Cold winters theory: a summary of the evidence and replies to objections

Cold winters theory gets at bad name, even from fellow hereditarians. In fact, the article about it was deleted from Wikipedia too. In my opinion that's because they are not…

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Review: Intelligence: all that matters (Stuart Ritchie)

I was recently asked to suggest introductory reviewing materials for bright laymen (see also my previous post). I ended up giving the following recommendations: - Intelligence: A very short introduction…

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Review: Quantitative Research in Linguistics: An Introduction

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19823567-quantitative-research-in-linguistics http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=3bb68f8bfea90338ad2efa04569108e2 There are few good things to say about this book. The best thing is on the very first page: Some things never change: the sun rises in the…

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Review: The Nurture Versus Biosocial Debate in Criminology: On the Origins of Criminal Behavior and Criminality

Goodreads. The book is on Libgen (free download). Since I have ventured into criminology as part of my ongoing research program into the spatial transferability hypothesis (psychological traits are stable…

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Review: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (Jonathan Haidt)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11324722-the-righteous-mind I had heard good things about this book, sort of. It has been cited a lot. Enough that I would be wiling to read it, given that the author…

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Review: The Roma: A Balkan Underclass (Jelena Cvorovic)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23621169-the-roma Richard Lynn is so nice to periodically send me books for free. He is working on establishing his publisher, of course, and so needs media coverage. In this case,…

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