Suppressed Taylor Swift – Shake it off meme remix
Reposting this censored but great video. news.avclub.com/gif-artists-shake-up-taylor-swift-s-shake-it-off-1798252599
Fertility of immigrant groups in Denmark by generation
It’s somewhat of an alt right myth that immigrant groups come into the country, and then continuously outbreed the original population even if no more immigration happens. While this maybe have happened historically, it does not generally happen in Western countries because the immigrant groups quickly reduce their fertility levels to the level of the […]
Immigrant employment and wages by origin country/region, host country, sex, and generation
Thanks to Trannyporno for sending me this study. Algan, Y., Dustmann, C., Glitz, A., & Manning, A. (2010). The economic situation of first and second‐generation immigrants in France, Germany and the United Kingdom. The Economic Journal, 120(542), F4-F30. A central concern about immigration is the integration into the labour market, not only of the first […]
Pay gap reports from Sweden
Sweden, the land of feminism, of course constantly demands the government produces reports that prove the sex gap in incomes is caused by evil eyes men. So, the bureaucrats attempt to oblige and produce a stream of reports, all of which result conclusions like these: Den statistiska analysen visar att den genomsnittliga löneskillnaden nästan helt […]
Jelte Wicherts’ lost stereotype threat study for African Americans
In the program for the 2009 ISIR conference, we find something interesting: In Jelte’s CV from 2011, we see it too: It’s also there in the 2012 version, but it has disappeared in the 2014 version. Occasionally, one can find references to it in other places: and here: So, one might guess that it was […]
Asian Eyferth?
I am reading over James Flynn’s book on Arthur Jensen, Race and IQ from 1980. It’s very interesting from a historical perspective, and probably the best description of Jensen’s views writing by someone who disagreed with him. After a long discussion of the interpretation of the Eyferth study of offspring of US soldiers in post-WW2 […]
The mysterious PC1 ancestry component
Mehta, C. M., Malins, J. G., Noble, K. G., & Gruen, J. R. (2017). Cortical area and subcortical volume mediate the effect of parental education and adverse experiences on cognitive performance in youth. bioRxiv, 160424. Remember “poverty shrinks the brain from birth”? From birth! Fast acting that poverty, actually before birth too. Anyway, Kimberly Noble […]
How long do we need affirmative action?
1976, Constance Baker Motley, African American judge: Judicial predictions of reduction or elimination of the RAG through color – based decisions approached the l udicrous. In rendering the decisive vote on the High Court decision Grutter vs. Bolling (539 U.S. 2003) and endorsing a continuing legality of quotas, Justice Sandra Day O ’ Connor averred, […]
Terman’s belief in high heritability of intelligence: unwarranted confidence?
Warne, R. T. (2018). An Evaluation (and Vindication?) of Lewis Terman: What the Father of Gifted Education Can Teach the 21st Century. Gifted Child Quarterly, 0016986218799433. Russell Warne has a new piece out reviewing the life and criticism of Lewis Terman. While Warne generally defends Terman against criticism, he thinks that Terman went beyond his […]
Reposting: The case for colonialism
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01436597.2017.1369037 This Viewpoint essay has been withdrawn at the request of the academic journal editor, and in agreement with the author of the essay. Following a number of complaints, Taylor & Francis conducted a thorough investigation into the peer review process on this article. Whilst this clearly demonstrated the essay had undergone double-blind peer review, […]