I am currently reading Bryan Caplan's new book collection of old blogposts in book format. One of them was pretty interesting: Behaviorial Geneticists versus Policy Implications from 2009. He quotes…
Davide Piffer and Richard Lynn has a new study out: Piffer, D., & Lynn, R. (2022). In Italy, North-South Differences in Student Performance Are Mirrored by Differences in Polygenic Scores…
The new June issue of Mankind Quarterly is out, and naturally it features a paper of mine: Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2022). Admixture and Social Status in Chile. Mankind Quarterly,…
I've written many times about the current dysgenic selection in humans, where evolution seems to be going the wrong way according to our preferences. Specifically, after the industrial revolution, the…
In popular discourse and the media, the debate is between those who recognize significant genetic causation in mental illnesses versus the status quo blank slate people who leave all such…
Okbay, A., Wu, Y., Wang, N., Jayashankar, H., Bennett, M., Nehzati, S. M., ... & Young, A. I. (2022). Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide…
Most people know that married couples tend to be more similar than expected by chance for many attributes whether age, race, politics, intelligence, personality, music taste and so on. This…
I had a fun chat with Alexandra Kaschuta, a very unusual Romanian woman. Hope you enjoy! I chat to rogue researcher Emil Kirkegaard about the fraught intersection between intelligence research…
The Flynn effect is famously the result that IQ scores seem to keep going up. That is, at least, they did so from 1917 until 2010 or so (when decline…
David A. Sinclair - Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To, 2019 (free ebook is on libgen) I know Scott Alexander has already reviewed this, but since I…