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Author: Emil O. W. Kirkegaard

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Read more about the article Give women what they want: more babies

Give women what they want: more babies

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:26. January 2025
  • Post category:Politics/Sociology

Central to the decline of the West and now almost all high income countries is that they have too low fertility. Just a reminder from the prior post: Why the…

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Read more about the article The anti-boomer story

The anti-boomer story

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:25. January 2025
  • Post category:Economics

The anti-boomer story goes like this: There was upon a time a happy, functional western civilization. Then came one generation who voted for a lot of welfare increases. The same…

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Read more about the article Language and clusters

Language and clusters

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:23. January 2025
  • Post category:Biology

The recent Trump executive order on sex and gender spurred some debate about the intricacies of biology of sex. Here's the relevant part: Sec. 2.  Policy and Definitions.  It is…

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Read more about the article On genocide and the worst modern ideology

On genocide and the worst modern ideology

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:23. January 2025
  • Post category:Politics/Psychology/Sociology

Some time ago I read Bradley Campbell's The Geometry of Genocide: A Study in Pure Sociology. Like his other books, it's short, to the point, and well worth reading. First,…

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Read more about the article Against “phobia”

Against “phobia”

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:21. January 2025
  • Post category:Language/Media studies

There's two uses of this common word: Fear or anxiety of something. Dislike of some group, usually left-wing aligned. The first is the original as it is just the Greek…

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Read more about the article The racism of teachers

The racism of teachers

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:21. January 2025
  • Post category:Education/intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability/Social psychology

This is the 1601st post on this blog since 2007 (I regret not seeing the counter was at 1599 yesterday!). That's kinda crazy to think about. In about 2.5 years…

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Danish women also don’t like nuclear power

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:20. January 2025
  • Post category:intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability/Political science

Here's a fun analysis I did as a side-project. I have a dataset of ~620 Danes who took a long vocabulary test, as well as answered 30 political questions. One…

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Read more about the article The mirror self-recognition test as an intelligence test among humans

The mirror self-recognition test as an intelligence test among humans

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:19. January 2025
  • Post category:intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability

Recently, there has been much talk about national IQs, again. Here's the recent significant writings: Jan. 13. Lyman Stone has a reply to my piece on within vs. between dysgenics.…

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Read more about the article Dysgenics: within and between

Dysgenics: within and between

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:11. January 2025
  • Post category:Genetics / behavioral genetics/intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability

Lyman Stone has a new post over at Institute for Family Studies: Are We Headed Towards ‘Idiocracy’? A Look at ‘Dysgenic Fertility’. His main point is that the strength of…

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Read more about the article Good immigrants, bad immigrants: Dutch edition

Good immigrants, bad immigrants: Dutch edition

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:10. January 2025
  • Post category:Immigration/intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability

People have been posting results from this new Dutch study of immigration, so I thought I would cover it here to increase the reach. van de Beek, J., Hartog, J.,…

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