Population size is not important for country outcomes
There is a recurrent feature of the immigration debate that goes like this: Emil: Look at how negative the fiscal contributions of 3rd world migrants are. People: Heh, that's nice,…
Migrant selection and informative priors
Chris Rufo wasn't happy with the recent American experience with the Somalians scamming the welfare state and wrote about how one should take into account "which national populations" people wish…
Classification error and relative rates
Our latest big project on mugshots and race misclassification by the US law enforcement. It is currently going viral on X: You can start by reading the thread summary, or…
Against the economists on school spending
Some days ago I posted a chart about school spending (per-pupil spending) and math test scores: Note how I didn't say this cross-sectional scatterplot proves anything about causality, but we…
Are IQ scales interval or ordinal?
One of the more obscure objections to intelligence testing is that really the tests are only on ordinal scale, and thus many of the usual statistical operations are undefined. Recall,…
What did the new WGS UKBB study show?
I wasn't going to blog this, since I prefer not covering the same ground as others, but due to multiple requests and questions, I will cover it anyway. It's this…
James Watson’s Greek ANTIFA experience
Most people know that if you at some point say something the left doesn't like, your life may became hell. You may get stalked, assaulted, and occasionally killed and so…
Science vs. ideology on vertical transfers
Last year Marcus Feldman and Kevin Lala published one of those anti-hereditarian pieces: Lala, K. N., & Feldman, M. W. (2024). Genes, culture, and scientific racism. Proceedings of the National…
Newest releases from Nucleus and Herasight
Things are moving fast in the embryo selection sector. There was never really any technological barriers here the last 10+ years, just the usual social taboos and various incompetent people…