jan baeyens

On average about a doubling of state income and state spending in 10 years of time after women got the vote? Did I understand that correctly?

In 1999, @JohnRLottJr published a paper titled, "Did Women’s Suffrage Change the Size and Scope of Government?" Below is one of the graphs in the paper. It shows the effect of giving women the right to vote on per capita state government expenditures and revenue. Many U.S. states had given women the right to vote in state elections prior to the 19th Amendment in 1920. So, Lott normalised state data such that 0 on the graph represents the first year in which women were allowed to vote in different states. Here is the abstract from Lott's paper: "This paper examines the growth of government during this century as a result of giving women the right to vote. Using cross‐sectional time‐series data for 1870–1940, we examine state government expenditures and revenue as well as voting by U.S. House and Senate state delegations and the passage of a wide range of different state laws. Suffrage coincided with immediate increases in state government expenditures and revenue and more liberal voting patterns for federal representatives, and these effects continued growing over time as more women took advantage of the franchise. Contrary to many recent suggestions, the gender gap is not something that has arisen since the 1970s, and it helps explain why American government started growing when it did."

That’s why 😂

Many (intelligent) people I know had never even heard the word “misandry” before, not until I’ve said it to them. That’s pretty wild. It’s like sexism towards men isn’t even a concept in people’s minds. That alone is probably the biggest example of sexism there is!

RE: Issues in Scientific Publishing In this paper, notice that for the variability statistics regarding the strength-to-body mass ratio for grip strength, the numbers are listed as 0.00 in the table. This shouldn't happen. It has happened because (a) the author reported standard errors rather than standard deviations throughout the paper; (b) standard errors for strength-to-body mass ratios for grip strength are small numbers; and (c) the author only reported values to two decimal places. The number 0.00 means there was no variability in the data, but that's not really the case. Instead, all the author needed to do was extend the result out to another decimal place or more (e.g., 0.001). This error was also missed by the peer reviewers, editor, and copyeditor.

As I pointed out about Trump and his circle years ago, it’s not just that they lie, it’s that their lies always echo Russian talking points. It’s not a coincidence. You can arrive independently at the truth, but not at the same lie.

There is a lot of Russian propaganda in Europe. They have invested as much money in it as in weapons during this war. This is a massive financial program spanning decades. Russia has been waging a hybrid war against Europe, including Italy, France, Britain, and Germany, for a long time. It just isn't waging a full-scale war against them as it is against us. Because we had the same thing – a hybrid war. Russian narratives across absolutely all television and media platforms, on the internet, and on social media. People should not be pierced through and brainwashed by waves of narratives from the Russian Federation. Because it is up to France, Ukraine, Italy, and Spain to decide how to live and whom to elect. Russia cannot influence Italy's choices and freedom. Italy is a free country, just like Ukraine. The Russians will seek to exploit far-right movements, religious movements, faith, migration, and gender. Russia doesn't care what issue can divide society: from religion to language, Russia will always find it and strike there. We are seeing this now not only in Europe – they also have influence in the United States of America. They have a very significant wave going on there, and their network is operating. From an interview with Corriere della Sera. (3/3)

[Original in Polish. Text in the image translated and edited using AI]

Ugent is van het padje af. Dat ik daar ooit les heb gevolgd valt mij nu heel zwaar. Prof: Gelijkheid voor de wet is een grondbeginsel. Morrel je daar aan, dan ben bezig met de basis te leggen voor discriminatie. Dat een prof bestuurskunde dat niet snapt is crimineel.

Tento Texasan natočil video speciálně pro MAGA Amíky. Speciální je v tom, že v něm mluví hodně pomalu, aby byli schopní to pochopit😁. Snaží se jim pomalu vysvětlit, jak to je s ruskou naftou, kterou Amerika nepotřebuje, ale Putin potřebuje peníze, aby mohl vraždit Ukrajince.

Ons woongebied heeft sinds een paar maanden last van hangjongeren die dagelijks met vuurwerk gooien en dingen in de fik steken tussen 2200 en 4:00. Politie in Amsterdam komt langs, wordt keihard in haar gezicht uitgelachen door een stel snotterende minderjarigen, rijdt weg zonder actie. Als de politie meeleest: de bewoners hebben in de chat zojuist besloten om het heft in eigen hand te nemen en de jongeren zelf op straat hardhandig aan te pakken nu jullie geen knip voor de neus waard zijn. Dat jullie het even weten.

The suggestion that a person cannot be a victim of sexual assault when they have willingly consumed drugs/alcohol is as irrational as saying a person is always a victim of sexual assault when they engaged in sexual behaviour after consuming drugs/alcohol