Announcements
Happy New Year everyone! I am so pumped for 2024!!! If you haven’t done yearly review/2024 plan, then here are some templates
As usual, I went through all of the Newsletters from this past year to highlight the facts & stats I want to carry with me into the new year. I organized some of them thematically, and ranked them by importance/priority!
Lastly, don’t forget to fill out the Survey: it’s the single biggest factor used to evaluate whether you’ll be kicked out or not!
Crazy Stats
Among identical twins of which one is homosexual, the other twin is far from always also a homosexual
1/3 of white students at Harvard wouldn’t be there if there was no legacy admissions
“At Havard, 43% of white students are legacy, athletes, related to donors or staff…~75% of the white students admitted from those four categories, labeled 'ALDCs' in the study, “would have been rejected if they had been treated as white non-ALDCs” — (cite)
10% of people pay 80% of the income tax in the US
"As the data show, nearly 80% of projected income taxes for 2022 will be paid by about 10% of filers earning $200,000 or more, and those earning $1 million or more will pay half of that." -- (cite)
Attractive women are more likely to be attacked by other women (Ex. being labeled a witch) and less likely to be attacked by men #HotGirlProblems
"more physically attractive women are disproportionately targeted for aggression from other women...attractiveness increased females’ odds on incurring same- sex aggression by 35 percent and decreased males’ by 25 percent" (cite)
~30% of Yanomamö men and 10% of women died from human violence….The Yanomamö had the habit of stealing each others' women for polygynous unions, people got angry and circles of revenge started. (Violent enough to stand still: Why human societies developed so little during 300 000 years)
The Yanomamö never came up with a cultural invention that put a limit on how many women one man could have. Even less, they invented the idea that the women themselves should have a say. Instead, it was considered normal to be blatantly reproductively greedy. (Overcoming male reproductive greed)
Crazy Graphs
If you removed London, the UK is poorer than Missisipi — sure explains Brexit!
The most Foucault graph ever showing the criminalization of the insane
The one graph that proves Warren Buffet is the king of capitalism
We can rank games by the degree to which wins are random to prove day-trading is worse than gambling
This graph is one of the major reasons why at Cassandra we are going after a Credit Union license: to do to for-profit banks what prediction markets do to gambling
Congress became a gerontocracy starting in the 70s
In the long-run, interest rates tend towards 0
Crazy Facts
Epstein and other sex traffickers heavily target foster kids….
"Most girls came from disadvantaged families, single-parent homes or foster care. They had parents and friends who committed suicide. One girl watched her stepfather strangle her 8-year-old stepbrother...Epstein preyed on children in the foster care system" (cite)
Phallometric testing can be used to identify repeated sex offenders as well as pedophiles like Epstein
“Phallometric testing has been shown, however, to be one of the most accurate, if not the single most accurate, methods of identifying the sexual offenders that are most likely to commit new sexual offenses against children” (cite)
“A 1998 large-scale meta-analytic review of the scientific reports demonstrated that phallometric response to stimuli depicting children, though only having a .32 correlation with future sex offending (accounting for approximately 10% of the variance), had the highest accuracy among methods of identifying which sexual offenders will go on to commit new sexual crimes. (None of the methods were strong predictors with most accounting for far less than 10% of the variance).” (cite)
“Designed by a former banking analyst and Harvard Business School alumnus named Ray Soifer, the Harvard Business School Index looks at what portion of Harvard Business School graduates take “market-sensitive jobs” — a subset of the financial services category that includes investment banking, investment management, private equity, venture capital and hedge funds. When the portion exceeds 30%, it’s a sell signal. If the number is below 10%, it is a long-term buy signal.” (cite)
Apple's 7.2% weighting in the S&P 500 is the largest for any single company in the index with data going back to 1980
Crazy Themes
2-Parent Privilege is real even when you adjust for education and socio-economic status
Study on children of sperm donors finds that after controlling for genetic influence, only the mother’s education matters: the association between mother’s education and child test scores is significant and large, whereas the association between father’s education and child test scores is insignificant. (source).
When it comes to founding startups, Wait Longer & Sell Early
The average age of a successful startup founder is 45. A 50-year-old founder is twice as likely to start a successful company as a 30 year old; a 60-year-old founder is 3 times more likely to start a successful company as a 30 year old. (source).
“a founder selling at the Series D price of $210M, would make the same amount of money at exit as they would have if they’d sold for $38M after having only raised a seed round.” — Meaningful Exits for Founders
Instacart shows how even when you find scalable product-market-fit, you can still walk away with your equity value wiped
Co-founders splitting equity equally are the exception rather than the rule
The Gender Gap is Reversing
The gender gap in reverse is now wider than the gender gap in 1972 when Title IX was passed
Asian women have already surpassed white men — a reverse wage gap
Men need to be in the highest levels of IQ to even come close to the average woman’s emotional intelligence #MaleVariabilityHypethesis
"the overall male to female ratio of intellectual disability is about 1.5:1...In the top 2% of distribution (above IQ 130), the ratio of males to females is about 1.4:1. In the top 0.1% (above IQ 140), the ratio is slightly over 2:1." (cite)
Medical Sex Differences
White women are not ok
Genetic differences BETWEEN men and women are 15x larger than difference WITHIN men or WITHIN women
Incest & Cousing Marriages
~50% of all marriages in Pakistan are consanguineous and this has remained stable over the past 30 years. (cite)
"For Ashkenazim, this is so copious that 23andMe’s relative matching method estimates that any two Ashkenazi Jews drawn at random should be on average fourth to fifth cousins.” (cite)
Operating Leverage is Increasing, so Maximize Revenue-per-Employee
The Jewish People
Although they comprise about 0.2% of U.S. population, Orthodox Jews account for some 18% of altruistic kidney donations (cite)
Israeli founders dominate everyone else at starting unicorns
Gen-Z are not just dumb, but problematic ahaha
Because of TikTok, Gen-Z kids are growing up anti-semitic
Gen-Z kids are objectively dumber, probably bc of TikTok
Gen-Z kids are also lazy, using mental health as an excuse to manipulate the school system
Science needs to Break Free from Academia
Academia is barely contributing to meaningful AI results
China leads the world in fake papers, but it’s a global problem
About 82% of articles published in the humanities are not even cited once for five years after they are published.
50% of academic papers are never read by anyone other than their authors, peer reviewers, and journal editors.
“Between 2019 and 2020 1,799 historians earned their Ph.D.s, and only 175 of them are now employed as full-time faculty members.” (cite)
Short Kings…?
The generation of men who fought World War II were on average just over 5'6!
Before you say “malnutrition”, the data seems to suggest it was agriculture that made men short
Men serving prison sentences for murder are short and small, relative to the national U.S. male average, and every other type of criminal. (cite)
The Rise of AI
