Prior posts touching on Gregory Clark: What does money buy? Selected readings from lottery studies, Thinking about intergenerational stability of socioeconomic status Updated 2020-02-23: Actually, cancellation comes for Gregory Clark…
So you've seen the pictures of the infamous Tulsa race riot. Wikipedia even has renamed it to "Tulsa race massacre". New York Times has no less than 1250 hits for…
Aaron Panofsky (Associate Professor in the Institute for Society and Genetics, Public Policy, and Sociology, UCLA) is your typical history focused Jewish, anti-racist academic. Some years ago, he wrote an…
Gunnar Myrdal, who was Swedish, expresses an early version of the views the media repeat endlessly these days. To give some examples: White prejudice and discrimination keep the Negro low…
One can find various quotes like this by Muslim philosopher Ibn Khaldun: Thus the founders of grammar were Sibawaih and after him, al-Farisi and Az-Zajjaj. All of them were of…
Some years ago, I discovered the Swiss dataset used in R. It has data from the late 1800s of Swiss subnational units, 47 French speaking 'provinces' i.e. sub-canton level (probably…
1976, Constance Baker Motley, African American judge: Judicial predictions of reduction or elimination of the RAG through color - based decisions approached the l udicrous. In rendering the decisive vote…
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01436597.2017.1369037 This Viewpoint essay has been withdrawn at the request of the academic journal editor, and in agreement with the author of the essay. Following a number of complaints, Taylor…
Rindermann (Cognitive Capitalism, 2018) writes: Contradicting common beliefs, National Socialists were opposed to intelligence research (Becker, 1938; Jaensch, 1938): in their view, intelligence research would represent a ‘supremacy of Bourgeoisie…
Richard Herrnstein, (1971), IQ, The Atlantic Had been looking for this one for years. Gwern managed to find it. I'll host a mirror here. Perhaps the most interesting thing about…