The graphic made it into the print edition @sst_nz
09 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of crime, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order
Men are 10% faster in athletics
09 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
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Across all sports, men are 10% faster or stronger than women. This is strong enough that a good boys high school athletics team can be stronger in the world’s best women athletes. The New Zealand women’s soccer team played an Australian high school soccer team and lost 7-2 as I recall.
From https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/08/we-thought-female-athletes-were-catching-up-to-men-but-theyre-not/260927/ and https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/08/the-golden-ratio-the-one-number-that-describes-how-mens-world-records-compare-with-womens/260758/
One way to determine whether there is a lot of drugs in sport is to see whether women are catching up with men in world records. Prior to 1992, men were slowly losing their edge over women.
But when better drug testing technology became available, women’s world records of 1992 stood for years rather than sometimes hours or months.
More importantly, the best female performances were showing a bigger gap with the best male performances after 1992. The collapse of communism meant that bags of drugs were no longer given to East European female competitors.
The reason the gap was closing before 1992 was drugs that male women stronger show up predominately in power sports such as athletics and weightlifting. When it was possible to test for those drugs, athletes stopped taking them.
My prison numbers Herald op-ed is up.
09 Apr 2018 2 Comments
in applied price theory, economics of crime, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order
Nick Cohen: Is @JeremyCorbyn a pacifist?
08 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
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#TPPANoWay unions complain to secretive ILO disputes panel over breach of convention NZ never ratified!
07 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in International law, labour economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, unions Tags: ILO, regressive left
Nick Cohen on Noam Chomsky and the Far-Left’s lack of solutions and Anti-Semitism
06 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
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.@JeremyCorbyn on Hamas and Hezbollah
04 Apr 2018 1 Comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: British politics, war against terror
How to Spot a 1950s Communist
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How to Spot a 1950s Communist
03 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, Marxist economics, war and peace Tags: collapse of communism
How to Spot a 1950s Communist
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More gender gaps in Facebook chat
03 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, economics of media and culture, gender, health economics, movies, Music, politics, television Tags: gender gap
Billy Connolly – Terrorist Attack At Glasgow Airport
01 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
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Could a sociologist please explain why crime is plummeting despite rising inequality
31 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
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Robert Hare’s Psychopathy List (2003)
31 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime Tags: psychopaths
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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