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…

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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…

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Intelligence research — persecuted by both Nazis and Communists

Rindermann (Cognitive Capitalism, 2018) writes: Contradicting common beliefs, National Socialists were opposed to intelligence research (Becker, 1938; Jaensch, 1938): in their view, intelligence research would represent a ‘supremacy of Bourgeoisie…

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Animal cross-fostering, race and IQ, and the deductivist’s fallacy

I wish to coin a fallacy I've seen a number of times, exemplified in this paper: Kempthorne, O. (1978). A BIOMETRICS INVITED PAPER: Logical, epistemological and statistical aspects of nature-nurture…

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