AI, MRI and the legal system
What if lying was impossible? You've surely seen lie detectors in movies, and heard about them being used in court rooms with questionable validity data. But what if we could…
IQ estimates of public intellectuals and personas
Given the interest in the recent estimates of Scott Alexander's, Gwern's etc. IQs on Twitter, I thought it might be informative and entertaining to carry out a real survey (defined…
Modern neuroscience confirms race differences in brain size and functioning
There has been frequent criticism of Phil Rushton's role as synthesizer of research on race differences. Ed Dutton's deep dive into Rushton's own claims about his life revealed some inconsistencies…
Killing Hollywood and Youtube and
So you've seen stuff like this: There's an endless such number of photos, nearly literally. AI will generate these on the fly for any content you desire. So since a…
Cui bono and science
There's a new bombshell paper out finding some very obvious findings: Zhang, F. J. (2023). Political endorsement by Nature and trust in scientific expertise during COVID-19. Nature Human Behaviour, 1–11.…
Group differences are just individual differences, really
Noah Carl has a new post on treating the ethics of individual differences the same as ethics of group differences: Which prompts the question: if genes contributing to group differences…
The EA case for (German) colonialism
Back in 2017, Bruce Gilley published this article: Gilley, B. (2017). The case for colonialism. Third World Quarterly, 38(10), 1. For the last 100 years, Western colonialism has had a…
New study didn’t really show IQ declines*
Dworak, E. M., Revelle, W., & Condon, D. M. (2023). Looking for Flynn effects in a recent online US adult sample: Examining shifts within the SAPA Project. Intelligence, 98, 101734.…
New paper: On group differences in the heritability of intelligence: A reply to Giangrande and Turkheimer (2022)
So it was finally published, our reply to our frenemies Eric Turkheimer and his student Evan J. Giangrande. For good measure, it's these two guys: The saga begins in 2020:…
Does tutoring work? It depends on the test
A reader sends me this question: Hi Emil, I'm wondering what your opinion is on the question of whether reading comprehension skills can be improved through tutoring. I'm an American…