Will USA cease to be a safe space for embryo selection?
You may have heard about the new Supreme Court of Alabama decision. You can read the full decision here, which I did (130 pages). The case is straightforward enough: Facts…
You may have heard about the new Supreme Court of Alabama decision. You can read the full decision here, which I did (130 pages). The case is straightforward enough: Facts…
If you follow population genetics on Twitter, you may have seen the current thing to be concerned about. For instance, we have Jonathan Pritchard at Stanford: https://twitter.com/jkpritch/status/1759769445759893832 And Graham Coop…
I have written a couple of times about how to measure intelligence well and in a short time. Mainly I was interested in which single type of item is best…
By coincidence I found this paper the other day: Sturgis, P., Brunton-Smith, I., Allum, N., & Fuglsang, S. (2024). Testing the cultural-invariance hypothesis: A global analysis of the relationship between…
There is a lot of debate about immigration. While it is relatively easy to find crime rates by various immigrants by country of origin, these don't directly tell you whether…
It is commonly said that heritability is a population level statistic that doesn't apply to individuals. For instance, here's Robert Plomin et al's textbook Behavioral Genetics (2017, 7th edition), the…
When I talk science to non-scientists, I often get questions about how to interpret sizes of correlations or other metrics. While one can give rough guidelines invariant of the topic…