Random links
- Jeff Sessions just criticized university safe spaces. But conservatives want their own safe spaces too.
- Often seemingly-dissimilar groups behave in similar ways.
- Evidence that curtailing proactive policing can reduce major crime
- Could broken-windows policing do more harm than good?
- Love Thy Neighbor? Ethnoracial Diversity and Trust Reexamined
- "According to recent research, ethnoracial diversity negatively affects trust and social capital. This article challenges the current conception ... the association between diversity and self-reported trust is a compositional artifact attributable to residential sorting: nonwhites report lower trust and are overrepresented in heterogeneous communities. ... classic indicators of inequality, not diversity, strongly and consistently predict self-reported trust."
- Are Misperceptions of Certainty Making Political Discussions Difficult?
- "our research indicates that people underestimate the certainty of those they disagree with." More on the pros and cons of attempting to correct this.