Colin Wright

The White House is currently on lockdown after dozens of gunshots ring out. Reports are that a gunman has been killed by Secret Service. It's unfortunate how accurate my cartoon has become.

@BridgetPhetasy I think it's as cringe as woke comedy because it is woke comedy. Same overall structure, different inputs.

Anti-woke comedy fast becoming as cringe as woke comedy because the comedians forgot they're entertainers and think their job is to "educate" people now about the "Epstein class" at "Christ is King" events.

@MeghanEMurphy I would never mislead you. @MsMelChen will back me up. It's a peak diet soda experience.

@SwipeWright I've never had a Dr Pepper before in my life but this intrigues me

Coke Zero >> Diet Coke

This should be a great event. Please tune in!

Join us online Wednesday, May 27th, 2:00–3:00 PM ET on Zoom for “Gender Therapy at a Crossroads: The Current State of Science and Law After the Supreme Court’s ‘Chiles’ Ruling.” Panelists include @ishapiro, @SwipeWright, and @Hartz_PhD This event is free and open to the public. Learn more and register here: opentherapyinstitute.org/events

Looking forward to this on Wednesday!

@GPTpain It's very good!

@SwipeWright Have you tried Creamy Coconut? 🙎‍♂️

@sourpatchlyds Just got some last week. It's a winner.

@SwipeWright Coconut Dr Pepper >>>>>

Hasan Piker and other marxists have a right to be stupid and support socialism, I told @FoxNews. But what they don't have a right to is be paid foreign agents of Cuba, Venezuela, and other evil regimes.

@KDansky’a crime is stating the truth - makes cannot become females. Please help @elonmusk Retweet friends. @ConceptualJames @BillboardChris @SwipeWright @ChloeCole @Riley_Gaines_

This is probably the worst p-hacking I’ve ever seen. Let’s go along with the validity of the “brain sex index”, for argument’s sake. The actual result shows that the men and the trans women did not significantly differ at all, but trans women and biological women did significantly differ. The authors just pretended otherwise via some insane statistical acrobatics. They had three groups of 24 people each. The trans group is clearly not normally distributed (more on that later). They should have performed a Kruskal-Wallis test with Dunn’s multiple comparisons test. Instead, they did ANOVA and then *one-tailed* *unadjusted* t-tests for their post-hoc comparisons. With this method, they found men vs trans women differed by d=0.64, p=0.016. But women vs trans women differed by d=1.87, p<0.001. So trans women are slightly more female than non-trans males. Narrative supported by data! Hooray! And to make it seem like it’s kind of half-way, they just give both of those p-values a single asterisk on the plot. If they had instead done a two-tailed test, this doubles the p-value. And if they had done a Bonferroni correction for two comparisons, the p-value doubles again. They also should’ve done three comparisons really (men vs women isn’t tested in their paper—for no good reason), so triple instead of double the p-value. So in reality, a proper analysis of their data without cherry-picking and biased hypothesis testing would’ve resulted in the difference between men and trans women being non-significant (p=0.096), but the difference between women and trans women remaining very significant (p<0.006). Narrative destroyed by data. Uh oh. Going back to the squiggly distribution in the trans group. Of the 24 trans participants, 6 were androphiles (ie gay males), 18 were gynephiles (straight males). I don’t know for sure, because the authors didn’t share the underlying data, but it seems plausible that sexual attraction might be more important for their “brain sex index” than gender identity. We also don’t have sexual preference info for the non-trans groups, and in general the sample size is way too tiny to get fancy with multivariate analysis like this. It’s even too tiny for the main analysis: if someone wanted to replicate the d=0.64 difference properly, they’d need at least 53 people per group. Anyways, if you want to support the wellbeing of trans people, which hopefully we all do, I don’t think twisting data to publish headline-grabbing fake conclusions is that way to go about it. It’s just going to make people irate when the statistical malpractice is pointed out, and then backfire on the trans “movement”. We really should stop attaching moral valence to data and stop trying to leverage the authority of science as a political tool.

A terrorist on the FBI Most Wanted list was sitting on the board of an American nonprofit. How can that happen? We’ve been tracking Islamist influence networks in American civil society, and my new piece in @CityJournal with Florida Lt. Gov. Jay Collins (@JayCollinsFL) and @ncri_io's Joel Finkelstein, shows why Florida is a key battleground. The CAIR California story is a good place to start. CAIR received more than $40 million in public money even as its Hamas-linked ties were being documented in congressional testimony. But Tampa shows how all of this works on the ground. We found that the actual secretary-general of Palestinian Islamic Jihad—an FBI Most Wanted terrorist sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury—was simultaneously sitting on the board of an American nonprofit. This is documented in public filings. And after federal prosecutions exposed the network, it just rebranded under new organizational names, with many of the same people, regained nonprofit protections, and kept going. CAIR Florida then worked closely with this network, inviting convicted members and terror financiers to its annual gala, dismissing their terrorism convictions as baseless, and featuring them in fundraising videos. Code Pink and Medea Benjamin are part of the same story because they fund CAIR. Big mistake doing that in Florida. Lt. Gov. Jay Collins is pushing the right measures at the state level and deserves real support. The federal designation process is slow by design, and these networks know how to exploit it. What we’re calling for is simple and straightforward: if an organization’s leadership or major donors have terrorism convictions or Treasury sanctions on record, its tax-exempt status should face enhanced scrutiny. This would provide basic accountability for a government-granted privilege these networks have learned to exploit. States need to lead here. If they don’t, this will keep happening. Read our report below. 🔗city-journal.org/article/florid…

In the case of these brain studies, homosexuality is a confounding variable leading people to wrongfully believe "gender identity" is its own independent biological trait when it's not. The statistical significance is only there when you don't account for the real biological variable driving the result.

@SwipeWright If I showed a correlation between parental math skills and the math skills of offspring, you could say, well if we control for overall IQ the statistical significance of “math skills” disappears. That’s what you’re doing here.

When you control for same-sex attraction, this observed cross-sex shift in "transgender women" disappears. This sexuality-related shift has been known for decades, but trans activists like to use it to push their "born in the wrong body" agenda. It's nothing but propaganda.

I read that "1% of the population commits 50% of the crime", so I researched it. I found out that “1% commit 50% of crimes” is an oversimplification, but the basic idea—crime is extremely concentrated—is supported. A Swedish national cohort found that 1% of the population accounted for 63% of all violent‑crime convictions. Radical idea: Stop with the mollycoddling and the pathetic excuses and PUT REPEAT CRIMINALS IN JAIL FOR A LONG TIME. w. The 1% of the population accountable for 63% of all violent crime convictions pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC39…

It demonstrates that sexuality has a biological basis, but not "gender identity." What activists are trying to claim is evidence of a biological basis for gender identity is just sex nonconformity, of which homosexuality is an aspect. There is no evidence that gender identity has a biological basis.

@SwipeWright Hold on. If transwomen, are a sub-category of gay men, then this graph indicates that both are likely immutable, and that they are two sides of one thing. It does not disprove the born this way argument at all.

@naah1929 A very large percentage of men who identify as women are same-sex attracted, i.e., they're gay men.

@SwipeWright So it's confounded by the large number of gay men with gender dysphoria?

@cremieuxrecueil @Elijosss He was hitting on you.

@Elijosss Obese White gay guy

Cashier at the bodega said I got the secret combination of items that makes them all free, then didn't charge me. ?

@wil_da_beast630 Only if the money is stupid good.

The "Enhanced Games" has a very simple problem - the actual best athletes are never going to do the regimens that could make them even better.