Emil O. W. Kirkegaard blog
With 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 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….
Continue ReadingMarxist ideologue Steven Jay Gould famously claimed this in a 2000 interview called The Spice of Life. It follows a questions-answers format, and the entirety of this question is: L2L: Finally, given all the analogies and imposed models that you see—what actual lessons does natural evolution offer for society and organizations? SJG: I think rather…
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 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 ReadingHave you ever looked into the hypothesis of genetic differences underlying language types? such as pic.twitter.com/RWktYdllwK — Whyvert (@whyvert) May 12, 2021 I have not, but Lynn has noted that East Asians have a relative advantage in visual-spatial ability, and that’s their written language, possibly some gene-culture co-evolution. One study shows East Asians who speak…
Continue ReadingI,Hypocrite runs a fun and popular Twitter account, and apparently, also a Youtube account. I went on the show to talk science of race differences in intelligence since there is an upcoming debate of sorts. There is also a backup of this video on Odysee: By popular request, I too have an Odysee cross-posting account:…
Continue ReadingBefore the advent of internet blogging and stuff, there was an email list of people interested in race and stuff. Steve Sailer was there, Charles Murray, Phil Rushton, and others. Name was Human Biodiversity Group. Some hater even has a list of the members. I want to bring attention to a specific conversation where Charles…
Continue ReadingSometimes I get asked for compilations. There are some! I made this compilation of compilations in November 2020 in reply to an email. I guess I never posted it for some reason. Well, I got another email asking for this kind of thing, so this time I am definitely posting. There are a number of…
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