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Jonathan Haidt • Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
One of the most robust findings in criminology is that increasing the severity of punishment has little deterrent effect. People simply aren’t as sensitive to the potential costs of crime as the rational-choice model predicts they should be, and so efforts to reduce it by cracking down have failed to justify the immense fiscal and social costs of
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nytimes.com • Opinion | Michael Goldhaber, the Cassandra of the Internet Age - The New York Times
some studies have failed to find evidence of harm. One well-known study reported that the association of digital media use with harmful psychological outcomes was so close to zero that it was roughly the same size as the association of “eating potatoes” with such harms.[5] But when Jean Twenge and I reanalyzed the same data sets and zoomed in on
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The rise of trigger warnings and other forms of acquiescence behind which the left has zealously rallied for more than a decade has backfired spectacularly, by fostering a sense of harm that often does not exist. Richard Alan Friedman, a professor5 of clinical psychiatry at Weil Cornell Medical College, said in an interview that, beginning in 2016
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If Taylor’s claim were true that black criminality is heavily genetic, we would see consistent black crime rates over time. But in fact black crime rates in America have fluctuated in relation to whites.