Video with Noah Carl: how heterodox can a science conference realistically be?
Final chance to participate in the 2025 reader survey. I will analyze the results in a few days once the data from the last stragglers are in. While I was…
What is dangerous for pregnant women?
Remember to participate in the 2025 readers survey! There's a very large literature on the outcomes of children to mothers who did X. The problem with most of these is…
On having negative knowledge
I'm reading Jason Brennan's 2016 book Against Democracy, actually in favor of votes weighted by competence, which he calls epistocracy. In discussing the very low levels of political knowledge seen…
Cancer research funding seems biased against men
You have no doubt seen headlines like these: You might also have concluded this might have been true in the past (and maybe not even that) and probably isn't true…
American race relations 1964-2024
The American National Election Studies (ANES) is a series of surveys that has been administered to broadly representative samples of Americans since 1948. They asked thousands of questions, though most…
Interview in Aporia about stereotype research
My interview with Noah Carl over at Aporia Magazine has just been released. This was 90 minute long interview where we discussed the historical background of stereotype research, the evolutionary…
What makes a good computer game? An analysis of Steam ratings
What makes a better computer game? While we can discuss game design (e.g. I studied skill vs. randomness before), we can also take an empirical approach. What we need is…
Solar and wind are very expensive
Danish cheaper energy activist Bjørn Lomborg posted this on X: The obvious problem here is that maybe electricity prices just reflect prices overall (presumably because electricity generation in part costs…
GDP, yes, but GDP per what?
Many free marketers have an almost religious devotion to seeing GDP lines go up. The American subset of these are therefore quite happy when they see plots like this one…
National IQ stereotypes are accurate too
We just published a new article: Jensen, S., & Kirkegaard, E. (2025). Stereotypes of the Intelligence of Nations. Comparative Sociology, 24(2), 272-295. https://doi.org/10.1163/15691330-bja10134 The authors surveyed a nationally representative sample…
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