Archive

2025 (38)

19. March Explaining HIV’s effect on life expectancy in Africa (Medicine) (AIDS, antiviral, HIV, life expectancy)
19. March Are right-wingers more accepting of lying? (Political science, Psychology) (honesty, lying, political ideology, politicians)
17. March Special issue of Swiss magazine Schweizer Monat about intelligence (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (magazine, Schweizer Monat)
12. March The US congress is also an intelligence meritocracy (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (congress, Religion)
11. March What is the average IQ of holocaust deniers? (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (conspiracy theory, holocaust denial, jews)
10. March Large scale remigration is possible (Demographics, History) (deportations, expulsions, immigrant, remigration)
09. March Reader questions from 13th Feb 2025 (Genetics / behavioral genetics, Psychiatry) (AMA, leftism, mutational load, paternal age)
07. March Are babies in Denmark becoming relatively more Danish? (Demographics) (Denmark, fertility, immigration)
06. March Do you (also) have a bullshit job? (Economics) (bullshit job, technological unemployment, universal basic income)
28. February People did not used to marry early in the good old times (Demographics, Sociology) (age, baby boom, European marriage pattern, feminism, fertility, first birth, Hajnal line, marriage)
27. February Few people trust journalists (Media studies) (acquiescence bias, journalists, trust)
21. February Bayesian hereditarianism (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Math/Statistics) (Bayesianism, Black-White gap, Sean Last)
20. February Mount Everest is not cold (controlling for altitude and latitude) (Climatology, Math/Statistics) (climate, Everest regression fallacy, Mount Everest, mountains, temperature)
19. February Migrant crime in Germany, redux (Criminology) (Denmark, Germany, immigrant, Norway)
18. February End stage global capitalism (Economics, Immigration, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (capitalism, globalism, outbreeding, panmixia)
15. February More COVID vaccines, less excess deaths worldwide (Medicine) (COVID-19, national IQ, vaccines)
13. February Ask me questions (paid subs) (Meta) (AMA)
13. February The benefits of marriage (Criminology, Differential psychology/psychometrics) (crime, marriage, within-person)
12. February Why are female intellectuals crazy? (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Political science, Psychiatry) (beliefs, craziness, General Psychopathology factor, greater male variance, intellectuals, sex differences)
08. February Which countries make the best movies? (Media studies) (achievement, creativity, films, movies, Olympics, per capita, rare event)
05. February Women’s neuroticism, relationships, and fertility (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genetics / behavioral genetics) (fertility, mental health, natural selection)
04. February Richard Lynn memorial site (Compilations, Psychology) (memorial, Richard Lynn)
29. January When did NW Europeans become WEIRD? Not from lack of inbreeding (Genomics, History, Psychology) (ancient genomes, cousin marriage, Hajnal line, inbreeding, neolocalism, runs of homozygosity)
28. January Elon’s meme magic (Linguistics/language, Sociology) (Elon Musk, Gregory Clark, last name, surname)
26. January Give women what they want: more babies (Politics, Sociology) (fertility, marriage, women)
25. January The anti-boomer story (Economics) (aging problem, anti-boomer, fertility, pyramid scheme, welfare state)
23. January Language and clusters (Biology) (chromosomes, prototype theory, sex differences)
23. January On genocide and the worst modern ideology (Politics, Psychology, Sociology) (communism, genocide, Hitler, ideology, Mao, mass killing, nazism, Pol Pot)
21. January Against “phobia” (Language, Media studies) (language, phobia)
21. January The racism of teachers (Education, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Social psychology) (grade point average, school, teachers)
20. January Danish women also don’t like nuclear power (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Political science) (nuclear power, political ideology, sex differences)
19. January The mirror self-recognition test as an intelligence test among humans (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (mirror test, national intelligence, national IQ, Piaget)
11. January Dysgenics: within and between (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (dysgenics, fertility, genomics)
10. January Good immigrants, bad immigrants: Dutch edition (Immigration, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Dutch, lifetime, net contribution, Netherlands)
09. January Did the New York Times inform readers about Rotherham? (Media studies) (grooming gangs, New York Times, Rotherham, United Kingdom)
08. January Who was politically intolerant in 2016? (Political science) (political intolerance, survey)
05. January 40 mini book reviews from 2024 (Book review)
04. January 2024 productivity by the numbers (Meta) (2024, statistics, Status, substack, yearly report)

2024 (89)

31. December Selective migration and regression towards the mean (Genetics / behavioral genetics, Immigration, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (immigration, Indians, Nigerians, regression towards the mean, selection)
28. December Mike Huemer tells truths about progressive myths (Book review, Science) (debunking, Mike Huemer, myths)
22. December Somalis in the USA: also not a success (Immigration) (Somali, Somalia, USA)
19. December BMI vs. body fat % (Medicine) (BMI, body fat, distribution, obesity, spline)
16. December Power laws and human society (Politics, Science) (criminals, power law, productivity, publications, scientists)
15. December Worldwide height variation explained (Uncategorized) (height, polygenic score, stature)
29. November Sexual promiscuity by sex and orientation (Psychology) (asexuality, GSS, homosexuality, incel)
27. November Yes, Elon should clone himself now (Biology, Genetics / behavioral genetics, Medicine) (cloning, Elon Musk, twins)
19. November Ending the IRB nightmare (Science, Science) (IRB)
10. November Accelerating genetic science: turning around the data access censorship (Genetics / behavioral genetics) (dbgap, open data, open science)
09. November Could the US government fix the journal cartel problem? (Uncategorized) (academic publishing, Elsevier, journals, open access)
08. November A hereditarian revolution, maybe (Politics, Science) (Herrnstein, open science, Richard Nixon)
04. November Herding, polls of polls and Bayes’ theorem (Math/Statistics, Political science) (bayesian, Frequentism, herding, meta-analysis)
02. November When do simple methods outperform regression? (Math/Statistics) (regression, ridge, unit weights)
31. October German immigrant IQ is about 85 according to new study (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Eric Turkheimer, Germany, immigrant, Kathryn Paige Harden, national IQ)
31. October Taboo science inc. (Personal) (Guardian, Harry Shukman, Human Diversity Foundation, undercover)
29. October “Surprisingly low IQs in developing countries”, we don’t want to know, thanks (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Metascience) (censorship, national IQ, retraction)
26. October The Flynn effect and the co-occurrence model (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (co-occurrence model, FLynn effect)
24. October Politics and citations in science (Metascience) (citation bias, political bias, Stuart Ritchie)
22. October Heterodox Academy’s big payday (Freedom of speech/expression, Science) (Heterodox Academy, John Tomasi, Jon Haidt)
21. October Sometimes you should speak up with an unpopular view (Book review, Epistemology, Freedom of speech/expression) (Free Speech, free thought)
25. September European polygenic scores predict Chinese provincial differences too (Genomics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (China, Chinese provinces, polygenic scores)
22. September Wikipedia editors and politics (Science) (political ideology, survey, userbox, wikipedia)
21. September Overwhelming evidence of recent evolution in West Eurasians (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Evolutionary Psychology, Genomics) (ancient genomes, David Reich, farmers, hunter-gatherers, Indo-Europeans, natural selection, Steppe, Yamnaya)
17. September Explaining global variation in internet speed (Economics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (internet, national intelligence, national IQ, population density)
14. September Conspiracies and their believers (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Political science) (conspiracy theory, political ideology, prejudice)
08. September Direct genetic evidence for ethnic differences in aggressiveness (Criminology, Genomics)
06. September Does racial diversity cause lower fertility? (Social psychology) (dating, distance, diversity, fertility, marriage)
04. September Norwegian cognitive inequality and its social consequences (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (cognitive epidemiology, income inequality, Norway, sibling control, social inequality)
04. September The myth of Danish Social Democrats being hard on immigration (Immigration) (asylum, Denmark, immigration, nationalist, Social Democrats)
01. September Is language dumbing down? (Linguistics/language, Politics) (complexity, dumbing down, dysgenics, index, language, readability)
28. August How strongly is leftism correlated with mental illness? Is it real? (Political science, Psychiatry, Stereotypes) (Finland, mental health, political ideology, wokeness)
28. August Tattoos and piercings, what do they tell you about someone? (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Psychiatry) (body modifications, intelligence, mental health, piercings, tattoos)
26. July Africans, violence and genetics (Criminology, Genetics / behavioral genetics) (Africans, antisocial, crime, genetics, violence)
21. July The general disease (“d”) factor and mutational load (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Medicine) (d factor, general factor of disease, General Psychopathology factor, mutational load, p factor)
15. July The ethnic meritocracy in the United Kingdom (Immigration, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (British, country of origin, ethnicity, meta-analysis, race and intelligence, United Kingdom)
12. July The value of intelligence (Economics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (inequality, literacy, numeracy, OECD, PIAAC, problem solving, return to skill, salary, wage)
09. July It doesn’t matter whether refugees are in the same classroom (Education) (classroom, danish, immigrants, norwegian, peer, refugees, register, school, swedish)
05. July The first admixture mapping study for intelligence (Genomics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (admixture mapping, local ancestry)
27. June Large environmental effects on hand grip strength internationally (Physiology) (combat, hand grip strength, sex differences)
24. June Wikipedia’s political bias demonstrated by sentiment analysis (Artificial intelligence, Media studies, Wikipedia) (David Rozado, political bias, wikipedia)
22. June What do genomic principal components mean? (Genomics) (admixture analysis, admixture regression, ancestry analysis, principal component analysis, sibling control)
17. June The gender equality ‘paradox’ and genetics (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Social psychology) (faces, gender equality paradox, height, meat, personality, sexual dimorphism)
17. June Italian fascists were big on trains actually (History) (Italy, Mussolini, trains)
14. June Reaction time based intelligence measurements and race differences (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (ECT, elementary cognitive tests, race and intelligence, race differences, reaction time)
12. June Is IVF dysgenic? (Medicine, Reproductive genetics) (ART, fecundity, IVF, mortality)
11. June The Polgár sisters success story (Education, Genetics / behavioral genetics) (Chess, genius, parenting, Polgár sisters, tutoring)
08. June Educated birds of a feather (Genetics / behavioral genetics) (assortative mating, education, Sebastian Jensen)
03. June High IQ trans and nonbinary confirmed (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Psychiatry) (nonbinary, trans)
29. May Is spanking your kids good or bad for them? (Criminology, Psychology) (animals, corporal, displicine, dogs, pain, parenting, physical, Punishment)
24. May On Jewish intelligence (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Jewish, jews)
21. May Can’t say parasites causes low IQ either (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Medicine) (Cathryn Townsend, censorship, childhood, disease, infections, parasites, Rebecca Sear, retraction)
19. May Did high IQs protect top Nazis at Nuremberg? (Criminology, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Nazis)
18. May Within vs. between group correlations (Immigration, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (ecological fallacy, fertility, group differences, intelligence, Simpson's paradox, suicide)
17. May Sexual maturation and intelligence, Rushton not vindicated (Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary Psychology, Physiology) (life history, menarche, Phil Rushton, puberty)
14. May Rushton vindicated again: developmental speed vs. intelligence (Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary Psychology, Genomics) (GWAS, life history, Phil Rushton, walking)
05. May Results from reader survey 2024 (Meta, Science) (Reader survey)
03. May On the limits of free speech (Freedom of speech/expression, Immigration, Stereotypes) (democracy, immigrant crime, policy)
01. May Reader survey 2024 (Meta, Personal) (survey)
27. April On genetic potential (Genomics) (genetic potential, History, polygenic score)
25. April Is ability to read minds an aspect of general intelligence? (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Social psychology) (autism, bias, empathy, eyes, faces, Reading the Mind in the Eyes Task)
23. April So you want a shorter test (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Math/Statistics) (abbreviation, ant colony optimization, feature selection, genetic algorithm, IRT, R, scales, short form, test)
20. April The Wikipedia fundraising scam (Politics) (donations, Elon Musk, scam, Wikimedia, wikipedia)
17. April The taboo hierarchy (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Metascience) (race and intelligence, taboo)
05. April The eugenic effect of religiousness confirmed (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (dysgenics, eugenics, religiousness, Vietnam Experience Study)
24. March Adding genetic interests to utilitarianism (Ethics) (AI, genetic interests, speciesism, utilitarianism)
22. March Book review: The Revolutionary Phenotype (Biology, Book review, Evolutionary biology) (AI, DNA, Memetics, replicator, Richard Dawkins, RNA, The Revoluionary Phenotype)
18. March Hispaniolan craniometry (Genomics, Neuroscience) (ancestry, craniometry, Dominican Republic, Haiti, race, skulls)
18. March The OECD fallacy (Math/Statistics, Science) (fertility, GDP, OECD fallacy, Richard Hanania, wealth)
10. March Why are there so few women and Blacks in some fields? And so many Asians? (Education, Feminism/equality, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Metascience, Stereotypes) (academic discipline, academic field, Simpson's paradox, stereotype accuracy, women)
07. March What do ancient genomes show about recent human evolution? (Evolutionary Psychology, Genomics, History, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (ancient genomes, Davide Piffer, educational attainment, GWAS, polygenic score)
04. March Should you watch that recent movie? (Media studies) (cultural decline, Dune, IMDB, movies)
03. March The practical utility of selection for hiring (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Economics) (selection, utility of selection)
26. February Will USA cease to be a safe space for embryo selection? (Politics, Reproductive genetics) (Alabama, cryopreservation, embryo selection, IVF)
21. February The UMAP brouhaha (Genomics) (23andme, All of us, database, dataset, UMAP)
17. February Group differences on the Wonderlic short IQ test (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (group differences, meta-analysis, race differences, sex difference in intelligence, Wonderlic)
16. February A new dataset of science knowledge by country (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Asians, humility, national intelligence, national IQ, science knowledge)
14. February Fiscal impact of immigrants by country of origin, and the immigration debate (Economics, Immigration) (country of origin, fiscal impact, net economic contribution, race)
13. February Heritability for individuals too, and the application to group differences (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (heritability, individuals, race and intelligence)
05. February Using the Binomial Effect Size Display (BESD) to understand correlations (Math/Statistics) (Binomial Effect Size Display, effect size, guideline, intuitive)
31. January So you’re interested in the national IQ of a country, what do you do? (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Becker, Iran, Lynn, math Olympiad, national IQ)
30. January Whose responsibility is it anyway? (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Political science) (nihilism, politics, responsibility)
29. January The politics of sociology (Metascience, Political science, Sociology) (communism, Marxism, political bias, socialism, sociology, surveys)
27. January Write simple questions in surveys (Linguistics/language, Psychology) (acquiescence bias, lizardman's constant, questionnaire, simple language, survey)
26. January Can you only talk to people within X IQ of your own? (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Psychiatry, Social psychology) (assortative friendship, assortative mating, communication distance, homophily, zone of tolerance)
16. January 2023 in books (Book review, Compilations)
09. January Autism diagnoses are rising, yes, but autism, probably not (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Psychiatry) (autism, diagnosis, embryo selection, mental health, mental illness, threshold)
07. January New study: Intelligence and Group Differences in Preference for Breasts over Buttocks (Evolutionary Psychology, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (African, ass, boobs, breasts, buttocks, international, life history, national intelligence, sexuality)
06. January New study out: Systemic Racism Does Not Explain Variation in Race Gaps on Cognitive Tests (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (Black-White gap, Hispanic-White gap, race and intelligence, race differences, scholastic ability, systemic racism)

2023 (108)

30. December The new way to find ebooks and papers online: Anna’s Archive (Uncategorized) (download, ebooks, guide, libgen, pirate, tutorial)
22. December Money and crime: the relationship that wasn’t (Criminology, Differential psychology/psychometrics, Economics) (crime, income, lottery, poverty, Sweden, wealth)
20. December If cities are bad, why do people move there? (Economics, Psychology) (cities, happiness, income, population density)
18. December Circumvent the Twitter/X embedding blockade of Substack links (Uncategorized) (embedding, guide, substack, tutorial, Twitter, X)
15. December Supreme Court, Supreme Issues (Book review, Political science, Politics) (constitution, SCOTUS, Supreme Court)
13. December Measurement error and group differences explained (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Math/Statistics) (group differences, measurement error, reliability)
11. December Why woke? What to do about it? (Book review, Political science, Politics) (Christopher Rufo, laws, Richard Hanania, Supreme Court, Woke)
08. December Fertility questions: the role of population density? (Economics, Psychology, Sociology) (children, fertility, ideology, population density, religiousness)
07. December My conversion story, or a brief autobiography (Personal, Psychology) (autobiography, conversion)
05. December The role of censorship in science (Metascience, Psychology) (censorship, ethics, race differences, taboo)
03. December Taking the human extended phenotypes seriously (Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary Psychology, Genetics / behavioral genetics, Psychology) (beavers, extended phenotype, gene-culture co-evolution)
12. November Heritability, within and between groups (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (between group heritability, DeFries)
10. November What if somewhere, someone used to look at their polygenic scores? (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (diabetes, polygenic scores, Undark)
10. November Personality and politics of 263 occupations (Sociology, Stereotypes) (actors, deep state, journalists, occupations, personality, stereotypes)
06. November Youtube talk: Who Will Fight For Their Country Now? (History, Psychology, Sociology) (activism, fighting, war)
31. October National “learning-adjusted years of schooling” (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (economics, national IQ)
26. October How much time should children be forced to spend in school? (Education) (Denmark, extension, grades, Mexico, school reform, Sweden)
21. October Sasha Gusev won’t answer basic questions about his beliefs (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (GWAS, polygenic scores, race differences, Sasha Gusev)
13. October Palestinians in your country: what to expect? (Immigration, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Israel, Palestine)
26. September Carl Brigham on intelligence (1923): a fake quote (History, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Carl Brigham, Joseph Graves, quote)
25. September Not just dysgenic outcomes, but dysgenic intentions too (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (dating site, desired fertility, dysgenics, fertility, OKcupid, race)
21. September Blogs I’m reading: September 2023 (Compilations, Science) (blogs, compilation, reading, substack)
18. September Personality structure problems (Differential psychology/psychometrics) (general factor of personality, General Psychopathology factor, personality, the P factor)
16. September Interview with me by Hitchslap on intelligence, polygenic scores, behavioral genetics and more (Genetics / behavioral genetics, Interview, Psychology) (genomics, Hitchslap, interview, Twitter Space)
15. September Does aspartame cause cancer? (Medicine) (aspartame, cancer)
13. September Jan-Erik Lönnqvist vs. Emil Kirkegaard on mental illness and the left (Political science, Psychiatry) (interview, Jan-Erik Lönnqvist, mental illness)
11. September New study out: Income and Education Disparities Track Genetic Ancestry (Economics, Education, Genomics) (ABCD, admixture regression, ancestry regression, education, genetic ancestry, income, John Fuerst, Meng Hu, social status)
11. September Ancient genomes discussion with Davide Piffer & Emil at Lake Como (Genomics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Population genetics) (ancient genomics, cyclical theory of history, dysgenics, eugenics, polygenic scores, Rome)
07. September The other Anglo exceptionalism (Medicine) (Anglo, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, obesity, UK, USA)
06. September How to make psychology items (questions) with ChatGPT4 (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Bing, ChatGPT4, danish, english, general knowledge, item generation, number series, Polish, science knowledge, vocabulary)
04. September Measuring intelligence online: best practices (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (abbreviation, ICAR, measurement, online survey, psychometrics)
27. August Ancient genomics AMA with Davide Piffer (Genomics) (Davide Piffer)
18. August Skill vs. luck in games: a survey study (Science) (Chess, Games, Go, luck, Poker, survey)
17. August The dream of ratio scale psychology measures (Psychology, Science) (chronometry, ratio scale)
14. August On Paul Bloom’s Psych (2023) (Book review, Psychology) (introduction, Paul Bloom, psychology)
13. August Can psychology become a proper science? (Metascience) (replication crisis)
13. August Polygenic score validity and group differences (Genomics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Davide Piffer, GWAS, LD decay, polygenic scores)
11. August Might makes right, well, sort of (Differential psychology/psychometrics) (human universals, ideal observer theory, might makes right, moral realism)
11. August Of course it matters whether group differences are genetic in origin (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (race and intelligence)
09. August Can the X chromosome explain greater male variability? Seems not (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genomics) (greater male variability, X chromosome)
08. August Embryo selection can become the norm (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Reproductive genetics) (ART, dysgenics, eugenics, in vitro gametogenesis, IVF, IVG, PGT, rats)
07. August Hostile sexism is live and well, but mostly in favor of women (Social psychology) (political bias, sex differences, stereotypes, women are wonderful)
06. August Is the past the future? (Book review, Differential psychology/psychometrics, Immigration, Political science) (doomer, Edward Dutton, GSS, pessimism)
04. August Scientific productivity by country (Metascience) (China, nature index, scientific productivity, USA)
25. July Fall of the Roman Empire, polygenic score edition (Genomics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (cocial cycle theory, Davide Piffer, dysgenics, Edward Dutton, Roman empire)
22. July New paper out: Honesty, Intelligence, and Race (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (honesty, lying, race differences)
21. July Eulogy for Richard Lynn (1930-2023) (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Personal) (bibliometrics, eulogy, FLynn effect, national intelligence, obituary, Richard Lynn, sex difference in intelligence)
19. July Preferences can be sick: mental illness from an evolutionary perspective (Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary Psychology, Psychiatry) (asexuality, homosexuality, mental disorders, mental illness, pedophilia, sexuality)
17. July Music preferences 2023 (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Political science) (music, preferences)
08. July Oliver D. Smith gets his day in City Journal (Personal) (Oliver D. Smith, RationalWiki, RatWiki, Trent Toulouse)
06. July GDP problems, but what solutions? (Economics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (average income, GDP, GNI, human development index, median income, oil, salary, social progress index, wealth)
29. June Vigilante justice (Criminology) (justice, lynching, mob, vigilante)
27. June Which occupation are you? (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Economics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (occupation, stereotypes, stratification, The Bell Curve)
26. June What are the most important human biodiversity books? (Science) (books, human biodiversity, ranking, The Bell Curve, The g Factor)
23. June A plethora of evidence for genetic influence of American race-ethnic gaps in intelligence (Genomics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (ABCD, admixture, hereditarianism, John Fuerst, race differences, Russel Warne)
21. June From riches to rags to riches (Economics, Genetics / behavioral genetics, History) (China, economic shock, human capital, slavery, social inequality)
20. June What are the race differences in sexual behavior? (Evolutionary Psychology, Psychology) (doggy style, kinky, kissing, missionary, penis size, prostitutes, race differences, sex workers, sexuality, survey)
17. June Cannabis probably causes schizophrenia (Genetics / behavioral genetics, Psychiatry) (cannabis, IQ, schizophrenia, twins, weed)
12. June Hanania’s diversity hypothesis tested and found wanting (Economics, Immigration, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (economic freedom, ethnic fractionalization, ethnic heterogeneity, GDP, Richard Hanania)
11. June Gentlemen prefer faces, or how life history speed relates to body preferences (new paper) (Psychology) (ass, body preference, boobs, breasts, buttocks, life history, sex)
31. May Which test has the highest g loading? (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (battery, g-loading, vocabulary)
27. May Some people have IQs of 160 (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Anne Roe, Erik Hoel, genius, high-range IQ tests)
26. May In defense of hereditarianism: a reply to Friedman (Economics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Caribbean, David Friedman, hereditarianism, income, USA, vitamin D deficiency, West Indies)
24. May 3 new Youtube lectures (Science) (Italy, lectures, political ideology, smart fraction theory, Youtube)
04. May Can we pick the best sperm? (Biology, Medicine, Reproductive genetics) (embryo selection, gametogenesis, sequencing, sperm selection, sperm sequencing, spermatogenesis)
02. May Actual communism is bad for your health (Medicine, Political science) (communism, health, life expectancy, USSR)
02. May How to find scientific literature (Science) (libgen, scihub, searching)
30. April African IQ’s: reality vs. Kareem Carr (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (African IQs, Kareem Carr, Nigeria)
29. April New study out: Intelligence Inequality and Income Inequality: The Missing Link (Economics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (gini, national IQ, national IQ SD, PISA, variability)
27. April Heritability, race, and police bias: Kareem Carr’s blunder (Criminology, Genetics / behavioral genetics) (heritability, Kareem Carr, police, twins)
26. April Rorschach tests predict stuff (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Rorschach test)
20. April Book review: A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe by Johannes Krause (Book review, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Population genetics) (admixture, ancient genomics, Johannes Krause, neanderthal, WHG, Yamnaya)
15. April Support Bryan Pesta’s academic freedom lawsuit (Psychology) (academic freedom, Bryan Pesta, Cathryn Townsend, Jedidiah Carlson, Kevin Bird, Oliver Keyes, Os Keyes.)
12. April Is some alcohol good for you? (Medicine) (Alcohol, dose-response, health, hormesis, J-curve, longevity)
11. April Convenience samples are fine because interactions are mostly not real (Math/Statistics, Psychology) (gene-environment interaction, GxE, interactions, sampling bias, validity generalization)
30. March AI, MRI and the legal system (Neuroscience) (fMRI, lie detector, lying)
29. March IQ estimates of public intellectuals and personas (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Aella, IQ estimates, public intellectuals, Richard Hanania, Scott Alexander, stereotypes)
27. March Modern neuroscience confirms race differences in brain size and functioning (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Neuroscience) (brain size, race differences)
25. March Killing Hollywood and Youtube and (Computer science) (AI, Hollywood, image generation, movies)
22. March Cui bono and science (Metascience) (political bias, scientists)
17. March Group differences are just individual differences, really (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Arthur Jensen, default hypothesis, Eric Turkheimer, unification)
15. March The EA case for (German) colonialism (Book review, Economics, History) (Bruce Gilley, colonialism, Germany)
12. March New study didn’t really show IQ declines* (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (anti-Flynn effect, ICAR, IQ decline, SAPA)
10. March New paper: On group differences in the heritability of intelligence: A reply to Giangrande and Turkheimer (2022) (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Arthur Jensen, Eric Turkheimer, race differences, Sandra Scarr)
08. March Does tutoring work? It depends on the test (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (ACT, coaching, SAT, test training, tutoring)
04. March Social media, mental health, and political polarization (Media studies, Political science, Psychiatry) (Facebook, randomized controlled trial, social media)
27. February Brief introduction to test bias in mental testing (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Math/Statistics) (differential item functioning, item response theory, psychometrics, test bias)
24. February Obesity and the secular decline in testosterone (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Medicine, Physiology) (BMI, manliness, obesity, secular decline, testosterone)
23. February It’s not just sperm quality decline (Medicine, Physiology) (decline, masculinity, sperm quality, testicular cancer, testosterone)
21. February There is no IQ threshold effect, also not for income (Economics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (income, IQ threshold hypothesis)
20. February 2022 in books (Book review) (2022)
19. February Conservatives aren’t stupid* (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Political science) (conservatives, leftists, liberals)
17. February Prison rates as function of family income by race (Uncategorized)
16. February New paper out: Intelligence Really Does Predict Job Performance: A Long-Needed Reply to Richardson and Norgate (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (job performance)
15. February White on Black vs. Black on White rape statistics (Criminology) (interracial crime, rape)
15. February Who is safe from Pakistani groomer gangs? (Criminology, Immigration) (England, groomer gang, Pakistani, sexual abuse)
31. January Incompetent police (Criminology, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (job performance, police, recruitment)
26. January Homosexuality is a mental illness (Psychiatry) (homosexuality, mental illness, pedophilia)
23. January Are fat people dumb? (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Medicine) (obesity, stereotype)
20. January The distribution of attractiveness (Science) (attractiveness, OKcupid, sex differences)
19. January Interactive statistics: breeding’s equation AKA regression towards the mean (Math/Statistics)
17. January Rationality and the fair sex (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Psychology) (rationality, sex differences)
15. January Does school make students kill themselves? (Education, Psychiatry) (school, suicide)
13. January High heritability does mean that social interventions likely won’t work well (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (heritability, intervention)
10. January The thick end of The Bell Curve (Book review, History, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Adrian Wooldridge, meritocracy, The Bell Curve)
08. January Smart fraction theory vindicated (Economics, Education, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Noah Carl, S factor, smart fraction theory)
07. January The infant simulator fiasco (Science) (fertility, infant simulator, pregnancy)
04. January Forecast results for 2022 (Metaculus) (Personal, Science) (books, forecasting, Goodreads, metaculus)

