Emil O. W. Kirkegaard blog
I for one welcome our new vaccines. I think the transhumanist angle to this has not been properly spelled out, so let’s give it a shot. Humans come with two main parts of our immune system. You can watch the Kurzgesagt to get the basics. First is that there’s a passive part that uses heuristics…
Continue ReadingThis study keeps getting attention. This otherwise alright Quillette piece: Mate Selection for Modernity Studies using data from classic online dating websites and speed-dating both found that men exhibited less of a preference for women whose intelligence or ambition exceeded their own. A study by four UK universities found that a woman’s likelihood of marriage…
Continue ReadingAs every reader knows, whenever powers that be come up with a new euphemism for something, this works, and the previous meanings and associations are quickly forgotten. That’s why we… oh right: Linguists are familiar with the phenomenon, which may be called the euphemism treadmill. People invent new words for emotionally charged referents, but soon…
Continue ReadingRussell Warne has a new post: Implications of average group differences for the design of intelligence tests He writes: The implication is that if test creators can force an average difference to disappear for one pair of groups (i.e., males and females), then any differences or lack of differences are also engineered into the tests….
Continue ReadingI know some people are who are into conspiratorial thinking about COVID vaccines. Bill Gates trying to decrease your fertility stuff. Anyway, so I did the science thing, that is, I used a neutral search on an academic search engine to locate actual data on the question. Specifically, Google Scholar with the query “Covid vaccine…
Continue ReadingRaymond Cattell was one of the early 1900s eminent psychologists. Like Meehl, he had a philosophical bent with some odd ideas in ethics. That ended up getting him into trouble (like yours truly). So I found one of his older books, from 1937, so before World War 2, and decided to give it a shot….
Continue ReadingThis is a short book summarizing human biodiversity stuff. Since it’s from 2013, it doesn’t cover the latest tranny-mania, but otherwise it covers a lot of ground. Acknowledgements sets the tone for the book: I would also like to acknowledge the kind words and suggestions of those who reviewed this project. I have endeavored to…
Continue ReadingSo I’ve gone back to my old habit of binge reading on mostly unrelated topics to my main work in the genetics-social science cluster. Climate science is a long running interest of mine, why not read some more of it! Of the two, Koonin’s book will teach you a lot more about the data. It…
Continue ReadingKirkegaard, E. O. W., & Nyborg, H. (2021). Intelligence and General Psychopathology in the Vietnam Experience Study: A Closer Look. Mankind Quarterly, 61(4). https://doi.org/10.46469/mq.2021.61.4.2 Prior research has indicated that one can summarize the variation in psychopathology measures in a single dimension, labeled P by analogy with the g factor of intelligence. Research shows that this…
Continue ReadingMany countries add fluoride to the drinking water in the belief this will improve dental health. As with anything else public health, some people think this is a grave mistake. So on the positive side, it seems to help with the intended target, a good start for any social policy. Wikipedia’s summary is kinda what…
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