The Polgár sisters success story
The essence of my pedagogical program is that in my opinion, every healthy child can be raised to be an outstanding person, in my words, a genius. When we began…
Educated birds of a feather
Parent-child similarity is a much studied topic. So much studied that various fields have come up with many different terms for the same thing: intergenerational elasticity, intergenerational persistence, intergenerational mobility…
High IQ trans and nonbinary confirmed
If you have been paying attention, you will probably have noticed that a lot of the trans and non-binary people seem to be quite bright. Indeed, that's one of the…
Is spanking your kids good or bad for them?
Administering physical (corporal) punishment has a long history. Public flogging or whipping used to be commonplace, and now they are mostly illegal, and we regard foreign countries who employ these…
On Jewish intelligence
Ah, yes, the perennial Jewish question. Historically, the Jewish question was what to do with the Jews from the perspective of those running countries: tolerate, integrate, convert, expel, or exterminate?…
Can’t say parasites causes low IQ either
Ever since Richard Lynn started compiling national intelligence averages (national IQs), there has been egalitarian minded researchers using these to find evidence of non-genetic causes of group differences. One frequently…
Did high IQs protect top Nazis at Nuremberg?
The Nazis famously carried out a number of atrocities involving the populations under their dominion. Most famously, this involved the mass murders of Jews in Europe, but quite a number…
Within vs. between group correlations
Let's think about causality and group-level comparisons. Here I mean any type of group, whether nations, sub-national divisions (states, regions, provinces, communes), religious classifications, races, or any other grouping. Sometimes…
Sexual maturation and intelligence, Rushton not vindicated
A reader sent me Seb Jensen's blogpost about nerds, which includes the following: People in the Terman’s study of the gifted were more likely to be tall, broad-shouldered, have matured…
Rushton vindicated again: developmental speed vs. intelligence
A few days ago, geneticist Shai Carmi posted a new study on Twitter. And then he deleted his tweet and reposted a "I disavow" version. Well, what happened is that…
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