IQ nationalism
Borderless Welfare State: The Consequences of Immigration on Public Finances Sometimes white nationalists describe me as a proponent of 'IQ nationalism', they don't mean it well. It's somewhat of a…
Substackmaxxing
See also: Substack – a revival of blogging culture / blogs to read in 2020 So far Substack doesn't appear to censor much from an ideological perspective, but they have…
How to help yourself making health decisions: Cochrane reviews
This post may seem obvious, but a surprising number of people don't know about Cochrane meta-analyses, so we need more posts like this. We can quote themselves about what they…
State of genetic predictions: an example
While we don't take anecdotes too seriously on this blog, here I will present a small one. If you are one of those who have purchased genetic test results from…
p > .05 thus no effect thus familial confounding fallacies
Reading over some sibling control studies, BIG TOUGH GUY mentioned this quite wrong study: Meier, S. M., Mors, O., & Parner, E. (2017). Familial confounding of the association between maternal…
New paper out: The Left-Liberal Skew of Western Media
So it's finally out! Out big meta-analysis of journalist voting patterns. Kirkegaard, E. O. W., Pallesen, J., Elgaard, E., & Carl, N. (2021). The left-liberal skew of Western media. Journal…
ProQuest censors Mankind Quarterly: removes articles from their database
I tweeted this one a few weeks ago, but we need to document everything multiple places, so it doesn't get memory holed. Someone sent me this screenshot: So, to recap…
Educational interventions keep not working
We've been over this topic previously in 2017, but since this is the eternal idea, let's look at more data. Let's start historically. 1969 Arthur Jensen's famous article “How much…