Hollywood eugenics and actual eugenics
I oppose coercive eugenic policies, so don't try to quote mine my blunt discussion as support for such policies. Hollywood has a new anti-eugenics movie out, called The Thinning. There's…
I oppose coercive eugenic policies, so don't try to quote mine my blunt discussion as support for such policies. Hollywood has a new anti-eugenics movie out, called The Thinning. There's…
On the commentariat here, and why I don't think I can be associated with this community, despite liking the blog. My reply, as found in the comments. Most of it…
First we had 3 laws, then a 4th. I'll propose a 5th: All human behavioral traits are heritable. The effect of being raised in the same family is smaller than…
Note: I found two persons to do this so far. 1. Skills required Ability to copy paste from this Wikipedia page into a spreadsheet. Ability to find the elementary information…
Because I hate seeing solid contributions go unnoticed. Few remember Barbara Stoddard Burks for the early pioneer of behavioral genetics she was. She doesn't even have a Wikipedia article. I…
https://www.gwern.net/Embryo%20selection#counteracting-dysgenics Gwern has a very long and detailed post/page on embryo selection and related matters. You should definitely read it. He has just added a new section on counteracting dysgenics…
Nisbett's 2009 book on intelligence, Intelligence and how to get it, is a goldmine of stupid claims that one can quote-mine for introduction and discussion sections of papers. For instance,…
Doing some background reading on genomics topics such as: Cross-population predictive validity of genomic scores (polygenic scores). LD-decay. Causal variant tagging / distribution of causal variants / genetic architecture. Admixture…
In many ways, my science -- and my colleagues' science -- generally involves collecting evidence for obvious hypotheses that are mainly denied by leftist-leaning people (more precisely, egalitarian). Here's a…
In evolutionary biology, there is a hypothesis about sex ratios: Trivers-Williard hypothesis. It has been noted that males have higher dispersion in their fertility than females have, a finding that…