Politics from text — not so easy?
I came across this obscure study while doing some research on other matters. Yan, H., Lavoie, A., & Das, S. (2017). The Perils of Classifying Political Orientation From Text. Linked…
New paper out: book review of Lynn and Becker’s The Intelligence of Nations (2019)
Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2019). Solid numbers, missed opportunities: Review of The intelligence of nations. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1037/ebs0000181 ResearchGate I was asked to review this new book written by…
National IQs from GRE, GMAT, TOEFL et al
Back in January, we published a paper showing that the obvious explanation of variation is in GRE scores by nationality/origin fits the data well. Pesta, B. J., Fuerst, J., Kirkegaard,…
Arab engineer IQ?
As others have pointed out many times (recently Richwine 2019), one cannot just use identical thresholds of educational attainment to select for identical levels of human capital (broadly conceptualized) among…