2022 (119)

24. December Cold winters theory: a summary of the evidence and replies to objections (Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary Psychology, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (cold winters theory, review, summary)
18. December Italian economic inequality explained by cognitive inequality (Economics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (age heaping, Italy, regional inequality)
12. December Drug users vs. drug abusers (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Medicine, Psychiatry) (drug abuse, drugs, nonlinear)
11. December Economics research is mostly untrustworthy because economists cheat so much with the statistics (Economics, Math/Statistics, Metascience) (Garett Jones, p-hacking, replication crisis)
10. December The dimensionality of politics (Political science, Psychology) (communism, dimensionality, East Europe, heritability, political ideology, weird)
07. December The status of Phil Rushton (Psychology) (Philippe Rushton)
17. November Philosophers and reason: more logic, less socialism (Philosophy, Political science) (Neven Sesardic, philosophers, socialism)
11. November A theory of Ashkenazi genius: intelligence and mental illness (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Psychiatry) (Ashkenazi intelligence, Ashkenazim, genius, mental illness)
09. November Racial diversity: does it matter? How do we know? (Criminology, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (diversity, homicide, homogeneity, S factor, social status)
07. November Reader survey 2022 results (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Psychology) (Reader survey)
04. November What’s the right dose of democracy? (Book review, Economics, Immigration) (democracy, economics, Garett Jones, immigration, middle class, p-hacking, technocracy)
03. November Does vaping shrink your balls? (Medicine) (e-cigarette, mice, rats, testicles, testosterone, vaporing)
27. October African IQs and mental retardation (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Psychiatry) (African IQs, mental retardation, race differences)
24. October Secular changes in race differences in height: a mystery (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (height, race differences)
23. October Substack 1st anniversary, statistics, reader survey, and a new video (Economics, Meta, Personal) (donation, new video, Reader survey)
21. October Variance explained is mostly bad (Genetics / behavioral genetics, Math/Statistics) (effect size, GWAS)
20. October National intelli… basic skills! (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (African IQs, national IQ)
19. October What has feminism done for women? Review of Louise Perry’s The Case Against the Sexual Revolution (Book review, Psychology) (creativity, dating, divorce, happiness, Louise Perry, marriage, prostitution, sex differences)
16. October Research credibility and group differences (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Psychology, Stereotypes) (political bias, race differences, sex bias, sex differences)
15. October Does honey actually work against coughing? (Medicine) (coughing, honey, treatment)
12. October Who supports biotech eugenics? (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Reproductive genetics) (Biotech, embryo selection, eugenics, PEW Research)
07. October Andrew Sullivan not allowed to tweet the wrong science (Economics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Ashkenazi intelligence, Cathryn Townsend, Claire Lehmann, Henry Harpender, national intelligence, national IQ, self-censorship)
05. October Book review: What We Owe the Future, 2022, by William MacAskill (Book review, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Reproductive genetics) (decline, extinction, fertility, longtermism, nuclear war, stagnation)
24. September In Sweden, talking about race and intelligence will get you a fine (Freedom of speech/expression, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (censorship, race and intelligence, Sweden)
23. September Who’s attacking Asians in USA? The perennial push to hide crime statistics (Criminology) (censorship, race)
21. September New paper out: The Intelligence Gap between Black and White Survey Workers on the Prolific Platform (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Black-White gap, DIF, open data, Prolific, test bias)
16. September National intelligence really is the best predictor of economic growth (Economics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Bayesian model averaging, economic growth, George Francis)
14. September Social status bias in science: a dissident perspective (Metascience, Peer review) (editorial review, peer review, status bias)
13. September Nathaniel Weyl: collected works (Compilations, Science) (collection, compilation, Nathaniel Weyl, works)
10. September Older fathers bad, paternal age effects vindicated? (Psychiatry, Reproductive genetics) (IVF, maternal age, mutations, paternal age)
07. September Who’s prejudiced? Who’s a conspiracy theorist? Sampling bias in social science (Political science) (bias, bigotry, conservative, ideology, leftist, prejudice)
06. September The persistent denial of the intelligence meritocracy: Gary Marks (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (ACT, collider bias, educational attainment, income, meritocracy, SAT, school grades, wealth)
05. September Who wants to die for globalists? (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (affirmative action, military, stereotypes, United Kingdom, USA, Woke)
02. September Substack vs. Magazines: growth (Freedom of speech/expression, Personal) (blogging, censorship, Quillette, substack)
01. September Neil deGrasse Tyson, not much of an astrophysicist (Metascience) (Kardashian index, Neil Degrasse Tyson)
31. August Sam Harris, not much of a neuroscientist (Neuroscience) (sam harris)
29. August Collected works of Robert A. Gordon (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (collected works, compilation, PDFs, Robert Gordon)
26. August Cognitive and income inequality: the relationship that wasn’t (Economics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (cognitive sociology, income inequality)
25. August The worldwide prison rates mystery (Criminology, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (African, crime rate, homicide, prison)
18. August How many people get arrested? (Criminology, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (arrested, lifetime risk, prevalence)
18. August 56 GB of Emil (Genomics) (Nebula, whole genome sequencing)
17. August African IQs using only age heaping data (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Math/Statistics) (age heaping, beta regression, ceiling effect, national intelligence)
15. August Buj (1981) is probably fraudulent and shouldn’t be used (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (fraud, national intelligence, Vinko Buj)
14. August The Mensa fallacy (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Psychiatry) (Mensa fallacy, mentall illness, sampling bias)
12. August 13/52 is out, 3/18 is in (Criminology) (African crime, England, Wales)
07. August African IQs without African IQs: it’s complicated (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (African IQs, David Becker, Heiner Rindermann, national IQ, Richard Lynn, Worldbank)
06. August The signal and the noise in meta-analysis (Math/Statistics) (fallacy, meta-analysis, signal and noise)
04. August R for machine learning and other stuff (Math/Statistics, R) (tidymodels, tidyverse)
31. July Book review: At Our Wits’ End (Ed Dutton, Michael Woodley, 2018) (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Linguistics/language) (decline, dysgenics, Ed Dutton, eugenics, Michael Woodley)
20. July “public policy never necessarily follows from scientific findings”, yes and no (Criminology, Genetics / behavioral genetics, Politics, Politics) (Bryan Caplan, eugenics, public policy, Robert Plomin)
17. July Why can’t we prevent or cure hangovers? (Medicine) (Alcohol, hangover, treatment)
15. July Will the real Emil please stand up? (Personal, Politics, Science)
11. July Psychotics are bad, anti-psychotics are good (Criminology, Psychiatry) (anti-psychotic, psychosis, violent)
07. July Italian north-south genetic differences confirmed (Genomics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Population genetics) (Davide Piffer, Italy, polygenic score, regional inequality, Richard Lynn)
29. June How unreal is long-COVID? (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Medicine, Neuroscience, Psychology) (COVID-19, long COVID, psychosomatic)
28. June New study out: Admixture and Social Status in Chile (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Population genetics) (admixture, Amerindian, Chile, regional inequality)
23. June So Le Pen didn’t wen (Forecasting, Politics) (election, France, Macron, Marine Le Pen, predictions)
16. June Unnatural hair color really is a danger zone marker (new study out) (Psychiatry) (hair color, mental health)
15. June New study out: Will Intelligent Latter-day Saints and Smart Conservatives Inherit the Earth? (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Political science) (dysgenics, eugenics, Mormon, Religion)
30. May Brain size and intelligence: 2022 (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Neuroscience) (brain size, meta-analysis, psychometric meta-analysis)
27. May Affirmative action at the Intelligence journal (Elsevier) (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Psychology) (affirmative action, discrimination, sex differences)
24. May Men like vs. women like (Differential psychology/psychometrics) (RIASEC, sex differences, vocational interests)
20. May New study on the effect of university education on political views in the UK (Education, Political science) (indoctrination, political bias, university)
17. May Ancient eugenics confirmed (Genomics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (ancient dysgenics, ancient genomics, David Reich, dysgenics, England, Gregory Clark)
16. May Big Tech censors the Buffalo shooter’s manifesto (Criminology, Freedom of speech/expression) (censorship, mass shooting, Payton Gendron, terrorism)
16. May The origins of cold winters theory (Evolutionary Psychology, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (climate, cold winter theory, evolution, race differences)
12. May The genetics of mental illness (Genomics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Psychiatry) (genetic correlation, GWAS, the P factor)
11. May Interview with Ideas Sleep Furiously (Science) (interview)
03. May Political deletionism at Wikipedia (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Wikipedia) (deletionism, wikipedia)
30. April New video out on the Dunning Kruger effect, of lack thereof (Psychology) (dunning kruger, video)
28. April What do 0/10 scales mean? (Psychology) (attractiveness, rating, scales)
25. April Heat and the great balls decline (Medicine, Physiology) (heat stress, sauna, scrotal heat stres, sperm)
19. April “positively motivated to help all of humankind” (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Metascience) (censorship, F1000, John Fuerst, Molly Cranston, peer review)
16. April Those unwanted results from the Ontario’s Mathematics Proficiency Test (Education, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Canada, civil rights, constitution, teachers)
14. April IQs by university degrees from SATs (Education, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (academic field, GRE, IQ, major, SAT)
14. April People do not overestimate their romantic partner’s IQ by 30 (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (assortative mating, romantic partner, self-assessment, spouse)
09. April Small children are not particularly creative (Differential psychology/psychometrics) (age, Bath Jarman, children, creativity, George Land)
07. April Forecasts for the 2022 French election (Uncategorized) (election, forecast, France, Macron, Marine Le Pen)
06. April How bad is the Hungarian democracy? A quantitative approach (Media studies, Political science) (democracy, election, Hungary, United Kingdom, Viktor Orbán)
05. April What have we learned from the 2022 education GWAS? (Genomics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (assortative mating, EA4, GWAS, polygenic score)
29. March Witty&Jenkins 1936 confirmed and debunked (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (genetic ancestry, Meng Hu, Witty and Jenkins)
29. March Male hair loss treatments: I think they work (Medicine) (finasteride, male hair loss, meta-analysis, minoxidil, review)
28. March New paper out: Europeans Have Larger Testes than Sub-Saharan Africans but Lower Testosterone Levels (Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary Psychology) (life history, race differences, sexuality, testicles, testosterone)
26. March How many people can solve this kind of problem? (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (examples, item samples, items, NALS, National Adult Literacy Survey, PIAAC)
24. March IQ can be increased by more education but can intelligence? Does it matter? (Education, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (raising intelligence, Stuart Ritchie)
23. March More waves in longitudinal studies do not help against initial sampling error (Education) (educational intervention, James Heckman, Perry Preschool Project, publication bias)
22. March Supersize me failed replication. Well sort of. (Medicine) (diet, fast food, Morgan Spurlock, obesity, replication, Supersize me)
22. March The Unz compositional data fallacy (Criminology) (compositional data, Hispanic crime, NLSY, Ron Unz)
14. March Loving your family members too much (Genetics / behavioral genetics) (assortative mating, genetic sexual attraction, incest, major histocompatibility complex)
04. March Ukrainians in our countries: what are we getting, what can we expect? (Immigration, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (immigrants, refugees, Ukraine, Ukrainians)
03. March Scientists should be allowed to recommend their own peer reviewers (Metascience, Peer review, Science) (conflict of interest, heterodoxy, peer review)
02. March Are vaccines bad for infants? (Medicine) (infant mortality rate, replication, vaccines)
27. February Should you get off Twitbookgram? (Media studies, Psychiatry) (Facebook, Instagram, mental health, social media, Tiktok, Twitter)
25. February Science Outside The Overton Window – Interview with Alexandra Kaschuta (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Alexandra Kaschuta, interview)
23. February Secular genetic-phenotype paradoxes: the Flynn effect and beyond (Genetics / behavioral genetics, History, Political science, Psychology) (Cattell's paradox, dysgenics, fertility, FLynn effect, natural selection, Raymond Cattell, secular change)
21. February Vaccine viral hormesis (Humor, Medicine) (chad, COVID-19, hormesis, selection bias, vaccine, virgin)
21. February Wordcel before it was cool: verbal tilt (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Linguistics/language) (Memetics, verbal tilt, wordcel)
20. February Book review: Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy by Richard Hanania (Book review, Economics, Medicine, Political science) (deep state, economic sanctions, foreign policy, Richard Hanania)
15. February How bad is low level lead poisoning? Probably not that bad (Economics, Education, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Medicine) (lead poisoning, randomized controlled trial)
14. February Who doesn’t want the COVID vaccine? (Uncategorized) (COVID-19, midwit, mRNA, vaccine)
10. February The art of skeptical statistics (Education) (educational intervention, failed replication)
09. February Book review: David Sinclair – Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don’t Have To (2019) (Biology, Genomics, Medicine, Physiology) (anti-aging, David Sinclair)
07. February Higher impact factor journals have lower replicability indexes (Metascience) (impact factor, replicability, scientific journal)
06. February The big Black patent decline, or how not to use composite datasets (Economics) (Lisa Cook, recall bias)
03. February Mental illness and intelligence: the relationship is negative (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Psychiatry) (intelligence, Mensa, mental illness, the P factor)
31. January The Norwegian Hjernevask (Brainwash) series (2010) (Uncategorized) (Brainwash, documentary, Haradl Eia, Hjernevask, human biodiversity)
29. January The conservative advantage in mental health keeps replicating (Political science, Psychiatry) (conservatives, lefties, leftism, leftists, mental illness)
21. January Basics on hereditarian thinking about genotypic means (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (African, African Americans, Eric Turkheimer, European, genotypic IQ, regression towards the mean, Sandra Scarr, Scarr-Rowe)
20. January Immigration economics for economist dummies (Economics, Immigration) (Denmark, economics, immigration, net contribution, Norway)
20. January Too many women in the wrong places: Norwegian navy edition (Psychology) (affirmative action, feminism, Norway, Norwegian navy, women)
16. January Authoritarianism and fertility: maybe, probably (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Sociology) (authoritarianism, communism, demographics, dictator, east block, fascism, nazism, total fertility rate)
13. January Do something else for Denmark (Sociology) (Do it for Denmark, fertility, natalism)
11. January The Bird paper, and hereditarian predictions (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genomics) (GWAS, Kevin Bird, polygenic scores, power failure, sibling control)
10. January The indoctrination effect of universities: overstated (Book review, Education, Science) (academia, indoctrination, Stanley Rothman)
09. January Understanding that race realism meme (Humor, Science) (deboonker, explainer, meme, race)
06. January Helmuth Nyborg interviewed for his 85th birth day (English translation) (Personal) (birthday, Helmuth Nyborg, interview, translation)
05. January New paper and video out: The Negative Religiousness-IQ Nexus is a Jensen Effect on Individual-Level Data: A Refutation of Dutton et al.’s ‘The Myth of the Stupid Believer’ (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (differential item functioning (DIF), intelligence, local structural equation modeling (LSEM), Religion)
04. January Scoring my forecasts for 2021 — unofficial Metaculus superforecaster? (Uncategorized) (2021, forecasting)
03. January 2021 in books (Book review) (Goodreads, reading)

2021 (74)

