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Whyvert
@whyvert
Inquisitive and harmless wyvern. Interested in human nature and patterns of history. Otherwise known as Paul Cossins.
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    Whyvert
    @whyvert
    Jun 29, 2023
    Harvard loses no time in calling attention to the loophole saying they will comply with it.
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    Whyvert
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    Oct 31, 2025
    Descriptions of genius: -"never was such an outstanding personality." -"born with such knowledge of his craft that he never required training and went to his work naturally." Old Hemp, founding sire of the Border Collie nation. Great dog theory of history.
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    Whyvert
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    Oct 7, 2025
    The birthplaces of Nobel physics winners.
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    Whyvert
    @whyvert
    Jan 6, 2025
    Norway: the Progress Party forced Statistics Norway to release ethnic crime data. Almost half of young Somali men in Oslo (483 out of 1000) got caught and charged with violent crime. Prosecution rate for violent crime in Oslo among men age 15-24, 2021-23.
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    Whyvert
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    Apr 4, 2025
    Replying to @robinhanson
    Rural + high income
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    Whyvert
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    Jun 1, 2024
    What gives life meaning? Pew asked in 17 nations "what gives you meaning in life?": There's a big difference between Westerners and East Asians. 1. East Asians get less meaning from family and children than Westerners
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    Whyvert
    @whyvert
    Sep 20, 2023
    There was a superb study of honesty around the world in 2019. Leave 17,000 wallets (with contact email) containing various sums of money in 355 cities across 40 countries. Would finders email the owner? The result: rates of honesty vary a LOT.
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    Whyvert
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    Sep 3, 2024
    Only a small minority of adults (20% or less) know the meaning of words such as audacious, ominous, tirade, encumber, plagiarize, impale, travesty. Worth bearing in mind. Many people cannot reason very well due to low intelligence.
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    Whyvert
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    Jun 18, 2024
    Singapore is rich because of its lucky geography by a shipping lane. If so, why aren't other places by shipping lanes rich? Yemen, Somalia, Suez, Kerala, Dakar, Panama ought to be as rich as Singapore.
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    Whyvert
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    Feb 16, 2025
    I'm still surprised that feminists are largely silent about the increase in sexual crimes brought to Western Europe by Third World immigrants. Given the huge number of feminists throughout academia, media, politics, it is surprising that so little is heard about this.
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    Visegrád 24
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    Feb 16, 2025
    Statistics of overrepresentation of certain nationalities in the Netherlands in sexual crimes. Dutch - 2.8 per 10000 men Syrians - 12 (x4.4 overrepresentation) Iranians - 19 (x6.6) Eritreans - 21 (x7.5) Iraqis - 24 (x8.4) Afghans - 31 (x10.9) Somalis - 57 (x20.3)
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    Whyvert
    @whyvert
    Jul 18, 2024
    The Meiji government translated 10,000 technical books (applied science, industry, etc). Then, Japan became an industrial powerhouse. Must be the greatest industrial policy investment ever made! Once again: the importance of upper human capital. h/t 🔒
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    NBER
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    Jul 17, 2024
    Japan’s massive public investments in codifying technical knowledge explain why it was unique among non-Western countries in industrializing in the 19th and early 20th centuries, from @juhreka13, Shogo Sakabe, and @deweinstein nber.org/papers/w32667
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    Whyvert
    @whyvert
    Aug 8, 2021
    Journalists increased their use of the term "white supremacy" by 2,862% between 2010 and 2019 across 47 news outlets. This level of social contagion is pathological.
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    Whyvert
    @whyvert
    Jul 28, 2023
    "NO evidence" Singapore drug use death rate: 0.26 per 100k. USA drug use death rate: 21.28 per 100k. NO. evidence.
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    Amnesty International
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    Jul 25, 2023
    Two people are due to be executed in #Singapore this week for drug-related offences. There's NO evidence that the death penalty has any impact on the use and availability of drugs. The death penalty must end everywhere. amn.st/6012PVBKe
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    Whyvert
    @whyvert
    May 9, 2023
    Fertility rate keeps dropping in the Nordic countries. I guess gender parity, welfare state, & public childcare is not the solution to the fertility crisis.
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    Martin Kolk
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    May 9, 2023
    Fertility in the Nordics keeps falling. What was earlier a rather gradual decline has accelerated in 2022. Inconsistent with explanations when societal gender regimes are the primary explanatory factor for cross-national differences in fertility. dx.doi.org/10.4054/DemRes…
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