Category Archives: data

I’ve fascinated by regions that border each other and have very different fertilities. For example, Saudi Arabia has a TFR of 2.2 and Yemen one of 4. Today it looks like Bihar has a fertility of around 3.0 and West Bengal 1.6. Bihar surpassed West Bengal in the late 1990’s, and is still more populous … Continue reading Fear of a Bihari nation

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What do we plan to do about it?Most of you have probably seen the NHGRI chart that illustrates the crash in the sequencing cost per human genome. To get some perspective, it cost $3 billion to sequence the first human genome over ten years in the year …

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The Reich lab released a bunch of data in January 2021. Someone emailed me about the format. I converted their earlier release to PLINK (PEDIGREE) format, and they wondered if […]

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Interesting subregional trends. I guess I will refamiliarize myself with GIS packages in R at some point and produce something like this:

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I really don’t know what to make of some of the contentions in Zach’s post below, What’s wrong with fetishizing white men? (also, posting videos which Hindi means I have no idea specifically what is going on in the video) Some of this is probably due to differences between the UK and the USA. But …

Continue reading “Statistics on Asian American interracial marriage statistics”

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There is a lot of talk on this weblog. Probably because this is South Asian focus, and we tend to be a loquacious people on the whole (some more than others). But I decided to look in the World Values Survey in regards to the question of whether believers believed their religion was the only …

Continue reading “Indian Muslims are more latitudinarian than Pakistani Muslims”

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The Reich lab has just released a single resource of all downloadable genotypes of the world’s published ancient DNA data, including those from our pre-prints! Check it out, we’re pretty excited about it. https://t.co/PecuH07guy — Vagheesh Narasimhan (@vagheesh) April 4, 2019 The Reich lab has done a mitzvah and released a huge merged dataset of […]

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Today on Twitter I stated that “if the average person knew how to run PCA with plink and visualize with R they wouldn’t need to ask me anything.” What I meant by this is that the average person often asks me “Razib, is population X closer to population Y than Z?” To answer this sort […]

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The map above shows the most recent district level fertility rates in India. It is immediately clear why comparing India to Pakistan and Bangladesh (let alone Nepal, Sri Lanka, or Bhutan) is a major error. In some of the northern regions of the Hindi-speaking “cow belt” as well as the lightly populated Northeast the total … Continue reading “India = Nigeria + Italy in terms of fertility”

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This clip by S. E. Cupp is making the rounds. I often find Cupp to be glib, so it’s no surprise that I disagree with many of the details of what she is saying. In particular it struck me as strange to listen to her talk about how conservatives respect atheists. Atheists are held in […]

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This clip by S. E. Cupp is making the rounds. I often find Cupp to be glib, so it’s no surprise that I disagree with many of the details of what she is saying. In particular it struck me as strange to listen to her talk about how conservatives respect atheists. Atheists are held in […]

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In the early-to-mid 2000s I had a discussion with friends who were involved in the Sepia Mutiny blog about the trends for outmarriage rates in the Indian American community. Now that we have Census 2010 data we can compare. US … Continue reading

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In the early-to-mid 2000s I had a discussion with friends who were involved in the Sepia Mutiny blog about the trends for outmarriage rates in the Indian American community. Now that we have Census 2010 data we can compare. US … Continue reading

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A commenter below notes:
Also, in modern society, doesn’t just about everyone reproduce, such that not only is any particular advantage competing against other countervailing pressures as you note, but also that the “less fit” genomes are not rem…

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As someone with mild concerns about dysgenic (albeit, with a normative lens that high intelligence and good looks are positive heritable traits) trends, I’m quite heartened that Marissa Mayer is pregnant. Of course she’s batting well below …

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Prompted by a comment below I was curious as to the correlation between intelligence and income. To indicate intelligence I used the GSS’s WORDSUM variable, which has a ~0.70 correlation with IQ. For income, I used REALINC, which is indexed to 19…

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In the further interests of putting quantitative data out their instead of vague impressions, I noticed two GSS variables which might be of interest. One queries the impression of effect on the environment of genetically modified crops. The second asks…

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In the comments Chad says:
The Right is not inherently anti-science. Yes there are some morons out there who glorify in their ignorance, but lets recognize them for who they are, extremist idiots. This does not describe the majority of those on the Rig…

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A weeks ago Robert Wright had a post up, Creationists vs. Evolutionists: An American Story. Here’s the crux:
A few decades ago, Darwinians and creationists had a de facto nonaggression pact: Creationists would let Darwinians reign in biology clas…

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It is sometimes fashionable to assert that higher socioeconomic status whites are the sort who will impose integration on lower socioeconomic status whites, all the while sequestering themselves away. I assumed this was a rough reflection of reality. B…

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