31. December New paper out: Genetic ancestry and social race are nearly interchangeable (Genomics) (genetic ancestry, PING, race)
29. December Harvard’s half-meritocracy (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (admission, affirmative action, harvard, searching)
24. December Exercise for depression: the evidence does not support this treatment (Genetics / behavioral genetics, Psychiatry) (depression, discordant twin, exercise, meta-analysis, publication bias, twin control)
20. December Heritabilities are usually underestimated (Genetics / behavioral genetics) (ADHD, heritability, measurement error, twins)
09. December Wealth gains and IQ gains since Ron Unz’ 2012 post (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (FLynn effect, Germany, IQ gains, race differences, Ron Unz, wealth)
08. December In favor of race science (Genetics / behavioral genetics, Language) (race science, terminology)
18. November Woke behavioral geneticists (Book review, Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (behavioral geneticists, Eric Turkheimer, Kathryn Paige Harden, race differences)
16. November Testosterone battles (Biology, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Physiology, Sociology) (antisocial, hormones, low power, occupations, situational specificity, testosterone, violence)
09. November Sweden finally publishes new immigrant crime rate data, which shows no surprises (Criminology, Immigration) (crime, Sweden)
08. November Math scores for 2nd generation immigrants in Norway by country of origin (Immigration, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (math, national intelligence, Norway, register)
04. November Your job, their job, and politics (Political science) (occupation, political bias, stereotypes)
04. November The hierarchy of evidence: meta-analysis vs. registered studies (Metascience) (hierarchy of evidence, pre-registration)
02. November Misleading plots on secular trends and education (Education, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (education, secular changes)
25. October IQ nationalism (Immigration, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Politics) (nationalism, net economic contribution)
11. October Substackmaxxing (Personal) (substack)
11. October How to help yourself making health decisions: Cochrane reviews (Medicine) (Cochrane meta-analysis)
05. October State of genetic predictions: an example (Genomics) (GWAS, impute.me, psoriasis, UKBB)
03. October p > .05 thus no effect thus familial confounding fallacies (Genetics / behavioral genetics, Math/Statistics) (fallacy, false negative, power analysis, sibling control)
02. October New paper out: The Left-Liberal Skew of Western Media (Media studies, Metascience) (journalists, media bias, meta-analysis)
01. October ProQuest censors Mankind Quarterly: removes articles from their database (Science) (censorship, Mankind Quarterly, ProQuest)
01. October Educational interventions keep not working (Education, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Psychology) (educational intervention, Head Start, publication bias)
16. September Thou shallt not look at the polygenic scores (Genomics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (censorship, Eric Turkheimer, open science)
16. September Ancient history, dysgenics, genomics, and cyclical history theory (History, Medicine) (ancient dysgenics, dysgenics, fertility, hot bath, lead poisoning, Roman empire, semen quality)
04. September New video out: Biotech Eugenics: Creating Future People (Genomics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Reproductive genetics) (eugenics)
23. August Comments on “The Inheritance of Inequality” (Bowles & Gintis, 2002) (Economics, Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (intergenerational transmission)
23. August Seeds of Science: another free to publish attempt at reforming the scientific publishing process (Metascience) (Seeds of Science)
11. August Bryan Caplan’s Open Borders book: considerations (Economics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Bryan Caplan, immigration, non-compositional effect, spill-over effect)
10. August The ‘Hereditarians bad people’ objection (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Metascience, Science) (Cathy Young, contrarian, Lee Jussim)
07. August “There’s been no biological change in humans in 40,000 or 50,000 years.” (Genetics / behavioral genetics) (recent evolution, Steven Jay Gould)
07. August Reference group effects, shifting standards (Psychology) (group differences, reference group effect, shifting standard, social comparison)
28. July New paper out: The Negative Religiousness-IQ Nexus is a Jensen Effect on Individual-Level Data: A Refutation of Dutton et al.’s ‘The Myth of the Stupid Believer’ (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Jensen’s method, method of correlated vectors, religiousness)
27. July Against anogenital distance (Medicine) (anogenital distance, p-hacking, testosterone)
23. July Vaccine transhumanism (Medicine) (transhumanism, vaccine)
29. June That 2005 study on IQ and marriage by sex (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (dysgenics, hypergamy, marriage)
25. June Polygenic euphemisms (Genomics, Linguistics/language) (euphemism, polygenic score)
22. June Hiding sex differences: not a myth (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (sex difference in intelligence, test construction)
14. June COVID vaccine and fertility: no need to worry (June 14th 2021) (Medicine) (COVID-19, fertility, vaccine)
06. June Book review: The Fight for our National Intelligence (Raymond Cattell) (Book review, Genetics / behavioral genetics, History, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (dysgenics, IQ shredders, population density, Raymond Cattell)
06. June Book review: Science Wars: Politics, Gender, and Race (Anthony Walsh) (Book review, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Anthony Walsh, Margaret Mead)
06. June Book reviews: Apocalypse Never (Michael Shellenberger) and Unsettled (Steven E. Koonin) (Book review, Computer science, Forecasting) (Fukushima, nuclear power)
02. June New paper out: Intelligence and General Psychopathology in the Vietnam Experience Study: A Closer Look (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (General Psychopathology factor, machine learning, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, MMPI, the P factor)
28. May Fluoride, good for your teeth, not bad for your brain (Education, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (caries, fluoride, income, teeth)
19. May PhD students aren’t what they used to be either (Education, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (phd, university degree)
15. May New paper out: County-level USA: No Robust Relationship between Geoclimatic Variables and Cognitive Ability (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (race differences, spatial statistics, US counties, UV radiation)
13. May New video: Are There Complex Assortative Mating Patterns For Humans? (Psychology) (assortative mating)
13. May East Asian ability tilt and ideographic written language (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Evolutionary Psychology, Linguistics/language, Population genetics) (ability tilt, East Asian, typology)
03. May John O’Sullivan’s First Law: All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing (Political science) (John Derbyshire, John O’Sullivan, Robert Conquest)
29. April I,Hypocrite appearance: Race & IQ Debate Prep w/ Emil Kirkegaard (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Lewontin, race differences, Youtube)
28. April Book review: Why Trust Science? (Naomi Oreskes) (Book review, Climatology, Medicine, Metascience, Politics, Psychology, Science) (eugenics, flossing, Naomi Oreskes)
27. April Who’s afraid of the big bad data? (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Arthur Jensen, Charles Murray, Philippe Rushton)
27. April Meta-compilation of HBD related materials (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Psychology) (compilation, FAQ, resources)
21. April Book review: Kevin Mitchell’s Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are (2018) (Book review, Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genetics / behavioral genetics, Medicine) (Kevin Mitchell)
17. April New paper out: Country of Origin IQ and Muslim Percentage Predict Grade Point Average in School among 116 Immigrant Groups in Denmark (Education, Immigration, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Denmark, grade point average, immigration, Islam, muslims)
13. April Different researchers, same dataset and questions: what happens? (Metascience) (many teams, researcher degrees of freedom)
05. April “the claim (of substantial difference in mean) is currently not based on strong evidence” (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Richard Lynn, sex difference in intelligence, sex differences)
27. March New video out: Country Well-Being: National IQ Vs. Time Preference (Economics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (national IQ, patience, time preference)
04. March “Genes, Brains, and Intelligence: What’s New?” in AmRen (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Neuroscience, Personal)
04. March Long form interview in The Postil Magazine (Personal) (interview)
18. February Gregory Clark videos (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Economics, Genetics / behavioral genetics, History) (Gregory Clark, social mobility)
18. February Book review: The Great Reset (Klaus Schwab & Thierry Malleret, 2020) (Book review, Economics) (COVID-19, The Great Reset)
18. February The 30x (actually 25x) problem (Criminology) (homicide, murder, The Economist)
17. February Backstabber Brennan knifes Scott Alexander with 2014 email (Uncategorized) (Scott Alexander, Topher Brennan)
15. February Scott Alexander on the isolated demand for moral rigor and genetics (Ethics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (isolated demand for rigor, Scott Alexander)
11. February Recent evidence on dysgenic trends (February 2021) (Genomics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Reproductive genetics) (dysgenics, eugenics, fertility, polygenic score)
07. February How closely related is your spouse? (Genetics / behavioral genetics, Psychology) (cousin marriage, inbreeding, interracial, marriage, spouse)
07. February African self-esteem and narcissism (Psychology) (doll test, self-esteem, Supreme Court)
05. February Tech solution to tech totalitarianism (Freedom of speech/expression) (Big Tech)
28. January 23andme’s updated algorithm: January 2021 (Uncategorized) (23andme, genetic ancestry)
26. January Scott Lilienfeld memorial site (Psychology) (memorial, Scott O. Lilienfeld)
17. January Substack – a revival of blogging culture / blogs to read in 2020 (Freedom of speech/expression) (blogging, substack)
11. January Goals and forecasts for 2021 (Forecasting, Personal) (forecasting, metaculus)
08. January Missing Arthur Jensen videos: money if you can find them! (Uncategorized) (Arthur Jensen)
07. January Scoring my 2020 predictions (Forecasting, Personal) (metaculus, ResearchGate, Twitter, Youtube)
05. January 2020 in books (Book review)

2020 (117)

24. December Myers Briggs: results of 46 Twitter raters (Psychology) (Myers Briggs)
22. December New paper out: National Intelligence Is More Important for Explaining Country Well-Being than Time Preference and Other Measured Non-Cognitive Traits (Economics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (economic grwoth, general socioeconomic factor, national IQ, s)
22. December New paper out: What Happened to Brussels? The Big Decline and Muslim Immigration (Immigration, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Belgium, Brussels, Muslim)
25. November What does money buy? Selected readings from lottery studies (Economics) (lottery)
24. November China economy predictions: 1990-2020 (Economics) (China, forecasting)
10. November Lost Jensen 1969 debate video published! (Uncategorized) (Arthur Jensen)
08. November Twitter intensifies their censorship: amren.com blacklisted (Freedom of speech/expression) (Big Tech, tech censorship, Twitter)
04. November The within-person design: a selective review (Genetics / behavioral genetics) (intra-individual, within-person)
20. October How to find free books on the internet (Uncategorized) (ebook, how to, tutorial)
18. October Gregory Cochran’s Big Grant (Uncategorized) (Gregory Cochran, Ron Unz)
17. October What’s in your genome? Free services for personal polygenic scores (impute.me tour) (Genomics) (consumer genomics, polygenic score)
16. October Alternatives to Reddit et al (Uncategorized) (censorship, reddit, social media)
14. October Genetic editing in animals for profit: how far have we come in 2020? (Genomics, Reproductive genetics) (animal breeding, CRISPR, genetic engineering)
09. October Self-censorship in academics (Science) (academics, censorship, self-censorship, taboo)
09. October Magic the Gathering for free, online, 2020 (Uncategorized)
08. October Panjabi MC (Uncategorized) (Indian, music)
07. October Hereditarian predictions (Genomics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (predictions)
25. September How to circumvent Facebook’s content censorship using archive (Uncategorized) (archive, censorship, guide, how to, tutorial)
25. September Quantitative genetic and natural selection: 2018-2020 studies (Evolutionary biology, Genomics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (divergent selection, natural selection, polygenic selection, review, soft sweep)
15. September Chanda Chisala did not come up with the UK race gaps argument (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Chanda Chisala, Klineberg fallacy, United Kingdom)
09. September Smart fraction theory: literature collection (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (smart fraction theory)
28. August Macroeconomics and intelligence: a collection (Economics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (economic growth, interdisciplinary)
26. August Beware small biases: the case of height (Genetics / behavioral genetics) (assortative mating, height, twins, zygosity)
25. August Fake news on James Watson’s DNA (Genomics) (James Watson)
24. August Jolly Heretic show 24th August 2020 (Humor, Science)
24. August Against trust in neuroscience (Metascience, Neuroscience) (replication crisis, trust)
24. August Motivation and IQ scores (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (motivation)
22. August IQ testing in America: not banned (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability)
22. August National IQs: measurement invariance studies (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (measurement invariance, national IQ)
19. August Educational socialism (Education, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology)
27. July Tons of data on media bias in the USA (Media studies) (journalists, media, political bias, voting)
22. July Birth order effects and achievement: autism-hormonal model (Psychology) (achievement, birth order)
21. July Appearance on Jolly Heretic show with Ed Dutton, 20th July 2020 (Psychology) (Ed Dutton, Jolly Heretic, show)
14. July Noam Chomsky’s famous free speech quote (Freedom of speech/expression) (Noam Chomsky)
08. July Review: Psychological Testing: Theory and Practice (Colin Cooper) (Book review, Math/Statistics, Psychology) (introduction)
07. July “1990, London School comes to Manhattan” (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability)
04. July The Hispanic intelligence affair of 1988 (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Hispanic, Jason Richwine)
30. June Roma/Gypsy IQ meta-analysis: 74 (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Gypsy, meta-analysis, Roma)
27. June Soviet and East German era (DDR/GDR) twin studies (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (East Germany, Soviet, twins, Volkmar Weiss)
27. June Mankind Quarterly historical archive at unz.com (Science) (archive, Mankind Quarterly, Ron Unz, unz.com)
27. June Politically motivated retraction of benign national intelligence study by Clark et al (2020) (Psychology, Sociology) (Andrew Gelman, censorship, Cory Clark, national IQ, political bias)
27. June “Self report bias hiding group differences in personality” (Psychology)
26. June Self-teaching stats with R in 2020 (Math/Statistics) (introduction)
26. June Richard Haier on the Nature of Human Intelligence || The Psychology Podcast (Scott Barry Kaufman) (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Arthur Jensen, Richard Haier, Scott Barry Kaufman)
24. June How to read SlateStarCodex (Scott Alexander) blog (Uncategorized) (archive, censorship, Scott Alexander, SlateStarCodex)
20. June Personality and Individual Differences censors skin color study (Rushton and Templer) (Psychology) (colorism, crime, skin color)
20. June Crime measurement and the black-white crime gap (Criminology) (Black-White gap, political bias)
15. June Who’s your out-group? (Social psychology, Stereotypes) (ANES, feeling thermometer, prejudice)
14. June Not telling the whole story (Media studies) (distortion model, political bias)
14. June Whose side are sociologists on? (Sociology) (political bias)
13. June Nice RCT in real life: Team Incentives and Performance: Evidence from a Retail Chain (Economics) (performance pay, RCT)
13. June Shuey (1966) (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Black-White gap)
13. June New study & video out: Pupil size and intelligence (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (pupil size)
12. June Installing R on Ubuntu 20.04: still too damn difficult (R) (tidyverse, Ubuntu)
11. June Monkeys, climate, intelligence (Evolutionary biology, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (climate, cold winter theory)
11. June Transracial adoption study: Finet et al (2019) (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Chinese, transracial adoption)
09. June Banned Medium post listing 279 terrorism supporting companies (Freedom of speech/expression) (Ashley Rae Groypenberg, gowokegobroke, Medium.com)
06. June Brainstorming alone (Psychology) (brainstorming, creativity, team work)
06. June The fire brigade: Ewan Birney to the rescue (Genetics / behavioral genetics, Politics) (Ewan Birney, fire brigade, Marxism)
06. June Tulsa race riot costs in comparison (History)
06. June Chemistry journal censors reflection piece because critical of DIE ideology (Science) (censorship, DIE)
02. June Intelligent economics: the way forward (Economics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (economic growth, Gregory Christainsen)
27. May New study out: Mental Illness and the Left (Political science, Psychology) (left-right, mental illness, political preferences)
26. May Danish study of freedom of speech and Muslim immigrants (Freedom of speech/expression, Political science) (Denmark)
25. May Hans Jürgen Eysenck memorial site (Psychology) (Hans Eysenck, memorial)
20. May “I will not be editor of a manuscript aiming to investigate any questions in support of racist considerations.” (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Journal of Individual Differences, political bias)
20. May Citizen Scientific Racism (History, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Metascience) (Aaron Panofsky)
16. May Trying out tidymodels package (R) (MMPI, tidymodels, tutorial, Vietnam Experience Study)
16. May Editor Matthias Ziegler rejects paper for political reasons, then says science should be neutral (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (political bias, race differences, United Kingdom)
15. May The Facebook super spy AI (Freedom of speech/expression, Science) (Facebook, unz.com, Woke)
13. May The verbal tilt model (Differential psychology/psychometrics) (Ashkenazim, political preferences, race differences, verbal tilt)
13. May Lynn’s impossible regression values: bounded outcome variables with OLS (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Math/Statistics) (bounded outcome)
10. May New video out: Who are the comedians? (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (comedian, sex differences)
07. May Reverse publication bias: a collection (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Metascience) (Reverse publication bias)
05. May Military psychology: a review (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (military psychology)
01. May Mafia Mark gets grant to study intellectual humility while planning to use AI to identify enemies (Philosophy)
01. May Professorial ethics (Uncategorized) (political bias)
29. April Data imputation in psychometric meta-analysis (Math/Statistics, Psychology) (data imputation, mean imputation, psychometric meta-analysis)
29. April Interrater reliability in job performance ratings (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Math/Statistics) (interrater reliability, job performance, performance appraisal)
24. April Expert opinion on race and intelligence (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Social psychology) (anthropologists, poll, race differences, social psychology, survey)
22. April Mainstreamers keep making progress: educational attainment variation “likely” caused by ancestry variation in Europe (Population genetics) (admixture, ancestry, colorism, siblings)
18. April No excess mortality data from COVID-19 in Denmark: data as of 12th April 2020 (Medicine) (COVID-19, excess mortality)
16. April Free IQ tests that aren’t entirely terrible (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (IQ test)
16. April Goals for 2020 (Personal, Psychology) (books, goal setting, traffic, Twitter, Youtube)
10. April Bayesian interpretation of confidence intervals is fine (Math/Statistics) (Bayesianism, confidence interval, credibility region, Frequentism)
06. April g and its origins: in favor of network psychometrics of intelligence (Computer science, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Neuroscience) (g factor, mutualism, network psychometrics)
06. April Population genetic variation and trait variation: not strongly related (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Reproductive genetics) (African, genetic variation, Igbo, Nigerian)
06. April Predicting aggregate intelligence level from non-cognitive data (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (data imputation, national IQ)
05. April Expert assessment of The Bell Curve (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (review, The Bell Curve)
02. April Public domain and/or open test items (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Psychology) (open items, public domain)
01. April New paper out: Are Danes’ Immigration Policy Preferences Based on Accurate Stereotypes? (Immigration, Stereotypes) (Islam, Muslim, social psychology, stereotype accuracy)
29. March Intelligence and PISA/TIMSS etc. at the individual level (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (PISA, scholastic ability, TIMSS)
27. March Why tracking COVID-19 hospitalization data makes sense (Medicine) (COVID-19, Denmark)
26. March Enhancing archival datasets with machine learned psychometrics (Differential psychology/psychometrics) (archival data, machine learning)
26. March Are PISA items biased? (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (item response theory, measurement invariance)
23. March Between country variation in COVID-19 impact (Medicine, Science)
22. March Medium censors Coronavirus post (Uncategorized) (censorship, COVID-19, Medium, Twitter)
19. March Digital Phenotyping and Mobile Sensing by Harald Baumeister, Christian Montag (2019, book review) (Book review, Computer science, Linguistics/language, Psychology) (algorithm, objective personality, optimism, psychinformatics)
19. March Stereotype Accuracy: Toward Appreciating Group Differences by Yueh-Ting Lee, Lee J. Jussim, and Clark R. McCauley (1995, review) (Book review, Stereotypes) (Lee Jussim)
09. March Bo Winegard firing — time for action (Uncategorized) (academic freedom, Bo Winegard)
06. March Human Biodiversity 2020 March Research Fundraiser! (Uncategorized) (crowdfunding, donation, fundraiser)
05. March Species genetic variation and number of subspecies/races/breeds/breeding populations/clusters etc. (Population genetics) (Fst, race)
04. March Empirical effect size comparison studies (2020 overview) (Psychology) (benchmark, effect size, guideline)
22. February New paper out: Human Biodiversity for Beginners: A Review of Charles Murray’s Human Diversity (Book review, Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (Charles Murray)
18. February Gap closers (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability)
16. February New paper out: Public Preferences and Reality: Crime Rates among 70 Immigrant Groups in the Netherlands (Immigration, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Social psychology) (crime, immigrant crime, public preferences)
31. January Sesardić’s conjecture: preliminary evidence in favor (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Science) (double standards, Neven Sesardic)
26. January Stereotype accuracy: summary of some studies (Stereotypes) (stereotype accuracy, stereotypes)
26. January IVF tech by country: historical growth (Reproductive genetics) (ART, IVF)
24. January New video out: Stereotype Accuracy and Inaccuracy (Stereotypes) (stereotype accuracy, video)
20. January Predicting IQ from genetics: how far have we come? [January 2020] (Genomics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (genomic prediction, GWAS, polygenic score)
18. January Genius: The Natural History of Creativity (Hans Eysenck, 1995) (Book review, Psychiatry, Psychology, Science) (creativity, Hans Eysenck)
14. January Open data and behavioral genetics: room for improvement! (Uncategorized)
13. January Stereotype threat: current evidence in January 2020 (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Stereotypes) (stereotype threat)
12. January Ken Richardson claims FAQ (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (FAQ, Ken Richardson)
09. January New paper out: Intelligence and Religiosity among Dating Site Users (with Jordan Lasker) (Uncategorized)
01. January 2019 in books (Book review)

2019 (64)

30. December Women, taxes and voting (Political science) (libertarian, women)
10. December Studies using national IQs for predicting immigration outcomes (Immigration, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (country of origin)
05. December New paper out: Racial and ethnic group differences in the heritability of intelligence: A systematic review and meta-analysis (Pesta et al 2020) (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability)
29. November Figlio et al 2017 race Scarr-Rowe results (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Scarr-Rowe)
22. November New paper out: Smart and Poor, or Rich and Dull? A U.S. County-Level Analysis of the Relationship between IQ and Presidential-Election Voting Behavior (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Political science) (United States)
22. November New paper out: Race Differences: A Very Brief Review (Genetics / behavioral genetics, Psychology) (race differences, video)
20. November Magic (American) Racism Theory (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Arthur Jensen, Black-White gap, James Flynn, magic dirt, magic racism)
13. November Hereditarianism: a progressive research program (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Science) (hereditarianism, Peter Urbach, research program)
10. November Physiognomy: a field ready for scientific revival (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Neuroscience, Physiology, Science) (phrenology, physiognomy)
04. November The many lies of Ben van der Merwe (Uncategorized) (Ben van der Merwe)
31. October Bayesian statistics for environmentalists (Genomics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (bayesian, colorism)
31. October Data mining Erowid to study drugs (Science) (drugs, Erowid, NLP)
31. October Replies to Birney, Raff, Rutherford & Scally (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Adam Rutherford, Ewan Birney)
28. October Media darling scientists (Metascience) (Adam Rutherford, media darling)
25. October The Psychology of Politics (1954) by Hans Eysenck (review) (Book review, Political science, Psychology) (personality, politics)
23. October It’s not Lewontin’s seed metaphor (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Lewontin, seed metaphor)
17. October Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought by Jonathan Rauch (review) (Book review, Freedom of speech/expression) (academia, Free Speech)
07. October IQ blogs collections (2019 October) (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (blog)
07. October Political bias in science: quotes from Gunnar Myrdal’s 1944 book (Economics, History, Metascience, Politics, Sociology) (political bias)
06. October Scientific misconduct by ancestry/country (Science) (scientific misconduct)
06. October Time preferences and national IQ (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (national IQ, time preference)
27. September No Swedish refugee miracle: large negative net contributions of immigrants (Economics, Immigration) (country of origin, refugees, Sweden)
25. September Measuring antisocial behavior well (Genetics / behavioral genetics) (measurement error, twin)
24. September Economic impact of immigration: A Nordic perspective (Screencast lecture) (Economics, Immigration) (net contribution)
23. September Replies to Taleb (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Nassim Taleb)
17. September Unfinished Wikipedia FAQ on IQ etc. (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Wikipedia) (drama, FAQ)
15. September Book review: The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect (Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie) (Book review, Epistemology, Math/Statistics, Science) (causality, Judea Pearl)
05. September More than total brain volume deep: modern neuroscience of race (Neuroscience)
05. September New paper out: Global Ancestry and Cognitive Ability (PNC study) (Genomics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (admixture, Philadelphia Neurodevelopmental Cohort)
29. August Politics from text — not so easy? (Computer science, Political science) (machine learning, political bias, text mining)
16. August New paper out: book review of Lynn and Becker’s The Intelligence of Nations (2019) (Book review, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (national IQ, Richard Lynn)
02. August National IQs from GRE, GMAT, TOEFL et al (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (GMAT, GRE, national IQ)
02. August Arab engineer IQ? (Immigration, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability)
17. July Massive Danish sibling study confirms Charles Murray’s findings (Immigration, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (danish, sibling control)
13. July ISIR 2019 talk: Machine learning psychometrics (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (item-level, machine learning)
26. June Noah Carl crowdfunding online (Freedom of speech/expression, Science, Science) (academic freedom, freedom of speech, Noah Carl)
20. June Article out: First Names, Cognitive Ability and Social Status in Denmark (Immigration, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability)
11. June Persians and Parsis (Differential psychology/psychometrics, History) (Parsis, Persians)
25. May New paper out: Filling in the Gaps: The Association between Intelligence and Both Color and Parent-Reported Ancestry in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Black-White gap, colorism)
25. May Recent reviews in animal breeding (2019) (Reproductive genetics) (animal breeding, ridge regression)
22. May Immigrant IQ gains by generation: evidence from PIAAC (Immigration, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (intergenerational stability)
02. May FAQ for “Cognitive ability and political preferences in Denmark” Kirkegaard, Bjerrekær, Carl (2017) (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Political science)
25. April On Nazism and Jews (Uncategorized) (Hitler, jews, Nazis)
16. April “a kind of social paranoia, a belief that mysterious, hostile forces are operating to cause inequalities in educational and occupational performance, despite all apparent efforts to eliminate prejudice and discrimination” (Ethics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (Arthur Jensen, lying for justice)
16. April The ‘attitude-achievement paradox’ (Education, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (attitude-achievement paradox)
13. April Death by affirmative action: race quotas in medicine (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Medicine) (affirmative action, malpractice, medicine, race)
11. April The northwest-southeast cline in Europe and the brain (Genomics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Neuroscience) (intra-European)
27. March Up to date introductions to psychology, stats, and genomics — 2019 March (Math/Statistics, Psychology) (introduction, textbook)
25. March Direct estimate of between group heritability with estimated polygenic scores (Genomics) (between group heritability, polygenic score)
24. March Before PISA and Binet (History, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Binet, early tests, Switzerland)
10. March Extreme phenotype colorism (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (albinism, colorism)
09. March Of cats and dogs and men (Genomics) (cats, dogs, Fst, Lewontin)
09. March Thou shall not cite Richard Lynn (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (national IQ, plagiarism, Richard Lynn)
09. March Psychology of the unthinkable (Tetlock et al 2000) (Psychology) (Philip Tetlock, SJW)
24. February Paige-Harden, Turkheimer and the psychometric left (Genetics / behavioral genetics, Psychology, Science) (Eric Turkheimer, Kathryn Paige Harden, psychometric left)
19. February A partial test of DUF1220 for population differences in intelligence? (Genomics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Population genetics) (DUF1220)
18. February The amazing stereotype accuracy of sex differences in movie genre preferences (Stereotypes) (movie genre, sex differences)
16. February Defense against the psychometricians (Psychology) (psychometrics)
06. February Sample size hypocrisy – Stuart Ritchie edition (Science) (hypocrisy, sample size, Stuart Ritchie)
05. February FAQ for Dunkel et al 2019 Ashkenazim polygenic score for intelligence (Genomics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Ashkenazim, polygenic score)
23. January Updated 23andme results (2019-01-22) (Population genetics) (23andme)
06. January What you can’t say: genetic group difference edition (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Philosophy) (admixture, Eric Turkheimer)
04. January The WORDSUM question (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (wordsum)
03. January Environmentalists like admixture analysis too (until they don’t) (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (admixture, Richard Nisbett)

