Emil O. W. Kirkegaard blog
With the coming of Open Science principles, many scientific institutions who were previously aggressively guarding their data decided to put them out for public consumption. Mostly this means other academics look at them and maybe they get your paper retracted for fraud. But sometimes, amateur scientists also use them for decidedly other purposes than what…
Prior post: Rise and fall of empires: genetic version? (2017) I found this stuff a while ago, and tweeted it, but I wanted to save it properly so it doesn’t get forgotten again. Blogging is extended memory. I reckon my mortality risk at Twitter is about 30% each year. Accounts have been banned for less….
This one has been a long time in the making. Which is to say, I was too busy doing other stuff to get this done. BUT here we are! Also, just now, more details from EA4 are out. EA4 is the 4th large GWAS for educational attainment, and thus also intelligence. Russell Warne has a…
Some anon sent me this paper, asked if there was a rebuttal somewhere. It’s a well cited economics paper, 1248 citations on Google Scholar. I wasn’t familiar with it, but reading it over, I see some things comment on. Bowles, S., & Gintis, H. (2002). The inheritance of inequality. Journal of economic Perspectives, 16(3), 3-30….
A large number of scientists believe the scientific publishing ecosystem is quite broken, in the sense that it favors flashy improbable findings over rigorous research. This positivity and novelty bias is so strong that some large proportion of newly claimed findings are actually ‘false positives’ or at best grossly overestimated. On top of this, there…
Not intended as a proper book review. I didn’t read this book yet. Back in 2019, Bryan Caplan and Zach Weinersmith published a serious comic book Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration. It does what it says, argues mostly without left-wing shame tactics for the billion dollar bills on the street. Well, I…
Bo Winegard has a thread on this piece here. I didn’t know about it at the time of writing. Boomer woman journalist Cathy Young has a new piece out: The Reality of “Race Realism”. Actually, it’s supposed to be a book review of sorts, but Cathy tells us that she hasn’t read the book, but…
Marxist ideologue Steven Jay Gould famously claimed this in a 2000 interview called The Spice of Life. It follows a questions-answers format, and the entirety of this question is: L2L: Finally, given all the analogies and imposed models that you see—what actual lessons does natural evolution offer for society and organizations? SJG: I think rather…
Probably most social science is done using data that are based on self-report. Thus, they are crucially dependent on assumptions that self-report data reflect objective reality. There are some large studies or meta-analysis that compare self-report to objective results. To take a simple example. Kuncel et al 2005 meta-analyzed self-report GPA versus actual GPA from…
Dutton, E., & Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2021). The Negative Religiousness-IQ Nexus is a Jensen Effect on Individual-Level Data: A Refutation of Dutton et al.’s ‘The Myth of the Stupid Believer.’ Journal of Religion and Health. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-021-01351-1 A recent study by Dutton et al. (J Relig Health 59:1567–1579. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-019-00926-3, 2020) found that the religiousness-IQ nexus…
