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…
Disclaimer: I did not read Rushton's seminal book on the topic. I was only first recently able to obtain a complete electronic copy (i.e. not abridged version). I did in…
I read the following interesting paper: Braun, S. T., & Stuhler, J. (2016). The Transmission of Inequality Across Multiple Generations: Testing Recent Theories with Evidence from Germany. The Economic Journal,…
(See 2015 post) There's a very interesting new preprint out: Heterogeneity in polygenic scores for common human traits Erin B Ware, Lauren L Schmitz, Jessica D Faul, Arianna Gard, Colter…
Gwern has discussed this before, but here's another take inspired by this Twitter exchange: https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/827259356857004032 I envision the following way of finding out: Gather a large cross-sectional dataset of MZ…
Lots of published psychology studies don't replicate well, in particular cute things like interactions, counter-intuitive or priming effects. In general, traditional behavioral genetics studies have replicated well. This is not…