2018 (68)

27. December Admixture analysis and genetic causation: some quotes from the literature (Genomics, Metascience) (admixture, bias in science, peer review)
23. December Genetic evidence for historical polygyny — Rushton vindicated? (Population genetics) (Phil Rushton, polygyny)
23. December It works in practice, but does it work in (my) theory? (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Math/Statistics, Science) (factor score indeterminacy, Peter Schönemann, works in practice but)
21. December You can’t ignore gene-environment correlations when looking for gene-environment interactions (Genetics / behavioral genetics, Math/Statistics) (gene-environment interaction, gene-envrionment correlation, interactions)
21. December Sociologist’s fallacy: origins of the term (Genetics / behavioral genetics) (Arthur Jensen, Paul Meehl, sociologist's fallacy)
21. December Thomas Bouchard on pseudoanalysis (Genetics / behavioral genetics) (pseudoanalysis, Thomas Bouchard)
19. December Peer review and innovation (Metascience, Peer review)
16. December Writings on ethics and politics of race and intelligence research (Ethics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability)
06. December Suppressed Taylor Swift – Shake it off meme remix (Humor) (meme, remix, Taylor Swift)
25. November Fertility of immigrant groups in Denmark by generation (Immigration) (demographic transition, fertility)
24. November Immigrant employment and wages by origin country/region, host country, sex, and generation (Immigration) (country of origin, employment, wage)
24. November Pay gap reports from Sweden (Economics, Sociology) (pay gap)
21. November Jelte Wicherts’ lost stereotype threat study for African Americans (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Jelte Wicherts, stereotype threat)
04. November Asian Eyferth? (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Eyferth, soldiers)
25. October The mysterious PC1 ancestry component (Genomics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Black-White gap, brain size, genomic ancestry, Kimberly Noble, PING)
25. October How long do we need affirmative action? (History, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (affirmation action, Black-White gap)
25. October Terman’s belief in high heritability of intelligence: unwarranted confidence? (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Francis Galton, genius, heritability, Lewis Terman)
22. October Reposting: The case for colonialism (History) (colonialism)
22. October Intelligence research — persecuted by both Nazis and Communists (History, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Communists, Nazis, Robert Sternberg, triarchic model)
21. October Animal cross-fostering, race and IQ, and the deductivist’s fallacy (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Logic, Science) (between group heritability, deductivist's fallacy, fallacy)
20. October How large is the decline in migrants entering the EU? (Immigration) (EU, EU migrant crisis)
10. October Burt, Tizards and hereditarianism (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Cyril Burt, Tizard studies)
10. October Finnish survey of journalists’ voting preferences (2012) (Science) (Finland, journalists, media, political bias)
08. October Tests of colorism in Pelotas (Brazil) sample for income, wealth and education outcomes (Genomics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (colorism)
08. October Data coder needed [job ad] (Uncategorized) (job ad)
04. October On the East Asian > White advantage on scholastic tests (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Asian-White gap, SAT, test prepping)
03. October The g factor and principal components regression (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Math/Statistics) (g factor, general factor of personality, principal components regression)
26. September XYY supermales and violence (Criminology, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (crime, Klinefelter, XXY, XYY)
24. September Do Republic professors hide their voting intentions? (Metascience) (academic bias)
24. September School factors are not important: evidence from classroom separation studies (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Education) (classroom, teachers, twins)
20. September The intelligence of stereotypes (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Social psychology) (stereotypes)
20. September A note on sex difference in variation in attractiveness (Psychology) (attractiveness, sex differences)
19. September Vertical cultural transfer effects — plausible but mostly not real (Genetics / behavioral genetics) (extended twin design, vertical transfer)
13. September Regression towards genetic set point: the case of MZ and DZ height in infancy/early childhood (Genetics / behavioral genetics) (genetic set-point, height, weight)
13. September Can IPCC predict the future? Testing the 1990 predictions (Science) (climate science, IPCC, nuclear energy, predictions)
29. August What replicates? Non-replicating studies from Camerer et al (2018) with commentary (Science) (priming, replication crisis)
27. August Political quiz results (Political science) (political test)
25. August Data from NYT’s “An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2016 Election” (Political science) (data, nyt, web scraping)
25. August Against melatonin (Uncategorized) (melatonin, sleep)
23. July Replication crisis/decline effect in 1979 (Psychology) (first names, replication crisis, stereotypes)
06. July Gladwell, the threshold effect for IQ, and Jensen (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Arthur Jensen, IQ threshold hypothesis, Malcolm Gladwell)
29. June Danish national IQ (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Denmark, national IQ, Scandinavia, Sweden)
28. June Country level indicators of altruism (Immigration, Political science, Psychology) (altruism, national)
25. June The original texts of the Eyferth study (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Black-White gap, Eyferth)
20. June Turkheimer strikes back! (but misses) (Psychology) (Eric Turkheimer, Pioneer Fund, Roger Pearson)
14. June Ancestry effects in Brazil: economist approach with person names (Economics, Immigration, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (ancestry, big data, names)
12. June Why is Eric Turkheimer so unreasonable about race and intelligence? (Ethics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Eric Turkheimer, race differences, social psychology, stereotypes)
07. June Lewontin’s famous 1972 book chapter (Population genetics) (Lewontin, race, subspecies)
07. June Nobel prize winners are very unlikely to be religious (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (atheism, Religion, scientists)
29. May Null hypothesis testing for loadings in unit weighted factor analysis (Math/Statistics) (null hypothesis, unit weighted factor analysis)
08. May The non-contributions of Robert Sternberg to ISIR (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (ISIR, Robert Sternberg)
27. April Review: Cognitive Capitalism (Heiner Rindermann) (Book review, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (cognitive capitalism, Heiner Rindermann, Steven Jay Gould)
27. April Review: The Censor’s Hand (Carl E. Schneider) (Book review, Ethics, Medicine) (IRB, regulation)
23. April Wanted: scientific immune system to identify weak studies getting lots of attention (Metascience) (data police, open scholar)
14. April Corvus intelligence (Evolutionary biology, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Corvus, crows)
11. April How to download ebooks from Library Genesis (libgen) for free (Uncategorized) (ebooks, guide, how to, libgen, Library Genesis)
10. April How to use Sci-hub to get academic papers for free (Science) (guide, how to, Sci-hub)
05. April Intelligence and religiousness in OKCupid dataset (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (religiousness, sexual orientation)
05. April Q/A with Antonio Regalado for genomics (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genomics) (Antonio Regalado, group differences, polygenic score)
26. March East Asian intelligence and UV radiation (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Population genetics) (East Asian, UV radiation)
22. March Chomsky on postmodernism [repost] (Language, Science) (Noam Chomsky, postmodernism)
21. March Race gaps in brain size in the very young (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Physiology) (brain size, fetal, head circumference, head size, uterine, womb)
20. March How much should you trust IQ etc. information from The Guardian? Experts answer: not so much (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (expert survey, fake news, Heiner Rindermann, The Guardian)
09. March The national IQ of Nepal (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (national IQ, Nepal)
03. March Comments on Fagan and Holland (2007)’s racial equality paper (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Black-White gap, Spearman's hypothesis)
28. January Making better use of the scientific literature: large-scale automatic retrieval of data from published figures (Math/Statistics, Metascience) (AI, data retrieval, open data, scientific literature)
11. January Interview with me about the recent furor about the London conference (Uncategorized) (pedophilia)
10. January Standard deviation of total SAT scores: not simply the sum of the standard deviations of subtests (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Math/Statistics) (SAT)

2017 (96)

16. December Berkeley lecturer tries to get students to push anti-Trump POV on Wikipedia, gets indefinitely banned instead (Wikipedia) (wikipedia)
14. December Jews and IQ/race research (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (jews)
06. December National chess skill: European culture, intelligence (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Chess, count data, national IQ, rare persons)
30. November “one of the authors had previously conducted academic research with unethical behaviors” (Peer review)
29. November Twin control studies really are evidence of causation: reply to JayMan (Genetics / behavioral genetics) (causality, JayMan, twin control)
04. November Pedophilia and related traits (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Psychiatry) (age, homosexuality, pedophilia)
01. November About that blog: Italian IQs, Lynn IQs, brain size and doctors (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (brain size, doctors, evolution, Italy)
27. October No special sex-linked inheritance of cognitive ability/intelligence (except for a few rare disorders) (Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (daughter, familial, father, mother, offspring, sex, siblings, son)
24. October Spearman’s extended hypothesis (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Spearman's hypothesis)
24. October Evolution and imperfect mediators (Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary Psychology, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (brain size, endophenotype, evolution)
21. October Stats dump October 2017 (Meta) (stats, traffic)
07. October Shockley’s 1980 interview with Playboy (Science) (interview, Shockley)
25. September “This manuscript addresses a politically sensitive issue that I would prefer not to include in Frontiers in Evolutionary Sociology and Biosociology.” (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Evolutionary biology, Genomics) (bias in science, race differences)
20. September The end of anonymity in the crowd is near (Computer science, Science) (anonymity, automatic recognition, face, voice)
11. September Sources of bias in science (comments on Tara McCarthy interview 2017/09/11) (Science, Science) (bias in science, interview, open science, Reality Calls, solutions, Tara McCarthy)
01. September Battle of the sexes: island survival edition (Evolutionary Psychology) (battle of sexes, island, men, survival, women)
31. August The US Black-White cognitive ability gap in 1850, 1870 and 1900 censuses (Differential psychology/psychometrics) (Black-White gap, literacy, numeracy)
29. August Acquiring immigrant scores on the Belgian military test? Nope, denied for unexplained ‘ethical reasons’ (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Immigration) (Belgium, military)
18. August Trying to force academics to apologize for reporting official employment statistics (Uncategorized) (Adam Perkins, brainless)
16. August Some more reviews for our PING paper (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genomics) (admixture, genomic ancestry, PING, race differences)
14. August What exactly is the value of psychotherapists? (Psychiatry) (psychotherapy)
14. August Estimating the polygenicity of traits: an update (Genomics) (polygenicity)
09. August Health dysgenics: a very brief review (Genetics / behavioral genetics, Medicine, Reproductive genetics) (dysgenics, eugenics, Michael Woodley)
09. August Women and computer science: a no-brainer (Differential psychology/psychometrics) (Google, googlememo, interests, work)
08. August WHO on genomics and health, 2002 (Medicine, Politics, Sociology) (inequality, WHO)
02. August 2 years of bugged screenshotting in Mint / Cinnamon (Programming) (bug, Cinnamon, linux Mint, screenshot)
29. July Herrnstein’s famous 1971 article in The Atlantic (Differential psychology/psychometrics, History) (Herrnstein)
29. July Why the race and intelligence question is still not resolved (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Metascience) (bias, open data)
27. July Large scale sex, race etc. discrimination studies: what do they show? (Psychology, Sociology) (bias, discrimination, gender, immigrant, race, sex)
21. July Workers are people too: review of We wanted workers (Borjas) (Book review, Immigration) (George Borjas)
21. July Austrian economics: worse than expected — Review of Democracy, the God that failed (Hoppe) (Book review, Economics, Government form, Politics, Science, Sociology) (Hoppe, praxeology, Rothbard, von Mises)
19. July ISIR 2017 Montreal – poster + poster talk (Differential psychology/psychometrics) (ISIR, ISIR2017, poster)
10. July Free trade: yay or not? (Review of Free Trade Doesn’t Work: What Should Replace It and Why) (Book review, Government form, Political science) (free trade, Ian Fletching)
30. June Getting Logitech G502 to work on Linux Mint 18.1 (Computer science) (linux Mint)
25. June Race and exam pass rates (data dump) (Differential psychology/psychometrics) (bar, exam, law, medicine, pass rate)
24. June There’s a lot more to the Mendelians (Genomics, Reproductive genetics) (Mendelian, monogenic disorder, RCT)
22. June Regression Modeling Strategies (2nd ed.) – Frank Harrell (review) (Book review, Math/Statistics, R) (Frank Harrell, review)
13. June New paper out: Admixture in Argentina (with John Fuerst) (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genetics / behavioral genetics, Sociology) (admixture, ancestry, Argentina, biogeographical ancestry, genetics, inequality, provinces, race, subnational)
11. June Against CFAR (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Philosophy) (CFAR, rationality)
10. June LessWrong, MIRI etc. meltdown (Uncategorized) (lesswrong, MIRI)
06. June The race and intelligence question is solvable (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (expert survey, race, Turkheimer)
05. June Top influential books – 2017 edition (Philosophy, Politics, Science) (books, influential, list, reading)
01. June Science and politics: USA edition (Uncategorized) (Democrat, denialism, Republican, scientific knowledge)
31. May Rise and fall of empires: genetic version? (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genetics / behavioral genetics, History) (ancient genomics, Egyptian, genomic history)
30. May The many contributions of John Fuerst (Uncategorized) (blog, Chuck, John Fuerst)
25. May The sampling problem with meta-analyses of Jensen’s method findings (Differential psychology/psychometrics) (Jensen’s method, meta-analysis, method of correlated vectors)
21. May Open science: historical perspectives (History) (open science)
03. May The FOSS fragmentation problem (Computer science) (collaboration, coordination problem, fork, FOSS, fragmentation, split)
18. April On scientific consensus (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Metascience, Science) (expert consensus)
16. April AI stereotype accuracy too (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Immigration) (inequality, stereotypes)
12. April Hollywood eugenics and actual eugenics (History, Reproductive genetics) (eugenics, Galton)
11. April Do you hate Python’s range() and want to use R’s seq()? (Python, R)
07. April On crackpottery (or why I don’t think I’m a pseudoscientist) (Science, Science) (crackpot, criticism, pseudoscience)
07. April Comments about my interview with Thinking Ape (2017-04-06) (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Immigration) (interview, Thinkping-Ape)
06. April Strong publication bias in early intervention studies (Education) (early intervention, publicaiton bias)
05. April Another calibration test (Psychology) (calibration, confidence, test results)
05. April What exactly is Human Biodiversity? – Personal view (Science) (human biodiversiy)
03. April Criticism of me and my research on SlateStarCodex’s subreddit (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genetics / behavioral genetics, Immigration) (emil kirkegaard, OKcupid, personal, race)
02. April A fifth law of behavioral genetics? (Genetics / behavioral genetics) (law)
01. April Is miscegenation bad for your kids? (Psychiatry, Psychology) (hybrid, hybrid vigor, outbreeding depression)
27. March Lord Kelvin on quantification and scientific knowledge (Science, Science) (Lord Kelvin, quantification)
26. March Job offer: fill in meta-analysis data (Genetics / behavioral genetics) (job offer)
24. March Celebrating an early female pioneer: Barbara Stoddard Burks (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genetics / behavioral genetics) (adoption, Barbara Burks, pioneer)
21. March The neuroscience of intelligence: very preliminary because of power failure and lack of multivariate studies (Book review, Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Math/Statistics, Neuroscience) (Haier)
19. March Number of siblings vs. total fertility rate (Math/Statistics) (number of siblings, Poisson, total fertility rate)
19. March European produced culture (Copyright and filesharing) (cartoons, danish, english, imperialism, music)
18. March The Polgár sisters of … camming? (Science) (camgirl, LSD, sisters, trio)
18. March How common is perceived discrimination? Who reports/suffers it? (Psychology, Sociology) (perceived discrimination)
08. March Comments on Gwern’s Counteracting Dysgenics (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genomics, Reproductive genetics) (dysgenics, embryo selection)
08. March The reverse time reversal heuristic? (Science) (time-reversal heuristic)
08. March Cognitive ability of Westerners and non-Westerners: data from the Danish military draft (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Immigration) (Denmark)
06. March Systematic approaches to learning work better than haphazard ones, probably (Education) (education, learning, systematic, teaching)
05. March Nisbett’s 2009 book on Intelligence: reviews (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (admixture, colorism, skin tone)
04. March How to do a meta-analysis of Black-White IQ gap (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Black-White gap)
01. March Teaching kids philosophy to boost their abilities in other areas? (Education) (intervention, philosophy for kids)
27. February Some genomics papers I read recently (Genomics)
27. February Captain Obvious Science (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genetics / behavioral genetics, Immigration, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Psychology, Sociology) (ancestry, Captain Obvious)
20. February Exercise for depression? Evaluating publication bias in Schuch et al 2016 (Psychiatry) (depression, exercise, meta-analysis)
19. February Trivers-Willard in humans? (Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary Psychology, Genetics / behavioral genetics) (sex ratio, Trivers-Willard, X-linked disorder)
19. February Do music genres exist? An outline of an empirical approach (R, Science) (cluster analysis, music, sound analysis)
18. February Cold winter theory in non-human animals (Biology, Differential psychology/psychometrics, Evolutionary Psychology, Genetics / behavioral genetics, Population genetics) (brain size, climate, cold winter theory, latitude, life history, r-k selection)
13. February Getting personality right (Differential psychology/psychometrics) (heritability, measurement error, other report, personality, self report)
12. February Thinking about intergenerational stability of socioeconomic status (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genetics / behavioral genetics, Sociology) (assortative mating, intergenerational stability, S, general socioeconomic factor)
11. February Swedish immigrant crime data from the 1980s (Criminology, Immigration) (crime, immigrant, Sweden)
11. February New paper out: Immigrant crime in Germany 2012-2015 (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Sociology) (Germany, immigrant crime)
09. February On the validity of polygenic scores, in general and in Africans (Genetics / behavioral genetics, Genomics) (cross-race, polygenic score)
08. February Did a small lizard study show transgenerational epigenetics? (Biology) (epigenetics, transgenerational epigenetics)
02. February How many associations are causal? How can we find out? (Genetics / behavioral genetics) (causality, MZ, teachers, TEDS, twin)
02. February Some simple models of US county voting outcomes (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Political science, Sociology) (election, US politics)
30. January Renaming functions in R packages using roxygen2 (Programming, R) (packages, renaming)
30. January Ending cognitive aging (Uncategorized) (aging, cognitive aging)
29. January Cross-validating the Human Accomplishment dataset with Wikipedia (History, Wikipedia) (eminence, open data, wikipedia)
28. January A sex difference that won’t go away and measurement invariance (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (sex differences)
26. January Immigrant performance in the Netherlands: brief look (Sociology) (cito, immigrant, the Netherlands)
15. January PSA: bugfix for the scoreIrt function in psych package, you should re-do your analyses! (Differential psychology/psychometrics, R) (psych, scoreIrt)
11. January Cross-national data for social desirability bias in polling (Political science) (polls, shy tory, social desirability)

2016 (88)

