Gladwell, the threshold effect for IQ, and Jensen
I don't think Malcolm Gladwell has been debunked hard enough, so here's my contribution towards that goal. For Steven Pinker's take, see here. Gladwell is essentially a story teller, and…
I don't think Malcolm Gladwell has been debunked hard enough, so here's my contribution towards that goal. For Steven Pinker's take, see here. Gladwell is essentially a story teller, and…
Best estimate of Danish-Scandinavian IQ based on recent, large samples is ~103 relative to UK norms. What is the Danish national IQ? If we look at Lynn and Vanhanen 2012,…
A traditional approach to studying altruism has been to do some kind of economic game. E.g. seeing how nice people are in ultimatum games. One such study: Oosterbeek, H., Sloof,…
Often discussed, occasionally cited, but rarely read -- certainly a highly suspicious combo -- I post here the original German language final version (we think): Eyferth, K. (1961). Leistungen verschiedener…
Recently, I took a poke at Eric Turkheimer. And now he's ready with a retaliation: https://twitter.com/ent3c/status/1009245615367315456 Eric is trying a guilt by association attack by tying me to Roger Pearson…
I have written a lot about ancestry approaches, generally from a psychometric and genomic angle. However, economists can also play this game. Daniel A. F. Lopes, Geraldo A. Silva Filho,…
Eric Turkheimer is by many counts a good scientist. He has about 11.6k citations on Google Scholar, 6.3 since 2013 (i.e. last 5 years). He is prominent enough that he…
Few people actually read this, which is a shame because the science is interesting for historical purposes, and the fulltext of his famous fallacy is rarely read. I believe this…
This page on Wikipedia claims rather surprisingly that: This list comprises laureates of the Nobel Prize who self-identified as atheist, agnostic, freethinker or otherwise nonreligious at some point in their…
Just a minor stats point for an otherwise excellent paper. Woodley of Menie, M. A. & Fernandes, H. B., & Hopkins, W. D. (2015). The more g-loaded, the more heritable,…