SNPs within and between populations
A recent paper informs us that we have now found a small number of SNPs that explain skin color in European samples. In the International Visible Trait Genetics (VisiGen) Consortium,…
Presentation for my talk for LCI15
Posted here as a sneak peak for those not coming, and for easy access for myself.
The general brain factor, working memory, parental income and education, and racial admixture
UNFINISHED ANALYSIS. POSTED HERE TO ESTABLISH PRIORITY. MORE TO FOLLOW! Updated 2015-12-04 Remains to be done: Admixture analysis (doing) Proofreading and editing Deciding how to control for age and scanner…
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.…