15. December Review: Climatology Versus Pseudoscience: Exposing the Failed Predictions of Global Warming Skeptics (Climatology) (contrarian, global warming, pseudoscience)
06. December The effects of excluding students from PISA tests (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Education, Math/Statistics)
28. November Installing the latest version of R on Ubuntu/Mint (Programming) (Linux, Mint, R, Ubuntu, update)
21. November Amphetamine vs. methylphenidate for ADHD (Psychiatry) (ADHD, amphetamine, drug, methylphenidate)
15. November Crowdsourcing a dataset: Multiparty democracies, election thresholds and running for parliament (Political science) (crowdsourcing, dataset, democracy, multiparty)
11. November Preparation for: Municipality level social inequality in Brazil (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (achievement, Brazil, cognitive, data, Google, municipal, municipality, score, search, social inequality, test)
01. November Syncthing: some notes and recommendations (Computer science) (synchronization, syncthing)
31. October Why didn’t Denmark sell Greenland? Some comments (Sociology)
23. October Did Turkheimer et al (2003) replicate? (Genetics / behavioral genetics, Math/Statistics) (5-HTT, interaction, MAOA, replication)
17. October Notes on Steve Hsu’s second interview w/ Daphne Martschenko (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (heritability, race, test bias, twin)
15. October SQL server for population frequencies from 1000 genomes (Population genetics, R) (1000 genomes, GWAS, population frequencies, SNP, SQL)
14. October Book review: Hive mind (Garett Jones) (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Sociology) (immigration)
10. October Individual genomic admixture and cognitive ability (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (admixture, genomics, race)
10. October Useful datasets for country of origin analyses (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Sociology)
05. October ggplot2 functions in kirkegaard package (knitr)
05. October Causal effects of head injuries revisited (Genetics / behavioral genetics, Medicine) (Sariaslan, traumatic brain injury)
03. October Could the OpenPsych journals qualify as outlets for OSF’s preregistration challenge? (Science) (OpenPsych, OSF, preregistration)
03. October Could we really find out what penis attributes cause orgasms? (Science) (orgasm, penis size)
01. October Medical geneticists on PGD for non-medical purposes (Ethics, Reproductive genetics) (PGD)
27. September AIMs/SNPs, genomic ancestry and measurement error
16. September Academic fields and gender: 13 years before ‘Perceptions of Brilliance’ (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (academic field, academic major, gender difference, sex differences)
16. September Number and size of computer monitors and productivity: a review (Science) (display, dual, monitor, screen, work)
15. September How to add names to choroplethr ggplot2 maps (knitr, R) (maps)
15. September Talks from ISIR 2016 Saint Petersburg (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Education, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (ISIR16, ISIR2016, talk)
13. September Important gender gaps (Psychology, Sociology) (gender gap)
06. September Cognitive ability and political preferences in Denmark: knitr edition (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, knitr, Political science) (political preferences)
05. September Embryo selection and genetic correlated traits: A reanalysis (Genetics / behavioral genetics, Math/Statistics, Reproductive genetics)
05. September Python: Removing empty lists from mixed nested lists (Python)
04. September Installing the gsl package for R on Linux Mint 18 (R)
04. September Gender differences in personality: a ratio scale approach (Differential psychology/psychometrics) (behavior, gender difference, personality, ratio scale)
01. September Powered versus manual toothbrushing (Science) (dental health, oral health, toothbrush)
01. September Linux Mint stuck in fallback mode? (Programming) (Cinnamon, crash, fallback, linux Mint, stuck)
31. August Collapsible list in HTML/CSS/JS (HTML/CSS, Javascript) (collapsible, expandable, hierarchical, list)
26. August Comments on Marty Nemko’s “12 Predictions for 2050” (Education, Education, Evolutionary Psychology, Feminism/equality, Genetics / behavioral genetics) (future, predictions)
23. August Stumbling into someone’s else’s field and getting things right (Psychology, Science)
23. August Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS): useful for testing spatial & generational transferability (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Sociology) (generational transferability, spatial transferability)
20. August Getting Facebook to show preview images (Programming) (Facebook, image, og:image, preview)
10. August Installing R packages on Mint 17.1: cluster, KernSmooth, Matrix, nlme, mgcv (Computer science) (install, package, R)
04. August Deleting files with empty extensions on Windows 8.1 (Computer science) (file, invincible, no extension, undeleteable, Windows)
03. August Review: Intelligence: all that matters (Stuart Ritchie) (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (review, Stuart Ritchie)
19. July Administration time and reliability in measurement (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (administration time, items)
05. July Organ donation consent vs. actual rates (Medicine, Politics) (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, organ donation, rate, Scandinavia, Sweden)
05. July Clinical vs. statistical prediction (Psychology) (acturial, clinical, judgment, prediction)
27. June Cognitive ability, surveys and measurement error: possible bias in GxE studies (Genetics / behavioral genetics) (bias, gene-environment interaction, measurement error)
17. June Predictions for an individual-level general crime factor study using Swedish register data (Criminology, Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (age, factor analysys, gender, general crime factor, Muslim, predictions)
16. June Measurement error and behavioral genetics in criminology (Criminology, Genetics / behavioral genetics) (anti-social behavior, bias, biking, crime, heritability, measurement error, police, twin)
13. June Music and work performance: what do we know? (Psychology, Science) (music, work performance)
29. May Scraping IMDB user ratings (Programming, Science)
29. May Personal freedom and cognitive ability: OKCupid dataset replication (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Political science) (libertarian, OKcupid, personal freedom)
28. May Aarhus University’s reply to SJW letter (Uncategorized) (Aarhus University, OKcupid)
20. May Testing colorism using genomic data without phenotypic data (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genetics / behavioral genetics) (colorism, discrimination, genomics)
14. May OKCupid paper (Science)
07. May Crime/violence, gender, sexual orientation, cognitive ability (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (crime, gender, sexual orientation, violence)
05. May Who prefers to date people of their own race? (Differential psychology/psychometrics) (dating, ethnocentrism, OKcupid, race)
03. May Error in the previous version of FA_residuals() (Math/Statistics, Programming) (factor analysis, mixedness, structural outlier)
28. April Cognitive dysgenics in the OKCupid dataset: a few simple analyses (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (dysgenics, OKcupid)
26. April Change in Egyptian skull sizes: -4000 to 150 (Physiology) (ancient, brain size, Egyptian, skull size)
14. April R functions for analyzing missing data (Math/Statistics, Programming) (missing data, R)
13. April Estimation of piecewise linear functions (Math/Statistics) (linear model, piecewise)
02. April A more intuitive explanation of the correlation (Math/Statistics) (correlation, intuitive)
01. April Scraping: temperature and precipitation data for all NOAA weather stations (Psychology, Sociology) (climate, county, data, precipitation, stations, temperature, United States)
31. March US state IQs cannot be estimated from OKCupid data (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (OKcupid, state, US)
29. March Data sharing and Add Health (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Sociology) (Add Health, cognitive sociology, counties, open data, S, general socioeconomic factor, US)
24. March kirkegaard: Plot contingency table with ggplot2 (Programming) (contingency table, ggplot2, plot, R)
23. March New papers out! Admixture in the Americas (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (Admixture in the Americas, inequality, race)
19. March Is sharing the chorion important? (No) (Genetics / behavioral genetics) (chorion, heritability, twin)
17. March Some numbers on non-shared ‘environment’ effects (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genetics / behavioral genetics) (ACE, GCSE, unshared environment)
14. March Making use of list-arrays in R (Programming) (list-array, R)
09. March Excluding missing or bad data in R: not as easy as it should be! (Programming) (missing data, R)
02. March Correcting for n-level discretization? (Math/Statistics) (bias, correction, discretization, latent correlation, polychoric, statistical artifact)
02. March The performance of immigrants from Yugoslavia in Denmark and Norway (Sociology) (Denmark, immigrants, Norway, S, general socioeconomic factor, Yugoslavia)
28. February Admixture mapping assisted GWAS (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genetics / behavioral genetics, Medicine) (admixture mapping, GWAS, race)
21. February Does genomic prediction work? (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genetics / behavioral genetics, Sociology) (embryo selection, genomic prediction)
16. February Comments on Gwern’s “Embryo selection for intelligence” (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (cognitive, embryo selection, heritability, meta-analysis)
15. February Comments on Noah Carl’s new study: IQ and socio-economic development across local authorities of the UK (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Sociology) (cognitive sociology, OpenPsych, S, general socioeconomic factor, UK)
13. February Causality, transitivity and correlation (Logic, Math/Statistics, Philosophy, R) (causation, correlation, path model, transitivity)
09. February Stereotypes are relevant for judgments about individuals even when one has individualized information (Logic, Math/Statistics) (stereotypes)
09. February Differential measurement error and regression (Math/Statistics) (measurement error, path model)
22. January django, wsgi, apache: error 500 (Programming) (apache, django, python, wsgi)
21. January python, virtualenv, pip and sudo/permissions (Uncategorized) (permission, pip, python, sudo, virtualenv)
21. January Meta-analysis of behavioral genetic studies of Piagetian cognitive ability (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genetics / behavioral genetics)
19. January Metrics for quantifying genetic cardinality of a trait (Genetics / behavioral genetics) (genetic cardinality, polygenic, polygenicity)
16. January Numlock problems in Virtualbox linux Mint (Programming) (linux Mint, numlock)
13. January Linguistics paper (for class): Typology and statistics (Linguistics/language, Math/Statistics) (spatial statistics, typology)
04. January General model for immigrant group traits and outcomes (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Sociology) (immigrant, S, general socioeconomic factor)
02. January Useful Twitter extensions for Firefox (Uncategorized) (extension, firefox, search, Twitter)
02. January A better online public platform for discussing scientific papers? A Reddit-based proposal (Science) (discussion, platform, reddit, Science)
01. January R: fastest way of finding out of all elements of a vector are identical? (Programming) (R)

2015 (117)

30. December R: assign() inside nested functions (Programming) (callling environment, dimnames, nested functions, R)
30. December Intelligence 34 (2006): Climate and general intelligence, mini special issue (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genetics / behavioral genetics)
13. December kirkegaard: conditional recoding with conditional_change() (Programming) (R, recode, remap)
10. December Ethnic heterogeneity and tail effects (Differential psychology/psychometrics) (ethnic heterogeneity, R, tail effects)
09. December kirkegaard: GG_group_means(), easy plotting of group means using ggplot2 (Programming) (ggplot2, R)
25. November Transracial adoption meta-analysis: Van Ijzendoorn et al (2005) (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (spatial transferability, transracial adoption)
25. November kirkegaard: df_func() (Programming) (kirkegaard package, R)
24. November Transracial adoption study: Odenstad et al (2008) (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (spatial transferability, Sweden, transracial adoption)
23. November kirkegaard: df_add_delta() (Programming) (kirkegaard package, R)
18. November Occupations, cognitive ability and stereotypes (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Education, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (gender, jobs, occupations, social class, stereotypes, work)
17. November Another political bias test (Political science, Politics) (test)
08. November Cognitive ability and tattoos and piercings (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (OKcupid, piercing, tattoo)
07. November Genomic autocorrelation of quantitative traits (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Fst)
04. November Review: Quantitative Research in Linguistics: An Introduction (Math/Statistics) (review)
27. October In favor of method diversity by the non-use of giants (Copyright and filesharing, Science, Science) (construct proliferation, curiosity, scientific progress)
26. October Polygenic traits and the distribution of effect sizes: years of education from Rietveld et al (2013) (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (distribution, polygenic, R)
21. October A general conspiracy theory factor (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Psychology) (conspiracy theory, general factor)
21. October Empirical math, or how experiments can increase our confidence in mathematical conclusions despite access to formal proofs (Epistemology, Math/Statistics, Programming)
20. October Some methods for measuring and correcting for spatial autocorrelation (Math/Statistics) (correlation of distances, k nearest spatial neighbor regression, KNSNR, Moran's I, SLR, spatial autocorrelation, spatial local regression)
08. October Email exchange with ‘cognitive neuroscience researcher’ Jayl Feynman (Differential psychology/psychometrics) (brain size, IQ test, sex differences)
03. October Researcher degrees of freedom as sensitivity analysis (Science, Sociology) (London, methodology, S, general socioeconomic factor)
30. September Polygenic scores, genetic engineering, validity of GWAS results across major racial groups and the Piffer method (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (GWAS, polygenic, race)
29. September New working paper: Some methods for analyzing and correcting for spatial autocorrelation (Math/Statistics) (spatial autocorrelation)
29. September A little update on the effects of exercise on depression and happiness (Uncategorized)
28. September Crime by immigrant group by proportion of immigrants in the neighborhood in the Netherlands (Sociology) (crime, immigrants, R, the Netherlands)
23. September The general religious factor among Muslims: a multi-level factor analysis (Religion, Sociology) (Christian, Christianity, general factor, Islam, Muslim, Religion, religious extremism)
17. September Rationality and bias test results (Critical thinking / meta-thinking, Differential psychology/psychometrics, Politics, Psychology, Science) (bias, rationality, results, test)
08. September Web scraping with R using rvest & spatial autocorrelation (Programming) (Admixture in the Americas, R, spatial autocorrelation, web scraping, wikipedia)
08. September Betas and residualized variables / does non-g ability predict GPA? (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Education) (beta, beta matrix, GPA, lasso regression, R, Wicherts)
08. September Looking for commenters for our Admixture in the Americas target article (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Sociology) (Admixture in the Americas, Mankind Quarterly)
08. September Sociology/political science journal? (Sociology) (journal)
07. September Easy plotting of kmeans cluster analysis with ggplot2 (Math/Statistics, Programming) (cluster analysis, ggplot2, R)
02. September William Shockley, verbal tilt and interpersonal sensitivity (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Feynmann, interpersonal sensitivity, Loehlin, race, Shockley)
02. September Review of Metapedia’s Race and Intelligence review (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Metapedia, race, RationalWiki, Wiki, wikipedia)
30. August Converting a data.frame to a numerical matrix in R, not so easy! (Computer science) (data.frame, factor, matrix, numeric, R)
27. August Review: The Nurture Versus Biosocial Debate in Criminology: On the Origins of Criminal Behavior and Criminality (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (biosocial, Criminology, review)
21. August Tail effects in climate science and the pleasures of polymathy (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Metascience) (climate science, polymath, tail effects)
21. August What is Richard Lewontin most known for? (Genetics / behavioral genetics) (Lewontin)
21. August What exactly is age heaping and what use is it? (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (age heaping, historical, numeric ability, R)
14. August Can we make humans that are 1,000 SDs smarter than current humans? (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (eugenics, human, selective breeding)
28. July Animal breeding, human breeding (Genetics / behavioral genetics) (assortative mating, embryo selection, eugenics, future, medicine)
25. July Approximate string matching in R (Computer science, Linguistics/language) (approximate, matching, natural language processing, partial, R, string)
22. July How to do an S factor analysis (Sociology) (check list, guide, how to, methodology, S, general socioeconomic factor)
18. July SNPs within and between populations (Genetics / behavioral genetics) (epistasis, race, SNP)
07. July Getting free wifi forever in airports on Mint 17.1 (Computer science) (airport, change, Linux, MAC address, Mint, spoof, wifi, wlan)
27. June The performance of African immigrants in Europe: Some Danish and Norwegian data (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (African, cognitive sociology, Denmark, immigrants, Norway, S, general socioeconomic factor)
26. June IQ and socioeconomic development across Regions of the UK: a reanalysis (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (cognitive sociology, regions, S, general socioeconomic factor, United Kingdom)
25. June A replication of the S factor among US states using a new and larger dataset (Uncategorized) (S, general socioeconomic factor, United States)
20. June Interesting non-linear relationship between TV watching, age and reading comprehension (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (age, reading comprehension, TV)
20. June Traffic statistics per June 20th, 2015 (Uncategorized) (traffic)
17. June How much does University of Aarhus spend a year on journals? (Uncategorized) (journals, library, subscription fee)
16. June The general socioeconomic factor among Colombian departments (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (cognitive sociology, Colombia, inequality, S, general socioeconomic factor, sociology, sociology of intelligence)
03. June What is a good name? The S factor in Denmark at the name-level (Sociology) (crime, education, immigrants, income, names, S, general socioeconomic factor, sociology)
29. May An S factor among census tracts of Boston (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (African Americans, Boston, cognitive sociology, race, S, general socioeconomic factor)
27. May The sibling control design (Uncategorized) (23andme, admixture, race, sibling control)
14. May Tox, a decent alternative to Skype etc. (Uncategorized) (secure chat, Skype, Tox)
12. May Installing an RStudio server on DigitalOcean (Programming) (Linux, R, RStudio, Shiny, Ubuntu)
12. May Why do persons from higher mean IQ populations do better even after selection? (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (occupation, R, selection, simulation)
09. May Presentation for my talk for LCI15 (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (Admixture in the Americas, presentation)
05. May Developers refuse to make it possible to disable automatic, forced date recognition in Libre Office (Uncategorized) (date conversion, developer, Libre Office)
04. May DMCA for Lewontin’s fallacy (paper) (Uncategorized) (DMCA)
30. April The S factor in Brazilian states (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (Brazil, cognitive sociology, ecology of intelligence, S, general socioeconomic factor, sociology, sociology of intelligence)
29. April Finding mixed cases in exploratory factor analysis (Math/Statistics) (exploratory factor analysis, factor analysis, mixedness)
27. April Error handling in R is odd (Uncategorized) (error handling, python, R)
25. April Fixing FPS and mouse lag for Dungeon Keeper 2 on windows 8.1 (Uncategorized) (Dungeon Keeper 2, Windows 8.1)
19. April Examining the S factor in Mexican states (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Sociology) (cognitive sociology, Mexico, R, S, general socioeconomic factor, sociology of intelligence, states)
13. April Harvard SAT and IQ: How much regression towards the mean? (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Math/Statistics) (harvard, R, reliability, SAT)
09. April How exactly does one properly remove the effect of one variable? Residuals, partial correlation, multiple regression, semi-partial? (Math/Statistics) (control, multiple regression, partial correlation, semipartial correlation)
05. April The general brain factor, working memory, parental income and education, and racial admixture (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (admixture, brain size, educational attainment, general brain factor, income, neuroscience, race, working memory)
28. March Transracial adoption study: Bruce et al (2009) (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (adoption, China, Guatemala, international adoption, South Korea, transracial adoption)
28. March The S factor in the British Isles: A reanalysis of Lynn (1979) (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (British Isles, cognitive sociology, FLynn effect, g factor, S, general socioeconomic factor, sociology of intelligence, United Kingdom)
22. March Transracial adoption study: Stams et al, 2000 (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (adoption, international adoption, transracial adoption)
22. March Transracial adoption study: Lindblad et al, 2003 (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Psychology, Sociology) (adoption, international adoption, South Korean, transracial adoption)
22. March Spearman’s hypothesis on item-level data from Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices: A replication and extension (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (group differences, item-level, Jensen’s method, method of correlated vectors, R, Raven's Progressive Matrices, Spearman's hypothesis)
21. March Pasting numbers with leading zeros into spreadsheet without losing the zeros (Programming) (regex, spreadsheet)
18. March International differences in intelligence can be confusing: A commentary on Harrison et al (2015) (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Humor, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Math/Statistics) (Canada, USA)
16. March How to integrate Winnower, blog posts and ResearchGate? (Metascience) (DOI, open science, publishing, Winnower)
15. March Opinions about nuclear energy and global warming, and wordsum intelligence (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Science) (global warming, nuclear energy, nuclear power, wordsum)
15. March Review: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (Jonathan Haidt) (Ethics, Politics, Psychology) (human rights, Jonathan Haidt, review)
14. March Attitude towards nuclear energy and correlates: educational attainment, gender, age, self-rated knowledge, experience, etc. (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Politics, Science) (education, nuclear energy, nuclear power)
14. March Freedom of expression and Facebook: Shall local FoE laws prevent Facebook from blocking content? (Freedom of speech/expression) (Facebook, freedom of expression, freedom of speech)
12. March Automatic testing of all possible multiple regression models given a set of predictors (Math/Statistics, Programming) (beta matrix, multiple regression, questionable research practices, R)
11. March Measuring scientific knowledge: can we use questions that are denied by the religious? (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Science, Uncategorized) (factor analysis, general factor, Religion, scientific knowledge)
06. March Personality correlates of breadth vs. depth of research scholarship (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Metascience) (conscientiousness, openness, polymath)
04. March S and G in Italian regions: Re-analysis of Lynn’s data and new data (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (Italy, S, general socioeconomic factor, the ecology of intelligence, the sociology of intelligence)
27. February Examining the S factor in US states (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (ACT, NAEP, race, S, general socioeconomic factor, SAT, United States)
25. February Two very annoying statistical fallacies with p-values (Math/Statistics) (fallacy, p-value, statistics)
25. February The S factor in China (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (China, S, general socioeconomic factor)
22. February Understanding restriction of range with Shiny! (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Math/Statistics, Programming) (R, restriction of range, Shiny)
22. February Indian states: G and S factors (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (g factor, India, S, general socioeconomic factor)
21. February Installing VIM in R on Mint 17 (Programming) (Mint, R)
21. February RCurl in R on Mint 17 (Uncategorized) (Mint, R)
19. February Java, even worse than PHP! (Programming) (java, suicide)
15. February PHP sucks (Programming) (PHP, suicide)
12. February Simpler way to correct for restriction of range? (Math/Statistics) (restriction of range, statistics)
11. February Magic pun (Humor) (kitten, pun)
10. February THC and driving: Causal modeling and statistical controls (Politics, Science) (Alcohol, causation, driving, drugs, THC)
03. February Review: The Second Machine Age (Brynjolfsson & McAfee) (Economics, Metascience) (AI, polymath)
02. February Review: Superintelligence (Nick Bostrom) (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Philosophy) (AI)
27. January Review: What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought (Stanovich, 2009) (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (rationality)
26. January As AI improves, what is the long-term solution to spam? (Computer science) (AI, bot, CAPTCHA, spam)
22. January Gender distribution of comedians over time (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Humor, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Psychology) (comedian, gender difference, Humor)
21. January True bliss (Humor) (bliss)
19. January Admixture in the Americas: Admixture among US Blacks and Hispanics and academic achievement (Genetics / behavioral genetics, Psychology) (academic achievement, admixture)
19. January Sometimes doing elementary things in R is a pain (Uncategorized) (programming, R)
18. January The personal Jensen coefficient, useful for detecting teaching to the test? (Differential psychology/psychometrics) (g-loading, Jensen coefficient, test prepping)
15. January A general assortative mating factor?: An idea in need of a dataset (Differential psychology/psychometrics) (assortative mating, general factor)
14. January Predicting immigrant performance: Does inbreeding have incremental validity over IQ and Islam? (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (immigrants, inbreeding, Islam)
14. January Scott O. Lilienfeld is a great researcher (Psychology) (pseudoscience, Scott O. Lilienfeld)
13. January Age differences in the WISC-IV has a positive Jensen coefficient, maybe (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (age, Jensen coefficient, WISC)
12. January Review: Faking Science (Diederik Stapel) (Metascience, Psychology) (fraud, publication bias, social psychology, Stapel)
12. January Review: The Sports Gene (David Epstein) (Genetics / behavioral genetics) (race, reaction time, sports)
10. January Intelligence, income inequality and prison rates: It’s complicated (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (crime, inequality, prison)
05. January Review: Race (John Baker) (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary Psychology, Genetics / behavioral genetics, Sociology) (History, John Baker, race)
04. January Do different intelligence tests measure the same g? (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (latent variable modeling, psychometric sampling error)
04. January Publication bias index by the author: a way to keep scientists honest? (Metascience) (open science, publication bias)
04. January The inconsistency of studies of gender differences in cognitive abilities: due to using different methods? (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (methodology, sex differences)

2014 (89)

