East Asian intelligence and UV radiation
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:…
Chomsky on postmodernism [repost]
This 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…
Race gaps in brain size in the very young
Most 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.,…
How much should you trust IQ etc. information from The Guardian? Experts answer: not so much
There'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…
The national IQ of Nepal
There's an interesting study making the rounds on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JProtzko/status/971763351805075457 Dulal, S., Liégeois, F., Osrin, D., Kuczynski, A., Manandhar, D. S., Shrestha, B. P., ... & Prost, A. (2018). Does…
Comments on Fagan and Holland (2007)’s racial equality paper
Someone 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),…