Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSATION, BUT . . .

2025 IN A NUTSHELL:

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WHAT FOLLOWING THE SCIENCE ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE:

ROBIN HANSON: The Male Gender-War Advantage.

Raising the status of some situation or action, and people will pay more to get it. Lower that status, and they’ll pay more to avoid it. For example, women can raise the price men pay for sex with women by lowering the status of promiscuous “sluts”, while men can raise the price women pay to “henpeck” men by lowering the status of such men.

However, men have a big advantage re this status strategy, as how much other men respect a man counts a lot more to women than how much other women respect a woman counts to men. (Data) So when men look down on hen-pecked men, those men look bad in both male and female eyes, while when women look down on a promiscuous woman, that woman doesn’t look so bad in male eyes.

Hmm.

I REMEMBER WHEN WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE AGAINST RACISM AND ELIMINATIONIST RHETORIC:

#JOURNALISM:

ROGER KIMBALL: Some Holiday-Season Thoughts on Altruism. “Human nature isn’t a war between pure selfishness and pure selflessness—most of us carry both, and the refusal to admit that complexity is the real mistake.”

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the long weekend.