Ask me questions (paid subs)
This blog gets a lot of reads, but not so many paid subscribers. That's because everything is public and it will stay that way, except for video content (right now,…
The benefits of marriage
If we have to name the single largest problem with social science in itself it is that of confounding (in real-life social science, the bigger issue is probably statistical cheating…
Why are female intellectuals crazy?
I have a speculative model of sex differences among people with extreme beliefs. Here I just mean extreme in the sense of statistically uncommon, say, being a full-blown libertarian, HBD…
Which countries make the best movies?
In a simple sense, the answer is America. But America has over 300 million people, and other countries have fewer than 10 million people. Which country makes the best movies…
Women’s neuroticism, relationships, and fertility
There's a few findings that no one seems to have integrated, so this is my attempt. First off, women are higher in neuroticism than men. Neuroticism can generally be described…
Richard Lynn memorial site
Were you curious about the actual works by the much maligned Richard Lynn? Fear not, we have a new memorial site up with most of his works accessible. https://richardlynn.net/ This…
When did NW Europeans become WEIRD? Not from lack of inbreeding
Joseph Henrich published two books based on the Hajnal line or WEIRD (Western Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) personality cluster idea (The Secret of Our Success 2016; The WEIRDest People in…
Elon’s meme magic
There is a 1949 science fiction novel (Project Mars: A Technical Tale) about how to build a Mars colony, and it includes this part: Amazing, it was written by none…
Give women what they want: more babies
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…
The anti-boomer story
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…