Why can’t we prevent or cure hangovers?
There is a nice theory in economics about why capitalism is better than socialism. It goes like this. Under socialism, central planners try to estimate what the public wants and…
Will the real Emil please stand up?
Since is there yet another character and cancellation attempt on me, I thought it might be useful to write a post about my actual politics, which could then stand in…
Psychotics are bad, anti-psychotics are good
Remember this guy? His name is Noah Esbensen. Actually, he is not a big deal outside of Denmark, but he made a brief stir in the media by going into…
Italian north-south genetic differences confirmed
Davide Piffer and Richard Lynn has a new study out: Piffer, D., & Lynn, R. (2022). In Italy, North-South Differences in Student Performance Are Mirrored by Differences in Polygenic Scores…
How unreal is long-COVID?
Research funding for COVID is amazing. A lot of academics got and continue to get grants promising to do research on COVID. Unfortunately, COVID kinda died out recently and the…
New study out: Admixture and Social Status in Chile
The new June issue of Mankind Quarterly is out, and naturally it features a paper of mine: Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2022). Admixture and Social Status in Chile. Mankind Quarterly,…
So Le Pen didn’t wen
Back in April, I posted the results of my predictive model about Marine Le Pen's winning chances. The model produced a much higher chance of victory than most other people…
Unnatural hair color really is a danger zone marker (new study out)
Probably many of you have seen this meme about aposematic hair color: For those not into memes: the idea is that poisonous animals advertise their dangerousness by bright colors to…
New study out: Will Intelligent Latter-day Saints and Smart Conservatives Inherit the Earth?
Ed Dutton and I have a new study out: Kirkegaard, E. O. W., & Dutton, E. (2022). Will Intelligent Latter-day Saints and Smart Conservatives Inherit the Earth? Differential Selection for…
Brain size and intelligence: 2022
There's a new meta-analysis out for brain size/volume and intelligence: Pietschnig, J., Gerdesmann, D., Zeiler, M., & Voracek, M. (2022). Of differing methods, disputed estimates and discordant interpretations: the meta-analytical…
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