overwhelming effect in any particular category.
Second, intelligence is more important than education for every category except anti-foreign bias. For anti-market and make-work bias, intelligence is much more important than education; for pessimistic bias, intelligence has a moderate edge. Education is, however, the most important predictor of anti-foreign bias. This is consistent with the literature finding that education “tends to socialize students to have more tolerant, pro-outsider views of the world” (Hainmueller & Hiscox, 2006, p. 473). In contrast, the typical educational experience gives students mixed signals about anti-market, make-work, and pessimistic biases. Classes in economics and high-IQ peers restrain these biases, but classes in other social sciences and humanities, as well as student activism, arguably encourage them.
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Source date (UTC): 2014-10-11 11:44:00 UTC
http://ivo.co.za/2007/08/09/libertarian-iq/From Eli. Libertarian cognitive bias and computation.
LIBERTARIANS HAVE A MODEL – NO ONE ELSE DOES
(actually I argue that we have the correct model and everyone else’s enlightenment model is false.)
—“Just as programmers have a model of computation, libertarians have what I call a model of interaction. Just as a programmer can “play computer” by simulating how specific lines of code will change program state, a libertarian can “play society” by simulating how specific actions will change societal state. The libertarian model of interaction cuts across economic, political, cultural, and social issues. For just about any given law, for example, a libertarian can tell you exactly how such a law will affect society (minimum wage laws create unemployment by setting a lower-bound on entry-level wages, drug prohibition artificially inflates drug prices which leads to violent turf wars, etc.). As another example, for any given social goal, a libertarian will be able to tell you the problems generated by having government try to achieve that goal and will tell you how such a goal can be achieved in a libertarian society.I believe this is qualitatively different from other predictive models because of the breadth of the model and the focus on transitions (both of which are also true of programming). On newsgroups I often see questions … [that] … libertarians almost always quickly answer by saying, “I’ll tell you exactly what would happen…” And, surprisingly, the libertarians tend to give the same answer in most cases.
I think most people find this odd about libertarians. They understand how an economist might be able to predict the effect of a certain law on the economy or how a social scientist might be able to predict how drug legalization might affect the ghettos, but they don’t understand how somebody could predict all of these things, especially someone who has no formal training. Libertarians, on the other hand, don’t seem to understand how someone could fail to have such a model of interaction… The nonlibertarians have no comprehensive model of interaction, and as a result, they can’t communicate in a meaningful way with those who do. Their attention is always focused on misleading superficial problems rather than on the underlying causes of such problems.”—
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-11 09:15:00 UTC
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2014/10/revealing-look-at-hours-worked.html#B1QvdPDk9k0dsCVh.99Working Age Population
—“In November of 2007, there were 121,875,000 full time employees. Now there are 119,287,000.
Fulltime employment is 2,588,000 below the 2007 peak. Meanwhile working age population, 16 and older has gone up from 232,939,000 to 248,446,000. That’s an increase of 15,507,000.
Simply put, the working-age population has gone up by approximately 15.5 million while fulltime employment has declined by 2.5 million.
Some of this is related to boomer demographics and retirement. A lot of it isn’t.”—
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-07 05:48:00 UTC
http://www.city-journal.org/2014/24_3_nyc-private-wealth.htmlWhat the Rich Give to New York by Nicole Gelinas, City Journal Summer 2014
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-06 15:15:00 UTC
http://carcinisation.com/2014/10/02/socially-enforced-thought-boundaries/—“Everything deemed politically incorrect, hatespeech or other names for communicating fact touches the Core beliefs of the Cathedral.”—
Johannes Meixner
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-06 03:07:00 UTC
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/10/03/why_nobody_in_washington_ever_gets_fired_julia_piersonTHE EXCEPTION THAT PROVES THE RULE: WASHINGTON’S REVOLVING DOOR OF INCOMPETENCE
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-05 11:43:00 UTC
http://www.calgaryherald.com/touch/opinion/columnists/Martinuk+Audit+reveals+many+First+Nations/10195873/story.html?relIndigenous people and corruption: that’s why.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-03 09:33:00 UTC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhrGcRVohSk&google_comment_id=z124hdhzwreyfx15104ccdv5utuljnb4lv00k&google_view_type#gpluscommentsI LOVE STEPHEN HICKS. AND THIS IS WHY.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-02 11:56:00 UTC
What evidence, compared to what, and at what cost?
Wishes and rainbows
Perfection
At any cost.
Sowell
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-01 03:22:00 UTC