David Friedman, a self-described "anarchist-anachronist-economist" and author of The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism (on my to-read list) has written a criticism of the hereditarian position on…
We published a new paper a few days ago: Wright, S., & Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2023). Intelligence Inequality and Income Inequality: The Missing Link. Comparative Sociology, 22(2), 298–319. https://doi.org/10.1163/15691330-bja10077…
Back in 2017, Bruce Gilley published this article: Gilley, B. (2017). The case for colonialism. Third World Quarterly, 38(10), 1. For the last 100 years, Western colonialism has had a…
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…
In the last days of 2022, Noah Carl and I had a new paper out: Kirkegaard, E. O. W., & Carl, N. (2022). Smart Fraction Theory: A Comprehensive Re-evaluation. Comparative…
Italy is well known for being sort of two countries in one. These differences are large and longstanding and cover pretty much every aspect of society in typical S factor…
I recently posted a book review of Garett Jones' 10% less Democracy. My main beef with the book is that it relies on lots of studies with dubious p values,…
If you haven't done so already, take the reader survey here! In medicine, there's the occasional discussion of the dose response function of some drug. People wisely assume that it…
My Substack is growing a lot faster than I anticipated, and we've hit 2000 2100. It took about one year, as my first post was 11th October 2021: Paid subscribers…
The main function of angry activist people on Twitter is to limit the discourse to within the limits they find acceptable. Since Twitter and other social media have mostly left-wing…