Nicholas H Wolfinger

Professor at the University of Utah; opinions are my own. Written some books about marriage & divorce. NAGA winner. Pot-bellied pig owner. No Substack.

[Nicholas H Wolfinger @NickWolfinger]

I'm pleased to announce the publication of Professors Speak Out: The Truth About Campus Investigations. Its participants tell stories about Twitter mobs, trumped up charges, & institutional bad faith from folks like @LiamOMaraIV, @PsychRabble, @eweissunburied, & @natehoneycutt.

[The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim @PsychRabble]

New guest post by @NickWolfinger, who is being investigated AGAIN (for nothing, really). Link in reply.
"Last week my department chair, whom I’ll call Eleanor, requested an urgent meeting ... Eleanor informed me that there had been six complaints about me. These complaints had been received at the university’s Office of the Dean of Students and communicated to the Office for Faculty ..."

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@BradWilcoxIFS @Deseret Will economists ever stop with their “findings” that merely replicate what fields have already found? Ffs

[Nicholas H Wolfinger @NickWolfinger]

@BalthazarGrimm @RichardvReeves How is it callous towards suicidal women? I don't understand.

[Nicholas H Wolfinger @NickWolfinger]

In fairness, it was only a mini-investigation this time.

[The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim @PsychRabble]

New guest post by @NickWolfinger, who is being investigated AGAIN (for nothing, really). Link in reply.
"Last week my department chair, whom I’ll call Eleanor, requested an urgent meeting ... Eleanor informed me that there had been six complaints about me. These complaints had been received at the university’s Office of the Dean of Students and communicated to the Office for Faculty ..."

[Richard V. Reeves @RichardvReeves]

Spot anything misleading about this chart?

[Nicholas H Wolfinger @NickWolfinger]

@wil_da_beast630 “Preferential subs who prefer to switch” is an oxymoron. Moreover, what’s the difference between “preferential subs” & “subs”?

[Brad Wilcox @BradWilcoxIFS]

Truly devastating news for family formation in America.
Median mortgage payments doubled since just 2020 (!) from

☑️ $1040 in 2020
☑️ $2056 in 2025

This matters because we know the cost of SFHs is a powerful predictor of marriage and childbearing.

[Nicholas H Wolfinger @NickWolfinger]

@Tiffany44541244 @SkepticReview89 Pigs always like covering themselves up. The hole in the cloth was just my good fortune.

[Nicholas H Wolfinger @NickWolfinger]

So, this happened last night.

NB @SkepticReview89 @Tiffany44541244

[Nicholas H Wolfinger @NickWolfinger]

@BradWilcoxIFS Of course everything you say is right, but that doesn’t make the Bloomberg headline wrong.

[Nicholas H Wolfinger @NickWolfinger]

@CathyReisenwitz 💯

[Richard V. Reeves @RichardvReeves]

“Recent college graduates are now more likely to be unemployed than the workforce as a whole, a reversal of the usual pattern, and roughly 4 in 10 are working in jobs that don’t require their degrees,” by @ariel_kalil in the @chicagotribune:
https://t.co/N6aUGvhriR

[Nicholas H Wolfinger @NickWolfinger]

@BradWilcoxIFS @jean_twenge For what it’s worth, the National Survey of Family Growth data suggest something quite different, as I showed in this 2023 @FamStudies post.

https://t.co/xumO6Urslh

[Nicholas H Wolfinger @NickWolfinger]

@IdentitarianC @omni_american Point gracefully conceded—I’ve also come across studies that anti-racist trainings make people more racist (as measured by psychometric instruments). I think they’d simply fill me with rage.

[The Institute for Family Studies @FamStudies]

Over time, fewer married people reported one lifetime partner, while more reported between two and 10 partners. Higher levels of promiscuity remain relatively uncommon.

High promiscuity is more common for men than for women, but it has been increasing for women and decreasing for men.

Chart via @NickWolfinger

[Nicholas H Wolfinger @NickWolfinger]

@FamStudies This isn’t what I show for men; indeed, the image here suggests otherwise.

[Ryan Burge 📊 @ryanburge]

Support for same-sex marriage really hits an inflection point for most religious groups when comparing weekly attenders vs everyone else.

For evangelicals, support goes from 49% to 21% when comparing monthly attenders to weekly attenders.

It drops 13 pts for mainline. 14 points for Black Protestants.

For Catholics, it's down 16 points.

Orthodox Christianity is a 33 points decline.

But it's the largest among Jews - 37 pts.

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@wil_da_beast630 That a bunch of randos have takes?

Convenience sampling is no way to do science.

[Nicholas H Wolfinger @NickWolfinger]

@RepJackKimble Who’s they?