This is part of a series. See the index here. 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 …

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 …

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. It is a day dedicated to be thankful to God for all his provisions and blessings. When Christ came, he abolished all of the blood sacrifices. But he retained one kind of continual sacrifice: the thanksgiving. When the early church gathered together, it would offer …

A while back, I ran across this article with a provocative title: “Husbands of kind wives remain naïve to the evils of womankind.” Heh! So, I borrowed the clickbait portion for my title. This article isn’t actually about women, it’s about men. So, in light of my earlier article on hypergamy, …

Back when I was posting articles on a daily basis, I was having a lot of interaction with Bruce Charlton in our articles and in their comment sections. We had been discussing the nature of repentance, faith, forgiveness, salvation, and eternal life. Through various twist and turns I was reminded of …

When I wrote “The Living Voice,” I noted that the way scripture and authority are presented implies that the Book of Revelation is useless. This is quite important. If the metaphysical belief is that the prophecies—of Daniel, John the Revelator, Jesus at the Olivet Discourse, and Paul in 2 Thesssalonians—are …

I’ve talked before about how “opposites attract” is a myth. Couples pair up with people who are similar to them. This is one reason why people perceive hypergamy to be a real phenomenon: reality gets interpreted through a non-random selection filter. A person’s individual experiences are almost never representative of …