State of genetic predictions: an example
While we don't take anecdotes too seriously on this blog, here I will present a small one. If you are one of those who have purchased genetic test results from…
p > .05 thus no effect thus familial confounding fallacies
Reading over some sibling control studies, BIG TOUGH GUY mentioned this quite wrong study: Meier, S. M., Mors, O., & Parner, E. (2017). Familial confounding of the association between maternal…
New paper out: The Left-Liberal Skew of Western Media
So it's finally out! Out big meta-analysis of journalist voting patterns. Kirkegaard, E. O. W., Pallesen, J., Elgaard, E., & Carl, N. (2021). The left-liberal skew of Western media. Journal…
ProQuest censors Mankind Quarterly: removes articles from their database
I tweeted this one a few weeks ago, but we need to document everything multiple places, so it doesn't get memory holed. Someone sent me this screenshot: So, to recap…
Educational interventions keep not working
We've been over this topic previously in 2017, but since this is the eternal idea, let's look at more data. Let's start historically. 1969 Arthur Jensen's famous article “How much…
Thou shallt not look at the polygenic scores
With the coming of Open Science principles, many scientific institutions who were previously aggressively guarding their data decided to put them out for public consumption. Mostly this means other academics…
Ancient history, dysgenics, genomics, and cyclical history theory
Prior post: Rise and fall of empires: genetic version? (2017) I found this stuff a while ago, and tweeted it, but I wanted to save it properly so it doesn't…
New video out: Biotech Eugenics: Creating Future People
This one has been a long time in the making. Which is to say, I was too busy doing other stuff to get this done. BUT here we are! Also,…
Comments on “The Inheritance of Inequality” (Bowles & Gintis, 2002)
Some anon sent me this paper, asked if there was a rebuttal somewhere. It's a well cited economics paper, 1248 citations on Google Scholar. I wasn't familiar with it, but…
Seeds of Science: another free to publish attempt at reforming the scientific publishing process
A large number of scientists believe the scientific publishing ecosystem is quite broken, in the sense that it favors flashy improbable findings over rigorous research. This positivity and novelty bias…
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