Professor of Educational Foundations @Baylor; Editor-in-Chief, @XScholarsReview; Recent book: Unleashing the Image of God (Baker Academic)
Hewitt, TX
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Perry L Glanzer retweeted
Activists used to dismiss our critiques on grounds that they weren't published in academic journals. That was, of course, just a convenient cover story for keeping their heads buried in the sand.
Our formal critiques are now in the journals, and the authors of the studies we critiqued have been contacted numerous times to release their data and invited to respond.
Their tactic now seems to be to pretend our critiques don't exist. Never mention them. Just keep citing the debunked studies.
This is not how honest academics behave.
Exactly 6-weeks since we published our critique of the famous Kurth et al (2022) study - “Brain Sex in Transgender Women Is Shifted towards Gender Identity” - and the authors have still not replied, nor has any of anonymised individual-level data been released for re-analysis (after multiple attempts over several months)…. I wonder why? 🤔 @SwipeWright @AdamRochussen
link.springer.com/article/10…
Perry L Glanzer retweeted
Iranian women: 'Help, we're being massacred for refusing to wear veils and asking for the vote'.
Yazidi women: 'Help, we're being held as sex slaves and our families are dead'.
Western Schoolteachers: 'Help, we've been forced into hiding because we showed cartoons'.
Western liberals:
Perry L Glanzer retweeted
Why are families with married parents more stable than others? Family researchers often point to selection effects, arguing that it is not marriage but education, income, and other characteristics that explain the difference.
Using the same UK data with methodological improvements, @harrybenson6 found that the selection effect has been largely overestimated. The better question to ask is not whether marriage matters, but "what happens to people when they marry."
@FamStudies: ifstudies.org/blog/does-marr…
Perry L Glanzer retweeted
At @OregonState, an instructor filed a bias report after a student's final project argued there are only two sexes.
Rather than challenge his argument, the instructor reported him for making it.
This is exactly why @theFIREorg now judges campus bias-reporting systems more harshly.
Perry L Glanzer retweeted
This is the Great Isaiah Scroll, copied around 125 BC, more than a century before the birth of Jesus. It is one of the Dead Sea Scrolls and preserves all 66 chapters of Isaiah.
Among its passages is Isaiah 53, describing a suffering servant who bears the sins of others. Christians recognize this as a prophecy fulfilled in the suffering and death of Jesus Christ.
Part of that passage reads as follows:
“But he was pierced because of our rebellion,
crushed because of our iniquities.”
Isaiah 53:5
What makes this scroll so remarkable is that it physically preserves these words in a manuscript copied before Jesus walked the earth.
The prophecy Christians read today was already being copied and preserved long before the crucifixion.
Perry L Glanzer retweeted
India did pro-capitalist reforms and immediately became richer than sub-Saharan Africa, which they were poorer than until the early 2000s.
It's insane how good capitalism is.
India saw about 496 million people lifted out of poverty between 2011 and 2023 in one of the world’s fastest declines in this metric, the World Bank said, although the gains remain uneven. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Perry L Glanzer retweeted
1. More billionaires are associated with less poverty.
2. Increasing billionaires per capita by ten fold lowers poverty by 43 percentage points.
3. Sweden has more billionaires per 10M people than the U.S. (34 vs 30)
4. Correlation is fairly strong (R-squared of 0.6 for two variable cross-section data)
4. Since the graph is only a correlation, what do you think is the cause?
🔗in🧵
Perry L Glanzer retweeted
I watched a nurse at our local hospital offer MAID to my Dad.
He was not asking for it, nor had he asked for it.
We were trying to get him home as he was about to pass away and he wanted to be at home to be more comfortable.
So while we were waiting to be cleared to take him home, a nurse approached us and offered MAID to him.
I was disgusted.
All the warnings about MAID we debated in the HoC and warned would happen with the change in legislation and the Liberals said would never happen…
…are happening.
Now Canada has the terrible record of having the most MAID deaths in the WORLD at 16,499 in one year alone.
euthanasia101.com/section/st…
One in 10 Canadians knows someone offered MAID for a ‘treatable’ condition
nationalpost.com/opinion/one…
Perry L Glanzer retweeted
Almost 19 hours without electricity. Russian drones are being shot down outside my window. It’s cold inside the room.
And this is just another Saturday night in Kyiv.
And I believe the day when Russia finally falls apart is getting closer.
