Which occupation are you?
About a month ago this very interesting paper was published: Wolfram, T. (2023). (Not just) Intelligence stratifies the occupational hierarchy: Ranking 360 professions by IQ and non-cognitive traits. Intelligence, 98,…
From riches to rags to riches
One of the interesting lines of evidence about the importance of human capital in wealth disparities comes from examples of how groups can recover from setbacks. There's several examples to…
Hanania’s diversity hypothesis tested and found wanting
Richard Hanania has a new post out: Diversity Really is Our Strength. (Noah Carl has a reply here, and Seb Jensen has a reply here) His piece is part-troll, part-serious…
In defense of hereditarianism: a reply to Friedman
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…
New study out: Intelligence Inequality and Income Inequality: The Missing Link
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…
The EA case for (German) colonialism
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…
There is no IQ threshold effect, also not for income
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…
Smart fraction theory vindicated
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…
Italian economic inequality explained by cognitive inequality
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…
Economics research is mostly untrustworthy because economists cheat so much with the statistics
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,…