27. December Reanalysis of Josefsson et al (2014)’s meta-analysis of exercise as treatment for depression (Medicine) (exercise, funnel plot, publication bias)
24. December Correlations and likert scales: What is the bias? (Math/Statistics) (bias, correlation, likert, statistics)
17. December Learning – theory and practice (Psychology) (learning)
11. December Copying WordPress installations with phpmyadmin (Computer science) (Wordpress)
08. December Workgroup: Doing Bayesian Data Analysis: A Tutorial Introduction with R and BUGS (Math/Statistics) (bayesian, statistics)
05. December Review: Misbehaving Science: Controversy and the Development of Behavior Genetics (Aaron Panofsky) (Genetics / behavioral genetics) (Jensen, race)
03. December Review: Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory (Bruno Latour) (Metaphilosophy) (Bruno Latour, postmodernism)
29. November Criticism of BMI and simple IQ tests – a conceptual link? (Critical thinking / meta-thinking, Medicine) (BMI, perfect solution fallacy, WHtR)
28. November Handbooks of intelligence (Differential psychology/psychometrics) (ebook)
26. November Review: The Roma: A Balkan Underclass (Jelena Cvorovic) (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Evolutionary Psychology, Sociology) (review, Roma)
21. November Installing scrapy on Mint 17 (Linux, linux, scrapy)
18. November Installing R on Mint 17 (Linux, linux, R)
15. November Admixture in the Americas: Introduction, partial correlations and IQ predictions based on ancestry (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genetics / behavioral genetics) (admixture, Admixture in the Americas)
13. November Orthographic reform and psycholinguistics: a selective synthesizing review (Linguistics/language) (orthographic reform, psycholinguistics, spelling reform)
11. November Review: Writing Systems: An Introduction to Their Linguistic Analysis (Linguistics/language) (phonological awareness, review, spelling)
06. November Discrimination against females in grant applications or publication bias? (Metascience) (grant, publication bias)
02. November Beautiful nonsense (Metaphilosophy) (nonsense, pomo)
02. November W values from the Shapiro-Wilk test visualized with different datasets (Uncategorized) (normality, R, Shapiro Wilk test, statistics)
30. October New paper out: The personal Jensen coefficient does not predict grades beyond its association with g (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (educational achievement, g-loading, grade point average, Jensen coefficient, Jensen Effect, method of correlated vectors)
21. October Meisenberg’s new book chapter on intelligence, economics and other stuff (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Economics, Education, Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (eugenics, growth, History)
21. October Is the summed cubes equal to the squared sum of counting integer series? (Math/Statistics) (programming, R)
15. October Jeffrey Beall’s anti-open access tirade (Metascience) (open access)
14. October Cancer rates: Part 2, does alcohol consumption have incremental predictive power? (Medicine) (Alcohol, cancer rates)
14. October Cancer rates and life expectancy? (Medicine) (cancer, life expectancy)
13. October Does conscientiousness predict PISA scores at the national level? A cautious meta-analysis (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (conscientiousness, PISA)
11. October International general factor of personality? yes, but… (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (GFP, S, general socioeconomic factor)
09. October New paper out: Crime, income, educational attainment and employment among immigrant groups in Norway and Finland (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Sociology)
09. October Paper out (some time ago): Are Headstart gains on the g factor?: A meta-analysis (Education) (compensatory education, Jensen coefficient)
09. October Causal effect of education on IQ scores using the discordant twin design? (Education, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Psychology) (discordant twin, education, g)
29. September Predatory journals (Education, Science, Science, Science) (academia, journals, open access, open science, parasitic, predatory, publishing)
29. September Review: The Digital Scholar: How Technology is Transforming Academic Practice (Martin Weller) (Education, Science) (academia, journal, open access, open science)
29. September Assortative mating for general intelligence: A meta-analysis (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Psychology) (assortative mating)
28. September Review: Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One’s Looking) (Christian Rudder) (Psychology, Sociology) (big data, dating, OKcupid)
28. September Review: G Is for Genes: The Impact of Genetics on Education and Achievement (Kathryn Asbury, Robert Plomin) (Education, Education, Psychology) (behavior genetics, public policy)
28. September Review: Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them (Joshua D. Greene) (Ethics, Psychology) (metaethics, utilitarianism)
25. September Review: Unlearning Liberty (Greg Lukianoff) (academia, Free Speech, free speech, university, USA)
24. September The hereditarian hypothesis is almost certainly true (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (genetic model, hereditarian, race)
24. September Rinderman’s 2013 survey of experts in intelligence research (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (expert, g, survey)
14. September Costs and benefits of publishing in legacy journals vs. new journals (Copyright and filesharing, Psychology, Science) (open access, open science, publishing, Science)
13. September P-hacking in science over time (Metascience) (p-hacking)
13. September How good is Google Scholar? (Metascience) (google scholar, indexing)
10. September The g factor in autistic persons? (Differential psychology/psychometrics) (autism, g factor)
08. September New paper out: The international general socioeconomic factor: Factor analyzing international rankings (Political science, Psychology, Sociology) (international, S, general socioeconomic factor)
31. August Comments on Learning Statistics with R (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Psychology) (programming, programming, R, statistics)
25. August Review: Is there anything good about men? (Roy F. Baumeister) (Evolutionary Psychology) (sex differences)
16. August Review: Understanding human history (Michael H. Hart) (Genetics / behavioral genetics, Psychology) (History, race differences)
16. August Pun #4923 (Humor) (pun)
16. August So i tried linux again (Linux, linux)
14. August Comment on CPGGrey’s new video on the future of automatization (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Economics, Education, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology) (automatization, CGPGrey, eugenics)
20. July So that idea I had about using genetically informed dating sites… (Psychology) (assortative mating, dating, genetics)
17. July Bouchard’s new review paper on Genes, Evolution, Intelligence is excellent! (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Evolutionary Psychology, Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (Bouchard, brain size, evolution, genes)
22. June Jensen’s 1972 Genetics and Education (Psychology) (education, genetics, Jensen)
22. June Arthur Jensen memorial site launched! (Psychology) (Jensen)
17. May A troublesome inheritance (Nicholas Wade) (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Economics, Evolutionary Psychology, Sociology) (population genetics)
12. May New paper out: Educational attainment, income, use of social benefits, crime rate and the general socioeconomic factor among 71 immigrant groups in Denmark (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Sociology) (Denmark, immigrants, S, general socioeconomic factor)
11. May Admixture study for neanderthal ancestry and psychological traits (Evolutionary Psychology, Genetics / behavioral genetics, Psychology) (admixture, neanderthal)
07. May Food is a waste of time (yes really) (Science) (food)
19. April First and second-order logic formalizations (Logic) (first order logic, second order logic)
10. April The IQ Controversy, the Media and Public Policy (1988, Snyderman, Rothman) (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Political science, Sociology) (media, public policy)
04. April New paper out: Criminality among Norwegian immigrant populations (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (crime, Criminology, immigrants, Norway)
28. March An Introduction to Toxicology (Burcham, Philip C.) (Science) (review, textbook, toxicology)
26. March Venice wants to be independent: analysis of possible outcomes given self-selection of the voting population (Political science, Politics) (independence)
14. March Paper published: Criminality and fertility among Danish immigrant populations (Differential psychology/psychometrics) (crime, Denmark, fertility, immigrants)
14. March Some thoughts on online voting (Political science, Politics, Politics) (Computer science, online voting)
09. March Towards autogenerated IQ batteries: Part 1, number series (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability)
07. March So I started a new open access journal and here’s the peer review system (Science) (open access)
06. March Test prepping discussion (Differential psychology/psychometrics) (ACT, SAT, test prepping)
05. March The quest for the perfect journal to publish in: The case of psychometrics, differential psychology (Science) (open access, open science)
01. March “Why is humankind doomed without eugenics?” #2 (Differential psychology/psychometrics) (Biotech, eugenics, eugenics)
28. February Murray’s aestethic realism (Philosophy, Science) (aestethic realism, Murray)
28. February “Why is humankind doomed without eugenics?” (Biotech, eugenics, eugenics)
27. February Human Accomplishment (Charles Murray) (Metascience, Science) (Murray)
27. February Educability and group differences (Arthur Jensen, 1973) (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Psychology) (Jensen)
16. February The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People (David P. Barash, Judith Eve Lipton) (Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary Psychology) (monogamy)
13. February Net contributions in the EU, g and the former east block (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Political science) (EU)
12. February DMCA #whoknows (Uncategorized) (copyright, DMCA)
11. February Review: Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government Is Smarter (Ilya Somin) (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Political science, Sociology) (political ignorance, review)
10. February Are compensatory education IQ gains g-loaded? No one knows, because the data are probably lost (Differential psychology/psychometrics) (Jensen coefficient)
06. February Review: Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction (Science) (review)
06. February Prediction: Good dating sites of the future will use genomic data to select partners with matching MHC (Evolutionary Psychology, Psychology) (assortative mating, dating)
05. February Some ideas about open and decentralized science (Science) (open science)
05. February Graphical overview of academic publication systems (Science) (academia, publishers)
05. February Semantic discussions of intelligence and the (un)importance of the study of race and g: A comment on Hunt and Jaeggi (2013) (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (race)
27. January Review: Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle (Political science) (review)
18. January Translation of summary of danish prostitution study (Sundhed, sygelighed og trivsel blandt klinikprostituerede) (Science) (prostitution)
17. January Eugenics and the Welfare State: Sterilization Policy in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland (1996) (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Political science, Sociology) (eugenics, eugenics, History)
17. January Paper published: Predicting Immigrant IQ from their Countries of Origin, and Lynn’s National IQs: A Case Study from Denmark (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (immigrants)
13. January Review of Introduction to psycholinguistics, Understanding Language Science by MJ Traxler (Linguistics/language, Psychology) (review)
10. January Yearly stats 2010-2013 (Uncategorized)

2013 (86)

30. November Introductory material to logic (Logic)
23. November Papers about training effects: a collection (Differential psychology/psychometrics) (practice effect)
04. November Review: Bad Pharma (Medicine, Science) (Innovation, Patents, review)
04. November Preimplantation genetic diagnosis, embryo slection (Genetics / behavioral genetics, Medicine, Science) (embryo selection, eugenics)
03. November Review: The raising of intelligence (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (review)
02. November DMCA #whatever (Uncategorized) (DMCA)
24. October Sony tries censorship… (Uncategorized)
17. October Review: The intelligence of dogs (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Evolutionary biology, Genetics / behavioral genetics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Psychology) (dogs, review)
10. October Review: Genes, Peoples, and Languages (Genetics / behavioral genetics) (population genetics, review)
02. October The typical social science theory (Psychology, Science)
02. October Theory of mind and reasoning complexity (paper for some linguistics class) (Linguistics/language, Logic)
24. September DMCA (Uncategorized) (DMCA)
23. September Review: Making sense of heritability (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Education, Feminism/equality, Science, Sociology) (heritability, review)
12. September Review: Taking sex differences seriously (Steven E. Rhoads) (Evolutionary Psychology, Psychology, Sociology) (review, sex differences)
08. September Review: Merchants of Doubt (Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway) (Political science) (climate science, Energy, History, review)
03. September Review: Who Stole Feminism? (Christina Sommers) (Education, Education, Feminism/equality) (feminism, Free Speech, review)
30. August Women in prisons in percent (Science) (prison, sex differences)
29. August Review: The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies (Economics, Political science, Psychology, Sociology) (political ignorance, review)
31. July Review: The Nurture Assumption (Judith Harris) (Psychology, Sociology) (heritability, review)
30. July Intelligence/IQ/GRE by academic field (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Education, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (field, GRE)
30. July Review: Helmuth Nyborg ed., The scientific study of general intelligence (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (review)
23. July How misinformed are people about psychometrics? (Differential psychology/psychometrics)
22. July A Galton quote of interest (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Philosophy) (Galton)
13. July Ebook: The Scientific Study of General Intelligence: Tribute to Arthur Jensen (Helmuth Nyborg) (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Psychology)
13. July Paper: Introducing the construct curiosity for predicting job performance (Uncategorized)
11. July Review: Future Human Evolution: Eugenics in the Twenty-First Century (John Glad) (eugenics, eugenics, review)
24. June Intelligence 34(5): Testing multiple intelligence theory (Differential psychology/psychometrics) (Multiple intelligences)
21. June Paper: Gendered Shopping: A Seven Country Comparison (Ellis et al) (Evolutionary Psychology) (sex differences)
20. June Review: Missing the Revolution: Darwinism for Social Scientists (Barkow ed.) (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary Psychology, Psychology, Sociology) (review, sex differences)
18. June Paper: School Choice, Universal Vouchers and Native Flight from Local Schools (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Sociology)
17. June Paper: Characteristics and Problems of the Gifted neural propagation depth and flow motivation as a model of intelligence and creativity (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Psychology)
16. June Relevance of education and intelligence for the political development of nations: Democracy, rule of law and political liberty (Rindermann 2008) (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Sociology)
14. June Simple reaction times: decline since Galton, and consistenly favor men (Differential psychology/psychometrics)
13. June Ripping books from UMDL Text: Leta S. Hollingworth’s Gifted children, their nature and nurture (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Education) (programming)
11. June Intelligence 31,4 – Sternberg’s triarchic model (Differential psychology/psychometrics)
06. June Oh noes DMCA! (Copyright and filesharing)
02. June Storbeck, Justin, and Gerald L. Clore. “On the interdependence of cognition and emotion.” Cognition and Emotion 21.6 (2007): 1212-1237. (Psychology)
30. May More reading material about race and intelligence/IQ/g (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Evolutionary biology, Psychology, Sociology)
21. May Bias in Mental Testing (Arthur R. Jensen) (Differential psychology/psychometrics)
20. May “I used improper factor analysis, and now there isnt a g factor. Spearman was wrong!” (Differential psychology/psychometrics)
08. May Review of Expert Political Judgement (Philip E. Tetlock) (Epistemology, Science) (Rationality)
01. May Liberal eugenics and social stratification (Multilogues, Sociology) (eugenics)
23. April Review: The Signal and the Noise (Economics, Epistemology, Metascience, Science, Sociology)
17. April Reading material on cognitive epidemiology (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genetics / behavioral genetics, Medicine, Sociology)
06. April Comments on Linguistic Anthropology (Laura Ahearn) (Linguistics/language)
02. April Review + comments: Analyzing Grammar, An Introduction (Paul R. Kroeger, 2005) (Language, Linguistics/language)
20. March Interesting reading on male adult male nonadult sexual interactions in a broad perspective (Evolutionary Psychology)
19. March Comparing onanism with child sexual abuse (Science) (psychiatry)
14. March Mouse cloning perfected? Human cloning not so far away (Science)
09. March Alternative to Sea Steading: Free State Project (Politics)
21. February Pyrrho on selfishness (Ethics, Humor, Multilogues)
19. February Porn stars and escorts (Science)
17. February Useless lie detectors and wasted money: the cost of irrationality (Science)
14. February Paper: Retaking ability tests in a selection setting implications for practice effects, training performance, and turnover (Differential psychology/psychometrics)
12. February Educational psychologist 41(4), the issue that is about multiple intelligence ‘theories’ (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Psychology) (Multiple intelligences, pseudoscience)
08. February The usefulness of sentences, a hiarchial view? (Linguistics/language, Metaphilosophy) (Meaning)
07. February Paper: Men and Women Are From Earth: Examining the Latent Structure of Gender (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Evolutionary Psychology, Psychology)
06. February Big update to the Cluster Wiki project (Philosophy, Science)
03. February Flouride in drinking water and … IQ? (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Medicine)
03. February Paper: A plea for science studies (Phillip Kitcher) (Metascience, Science)
01. February Stereotypes and accuracy (Psychology)
01. February Review: Beyond the Hoax: Science and Culture (Alan Sokal) (Epistemology, Metaphysics, Religion, Science, Science, Sociology) (Physics)
01. February Stereotypes: Women and chocolate, is the stereotype true? (Psychology)
31. January Paper: Social Structure and Language Structure: the New Nomothetic Approach (Linguistics/language)
29. January Polymaths, freedom of information, and copyright – why we need copyright reform to more effectively increase the number of polymaths (Copyright and filesharing, Education)
23. January Apparently, the feel good veganism is bad for… poor countries (Ethics)
22. January Paper: Why Not Epistocracy? (David Estlund) (Education, Government form, Politics)
21. January Paper: The impact of genetic enhancement on equality (Michael H. Shapiro) (Ethics, Government form, Politics)
20. January Why Open Access is a moral imperative (Metascience, Science)
18. January Kennethamy on voluntarianism about beliefs (Logic, Multilogues)
18. January Kennethamy on ordinary language filosofy, and ‘deep, profound questions’ (Language, Metaphilosophy, Multilogues)
18. January Kennethamy on the analytic principle of analyzing questions (Metaphilosophy, Multilogues)
18. January Ripping threads from able2know forums (programming)
18. January Metafilosofy: excerpt from a discussion (Metaphilosophy, Multilogues)
17. January PHD thesis: Establishing offshore autonomous communities: current choices and their proposed evolution (Miguel Lamas Pardo) (Government form, Science)
16. January Paper: The Rhetoric and Reality of Gap Closing (Stephen J. Ceci & Paul B. Papierno) (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Education, Sociology)
13. January Review: Science and pseudoscience in clinical psychology (Lilienfeld et al) (Psychology, Science, Science) (psychiatry)
13. January Paper: Why Women Have Orgasms: An Evolutionary Analysis (Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary Psychology)
13. January A funny review of Plantinga’s new book (Humor, Religion)
08. January Paper: Revisiting a 90-year-old debate: the advantages of the mean deviation (Math/Statistics)
07. January Paper: Worldwide health effects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident (Energy, Nuclear)
07. January Rapport: EU Surveillance (EDRi) (Free Speech, Surveillance)
07. January Pununun (Humor, Multilogues)
05. January Paper: Mystical Experiences Occasioned by the Hallucinogen Psilocybin Lead to Increases in the Personality Domain of Openness (Katherine A MacLean, Matthew W Johnson, and Roland R Griffiths) (Psychology) (drugs, openness, personality, psilocin)
05. January Paper: Evolutionary Psychology and Feminism (David Michael Buss & David P. Schmitt) (Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary Psychology, Feminism/equality) (pallacy)
05. January Paper: “Asia’s Missing Women” as a Problem in Applied Evolutionary Psychology? (Evolutionary Psychology, Sociology)

2012 (202)

