There is no IQ threshold effect, also not for income
We've been over this before, but it's a perennial topic. People like to claim that beyond a certain level of intelligence, additional intelligence doesn't help to get X, where X…
2022 in books
As per usual, a brief recap of what I read in 2022. You could consider this my personal notes, or mini-brook reviews á la Bryan Caplan's recent post. Visually, looks…
Conservatives aren’t stupid*
Richard Hanania likes to tell us: It’s why people say I’m a conservative despite half my writing being about how conservatives are immoral, low IQ, and generally inferior to liberals.…
Prison rates as function of family income by race
Steve Sailer tells the story of this figure: Why Is the Ratio of Black Incarceration to White Incarceration Worse in Higher Social Classes? He muses: Why does the black-to-white ratio…
New paper out: Intelligence Really Does Predict Job Performance: A Long-Needed Reply to Richardson and Norgate
Zimmer, P., & Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2023). Intelligence Really Does Predict Job Performance: A Long-Needed Reply to Richardson and Norgate. OpenPsych. https://doi.org/10.26775/op.2023.02.12 One commonly studied aspect of the importance…
White on Black vs. Black on White rape statistics
For a number of years, there has been a popular claim in nationalist circles that White on Black rape is basically nonexistent. It's encapsulated in this meme: If you follow…
Who is safe from Pakistani groomer gangs?
England is famous for its football, and also for its inability to deal with Pakistani groomer gangs. As the talk online about groomers is mostly about the transsexuals and homosexuals…
Incompetent police
We have yet another high profile case of a police beating in the USA, so it seems useful to talk about why we can't have nice things. First, let's step…
Homosexuality is a mental illness
To be precise, exclusive homosexuality is. But let's backtrack a bit. Scott Alexander has a new piece out that begins with this disclaimer: CONTENT NOTE: This essay contains sentences that…
Are fat people dumb?
There's a stereotype that fat people are lazy, less intelligent, and of course, they are widely considered unattractive in the west in modern times. But is this stereotype true? Well,…
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