Examining the S factor in US states
Abstract A dataset of 25 diverse socioeconomic indicators for US states was compiled and subjected to factor analysis. Results showed that Washington DC was a strong outlier, but if it…
Admixture in the Americas: Admixture among US Blacks and Hispanics and academic achievement
Some time ago a new paper came out from the 23andme people reporting admixture among US ethnoracial groups (Bryc et al, 2014). Per our still on-going admixture project (current draft…
Review: The Sports Gene (David Epstein)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16171221-the-sports-gene http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=51b837f6d7627ac696f3f36b2ca6edbc Incidentally, the Wiki page was very poor, so I had to rewrite that before writing this. Generally, this was an interesting read that taught me a lot. This…
Review: Race (John Baker)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/875481.Race http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=5624936a816b96dd3e6a4af6808ee69b I had seen references to this book in a number of places which got me curious. I am somewhat hesitant to read older books since I know much…
Review: Misbehaving Science: Controversy and the Development of Behavior Genetics (Aaron Panofsky)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18526647-misbehaving-science libgen.org/book/index.php?md5=ac86923b7bf1ed0639abf0e1c22810f8 The book is a sociologist trying to interpret the history of behavior genetics into sociology theories. I didn't pay much attention to their theorizing, being familiar with that…
Admixture in the Americas: Introduction, partial correlations and IQ predictions based on ancestry
For those who have been living under a rock (i.e. not following my on Twitter), John Fuerst have been very good at compiling data from published research. Have a look…
Meisenberg’s new book chapter on intelligence, economics and other stuff
G.M. IQ & Economic growth I noted down some comments while reading it. --- In Table 1, Dominican birth cohort is reversed. “0.70 and 0.80 in world-wide country samples.…
Review: Understanding human history (Michael H. Hart)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1737823.Understanding_Human_History http://gen.lib.rus.ec/search.php?req=Understanding+Human+History&open=0&view=simple&column=def I think Elijah mentioned this book somewhere. I can't find where. The basic idea of the book is to write a history book that does take known population…
Bouchard’s new review paper on Genes, Evolution, Intelligence is excellent!
Seriously. Read it. Behavior Genetics (Impact Factor: 2.61). 03/2014; DOI: 10.1007/s10519-014-9646-x Source: PubMed ABSTRACT I argue that the g factor meets the fundamental criteria of a scientific construct more fully than…
Admixture study for neanderthal ancestry and psychological traits
We have a neanderthal genome. It is possible to estimate an individuals neanderthal ancestry. 23andme does this. It is possible to use the admixture study design to see what the…