The theoretical prediction seems straightforward. If income is a function of intelligence (and other factors), then all else equal, a country with more inequality in intelligence will have more inequality…
I regret to inform you that they are at it again. That is, blocking me on Twitter for the wrong ideas. It started benignly, as it usually does, with a…
A friend of mine sent me this article for evaluation. Basically he thought the findings were too wild to be believed: Brame, R., Bushway, S. D., Paternoster, R., & Turner,…
I recently had my full genome sequenced at Nebula genomics for their 30x. The results were satisfactory: Good eyes too: Literally unbreakable: You ready to get your own great results?…
Age heaping is a fascinating method. I blogged about it back in 2015, hoping that someone would take up the idea of fusing this literature from historical economics with modern…
There's an odd old paper sometimes mentioned and even worse, used for calculations: Buj, Vinko. (1981). Average IQ values in various European countries. Personality and Individual Differences, 2(2), 168-169. Paper…
Back in 2015 at ISIR, a researcher gave a presentation about mental illness and intelligence, reporting it was elevated at high intelligence levels, along with all kinds of other issues.…
The American Jewish hate organization ADL famously has a funny list of forbidden words and numbers. One recent addition to their list of 'hate symbols' is 13/52. For the uninitiated,…
Noah Carl has recently written about the African IQs debate, basically defending the usual numbers. Aside from arguing that the data are good enough to use, though obviously not perfect,…
OK, it has been written about already by some others, but I also want to talk about this John Protzko pile-on: https://twitter.com/JProtzko/status/1554112968245137408 Here's the original plot in case the tweet…