Perry L Glanzer retweeted
En experimentos sociales históricos como los kibutz israelíes de comienzos del siglo XX, se intentaron eliminar por completo los roles de género. Al principio, hombres y mujeres realizaban las mismas tareas, y los niños se criaban de manera comunal. Con el tiempo, sin embargo, las mujeres se inclinaron hacia la crianza de los hijos y las tareas menos extenuantes, mientras que los hombres asumieron roles físicamente exigentes o de liderazgo. Las madres rechazaron el sistema de crianza comunal, se formalizaron los matrimonios y reaparecieron las unidades familiares privadas. Los antropólogos observaron que estos cambios no surgieron de la dominación masculina, sino de las preferencias de las propias mujeres.
Perry L Glanzer retweeted
Among college students who said that they were home schooled for high school:
30% said that they were currently attending a house of worship weekly.
31% said that they never attended
Home schooled kids are certainly more religiously engaged than their peers, but it's not like they are universally religious.
Perry L Glanzer retweeted
Heartbroken again — Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo breaks down over four victims killed near his church, days after he was seen weeping at a mass grave for his congregants.
Perry L Glanzer retweeted
Historically, women have been more religious than men in the U.S., going back decades in surveys.
That’s still true today, at least when it comes to prayer frequency and the importance people attach to religion in their lives. But the differences are less stark than they used to be.
ALT Chart showing trends in religion, among men and women of all ages.
Perry L Glanzer retweeted
Pat Murphy says he still wasn’t a good coach even after winning at Notre Dame and going to the College World Series at Arizona State because he was still making it about him instead of the players
“You know, when you get to a spot in life when you’re a little bit older, you start to make it not about you. When I dropped my ego, which took a while, I wasn’t a good coach at Notre Dame. Even though we were winning games, I still wasn’t good. I didn’t know baseball, for one, and it was about me a little bit at the end.”
“I started the right way. I loved Notre Dame, and I didn’t want to embarrass the university. I was working for $7,000 a year. I just wanted to be good and not embarrass them. We had a lot of success, but then it became about me.”
“And then I got to ASU, and it became about me again. We won a lot and went to the World Series a lot, but I just wasn’t good. It took getting knocked on my ass a little bit. I had that NCAA thing, which was total bull, but it woke me up. My kids made a difference in my life, and you start to realize it ain’t about you. Honestly, it’s not about me.”
“And whenever I started focusing on that, we came into last year and everything wrong happens. We trade Corbin. Woody’s out for the year. Devin’s out. We cut the budget $30 million. We’re going to suck. And again, I just kept saying, ‘It’s not about me. Make it about that young energy.’ And we had these young guys go out and make me look good. Hungry players, you remember when you guys were hungry in your career? Hungry players make the manager look good.”
“And that’s exactly what happened. Now I got the credit for it. I’m still under construction. I’m not great. There are so many areas I suck in. But then you’re trying to find staff members to help you, trying to realize what you suck at.”
“But the most important thing is love the player. When you really find the good in that dude, that’s it. The guy that’s hardest to love needs love the most. I’m at a point in life where it’s about them. And if you keep it about them…”
Perry L Glanzer retweeted
After reports that the US administration urged the Baltic states to tone down rhetoric on Russia, Estonian PM Kristen Michal:
“I’m not going to hold back. Putin is a dictator who kills women and children. And he will continue to do so until he is forced to change course”
Perfect
Perry L Glanzer retweeted
You can always tell if a western ‘Russia expert’ ever lived in Russia and communicated with average Russians or not, she clearly did
Perry L Glanzer retweeted
Indeed. Christianity is now a hedge against the "sex recession". Weekly sex among married churchgoers has barely budged since the '90s. Among secular married couples, it’s fallen from 64% to 48%.👇🏽
Perry L Glanzer retweeted
41% of young adults today, ages 18-22, say they attend religious services at least once or twice a month, which is higher than in the U.S. public as a whole.
By contrast, young adults ages 23-26 have among the lowest religious service attendance of any age group in the U.S.
#PewKnightInitiative
ALT Chart showing religious service attendance, prayer frequency, religion’s importance and identifying with a religion by age group
Perry L Glanzer retweeted
A classic chart to counter the wisdom of crowds idea. US Americans are absolutely clueless about how common things are. They think over a quarter of Americans are Native Americans, one in five Americans is transgender, over a quarter of the population are Muslim, one in five households earn over half a million dollars. The right answer to all of these questions is 1%. They build their worldview on totally incorrect assumptions towards reality. Data literacy matters.
