Pearl, J., & Mackenzie, D. (2018). The book of why: the new science of cause and effect. Basic Books. This is an interesting but annoying book. The basic pattern of…
Quoting from Arthur Jensen's book Educability and group differences (1973). He was being criticized for postulating genetic causes, which some critics think would cause great social harm if they were…
Kathryn Paige Harden is professor of psychology who belongs to the Turkheimerian 'left psychometrics' school. I've discussed the odd behavior of Eric Turkheimer before, but since then I found a…
Paul Graham's 2004 essay What you can't say had a big influence on me and remains my favorite essay. In he argued essentially that popular morality shows fashion tendencies i.e.…
There's a certain type of person that doesn't produce any empirical contribution to "Reducing the heredity-environment uncertainty". Instead, they contribute various theoretical arguments which they take to undermine the empirical…
Sometimes people argue that one shouldn't even be allowed to research race and intelligence causes. I'm sometimes asked directly why I choose to study this topic. Well, I could outline…
I wish to coin a fallacy I've seen a number of times, exemplified in this paper: Kempthorne, O. (1978). A BIOMETRICS INVITED PAPER: Logical, epistemological and statistical aspects of nature-nurture…
Eric Turkheimer is by many counts a good scientist. He has about 11.6k citations on Google Scholar, 6.3 since 2013 (i.e. last 5 years). He is prominent enough that he…
Schneider, C. (2015). The censor’s hand: the misregulation of human-subject research. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. Medical and social progress depend on research with human subjects. When that research is…
This text used to be hosted at Shalizi's university website, but it was recently taken down for unknown reasons. However, Internet Archive saves us, and I repost it here because…