Jukka Savolainen
@JukkaSavo
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Professor of sociology & criminology. Michigander from Töölö. 🇫🇮 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 Heterodox opinions @WSJ @UnHerd @Quillette @CityJournal @Verkkouutiset, etc.
Ann Arbor, MI
Joined February 2015
Hey, I just had this piece published in @Slate! Let me know what you think - maybe? Nordic countries always dominate global happiness rankings. The reason why has nothing to do with the welfare state or hygge. https://t.co/m7q6VrPqyv via @slate
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Contrary to reports, it has nothing to do with drinking alone in your underpants.
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Harvinaisen lapsellista analyysiä. Ei ihme, että kirjat ei käy kaupaksi, jos paras anti on tätä tasoa. Finlandia-voittaja | Monika Fagerholm voitti kaunokirjallisuuden Finlandian: hän haluaa ”vanhat ukot pois vallasta” https://t.co/x0DgPAxQf8
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Kaunokirjallisuuden Finlandia-palkinnon voitti Monika Fagerholm, joka halusi kirjallaan selvittää, miten me olemme päätyneet tähän maailmantilanteeseen.
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Does blinding--i.e., concealing applicants' identities--reduce gender gaps in academic conference paper acceptances? Nope! Does blinding do anything? It does! Blinding reduces gaps in acceptances by institution rank.
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Once the logic of land acknowledgements and ‘decolonization’ is followed, it leads very quickly to some very dark futures, writes @Noahpinion.
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WSJ Edit Board -- The University of California eliminated the SAT as an admissions requirement five years ago. Now arrives the dispiriting result: Many freshmen at one of its top public universities can’t do middle-school math. https://t.co/j51sSF1jGV via @WSJopinion
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At one of California’s top universities, many freshmen are unable to do middle-school math.
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See my review of the book which proceeded to win the Best Book Award for the Society of the Scientific Study of Religion. 🙄
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Is merit cool again? At Boston Public Schools, it just might be! In my latest column for @CityJournal’s SS, I detail how—and why—BPS, last week, took a small yet significant step toward merit-based admissions for its storied exam schools…after 5 years of “equity” delusions.
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"Causation does not imply variation." A lovely saying coined by Tyler Muir with applications to price pressure in stocks and the causality revolution in applied micro. Just because x causes y does not mean most variation in y is caused by x. https://t.co/8CIpeREBth
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Tyler Muir suggested this lovely catchphrase, which should stand next to “Correlation does not imply causation” in our menagerie of econometric sayings.
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Getting away with murder is a near-modal outcome in 🇺🇸
The U.S. murder clearance rate (identification and arrest of suspect) 1965: 92 percent 1975: 78 percent 1995: 66 percent 2015: 62 percent 2021: 54 percent 2022: 52 percent
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Thanks for the kind words about our @HdxAcademy panel.
Not much of @ASCRM41 conference is worth it these days; however, this session of “Advancing viewpoint diversity and open inquiry” was worth attending. It revealed the extent to which (largely left) politics stifles research and debate was clear. (I stepped in for the delayed JMD)
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Predictable consequence of the rampant abuse of academic freedom. #WeTriedToWarnYou
https://t.co/ordCHaSmdO
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The proposal appears to mark the first time a Texas university system offers definitions of what kind of instruction related to race and gender should not be permitted.
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Amy Wax needs $ for her lawsuit against U Penn. Please donate and retweet. A dedicated professor is facing serious challenges due to her views. We must stand up for free expression and support her legal defense.
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My name is Amy Wax. As one of the only openly conservative tenured professors in the Ivy League, I … Amy Wax needs your support for Amy Wax Legal Defense Fund
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In New York, a police officer on horseback recited a Shevchenko poem During a photo shoot in Brooklyn Park, a Ukrainian woman met two mounted police officers. Hearing Ukrainian, one said he had studied it in college and still remembered a Shevchenko poem. 🎥: bonsoir_laboureur
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Suomessa on keskusteltu Suomalaisen klubin "herrakerhosta." Yhdysvalloissa keskustellaan kulttuurin naisistumisesta. Mun @Verkkouutiset yhdistää nämä kaksi aihetta. @ImHardcory @Sukkola @herandrews @jarkkotontti
https://t.co/gkYonJoDqZ
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Suuri feminisaatio ja suomalaiset instituutiot | Verkkouutiset
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“If women are behind on a metric, it’s recorded as inequality. If men are behind, it’s recorded as parity. You read that correctly: The index is explicitly designed so that men cannot be seen as disadvantaged, no matter how far behind they fall.” [Link below.]
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NEW: Academic paper on why only external intervention can end cancel culture at universities, by Bob Maranto👇
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@PaiviKorpivaara @JukkaSavo Todella hyvä teksti! Siinä mielessä erikoista, että kaikki tuo on loogista ja hyvin moni tuon on tiennyt. Aiheesta ei kuitenkaan media puhu eli tuota piilotellaan. Näkisin mielelläni median ja vasemmiston joutuvan valehtelusta aitoon vastuuseen. Kyse on kansan pettämisestä.
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New paper by the inimitable Lee Jussim (@PsychRabble) is one of the most thought-provoking and important papers ever published on the topic of racial discrimination. The paper is open access in @Theory_Society, check it out here:
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Theory and Society - Rigorous studies published within the past eight years have found diametrically opposed results regarding racial discrimination. Some have found that racial discrimination is...
"Thus, to invoke “systemic racism” as an explanation, one cannot point merely to evidence that “discrimination exists” or that “inequality exists.” If A explains B, then A and B must be different variables. If systemic racism explains inequality, one cannot refer to evidence of
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What is a "bullshit job"? And why is understanding their prevalence important? New, in @Theory_Society: "A formal account of bullshit jobs," by Laurent Gauthier. Check it out here: https://t.co/DIDJ0oyEMa
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