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				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 28, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


There are gender non-conforming children, gay children, those who struggle to develop a gendered identity in a social world, and ultimately those who struggle with body or gender dysphoria but there is no evidence that there are 'trans-children'.




I'm confused by this. Would you mind elaborating a bit?


Are you saying trans adults exist? If so, when does the transition from non-trans child to trans adult occur?


Even if you argue that being transexual is a mental illness - why would only adults have this illness?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 28, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Research is inconclusive, but it doesn't really matter because conservatives equally believe this "fever-dream".


Whether a state adopts strict voter ID laws correlates to number of Republican legislators, but this correlation is much-stronger in competitive states.


MIT Election Labs has some good analysis on various election topics, including voter identification. Both liberals and conservatives largely support voter ID laws in theory.


From their analysis, most states that actually adopt strict voter ID laws share the following:


    

  1. A Republican takeover of the state government after years of Democratic control,
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  2. Being a “battleground state” (i.e., a state hotly contested by the political parties), and
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  3. Being racially heterogeneous.
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				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 21, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yamamoto was an active general flying in a military transport with a fighter escort.


This is not really the same.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 14, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The Sengoku Jidai was a huge breakdown of central authority, civil war, and constant factional warfare.


The closest modern equivalent would probably be a narco-state like Brazil or Colombia. I'm not sure you would call these societies well-functioning.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 14, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Appreciate the link, thank you.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 14, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


He motivated "Democrat" voters so much, they sometimes voted multiple times in different states!




This is a specific claim I haven't seen yet. Could you link the evidence?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 14, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


left wing people are more narcissistic




This is examining left-wing authoritarianism. The study mentions similar studies on right-wing authoritarianism finding similar results.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 7, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'd love to see an effort post on this.


I had never heard of drill before - but even if you're not a rap fan I think there's something to appreciate here.


The concept of neighborhood beefs escalating due to YouTube fame, and the soundtrack of this becoming internationally famous feels amazingly cyberpunk.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 31, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The actual riots were incited by Federal provocateurs, it being well-established now that many of the people who entered the Capitol were literal agents for the FBI.




Where is this well-established? A cursory Google search only returned that the FBI revoked the security clearance of one agent who joined the mob.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 31, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Personally I am sick to death of hearing about trans issues and if I notice a game bringing it up in literally any manner I will react negatively.




Isn't this unfair to the game's creator? I can understand being tired of hamfisted political insertions, but there are surely scenarios where a trans character's identity can serve the story.


Imagine a space game where the terrifying Xenos, believing themselves to be benevolent uplifters and not understanding the concept of human individuality, begin abducting and converting humans en-masse into biological-machine hybrids.


Maybe you capture a group of these mecha-humans and interrogate them, one of whom used to be trans. I could see that providing interesting narrative insight.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 24, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The first problem is that the idea that the residency programs themselves act as filters doesn't even occur them. It shows how much these people are stuck in a bubble.




I’m not sure I understand what you mean by filter here. They pretty explicitly call this out as a possibility - which is why they account for exam scores.




A hypothesis that is very easy to check - find some of the worst doctors that managed to hang on to a licence, send them to the best residency programs, and see what happens.




Why bother with testing the residency program at all in this scenario? You should see doctors from the best medical schools performing considerably better than those from lower ranked ones - but that isn’t really true either.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 24, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'm not really sure what your "gotcha" is. You only get into a residency program after you've passed the USMLE and per the paper:




We found no evidence for a major selection effect in residency program output. If programs differ substantially in the quality of physicians they graduate, much of that difference might be attributable to the initial quality of the trainees they attract, but we found little difference in effects after adjustment for individual physicians' standardized medical licensure examination Z scores. This suggests either that these scores do not capture medical students' clinical ability or that skills developed during residency training are more important for producing good maternal outcomes than skills developed during medical school, and residency programs differ in skill development.




If we could feasibly let everybody who passed their exams into the best residency programs - we would. It would probably lead to better patient outcomes.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 24, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I'd be more concerned if a black doctor was treating me since I know about how much AA they receive




A study on obstetric patient outcomes found that the residency program the doctor attended had a significant effect on patient outcomes. The best residency programs had a 10% chance of complications, vs 13% for the worst.


Adjusting for medical exam scores didn't change the results.


Your reasoning is backwards here. If you believe a black doctor is receiving preferential treatment (such as better residency placement, despite having lower exam scores), you should choose the black doctor.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 10, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Could you provide some supporting evidence for why you believe this movie's criticism is due to separate conspiracies by Disney, the State Department, and the CIA?


How does Disney benefit from attacking a movie that, at the time of the rolling stones article, had earned 25% of what Indiana Jones had done at the domestic box office?


Why would the CIA be particularly troubled by this movie showing the cartels involved in human trafficking, but not others?


Why would the State Department's main lever of shutting a movie down to be releasing negative critical reviews after release, as opposed to a myriad of powers it could presumably exercise for a movie by a former DHS employee that was partially filmed in California?