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…
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,…
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…
Massive sibling study just dropped, and was also presented at ISIR 2019. Hegelund, E. R., Flensborg-Madsen, T., Dammeyer, J., Mortensen, L. H., & Mortensen, E. L. (2019). The influence of…
Machine learning psychometrics: Improved cognitive ability validity from supervised training on item level data Andrew Cutler gave the talk since I was unable to attend. Slides are here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xxfYTWP2R0ZFvbI24sR1jVyFC_qN_Lw85782zE5Q2Jo/edit#slide=id.p Live…
As you probably know, Noah Carl was attacked by the Red Guards at his Cambridge job. Eventually, the college ended up firing him after months of harassment. This firing is…
Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2019). First Names, Cognitive Ability and Social Status in Denmark. Mankind Quarterly, 59(4). Retrieved from http://mankindquarterly.org/archive/issue/59-4/5 It is well established that general intelligence varies in the…
One can find various quotes like this by Muslim philosopher Ibn Khaldun: Thus the founders of grammar were Sibawaih and after him, al-Farisi and Az-Zajjaj. All of them were of…
We've got a new important paper out in the special issue on race and intelligence in Psych: Hu et al, 2019, Filling in the Gaps: The Association between Intelligence and…
Since I was asked for recent reviews on the topic, I figure I might as well post them here too. Here's a few published since 2016. I regularly read these…