Affirmative action at the Intelligence journal (Elsevier)
We recently published a big study looking at hiring bias for editorial boards. One could argue that hiring is perhaps a bit too strong a word, as I think these…
We recently published a big study looking at hiring bias for editorial boards. One could argue that hiring is perhaps a bit too strong a word, as I think these…
What sort of things are women interested in compared to men? Maybe we should ask Mel Gibson. A more scientific way is to study this is to study something called…
Someone sent me this new study that I hadn't included in my review from back in January: Scott, R. (2022). Does university make you more liberal? Estimating the within-individual effects…
I've written many times about the current dysgenic selection in humans, where evolution seems to be going the wrong way according to our preferences. Specifically, after the industrial revolution, the…
Once again, Big Tech are censoring a manifesto written by a terrorist, in this case, the Buffalo shooter Payton Gendron. It used to be on Google Drive, but was deleted.…
Richard Lynn famously spent a few decades collecting data on human intelligence around the world. Eventually, he was able to generate world maps of average intelligence levels by nations and…
In popular discourse and the media, the debate is between those who recognize significant genetic causation in mental illnesses versus the status quo blank slate people who leave all such…
I had a long, 2+ hours, interview with Matt over at the Ideas Sleep Furiously channel. So you might want to check it out. We talked about, well, a lot…
What content should be in an online encyclopedia like Wikipedia? One can contrast two extreme views on the matter: Inclusivism: just about everything should be included that can be properly…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19NB8MtlPIQ This is the accompanying video of our 2021 paper: Kirkegaard, E. O. W. & Gerritsen, A. (2021). Looking for evidence of the Dunning-Kruger effect: an analysis of 2400 online…