Category: marriage
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Outmarriage rates for US-born Indian and Pakistani Americans
From this post.
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America’s fake caste war
The media is confecting racial division
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America’s fake caste war
The media is confecting racial division
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College makes you believe in marriage!
There’s a cliche, which isn’t totally false, that more education tends to lead one toward heterodox viewpoints which challenge conventional norms. But one issue that has been coming to the fore over the last 10 years or so is that college e…
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Is inbreeding like asexuality?
The standard argument for why there is aversion to incest among humans as matter of innate disposition is the Westermarck effect, which is a model where aversion to mating emerges if you are raised with an individual of the opposite sex. Some basic ill…
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Like modestly attracts like
I saw this link posted on twitter, IQ and Human Intelligence: An interesting finding from genetic research, which Mackintosh mentions, only in passing, as posing a problem in the estimation of the heritability of g, is that there is greater assortative mating for g than for any other behavioral trait; that is, spouse correlations are…
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The individual & social risks of cousin marriage
The map above shows the distribution of consanguineous marriages. As you can see there’s a fair amount of cross-cultural variation. In the United States there’s a stereotype of cousin marriage being the practice of backward hillbillies or …