Emil O. W. Kirkegaard blog
Borderless Welfare State: The Consequences of Immigration on Public Finances Sometimes white nationalists describe me as a proponent of ‘IQ nationalism’, they don’t mean it well. It’s somewhat of a misnomer of that position but it’s kinda catchy so we will stick with it. There doesn’t appear to be any post anywhere setting out what…
Continue ReadingThis post may seem obvious, but a surprising number of people don’t know about Cochrane meta-analyses, so we need more posts like this. We can quote themselves about what they do: What is a systematic review? A systematic review attempts to identify, appraise and synthesize all the empirical evidence that meets pre-specified eligibility criteria to…
Continue ReadingWhile we don’t take anecdotes too seriously on this blog, here I will present a small one. If you are one of those who have purchased genetic test results from consumer genomics companies such as 23andme or ancestry.com, you can download your ‘raw’ data and upload it elsewhere (or look at it yourself). I saw…
Continue ReadingReading over some sibling control studies, BIG TOUGH GUY mentioned this quite wrong study: Meier, S. M., Mors, O., & Parner, E. (2017). Familial confounding of the association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and schizophrenia. American Journal of Psychiatry, 174(2), 187-187. The topic of the study need not interest us, the error is statistical. Results…
Continue ReadingSo it’s finally out! Out big meta-analysis of journalist voting patterns. Kirkegaard, E. O. W., Pallesen, J., Elgaard, E., & Carl, N. (2021). The left-liberal skew of Western media. Journal of Psychological Research, 3(3). We gathered survey data on journalists’ political views in 17 Western countries. We then matched these data to outcomes from national…
Continue ReadingI tweeted this one a few weeks ago, but we need to document everything multiple places, so it doesn’t get memory holed. Someone sent me this screenshot: So, to recap the important part. When support staff was asked “Is there any particular reason that you lost rights to that publication, and would you be able…
Continue ReadingWith the coming of Open Science principles, many scientific institutions who were previously aggressively guarding their data decided to put them out for public consumption. Mostly this means other academics look at them and maybe they get your paper retracted for fraud. But sometimes, amateur scientists also use them for decidedly other purposes than what…
Continue ReadingPrior post: Rise and fall of empires: genetic version? (2017) I found this stuff a while ago, and tweeted it, but I wanted to save it properly so it doesn’t get forgotten again. Blogging is extended memory. I reckon my mortality risk at Twitter is about 30% each year. Accounts have been banned for less….
Continue ReadingThis one has been a long time in the making. Which is to say, I was too busy doing other stuff to get this done. BUT here we are! Also, just now, more details from EA4 are out. EA4 is the 4th large GWAS for educational attainment, and thus also intelligence. Russell Warne has a…
Continue ReadingSome anon sent me this paper, asked if there was a rebuttal somewhere. It’s a well cited economics paper, 1248 citations on Google Scholar. I wasn’t familiar with it, but reading it over, I see some things comment on. Bowles, S., & Gintis, H. (2002). The inheritance of inequality. Journal of economic Perspectives, 16(3), 3-30….
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