28. December More about seasteading (Government form, Politics, Science)
28. December Review: How to start your own country (Erwin S. Strauss) (Politics)
27. December Review: The One World Schoolhouse (Salman Khan) (Education, Education) (Education)
27. December Paper: Musical beauty and information compression: Complex to the ear but simple to the mind? (Nicholas J Hudson) (Math/Statistics, Psychology) (Memetics)
26. December Proposal: A graphical tool to explore relationships between academic papers (Metascience, Science) (graphical, illustration, programing, project, proposal, scientometrics, visual)
26. December Review: The g Factor (Arthur Jensen) (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Economics, Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary Psychology, Genetics / behavioral genetics, Psychology, Sociology)
24. December Paper: Intelligence and semen quality are positively correlated (Differential psychology/psychometrics)
23. December Paper: Biological Sex Differences in the Workplace: Reports of the End of Men Are Greatly Exaggerated (As Are Claims of Women’s Continued Subordination) (Evolutionary Psychology)
22. December Review: Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science (Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont) (Education, Education, Linguistics/language, Metaphilosophy, Science, Sociology) (Meaning, Physics)
20. December Exam paper on negations (Language, Linguistics/language, Logic)
20. December Negation in English and other languages (Otto Jespersen, 1917) (Language, Linguistics/language)
18. December Punstuff (Humor, Multilogues)
17. December Alan Sokal ebooks (Metaphilosophy, Sociology) (pseudoscience)
16. December Ebook: The One World Schoolhouse – Salman Khan (Education, Education)
14. December The sad state of filosofy of science regarding IQ and race? (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Science)
12. December Spouses – which one is the smartest? (Differential psychology/psychometrics)
11. December Interesting paper: Logic and Reasoning: do the facts matter? (Johan van Benthem) (Linguistics/language, Logic, Psychology) (Interpretation)
06. December Review: Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Richard Feynmann) (Humor, Psychology) (Physics, pseudoscience)
03. December Thoughts about Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet (Assange et al) (Copyright and filesharing, Government form) (Free Speech, Surveillance)
30. November Ebook: The Blank Slate (Steven Pinker) (Uncategorized)
28. November Paper: AGAINST PHILOSOPHY: WHY PHILOSOPHY GETS NO RESPECT; A TAXONOMY of philosophy & A REVIEW of the successes and failures of 20th Century academic philosophy & RECOMMENDATIONS for the educational re-engineering of academic philosophy departments (Zak Van Straaten) (Metaphilosophy) (anti-philosophy)
28. November The low quality of psychology as a field, and how to improve science: reading material (Psychology, Science, Science)
28. November Paper: Do Bad Things Happen When Works Enter the Public Domain?: Empirical Tests of Copyright Term Extension (Buccafusco & Heald) (Copyright and filesharing, Economics)
28. November Steven Weinberg: “Against Philosophy” (from “Dreams of a Final Theory”). (Metaphilosophy, Science)
28. November Paper: “Positive” Results Increase Down the Hierarchy of the Sciences (Metascience, Psychology, Science)
26. November Foot Voting, Federalism, and Political Freedom (Ilya Somin) (Government form)
26. November Art Jensen’s 1969 article: How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement? (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Sociology)
15. November Conversation with Miao about guidance, selection of students, epistemology of getting rid of bad meme complexes (Epistemology, Multilogues)
15. November Another case of someone who intuited the modal fallacy early on? (Uncategorized) (modal)
15. November A conversation about pseudoscience, psychoanalysis, clarity of language (Multilogues, Psychology, Science)
07. November Review of The 10000 year explosion (Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending) (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary Psychology, Genetics / behavioral genetics, Sociology)
04. November Review of Real Education (Charles Murray) (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Education, Sociology)
01. November Review: Linguistics, an introduction (William McGregor) (Linguistics/language)
31. October Some metafilosofy (Metaphilosophy) (diseased discipline, lesswrong)
23. October Various 23-10-2012 (Uncategorized)
18. October Review and thoughts: Intelligence: A Unifying Construct for the Social Sciences (Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen, 2012) (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Economics, Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary Psychology, Genetics / behavioral genetics, Sociology) (download, ebook, free)
16. October Some links and quotes (Uncategorized)
16. October Thoughts about Ashraf and Galor (2012) (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Economics, Evolutionary biology, Genetics / behavioral genetics)
15. October Review of Let’s End Our Literacy Crisis (Bob C. Cleckler) (Linguistics/language)
11. October Review: Particle Physics, A very short introduction (Frank Close) (Physics)
09. October Some quick notes about a more expressive quantification logic (Language, Logic) (Interpretation, Meaning)
09. October “The naturalistic fallacy” as used in the science literature… (Ethics) (GE Moore, Hume, is/ought, naturalistic fallacy)
09. October Review and thoughts about The g Factor (Christopher Brand, 1996) (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Education, Genetics / behavioral genetics, Psychology, Sociology) (eugenics)
04. October Review of python book and some other thoughts (programming)
04. October The redundant use of “myself”, “personally”, and perhaps others (Linguistics/language)
03. October Something about certainty, proofs in math, induction/abduction (Epistemology, Math/Statistics, Multilogues) (Rationality)
03. October An alternative way to calculate squares.. without using multiplication (Math/Statistics)
02. October Boldrin and Levine’s new paper: The Case Against Patents (2012) (Patents)
28. September Some more stuff about KK-principle (Epistemology, Multilogues)
28. September Incomplete formal proof that the KK-principle is wrong (Epistemology, Logic)
27. September Estimating sex intelligence difference based on high-IQ samples? (Differential psychology/psychometrics)
25. September Education, autodidactism, etc.: Another Wikipedia trip (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Education, Multilogues, Philosophy)
20. September Funny stuff goes here (Humor, Multilogues)
20. September Decent paper i read on nuclear power (Energy, Energy, Nuclear)
20. September Unfinished paper: An evolutionary theory of the origin of same-sex sexual acts based on social bonding (Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary Psychology)
17. September Mining data from OKCupid: using OKC’s questions as an IQ-test (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Psychology) (Computer science)
12. September Learning – theory and practice (Philosophy)
11. September Some thoughts about the principle of compositionality (Language, Linguistics/language, Logic) (Meaning)
09. September Just world bias and karma (Ethics, Religion) (ethics of belief, karma)
06. September Another linguistics trip on Wiki (Language, Linguistics/language, Logic, Math/Statistics)
31. August A small thing about enumerative induction #2 (Logic)
30. August Pun #398284 (Humor)
29. August A small thing about enumerative induction (Logic)
28. August If u can read this, u can read anything… (Humor)
22. August Asimov, anti-intellectualism (more Wiki quotes) (Feminism/equality)
21. August Some quotes from Every Thing Must Go (Ladymann, Ross, and others) (Metaphilosophy, Metaphysics)
20. August Wikipedia on contraception, abortion, and everything in between! (Feminism/equality, Medicine) (Puritanism)
16. August Thoughts and comments: Is psychology a science? (Paul Lutus) (Psychology, Science) (pseudoscience, psychiatry)
15. August Quotes, links, comments 15-08-12 (Puritanism)
14. August Thoughts and quotes: Against Intellectual Monopoly (Boldrin & Levine) (Copyright and filesharing, Economics) (Patents)
12. August Quotes and thoughts: Deliberative Democracy and Political Ignorance (Ilya Somin) (Education, Government form, Politics)
11. August Quotes and comments: Knowledge about ignorance: New directions in the study of political information (Ilya Somin) (Education, Government form, Politics)
11. August Some quotes from Giving Debiasing Away: Can Psychological Research on Correcting Cognitive Errors Promote Human Welfare? (Scott O. Lilienfeld, Rachel Ammirati, and Kristin Landfield) (Critical thinking / meta-thinking, Psychology)
11. August DMCAs – its time to game the system (Copyright and filesharing)
11. August Review of Patent Failure (James Bessen & Michael J. Meurer) (Economics) (Patents)
08. August Various quotes and comments (Feminism/equality, Linguistics/language, Philosophy) (Puritanism)
07. August Some parafilias (Wiki quotes) (Psychology)
06. August Review of and thoughs about “Fooled by Randomness” (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) (Epistemology)
02. August Thoughts about Freakonomics (Psychology, Sociology)
31. July Einstein on operationally defining and measuring simplicity (Science)
31. July Esperanto blog (Uncategorized)
31. July Wired: Alt Text: Cleaning Up the Olympics, Genetic-Engineering Style (drugs)
30. July I have been studying nuclear power… (Energy, Energy)
30. July Big Five’s Openness to Experience and declicious correlations (yummy!) (Differential psychology/psychometrics)
27. July More research is paving the way for gamete selection, not just embryo/zygote selection (Genetics / behavioral genetics) (eugenics)
24. July Report: Copyright and Innovation: The Untold Story (Michael A. Carrier) (Copyright and filesharing) (Innovation)
24. July John Graham-Cunning on Charlges Babbage’s machines, and other things (Logic) (Mathematics)
24. July Razib Khan on blog culture and comments (again) (Uncategorized)
19. July Review of Philosophy, a very short introduction (Philosophy)
19. July Review of 100+ (Sonia Arrison) (Medicine, Philosophy)
18. July Ars Technica: WikiLeaks calls for donations, dares Visa/MasterCard to shut them down (Free Speech)
17. July Regarded Avaaz and the Peter Sunde petition (Copyright and filesharing) (avaaz, peter sunde, petition)
16. July Wikipedia and criticism of evolutionary psychology (Evolutionary Psychology)
14. July Pirate Bay proxy via WordPress (Copyright and filesharing)
14. July Sign the petition for Peter Sunde! (Copyright and filesharing)
14. July Interesting paper on The Swedish Model with regards to prostitution (Feminism/equality)
14. July Zygote/embryo selection eugenics is nearing (eugenics)
14. July Two reports about drug legislation that i read (drugs)
01. July Wiki quotes 01-07-2012 (Psychology) (drugs)
28. June Video: how do microwaves work? (Science)
28. June More fines to TPB people (Copyright and filesharing, Humor)
27. June So.. i stumbled upen some random feminist study… and decided to take a closer look (Psychology) (feminism, male, muscles, sexism)
26. June Some random things that i read recently+thoughts (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Evolutionary Psychology, Metascience, Psychology) (Punishment)
26. June Funsies (Humor)
26. June Some Satoshi Kanazawa articles + thoughts (Evolutionary Psychology)
20. June More Wikipedia stuff+more (Politics, Psychology, Science) (psychiatry)
17. June XKCD: Alphabet (Humor)
16. June Thoughts about SEP’s Vienna Circle + Logical Empiricism (Ethics, Metaphilosophy) (Meaning)
16. June Thoughts about “Why night owls are more intelligent” (Evolutionary Psychology, Psychology)
13. June Study: Simpler writing associated with judged intelligence and quality (Psychology)
12. June Suggested reading material about intelligence research for newcomers (Differential psychology/psychometrics)
11. June Keeping up to date with information and news with RSS feeds (Uncategorized) (feed, news, rss, rss feed)
07. June Personality psychology, five factor model and online tests (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Evolutionary Psychology) (FFM, five factor model, personality)
05. June Some Wikipedia links and remarks to them (Education, Linguistics/language) (esperanto)
05. June Ebook collections, some links and thoughts (Copyright and filesharing, Science) (download, ebooks)
04. June Geniuses, very high IQ people, science generalism (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Philosophy, Psychology)
04. June Men, attractiveness ratings and women who look like they are easy to get to bed (Evolutionary Psychology)
04. June Chess and intellligence, how does it work? (Differential psychology/psychometrics) (Chess)
03. June Ebook: Fooled by Randomness (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) (Economics, Philosophy, Psychology)
03. June Are u very smart and want a free genome sequencing? (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Genetics / behavioral genetics)
03. June Something about rationality (Critical thinking / meta-thinking, Psychology)
31. May Acceptance of evo psych claims and evolution – negative correlation? (Evolutionary Psychology)
30. May Thoughts about Diablo 3 (Games, Ludology)
30. May Duolingo (Uncategorized)
29. May Thoughts about: Criminology (11th ed., Siegel) (Science) (Punishment)
29. May Reading material about: evidence-based policy (Education, Politics, Politics) (drugs)
28. May Some thoughts about Richard Lynn (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary Psychology)
27. May Dunning Kruger effect, again (Psychology)
13. May Wiki links of interest (Uncategorized)
13. May A modal fallacy in linguistics (Linguistics/language, Logic) (modal)
10. May Thoughts about: A very short introduction to quantum theory (John Polkinghorne) (Epistemology)
10. May Ebook: Graham Priest – Introduction to non-classical logic (Logic)
10. May Regarding ‘black studies’ and the academic left’s crazy political correctness (Feminism/equality)
08. May Some TED videos (Uncategorized)
08. May Thoughts re. Relativity, a very short introduction (Russell Stannard) (Science)
04. May Fallibilism and noncontingent propositions, how to mix? (Epistemology)
02. May Review of The Case for Copyright Reform (Copyright and filesharing)
02. May Its puny time (Humor)
26. April Thoughts about polymathy (Philosophy) (polymath)
25. April Thoughts re. A very short introduction to The Elements (Philip Ball) (Science)
25. April Re. Thinking in foreign language makes decisions more rational (Ars Technica) (Critical thinking / meta-thinking, Psychology)
24. April Thoughts about: An Introduction to Language (Fromkin et al) (Language, Linguistics/language)
24. April Models of the most recent common ancestor (Genetics / behavioral genetics, Multilogues) (common ancestor, MRCA)
24. April Minimum virable human population size? (Genetics / behavioral genetics)
23. April Sweden’s crazy social experiment with gender (Feminism/equality)
21. April Thoughts about bogus and or pseudoscientific educational/intelligence theories (Differential psychology/psychometrics) (Multiple intelligences)
19. April Thoughts about SEP’s Naturalism (Science) (naturalism)
12. April /lit/ on poetry (Uncategorized)
11. April More on pomo nonsense (Language) (pomo)
09. April Review of: The Manipulated Man (by Esther Vilar) (Feminism/equality)
08. April The power of sexual selection: Asian eyelid surgery and other stuff women do (Evolutionary Psychology)
08. April On being right and avoiding being wrong (Critical thinking / meta-thinking, Epistemology, Psychology) (pallacy, right, truth, wrong)
06. April Thoughts about the Sherlock series and other series with very clever protagonists (Uncategorized) (series, show, TV)
05. April Methods for discovering which language is the hardest to learn (Linguistics/language) (hardest language, method)
03. April Re: Why Would You Remove Half a Brain? The Outcome of 58 Children After Hemispherectomy—The Johns Hopkins Experience: 1968 to 1996 (Medicine, Psychology) (Hemispherectomy, Mind, split-brain)
02. April Paul Graham on philosophy (Metaphilosophy)
01. April Quotes from Nyborg (ed.) The Scientific Study of Human Nature ( (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Psychology)
31. March Proposal for a free, open source Magic the Gathering alternative to Magic Online (Uncategorized) (free, magic, mtg, opensource, the gathering)
31. March I want to get into philosophy, where do I start? (Philosophy)
29. March Quote: /lit/ anon on female writers (Feminism/equality) (different, men, sexism, women)
29. March Peer-review again (Science)
29. March RE: THE ACCURACY OF INFERENCES ABOUT CRIMINALITY BASED ON FACIAL APPEARANCE (Evolutionary Psychology)
28. March What the author meant, what the teacher tnhinks the author meant… (Education) (mathematics)
25. March Quote from: Everyday Life as an Intelligence Test: Effects of Intelligence and Intelligence Context (Differential psychology/psychometrics, Humor, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (every day life)
25. March Review of Jeffrey Dhywood’s World War-D (drugs)
25. March Review of Psychology Applied to Modern Life: ADJUSTMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY (Psychology)
20. March Descartes joke (Humor) (Descartes)
12. March Beneficial effects of expore to nature (Psychology) (interaction, nature, rest)
11. March Recent paper about democracy and self-assessment/Dunning-Kruger (Politics) (democracy, dunning kruger, model, reform, voters too stupid)
11. March Sex difference in hygiene (Psychology) (gender, hygiene, OKcupid, proposal, sex differences, study)
11. March Nationalism, patriotism – difference? (Politics) (difference, nationalism, patriotism, search techniques)
11. March Alcoholism and LSD (alcoholism, LSD, meta-review, psychiatry)
08. March Vocab size of non-native english speakers by country (Linguistics/language) (english, vocab, vocabulary)
06. March Very high IQ and drug use: a mystery? (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Psychology) (drugs, recreational drug use, try)
05. March Lawrence Summers speech which got him fired (Feminism/equality) (harvard, larry summers, talk)
01. March Proposed method for estimating how much a person has read using an electronic library (Science) (how much, information, method, proposal, reading, self-asessment)
06. February Revue: No Safe Harbor (2012) (Copyright and filesharing)
06. February Biesikl helmets, saefty and lors (bicycle, helmet, laws, Paternalism)
05. February Ing.dk: Britisk matematiker starter stort oprør mod dyre tidsskrifter (Copyright and filesharing)
26. January IQ (verbal and math) per university disiplin (Differential psychology/psychometrics, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability) (discipline, education, GRE, math, university, verbal)
25. January 3D-printing and kopyriet (Copyright and filesharing) (3D-printing)
24. January Mor on postmodernism (Philosophy) (nonsense, pomo, postmodernism)
23. January The David Nutt afaer (David Nutt, drugs)
23. January Review of New Spelling (Linguistics/language) (Cut Spelling, English spelling reform, New Spelling)
21. January Raes and intelijens/IQ/g (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Psychology) (culture, genetic, hereditarian, race)
21. January Towards a logic of questions and answers (Language) (Erotetic)
19. January Piratebay’s publik staetment (Copyright and filesharing) (piratebay)
18. January Quote from Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Musical Fantasy (1976) (Humor, Psychology) (sex)
18. January Statistics for 2011 (Uncategorized) (statistics)
18. January Tenure, publish or perish etc.: reeding material (Science) (citation index, publication, publish, slow science)
17. January Inter-disiplinarines, polymathism and jeneralism (Science)
16. January DOTA, HON, LOL, Demigod… AoS, DOTA-ish, MOBA, wat?: A konseptual jenre analysis (DOTA, HON, lol, Ludology, MOBA, terminology)
16. January Sum interesting TED torks about energy (Politics, Science) (energy, fission, fusion, future, nuclear, thorium)
16. January Graet reeding about herisy, open-miendednes, eksentrik thinking (Critical thinking / meta-thinking, Metaphilosophy)
16. January Siekieatry, again (depression, disease, mental illness, psychiatry, symptom)
11. January Guardian: The US schools with their own police (Politics)
10. January Steven Pinker: Jews, Genes and Intelligence (videos) (Evolutionary Psychology, Psychology) (jews)
06. January Do u want kids with bad eyes? (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Medicine, Psychology) (books, myopia, reading)
05. January Kimerik humans and the imune sistem (Genetics / behavioral genetics) (blood, chimera, immune system, tolerance)
05. January Santorum is nuts (Politics)
05. January Proposal for a Wikipedia-based studi of adult actreses kognitiv abilitis (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Psychology) (porn actor, porn actress, porn star)
03. January The French languaj (Linguistics/language) (French)

2011 (78)

29. December List of films with one or very few lokations (few location, Film, list of, Memetics, one location, one setting)
28. December (Language) (constructed language, english, form, Interpretation, logic, syntax)
27. December Multi-vitamins, not good for u after all? (Medicine) (health, multi, pill, Science, vitamin)
27. December Uganda’s mysterius noding disees (Medicine) (hypothesis, nodding disease, Uganda)
21. December The Selfish Gene kontroversy: Dawkins, Mackie, Migley and Dawkins (Evolutionary biology) (controversy, Dawkins, Mackie, metaphor, Migley, The Selfish Gene)
19. December Languaj and thot (Language) (language and thought, linguistic relativity)
18. December Rosenhan experiment etc. (psychiatry, psychiatry, Rosenhan experiment)
18. December Sykopathy and its related konsepts: another term we shud taboo? (anti-social personality disorder, ASPD, Concept improvement, concept improvement, disssocial personality disorder, psychiatry, psychopathy)
09. December Q: I want to get into philosophy, what should I read? (Philosophy) (get into, introduction, Philosophy, what should i do?)
07. December Danish (and other languajes with the definit article as a sufix) and abreviations (Linguistics/language) (abbreviation, danish, definite article, problem, suffix)
29. November Calculation in the hed finding the next square and finding the meen (Math/Statistics)
28. November Good stuff from IG nobel prizes (Humor, Science)
28. November Reeding material: Peer review, open acces, open sience (Copyright and filesharing, Science) (open access, open science, peer review)
25. November Video series: Everything is a remix (Memetics)
24. November Dawkins: “Viruses of the mind” (Science) (p-values, peer review)
24. November Dennett (1995) and th modal falacy (Uncategorized) (modal, the modal fallacy)
24. November Reeding material: Meta-filosofy, bad thinking and bad languaj (Language, Metaphilosophy) (bad language)
13. November Swartz and Bradley on Janus-faced sentences (Language, Logic) (Janus-faced, Norman Swartz, Raymond Bradley, sentence)
08. November Ebook: My Immortal (Humor) (ever, fanfiction, worst)
02. November LessWrong: Intuitions and Philosophy (Metaphilosophy, Psychology)
01. November Paper: R. Lynn and P. Irwing – Sex differences on the Progressive Matrices a meta-analysis (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Psychology) (Irwing, men, meta-analysis, Richard Lynn, women)
01. November Three logicians walk into a bar: a formal explanation (Logic) (comic, formalization, logic, puzzle)
23. October Comment to Women, Fire, Dangerous things (Linguistics/language, Logic) (lakoff, presupposition, women fire dangerous things)
20. October Ebook: Bruce L. Gary – QUOTES FOR MISANTHROPES: Mocking Homo Hypocritus (Humor) (funny, joke, MISANTHROPE, quote)
19. October SJ Gould’s “What, if anything, is a zebra?” (Evolutionary biology) (free, Gould, if anything, is a zebra?, What)
13. October Ebook: Bobby Henderson – The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (Humor, Religion) (Bobby Henderson, download, ebook, free, The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster)
12. October Reeding ebooks – thots about comfortability and efficiency (Uncategorized) (comfort, ebook, ebook reader, laptop)
12. October Comment to: Lynn B Jorde & Stephen P Wooding – Genetic variation, classification and ‘race’ (Medicine) (Bayes' theorem, diagnosis, medicine, race)
10. October Review: Richard Lynn – Eugenics: A reassessment, 2001 (Psychology) (Eugenics: A reassessment, review, Richard Lynn)
06. October Ebook: Richard Lynn – Eugenics: A reassessment, 2001 (Ethics, Genetics / behavioral genetics) (download, ebook, ethics, eugenics, Eugenics: A reassessment, free, genetics, Richard Lynn)
06. October Review: David M. Buss – Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology (Evolutionary Psychology) (David M. Buss, download, ebook, Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, review)
06. October Review: Ben Goldacre – Bad Science (Medicine) (Bad Science, Ben Goldacre, download, ebook, free)
06. October Ebook: David M. Buss – Evolutionary Psychology: The new science of the mind, (Evolutionary Psychology) (David M. Buss, Evolutionary Psychology: The new science of the mind)
03. October Guest post: The Kalam Cosmological Argument provides no support for theism, by Angra Mainyu (Religion) (kalam, kalam cosmological argument, KCA, refutation, William Lane Craig)
23. September Som mor logic textbooks (Logic) (download, free, introduction, logic, pdf, textbook)
21. September Amitai Shenhav, David G. Rand, and Joshua D. Greene – Divine Intuition: Cognitive Style Influences Belief in God (Psychology, Religion) (atheism, belief, Intuition, Joshua D. Greene, reflection, study)
19. September Some IQ studys (intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Psychology) (atheism, correlation, disease, parasite)
13. September Ebook: Peter Singer – Practical Ethics (2nd ed.) (Ethics) (download, ebook, free, Peter Singer, Practical Ethics)
13. September Time travel: reading material (Metaphysics) (impossible, Norman Swartz, possible, time travel)
08. September Ebook: Lakoff – Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things (Language, Linguistics/language, Psychology)
08. September Incoming t-shirts! (Uncategorized) (logic, SC2, tshirt)
07. September A funny quote about logic (Humor) (denying the antecedent, modus morons, modus ponens, modus tollens)
05. September Ebook: Chris Swoyer – Critical Reasoning A User’s Manual (Logic)
05. September John Nolt – Logics, chp. 11-12 (Logic) (logic, modal, S5, textbook)
01. September Biological races; differences between groups/populations: reading material (Uncategorized) (ethnicity, genes, race)
29. August Google+ etc. (Uncategorized)
25. August Example of how one’s language influences one’s thinking: Calculating with different bases in math (Language) (base, language, math, thinking)
22. August Quote from HoEP (Evolutionary Psychology) (trust)
19. August Christopher Badcock on eugenics (Genetics / behavioral genetics) (Christopher Badcock, eugenics, fitness, quote)
28. July Drug liberalization: reading material (decriminalization, drug, drug policy, drugs, LEAP, legalization, research)
24. June Transhumanism, why people dislike it and why they are wrong (Philosophy) (transhumanism)
11. June Re: Bertrand Russell’s How I write (Uncategorized) (advice, Bertrans Russell, clear, writing)
07. June Re: Philosophy: A Diseased Discipline (Metaphilosophy) (less wrong)
25. May Re: “How To Get Rid Of Unwanted Redirects In Google Search Results” (Computer science) (get rid of, Google, link, redirect)
19. May Sexual terms for persons, clarification for those who need and a proposal for even better terms (Philosophy) (Concept improvement)
12. May A conversation about good philosophy and the lack of it (Metaphilosophy) (Pyrrho the younger)
05. May Phil. of science paper – ‘the’ problem of induction (Epistemology, Science)
04. May David Stove: What is Wrong with Our Thoughts? A Neo-Positivist Credo (Uncategorized) (David Stove)
27. April Re: Jack Cole – End Prohibition Now! (drug policy, drugs, End Prohibition Now!, Jack Cole)
22. April Pyrrho the younger on mythologies as a guide to action (Religion) (mythology)
22. April Swartz on fuzzy concepts (Language) (fuzzy concept, Swartz)
13. April Roy F. Baumeister – Is There Anything Good About Men? (Evolutionary Psychology, Psychology) (men, psychology, Roy F. Baumeister, sexes, women)
10. April Review: Seth Lerer, Inventing English: A portable history of the language, 2007 (Linguistics/language) (Inventing English: A portable history of the language, Seth Lerer)
25. March Anet: “How to Make It as a Game Designer” (Anet, game designer, Ludology)
20. March Charles S. Peirce – How to Make Our Ideas Clear (Philosophy) (Charles S. Peirce, How to Make Our Ideas Clear)
11. March Ars Technica: “Cheaters believe they’re that good, even when they’re not” (Psychology) (dunning kruger, self-assessment)
05. March Lesswrong: “The Neglected Virtue of Scholarship” (Critical thinking / meta-thinking)
05. March Pyrrho on reason and emotion (Philosophy) (emotion, Reason)
04. March Lesswrong: “Some Heuristics for Evaluating the Soundness of the Academic Mainstream in Unfamiliar Fields” (Critical thinking / meta-thinking)
04. February Review: Dick Taverne – The March of Unreason (Politics, Science) (Dick Taverne, Irrational, pseudoscience, review, Unreason)
02. February Philosophaster on “Persuasive power versus intellectual integrity” (Metaphilosophy) (honesty, intellectual integrity, Persuasive power, Principle of charity)
02. February Article: Francis Ford Coppola: On Risk, Money, Craft & Collaboration (Copyright and filesharing) (artist, Francis Ford Coppola, pay)
29. January Review: Martin Gardner – Fads and fallacies in the name of science (Martin Gardner, pseudoscience)
29. January Review: Joshua D. Greene – The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Truth about Morality and What to Do About it (Ethics) (antirealism, error theory, Greene)
27. January Theories of normative ethics and moral intuitions (Ethics) (intuitions, normative ethics, test, theory)
18. January Making sense or perhaps not (Metaphilosophy) (continental, making sense, Meaning, meaningful)
13. January Tests of students of different disciplines – philosophy students not bad at all (Uncategorized) (Philosophy, score, student, test)
07. January Unfinished essay (Uncategorized) (begging the question)

2010 (59)

13. December Re. Ken Binmore – Game Theory – A Very Short Introduction (Uncategorized) (Game Theory)
07. December So… your university wants to close some (humanities) department? (Uncategorized) (close, department, humanities, university)
06. December Excerpt from David M. Buss – Evoltuionary Psychology (Evolutionary Psychology) (men, sexual interest, women)
05. December “Don’t be evil” then again maybe not… (Copyright and filesharing) (censor, Google)
28. November Norman Swartz and Raymond Bradley’s Possible Worlds finally available (Uncategorized) (Norman Swartz, Possible Worlds, Raymond Bradley)
29. October Heinlein on time travel (Uncategorized) (time travel)
27. October Quote: Heinlein “Time Enough for Love” (Uncategorized) (Heinlein, Time Enough for Love)
25. October Status (Uncategorized)
23. October Classical predicate logic and empty domains (Logic) (domain, empty, predicate logic)
23. October Are contradictions meaningful? (Language, Logic) (contradiction, meaning, meaningful)
19. October So maybe Kant wasn’t such a nice guy anyway… (Humor) (crazy, Kant)
16. October Pyrrho on “Why are endangered species worth preserving?” (Ethics) (Appeal to nature, endangered species, is/ought, naturalistic fallacy, preserving)
08. October Paper: David Makinson, The paradox of the preface (Epistemology) (David Makinson, paradox, preface)
07. October Pyrrho on the Trolley Problem (Ethics) (trolley problem)
03. October Propositions, cross-world identity and truth values (Metaphysics) (identity, modal, Possible Worlds, proposition, PWS, truth value)
26. September Bachelors and essential properties (Language) (bachelor, essential property, modal)
22. September Quote: (maybe) Aristotle (Philosophy) (Educated mind, Mark of)
19. September Even more bad puns (Humor)
15. September More junk wordplays (Humor)
14. September Philosoraptor tiem! (Humor) (Philosoraptor)
09. September Kennethamy on boring books and learning (Logic, Multilogues, Philosophy) (book, boring, learning, logic)
06. September “garbage in, garbage out” (GIGO) and deduction (Logic) (deduction, garbage in, garbage out, GIGO)
26. August Something about Moore’s ‘paradox’ (Language, Multilogues) (Moore's paradox)
19. August Analysis of top 200 (199) data from the Starcraft 2 European ladder (analysis, Starcraft 2, starcraft 2, statistics)
19. August Ben Burgis on the Liar paradox and other related paradoxes (Logic) (liar, Meaning, paradox)
19. August Re: The future of the music industry (Copyright and filesharing) (music industry, piracy)
20. July “The periodic table of irrational nonsense” (Humor) (nonsense)
06. July Karl Popper – “Science: Conjectures and Refutations” (Philosophy) (Conjuctures and Refutations, Karl Popper, pdf, Science: Conjuctures and Refutations)
26. June The web of belief approach: The case with Newton’s physics and relativity (Epistemology) (logic, method, Newton's physics, reasoning, relativity, web of belief)
15. June What does “begging the question” mean? (beg the question, begging the question, pallacy)
12. June An examination of randomness in Heroes of Newerth (analysis, discussion, examination, Heroes of Newerth, HON, luck, Ludology, random, randomness)
05. June The contagiosity of meaninglessness – formalised for propositional logic (Language, Logic) (contagiosity, formal, meaninglessness)
05. June Sentence theories of truth, meaningless sentences and untrue sentences (Language, Logic) (false, meaningful, meaningless, sentence theory, true, truth carriers)
03. June Less activity (Uncategorized)
03. June A dissimilarity between “believe” and “know” (Epistemology) (belief, knowledge)
20. May Fallacy of All objections defeated (All objections defeated, pallacy)
20. April Link: Why Norwegian is the easiest language for English speakers to learn (Uncategorized) (danish, easy, english, learn, norwegian, swedish)
05. April New page: My Language use (Uncategorized)
30. March Thoughts and speculations about webs of belief (Epistemology) (coherentism, justification, number, relation, speculation, webs of belief)
30. March Monist sentence theory and modal truths (modal truth, Monist sentence theory, truth carrier, truth carriers)
22. March Worth reading: The Streisand Effect (Uncategorized) (The Streisand Effect)
13. March Quote from SEP on Pornography and Censorship (Uncategorized) (different, meaning, talking past each other)
18. February An analogy between webs of belief and evolutionary peaks (Epistemology, Metaphilosophy, Religion) (analogy, evolution, peak, web of belief)
18. February Translating “x believe(s) in y” into “x believes that z” (Language) (belief, believe in, believe that, translate)
18. February Ad: Rip – A Remix Manifesto (Politics) (copyright, remix, Rip)
17. February Necessary beings, a different counter-example (Philosophy) (being, necessary, possible)
17. February Quine’s On What There Is (Language) (meaning, name, On what there is, Ontology, Quine)
22. January The phrases “I cannot find …” and “I couldn’t find …” and willful possibility (I cannot find, I couldn't find, Interpretation, possibility, willful possibility)
22. January The phrase “so-called …” and the correct use of language without knowing the conditions for correct use (Language) (so-called)
19. January Norman Swartz on the omniword “thing” (Language) (omniword, thing)
19. January “This Here Hand Is My Hand, I Think” (Philosophy) (Self-identification, self-localization)
18. January The bible and suicide – a solution (Humor, Religion) (bible, suicide)
15. January Similarity between PWS and predicate logic (Logic) (predicate logic, PWS, Similarity)
12. January The Myth of Morality and interpretation (interpretation, Interpretation, The Myth of Morality)
12. January TED: Eric Giler demos wireless electricity (Science) (Eric Giler, wireless electricity)
10. January Seneca the younger on suicide, letter 70 and 77 (Ethics) (Hume, Seneca the younger, suicide)
10. January Pyrrho on higher level inductions (Logic) (higher level induction, induction, Pyrrho)
06. January A note about modal collapse (Uncategorized) (modal, modal collapse)
02. January “Do you still beat your wife?” formalized (Uncategorized) (answer, Do you still beat your wife?, Erotetic, formalization, logic, question)

2009 (119)

31. December Some ideas about formalizing questions and answers (Uncategorized) (answer, Erotetic, erotetic logic, formalizing, loaded question, pallacy, question)
31. December The Myth of Morality and carelessness (Ethics) (careless, Richard Joyce, The Myth of Morality)
29. December Kennethamy on the difference between human and person (Philosophy) (human, person)
27. December Explicating reliability (Epistemology) (reliability)
22. December Norman Swartz on realism about abstract objects (Metaphysics) (abstract object, Norman Swartz, realism)
22. December ACB on appealing to authority and a minimum level of understanding (Epistemology) (ACB, appealing to authority, minimum level of understanding)
20. December Careful with that equivocation, Eugene! (ACB, equivocation, pallacy)
13. December Identity and personal identity (Metaphysics) (identity, Liebniz's law, personal identity, strict identity)
11. December An argument against traditional monotheism (Religion) (god, time, traditional monotheism)
10. December Interpretation of “always” (always, interpretation, Interpretation, never, sometimes)
10. December The analytic principle of questions (Metaphilosophy, Multilogues) (analytic principle, question)
09. December Primary truth bearers, none of them? (analyze, deny, none, primary truth bearer, true/false, truth bearer, truth carrier, truth carriers)
05. December Quote: Archibald A. Hill (maybe) (Language) (Archibald A. Hill, language, pronounciation, quote)
05. December Worth reading: Mark Twain, “The Awful German Language” (Uncategorized) (awful, criticism, german, language, Mark Twain)
03. December The sentence theory of truth bearers – problems with cognitively meaninglessness and logical implication (cognitively meaningless, he sentence theory of truth bearers, logical implication, meaninglessness, truth carriers)
03. December The principle of unique location (Metaphysics) (location, principle, unique)
28. November Infallible knowledge, the modal fallacy and modal collapse (Uncategorized) (Infallible knowledge, modal, modal collapse, the modal fallacy)
28. November Dialogue – Kennethamy and Emil (Epistemology, Humor, Multilogues) (Kennethamy)
21. November Beliefs as secondary truth bearers in a pluralistic proposition theory (beliefs, pluralistic proposition theory, truth bearers, truth carriers)
21. November Sentences as secondary truth bearers in a pluralistic proposition theory #2 (pluralistic proposition theory, sentence, truth bearers, truth carriers)
21. November A justification principle about logical implication (Epistemology) (Gettier, justification, justification principle, logical implication)
19. November The sentence theory of truth bearers – the problem of ambiguity #2 (ambiguity, Ben Burgis, existence, property, sentence theory, truth bearers, truth carriers)
18. November Sentences as secondary truth bearers in a pluralistic proposition theory (false, falsity, pluralistic proposition theory, proposition, proposition theory, Sentences as secondary truth bearers, true, truth, truth bearer, truth carriers)
18. November Truth bearers (bearer, false, falsity, primary truth bearers, property, proposition theory, secondary truth bearers, sentence theory, true, truth, truth bearers, truth carriers)
18. November The sentence theory of truth bearers – the problem of ambiguity (ambiguity, both, false, neither, the problem of ambiguity, The sentence theory, true, truth carriers)
17. November Psychological and epistemic certainty (Epistemology) (Epistemic certainty, Psychological certainty)
17. November “Stop raping language!” (Uncategorized) (inconsistent performative, language, rape)
16. November Work in progress… (Uncategorized)
15. November “More desirable” and “less undesirable” (Language) (double negative, implicature, less undesirable, More desirable, phrase, wording)
14. November Quote: George Burns (Humor) (George Burns, quote, sexes)
13. November Stephen Law and Nigel Warburton's "Five Questions About Clarity" (Language) (clarity, Nigel Warburton, Stephen Law)
01. November Quote: "jeeprs" (Humor, Logic) (joke, objective, subjective)
28. October Semantic Analysis and meaning (Language) (language, meaning, Paul Ziff, phrase, Semantic, token, type, word)
21. October Paul Ziff's Semantic Analysis and Onomatopoeia (Language) (Onomatopoeia, Paul Ziff, Semantic Analysis, sound word)
21. October Logical interpretation of subjects, the utterer and the utterance situation (Language, Logic) (form, interpretation, logic, situation, subjects, utterer)
20. October Quote: Paul Ziff (Language) (Expliciteness, language, Paul Ziff, Preciseness, quote)
19. October Negating sentences in english (Language, Logic) (construction, language, logic, negating, negation, predicate, sentence, sentence part)
18. October Frege and anti-semitism (Uncategorized) (anti-semitism, Frege)
14. October Quote: Albert Einstein (Humor) (Albert Einstein, falling, gravity, in love, love, quote, source)
01. October New page: Constructing truth tables – Filling in the wff's (Uncategorized)
29. September The current king of France, propositions, sentences, and missing subjects (Language, Logic) (missing subjects, propositions, sentences, The current king of France, The present king of France)
28. September Language, the modal fallacy and the symbolic representation of a conditional (Language) (conditional, formalization, language, modal, the modal fallacy)
27. September The Present Progressive and “to see” etc. (Language) (The Present Progressive, verb)
27. September The Present Progressive and time (Language) (always, analysis, eternity, The Present Progressive, time)
18. September Moron of the day: Jacqui Dean (Humor, Politics) (Alcohol, DHMO, drugs, Jacqui Dean, politics, Salvia divinorum, tobacco, Water)
18. September Quote: Bertrand Russell, Problems of Philosophy (Philosophy) (Absurd, Bertrand Russell, Philosopher, Problems of Philosophy, quote)
17. September Using propositions as variables (Logic) (curly brackets, formalization, parentheses, predicate, proposition, relation, square brackets, symbolization, variable)
17. September Explicating epistemic possibility (Epistemology) (epistemic possibility, Explication, Goldbach's Conjecture)
14. September Book review: Possible Worlds, Norman Swartz, Raymond Bradley, 1979 (Logic) (book, Norman Swartz, Possible Worlds, Raymond Bradley, review)
14. September Download: Philosophical books en masse! (Uncategorized) (books, download, Philosophical books)
14. September Article ads: "The Future of Copyright", Rasmus Fleischer; “The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution.", Peter Biddle, Paul England, Marcus Peinado und Bryan Willman (Copyright and filesharing) (content, Content Distribution, copyright, crisis, Darknet, piracy)
13. September Being a good intellectual (Uncategorized) (good intellectual, intellectual, Virtue)
13. September Re: Beliefs and probabilities 2 (Epistemology) (beliefs, infinite, probabilities)
12. September Quote day (Philosophy) (citat, Hume, quote, Russell, Wittgenstein)
08. September Re: Beliefs and probabilities 1 (Epistemology) (beliefs, Beliefs and probabilities, probabilities, theory)
08. September Assertion and inference rules (Epistemology, Logic) (Assertion, dispositional theory, inference rules)
07. September The many ways (Literary nonsense) (homonym, homophone, way)
03. September Sidewalk god… (Humor, Multilogues)
03. September Kiddie porn… (Humor) (porn)
01. September An appeal to skepticism about reasoning (Logic, Philosophy) (aid, clarity, formal logic, logic, modal, reasoning, skepticism)
30. August Physical impossibility and ought implies can (Ethics) (ought implies can, Physical impossibility, Regularity Theory, The Unbearable Lightness of Being)
28. August The dispositional account of belief and an infinite number of beliefs (Epistemology) (belief, dispositional account of belief, infinite number)
28. August Quote: Bertrand Russell (Uncategorized) (A History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Analysis)
27. August Torrentfreak article: "Independent Film Company Responds To BERR Consultation" (Copyright and filesharing) (copyright, film industry, Independent Film Company, Torrentfreak)
26. August “But you don't know that you know that!” (Epistemology, Multilogues) (certainty, knowing that one knows, knowledge)
23. August Induction, deduction and the lack of justification (Epistemology) (deduction, induction, justification)
23. August Human rationality (Epistemology) (deduction, Human rationality, induction, justification, rationality)
14. August Book available: The Web of Belief (Philosophy) (Quine, The Web of Belief)
13. August Valid arguments, contingent truths & forms (Logic) (argument form, contingent, valid, validity)
13. August Complete arguments (Logic) (complete argument, complete formal argument, example)
12. August Validity and necessary truths (Logic) (argument, impossible, modal, necessary truth, valid, validity)
12. August Truth tables and necessary truths (Logic) (impossibility, impossible, modal, necessary truth, truth table)
12. August Quote of the day: Jake "Leaf" Greenleaf (Philosophy) (clarity, clear thinking, fallacies)
11. August Logical impossibilities (Uncategorized) (absolute logical impossibility, logical impossibility, logically impossible, modal, relative logical impossibility)
06. August Some modal fallacy whine (Uncategorized) (modal)
06. August Definition of 'a probability' (Epistemology) (a probability, mere possibility, not mere possibility, probability)
29. July Two ideas for torrent clients (Computer science) (feature, file-sharing, idea, proposal, torrent, tracker)
28. July Ad: Courtroom Quotations (Humor)
24. July Language, truth makers and truth guides (Language) (correct, language, spell, spelling, truth, truth condition, truth guide, truth maker)
22. July Grammatical conjugation with verbs (Language) (are, er, Grammatical conjugation, is, pirate, to be, verb)
11. July Implying a category error (Language, Philosophy) (category error, Implication, Meaningfulness, meaninglessness)
10. July Oscar Wilde – Intentions (Uncategorized) (Intentions, Oscar Wilde)
08. July Sound arguments and rationally convincing arguments (Logic) (argument, convincingness, rationally convincingness, sound, soundness)
07. July Stone-paradox – revised and explained (Religion) (can god create a stone, modal, omnipotence, paradox, stone)
27. June XKCD’s NP-Complete (Uncategorized) (mathematics, NP-Complete, XKCD)
24. June Induction and a probability formula (Philosophy) (confirmation, Hume's maxim, hypothesis, observation, probability)
23. June Some different deterministic theses (Uncategorized) (causal determinism, cause, conceptual clarification, determinism, effect, Minimal Causal Determinism, Necessarian Causal Determinism, Predictability Causal Determinism)
22. June Worldviews and mistaken beliefs, a paradox (Philosophy) (beliefs, paradox, worldview)
14. June Meaning, propositions, category errors (Language) (ambiguity, category error, cognitive meaning, impossibilities, meaning, proposition, statements)
14. June Modal logic formalization, multiple kinds of possibilities (Uncategorized) (formalization, logic, modal, necessary, possible, symbolization)
09. June The recent controversy about Hume's Maxim against justified belief in miracles (Epistemology) (David Hume, David Johnson, Earman, Fogelin, Hume, Hume's maxim, John Earman, Johnson, Jordan Howard Sobel, McHugh, Miracles, Robert J. Fogelin, Sean McHugh, Sobel)
19. May The term non-sequitur (Language, Logic) (argument, interpretation, non-sequitur, Principle of charity, validity)
15. May Discussions on the internet (Uncategorized) (discussion, Discussions on the internet, forum, Principle of charity)
13. May "The War on Sharing: Why the FSF Cares About RIAA Lawsuits" (Politics) (copyright)
12. May Belief, disbelief; agreement, disagreement (Language) (agreement, belief, disagreement, disbelief)
10. May Two kinds of certainty (Epistemology) (absolute, Cartesian, certainty, epistemic, psychological)
23. April Why something rather than nothing? An argument for the necessity of a something-world (Philosophy) (impossible, impossible world, possible, possible world, probability, something rather than nothing)
20. April Motivation, reason, the impossible (Philosophy) (David Hume, desire, Enquiry concerning the principles of Morals, Hume, impossible, Reason, Reasonable, Tom L. Beauchamp)
17. April A journey into possibility land (Uncategorized) (absolute, Hypothetical, impossible, modal, modality, necessary, possible)
16. April Contraries and contradictories (Logic) (contradictories, contradictory, Contraries, contrary)
11. April Swartz' "Philosophy as a Blood Sport" (Metaphilosophy) (behavior, combat, metaphilosophy)
07. April Does a sound LPoE establish that god is impossible? (Religion) (evil, LPoE, modal, problem of evil)
30. March Atheism/Theism and Agnosticism – Definitions (Philosophy, Religion) (agnostic, ateisme, atheism, definition, nomenclature, nomenklatur, teisme, Theism)
29. March The Onion: Are violent video games adequately preparing children for the apocalypse? (Humor) (spil, The Onion, Video games, video spil, violence, vold)
18. March Objective propositions? (Philosophy) (nominalist, platonism, problem of universals, universals)
02. March The universe is made of failium! (Humor, Literary nonsense) (FAIL, failium, nonsense)
27. February Tough modal logic formalization (Logic, Religion) (god, gud, prædikatslogik, predicate logic, verden, world)
23. February JTB+ and the first person perspective (Epistemology) (1. person, JTB, knowledge)
19. February A quick argument for the principle of simplicity (Epistemology) (Occam's Razor, Parsimony, simplicity)
18. February Dangerous anti-sex addiction, DASA (Humor) (addiction, forum, posting)
17. February Response to Cartesian's case for broad theism (Religion) (broad theism, Cartesian, god, Theism)
15. February Incomplete propositions, time parameters (Language, Multilogues) (proposition, time parameter)
22. January The source of … and definitions (Logic, Religion) (definition, god, morality, source of morality)
21. January Quote: David Hume (Philosophy) (Error, Hume, Mistake, quote)
09. January Knowledge as a kind of belief… maybe (Epistemology) (belief, knowledge, subset)
07. January Formal debate: third and last round (Religion) (deleet, formal debate, FRDB, logical problem of evil, LPoE, morally sufficient reason, wiploc)
07. January The modal fallacy (Uncategorized) (fallacy, logic, modal, modal fallacy, modal logic, natural language, necessarily, necessary)
06. January Formal debate with Wiploc: Second round (Religion) (formal debate, logical problem of evil, LPoE, wiploc)
04. January Formel debat på FRDB: The logical problem of evil (Religion) (atheism, debate, EPoE, evil, formal debate, FRDB, god, logical problem of evil, LPoE, problem of evil, Theism)

2008 (18)

15. December Awesome Bicycle Argument is awesome (Humor) (Bicycle Argument)
30. November Quote: Bertrand Russell on the stupid and the intelligent (Philosophy) (Bertrand Russell, doubt, intelligent, quote, stupid)
27. November Quote: Pyrrhonisme (Epistemology, Humor) (Pyrrhonisme)
06. November Problems with definitions (Language) (definition)
25. October "The allegory of the trolley problem paradox" (Humor, Philosophy) (comic, trolley problem)
25. October Do you remember my abort argument? (Humor, Religion) (abort, comic)
23. October Rebuttal to an agnostic position. (Religion) (agnostic, atheism)
23. October The incompatibility of omnipotence and omniscience (Philosophy, Religion) (omnipotence, omniscience, possible)
05. October Defending the Invisible Pink Unicorn! (Humor, Religion) (Invisible Pink Unicorn, IPU, pink, unicorn)
02. October The case for evil theism (Religion) (evil theism)
27. September Duty calls! (Humor) (duty calls)
15. September Nonsensical English (Humor, Language) (language, nonsensical)
03. September The prime facie principle in epistemology (Epistemology) (evidence, prima facie, principle)
03. September JTB+ and knowledge (Epistemology) (JTB, knowledge)
17. August Re: Argument from movement (Religion) (argument from motion, argument from movement, god, gud)
25. June Statistics – Dialog (Multilogues, Philosophy) (statistics, statistik)
12. March The power to follow your every move (Ethics, Politics) (engelsk, GPS, technology)
23. January Dances with robots (Uncategorized) (AI, ethics, life, robots)

2007 (1)

30. October Argument from Morality? (Ethics)