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‘Sex Differences in Disease Burden’ by Steve Stewart-Williams

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Sex Differences in Disease Burden
Men lose more healthy years to premature death, women to ill-health and disability

My latest post on S*bstack! stevestewartwilliams.com/p/sex-differen…

“My immediate hunch when I read the paper was that this probably isn’t true, and that the paper is likely an example of an increasingly common trend in science: the distortion of research by progressive values.” stevestewartwilliams.com/p/is-man-the-h…

Venkataraman et al.'s paper un-debunking the Myth of Man the Hunter is now in press with Evolution and Human Behavior doi.org/10.1016/j.evol…

Check out my write-up about the paper here: stevestewartwilliams.com/p/is-man-the-h…

A new 7-item scale measures critical-social-justice beliefs, aka wokeness. Some findings from Finland:

-Women are more persuaded by woke views than men
-Neither sex is particularly persuaded
-The woke worldview is associated with depression and anxiety stevestewartwilliams.com/p/dividing-the…

Steve Stewart-Williams This one intrigued me, in a Rorshach-kind of way.

First thing I saw was a two mirror-image hand gestures -- one in Red, one in Blue.

I knew it!

'Woke beliefs seem to be less popular than you’d guess by looking at the public discourse'

Do older women dislike age gap relationships more? Is this intrasexual competition?

Replicating my results from over one year ago - I found no association between age and approval of age gap relationships for women.

Also replicating past year’s finding - men who were older…

“One other interesting tidbit: On average, men were more prone than women to sadism, consistent with earlier research. The sexes didn’t differ, however, in their proneness to communal narcissism or everyday vigilantism.” stevestewartwilliams.com/p/everyday-vig…

A new 7-item scale measures critical-social-justice beliefs, aka wokeness. Some findings from Finland:

-Women are more persuaded by woke views than men
-Neither sex is particularly persuaded
-The woke worldview is associated with depression and anxiety stevestewartwilliams.com/p/dividing-the…

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'It may be the fate of the universe to spend an eternity in darkness, save one brief flash of self-awareness in the middle of nowhere.' stevestewartwilliams.com/p/is-the-unive…

Message from a new paid subscriber to my newsletter, the Nature-Nurture-Nietzsche Newsletter. Thank you, Elanor! stevestewartwilliams.com/archive?sort=t…

Related: Over-Diagnosing Mental Illness. 'For all their good intentions, campaigns intended to raise awareness are leading some people to conflate normal responses to life’s difficulties with mental-health disorders.' stevestewartwilliams.com/p/over-diagnos…

Recent studies cast doubt on whether large-scale mental health interventions are making young people better. Some even suggest they can have a negative effect.

“Sometimes doing nothing is better than doing something.”

nytimes.com/2024/05/06/hea…

My S*bstack piece on our PNAS paper: Censoring science blunts our ability to understand the world, thus blunting our ability to make the world a better place. And it also risks undermining the public's trust in science. stevestewartwilliams.com/p/scientists-c…