Emil O. W. Kirkegaard blog
Book review of The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality by Kathryn Paige Harden. Most people know about the top woke biologists of the past. I am of course thinking here of Richard Lewontin (evolutionary biologist mainly population genetics) now known primarily for his Marxism and fallacy about classification, and Steven Jay Gould…
Continue ReadingBack in October Razib Khan had Carole Hooven on his podcast. She’s the author of a new popsci book on testosterone: T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us (342 pages). In the book she mentions some other recent woke books on testosterone, specifically: Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography (288 pages) by…
Continue ReadingBack in 2017, I wrote about how Sweden has a policy of hiding their immigrant crime rate statistics. (See also this tweet.) One cannot even buy them from the statistics office, I tried in vain for a few months. However, it is also known that the Swedish authorities previously released such statistics from the 1980s…
Continue ReadingA reader sent me this interesting report that I had previously somehow not heard of: Rune Jørgen Sørensen, Jon Marius Iversen, Johan From, and Hans Bonesrønning. Culture and school performance: Evidence from second-generation immigrants in Norway. 2015-2020 The paper studies how the cultural orientation of immigrant parents affects the school performance of their children. We…
Continue ReadingMost people know that political opinions are related to which job people are in. But which exactly? While there are many ways to quantify this, two teams looked at donations to political parties. The data is from USA, so may not generalize 100% to your country, but the broad strokes are likely to be the…
Continue ReadingAnon asks: Do you have the study where they compare meta analysis to pre-registered trials Yes, but let’s look at the wider issue. So you have some question. You want to know whether treatment X works for medical problem M, or whether intervention I works to promote socially desired outcome O. How do you find…
Continue ReadingThis mistake is very common, and here we look at an arbitrary example I was sent promoted by Rob Henderson on Twitter. This error is quite common (first example I found), so this was not chosen to say Rob is particularly bad at this. The same error can often be found in discussion of The…
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