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…
Thou shallt not look at the polygenic scores
With the coming of Open Science principles, many scientific institutions who were previously aggressively guarding their data decided to put them out for public consumption. Mostly this means other academics…
Ancient history, dysgenics, genomics, and cyclical history theory
Prior post: Rise and fall of empires: genetic version? (2017) I found this stuff a while ago, and tweeted it, but I wanted to save it properly so it doesn't…
New video out: Biotech Eugenics: Creating Future People
This one has been a long time in the making. Which is to say, I was too busy doing other stuff to get this done. BUT here we are! Also,…
Comments on “The Inheritance of Inequality” (Bowles & Gintis, 2002)
Some anon sent me this paper, asked if there was a rebuttal somewhere. It's a well cited economics paper, 1248 citations on Google Scholar. I wasn't familiar with it, but…
Seeds of Science: another free to publish attempt at reforming the scientific publishing process
A large number of scientists believe the scientific publishing ecosystem is quite broken, in the sense that it favors flashy improbable findings over rigorous research. This positivity and novelty bias…
Bryan Caplan’s Open Borders book: considerations
Not intended as a proper book review. I didn't read this book yet. Back in 2019, Bryan Caplan and Zach Weinersmith published a serious comic book Open Borders: The Science…
The ‘Hereditarians bad people’ objection
Bo Winegard has a thread on this piece here. I didn't know about it at the time of writing. Boomer woman journalist Cathy Young has a new piece out: The…
“There’s been no biological change in humans in 40,000 or 50,000 years.”
Marxist ideologue Steven Jay Gould famously claimed this in a 2000 interview called The Spice of Life. It follows a questions-answers format, and the entirety of this question is: L2L:…
Reference group effects, shifting standards
Probably most social science is done using data that are based on self-report. Thus, they are crucially dependent on assumptions that self-report data reflect objective reality. There are some large…