New study didn’t really show IQ declines*
Dworak, E. M., Revelle, W., & Condon, D. M. (2023). Looking for Flynn effects in a recent online US adult sample: Examining shifts within the SAPA Project. Intelligence, 98, 101734.…
Dworak, E. M., Revelle, W., & Condon, D. M. (2023). Looking for Flynn effects in a recent online US adult sample: Examining shifts within the SAPA Project. Intelligence, 98, 101734.…
So it was finally published, our reply to our frenemies Eric Turkheimer and his student Evan J. Giangrande. For good measure, it's these two guys: The saga begins in 2020:…
A reader sends me this question: Hi Emil, I'm wondering what your opinion is on the question of whether reading comprehension skills can be improved through tutoring. I'm an American…
Richard Hanania has a nice post: How I Changed My Mind on Social Media and Teen Depression. He looked into the trends of mental health problems and whether this could…
Although Meng Hu has recently provided a very thorough review of test bias methods, I thought it would be helpful to have a more visual, intuitive approach for those not…
One thing I didn't address in the last post about the decline of everything manly is that obesity is a potential cause of secular declines in testosterone. That's because the…
Recently Scott Alexander wrote a long piece in his usual fashion Declining Sperm Count: Much More Than You Wanted To Know. He takes the usual meta-skeptical rationalist approach of reviewing…
We've been over this before, but it's a perennial topic. People like to claim that beyond a certain level of intelligence, additional intelligence doesn't help to get X, where X…
Richard Hanania likes to tell us: It’s why people say I’m a conservative despite half my writing being about how conservatives are immoral, low IQ, and generally inferior to liberals.…
Zimmer, P., & Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2023). Intelligence Really Does Predict Job Performance: A Long-Needed Reply to Richardson and Norgate. OpenPsych. https://doi.org/10.26775/op.2023.02.12 One commonly studied aspect of the importance…