Archive for the ‘Society’ Category
Global Cooling
There has been a lot of debate about global warming this past year as temperatures have failed to rise. Of course climate is a complex topic and there are many factors that contribute to how warm or coool a particular year will be. Everything from sunspots to ocean currents have an important impact on global [...]
The US Forever
I love America. I like western culture. I don’t ever want to be oppressed by people from another country. A long time ago I would have thought these thoughts and then moved on to playing a game or read a book. But unfortunately, now I am worried enough to shut down the Xbox360 and blog. [...]
The Demographer’s Folly
Author’s Note: I have returned home from extended vacation and hope to begin frequent blogs again.
Alarmists have trumpeted the end of the world for many years. Now, a simple extrapolation of continued low fertility rates in Japan predict the last Japanese person will die around the year 2600 (give or take a few hundred years). [...]
Why the Price of Luxury Goods is Spiraling
Daily news reports stress that the price of luxury good tends to increase faster than the rate of inflation. Increasingly, middle and upper middle class families are being priced out of the luxury good market altogether. Why? I believe that a combination of age old factors and new trends are the root cause. This includes [...]
IQ and Income
I used data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine how IQ affects income. The survey takes a set of young people in 1979 (late teens to early twenties) and interviews them on a broad range of issues every few years. While surveys have continued beyond 1996, I only have data up to [...]