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Inductivist
Personal blog · inductivist.blogspot.comscienceculture
Inductivist is a personal blog at inductivist.blogspot.com about science and culture. Since 2008, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite this blog's data posts on social science topics: a GSS vocabulary test referenced in a graph, and fertility differences by wealth and political views.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Groups are different. Get over it.
What Hacker News says?
Apparently, here is the vocabulary test used at the GSS and referenced in the last graph: http://inductivist.blogspot.com/2010/04/gss-vocabulary-test....
Comment linking /2010/04/gss-vocabulary-test.html
on “People of class drink alcohol ”Submitted Mean IQ of College Grads is Dropping as a story · 12 points
HN discussionAnd race, and wealth, and even political views: > Mean number of offspring > Wealthy liberal women (n = 35) 1.60 > Wealthy conservative women (n = 43) 2.49 > The difference is statistically significant. Wealthy white conservative women average 55 percent more kids than their liberal counterparts. http://inductivist.blogspot.com/2012/03/fertility-among-weal...
Comment linking /2012/03/fertility-among-wealthy-white-liberal.html
on “The Fertility Implosion”
