Marriage

Over at Twitter, there are various topics of Christianity that come up from time to time that capture everyone’s attention for a week or two. Recently, after comments made by Kirk Cameron, there was a big debate over Eternal Torment in Hell and Annihilationism. Back in 2023, I wrote about …

Hypergamy and Weight

One of the main reasons I think hypergamy is believed, despite being an illusion, is because statistics are not intuitive. People just don’t naturally see how statistical effects underlie reality and so grasp onto other (incorrect) explanations. While most traits one has, such as intelligence, has greater male variability, weight …

No Sources or Data

In response to “The Evils of Womankind,” I received the following comment: It turns out that I’m not the only one who has received this fairly common criticism. I don’t often bother to cite these statistics because it’s not debated at a serious factual level. I’ve never even seen any …

Bad Data

One of the subjects I find difficult to convey is the rather unintuitive idea that objectively bad (or otherwise flawed) data is useful. Surprisingly, erroneous data does not invalidate it, nor obligate us to throw it away. To illustrate this, I like to use an example from signal and data …

The Problem of Choice

One of the objections you commonly hear among atheists and Roman Catholics regarding Christianity is the following (in one of many different permutations): The atheist concludes that you cannot know if God is even real, while the Roman Catholic determines that you need some higher authority to interpret what is …