HeyJaredEast Hunter
psychology, psychometrics, genetics, other things about humans
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Sexual minority mental health: is it minority stress, genes, or the family? (opens the original)
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Psychological Medicine recently published a meta-analysis about a topic I often write about: using within-family studies to investigate why sexual minorities have poor mental health. The first author even has the same nationality as I do – it’s a small world.Non-heterosexuals score worse on a host of objective and subjective measures of mental health. The standard explanation for this is minority stress
Even more on Orbán (opens the original)
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Leftover thoughts about Viktor Orbán and the Western right wing in general.The Great Awokening came very suddenly.For me, like for many people, it started with Gamergate, in 2014. I grew up on South Park and other edgy 1990s-2000s stuff and had been aware of 4chan and Encyclopedia Dramatica pretty much since they were around. I liked to laugh at internet drama. Edgy humor was not about hatred or being mean, the world is a messy place and it’s better to laugh than to cry about it. At that time, f
Are there sex-specific personality traits? (opens the original)
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TL;DR: a statistical analysis of data from SAPA, a very large freely available dataset of personality test data, suggests that personality traits are mostly the same in men and women. But there is, maybe, some evidence for four small sex-specific “mini-traits”: “nerdiness” and “fragility” in women, and “psychopathy” and “pro-sociality” in men.My previous post was about female nature, but in a wordcel way. After writing it, I star
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