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It has been noted that East Asians are positive outliers for the latitude ~ IQ pattern, they’re too far south for their high IQs. Some possible reasons for this are: The peoples evolved further north and migrated south in recent times, and their intelligence level is related to their recent origin, not current location, just…
Continue ReadingThis text used to be hosted at Shalizi‘s university website, but it was recently taken down for unknown reasons. However, Internet Archive saves us, and I repost it here because it’s interesting and so it doesn’t get lost. This text has circulated quite a number of times on Usenet, and so far as I know…
Continue ReadingMost environmentalists have by now given up denying the existence of racial gaps in head size, but they only retreated a few yards: Nisbett, R. E., Aronson, J., Blair, C., Dickens, W., Flynn, J., Halpern, D. F., & Turkheimer, E. (2012). Intelligence: new findings and theoretical developments. American psychologist, 67(2), 130. Brain size and IQ….
Continue ReadingThere’s an interesting slide in Rindermann’s survey: Rindermann, H. (2013). 2013 survey of expert opinion on intelligence. International Society for Intelligence Research, ISIR 2013 List of surveys here James Thompson’s previous coverage I’ve edited it to be in a single image (from 3). Do we have an estimate of relative media left-wingness for these? Some…
Continue ReadingThere’s an interesting study making the rounds on Twitter: Great new study: In 2002, 1200 Nepalese pregnant women were randomly assigned to receive micronutrient supplements or not. Experimental children had heavier birthweights. Now, at age 12, there was no difference in Intelligence. @Shine_Daizy @marcelleprost https://t.co/ZyCtbJGEMs pic.twitter.com/V1iPbCxiES — John Protzko (@JProtzko) March 8, 2018 Dulal, S.,…
Continue ReadingSomeone sent me some questions on this study: Fagan, J. F., & Holland, C. R. (2007). Racial equality in intelligence: Predictions from a theory of intelligence as processing. Intelligence, 35(4), 319-334. African-Americans and Whites were asked to solve problems typical of those administered on standard tests of intelligence. Half of the problems were solvable on…
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