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England: historically famous for being constantly conquered because of the impossibility of stopping people coming via boat.

If you had to choose between saving the bottom 99% of humanity (in terms of intelligence) or the top 1% who would you save?

Intellectuals also used to issue calls for legalizing pedophilia in French newspapers. Maybe they are best ignored this time as well.

Every population proportion estimation task shows the same pattern: smaller groups overestimated vice versa for larger groups. It's not primarily a question of being misinformed but how humans estimate proportions under uncertainty.

Race differences in antisocial behavior start early.

Many people think America has free speech because of the constitution and this was always the case. Not true. American judges made it up in the mid 1900s. Check this 1917 case.

This is how Columbia University's "Contemporary Civilization" course ends. A nice illustration of the lopsidedness of almost all humanities curricula— promising "a wide range of perspectives" and then excluding all unapproved perspectives

The next time you meet one of these people, here's a useful meme reply.

While there may be some tendency towards error correlated with ideology, it is mainly not about ideology, or any other bias. It is about uncertainty. The same pattern of estimation error can be seen for rather neutral tasks.

I don't really care about the drama but reading the text while looking at the photos is extremely funny.