We've recently seen national "basic skills" and Team Economist is now back with another one: National "learning-adjusted years of schooling". We might say that national intelligence enjoys a paradoxical popularity.…
Timothy Bates tweets a 2010 meta-analysis showing that students who attend more classes also attain higher grades: These results suggest that attending more classes causes students to learn more and…
Sasha Gusev is a statistical geneticist who spends a lot of time on Twitter. He has been attacking various behavioral genetics studies lately, thus earning some ire from people in…
With a war looming and probably lots of Palestinian refugee applications on the horizon, I thought it would be wise to summarize what we have so far about them. The…