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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …