Are dogs good or bad for fertility?
In August last year, I wrote a post about our then new study about people's pet preferences and various human differences: Prior research found that pet preferences and ownership relates…
EU health tech at its finest: case study of Oviva
A friend sent me this linkedin post some days ago. I was mainly interested because I thought it might have something to do with making eggs for IVF (oviva meaning…
Does assortative mating work?
In my recent post about differences on the tails, a good comment was posted by Kristine: Is there any correlation between IQ gap and divorce, I wonder... The generation observation…
New York Times is back on the race science beat
Back on the 23rd October 2025, some journalist I hadn't heard of called Mike McIntire emailed me. He said he was writing some smear piece for the New York Times,…
Assortative mating and differences
Cremieux has a viral post showing the absolute IQ gaps for spouses/partners as a function of the smartest spouse: This finding is trivial but apparently surprising to many people judging…
Who is biased? On motivation and science
In the idealized science world, research is done for the sole purpose of finding truth, and doesn't have any ulterior motives for anything else. Papers are published without regards to…
Good science on national IQs
Shae Mclaughlin (SM) has a new blogpost attacking national IQs. I thought it would be suitable to provide the usual rebuttal since I don't see any such post yet. She…
Mini-reviews of books I read in 2025
I regularly post in-depth book reviews, but I don't review all books I read. This is due to some combination of sloth and them just not having enough quoteable content…
Understanding audit (resumé) studies
John B. Holbein is a mild mannered economist on X. 2 days ago he posted a long post on Lee Jussim's new review paper of racial discrimination in hiring. Jussim…
Whose benefit of the doubt?
In selection contexts (e.g. hiring), there is the notion of the benefit of the doubt. If you have some non-meritocratic desires for selection, and you find yourself with 2 otherwise…
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