Best estimate of Danish-Scandinavian IQ based on recent, large samples is ~103 relative to UK norms. What is the Danish national IQ? If we look at Lynn and Vanhanen 2012, it is estimated at 97.2. If we look at Becker’s re-analysis, it’s given at 98.45 (version 1.2). However, this is based on only two studies, […]
Rnotebook: rpubs.com/EmilOWK/immigrant_IQ_Danish_draft Because I was discussing this dataset with a friend, I decided to reexamine it. Examining this dataset was my first reviewed paper (Kirkegaard 2013). It was manually done in Excel with no statistical guidance. So I had to work out everything myself based on googling around for formulas. My first write-up was not […]
There is a famous paper arguing the case for libertarian paternalism by using organ donation consent rates. Johnson, E. J., & Goldstein, D. (2003). Do defaults save lives?. Science, 302(5649), 1338-1339. The main result is this: So having opt-out drastically increases consent rates compared with opt-in. These countries have various other differences between them, but […]
This is actually an older post, but by accident I posted it on the Danish language sister blog. @KirkegaardEmil Really? t.co/kWjEyvhGYD — JayMan (@JayMan471) September 4, 2015 I don’t know what study that is, however, I do have numbers for the performance of Yugoslavians in Denmark and Norway. There are both numbers for persons from […]
Due to lengthy discussion over at Unz concerning the good performance of some African groups in the UK, it seems worth it to review the Danish and Norwegian results. Basically, some African groups perform better on some measures than native British. The author is basically arguing that this disproves global hereditarianism. I think not. The […]
Educational attainment, income, use of social benefits, crime rate and the general socioeconomic factor among 71 immigrant groups in Denmark openpsych.net/ODP/2014/05/educational-attainment-income-use-of-social-benefits-crime-rate-and-the-general-socioeconomic-factor-among-71-immmigrant-groups-in-denmark/
Abstract Criminality rates and fertility vary wildly among Danish immigrant populations by their country of origin. Correlational and regression analyses show that these are very predictable (R’s about .85 and .5) at the group level with national IQ, Islam belief, GDP and height as predictors. Published in our new journal for psychology. openpsych.net/index.php/diff/article/view/7 Peer review […]