Conservatives aren’t stupid*
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.…
New paper out: Intelligence Really Does Predict Job Performance: A Long-Needed Reply to Richardson and Norgate
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…
White on Black vs. Black on White rape statistics
For a number of years, there has been a popular claim in nationalist circles that White on Black rape is basically nonexistent. It's encapsulated in this meme: If you follow…
Who is safe from Pakistani groomer gangs?
England is famous for its football, and also for its inability to deal with Pakistani groomer gangs. As the talk online about groomers is mostly about the transsexuals and homosexuals…
Incompetent police
We have yet another high profile case of a police beating in the USA, so it seems useful to talk about why we can't have nice things. First, let's step…
Homosexuality is a mental illness
To be precise, exclusive homosexuality is. But let's backtrack a bit. Scott Alexander has a new piece out that begins with this disclaimer: CONTENT NOTE: This essay contains sentences that…
Are fat people dumb?
There's a stereotype that fat people are lazy, less intelligent, and of course, they are widely considered unattractive in the west in modern times. But is this stereotype true? Well,…
The distribution of attractiveness
Recently there was a piece on ISF about this by 'Alexander' AKA. datepsych on Twitter: Is Physical Attractiveness Normally Distributed?. Basically, he takes the OKCupid results and thinks these show…
Interactive statistics: breeding’s equation AKA regression towards the mean
One of the things I did to teach myself R programming was to create a bunch of interactive statistics tools written using the awesome R Shiny package. These are still…
Rationality and the fair sex
Rationality is great. It's what separates humans from other species to a very large extent. There's not one but two philosophical movements named after this (rationalism of Descartes et al,…