COVID vaccine and fertility: no need to worry (June 14th 2021)
I know some people are who are into conspiratorial thinking about COVID vaccines. Bill Gates trying to decrease your fertility stuff. Anyway, so I did the science thing, that is,…
Book review: The Fight for our National Intelligence (Raymond Cattell)
Raymond Cattell was one of the early 1900s eminent psychologists. Like Meehl, he had a philosophical bent with some odd ideas in ethics. That ended up getting him into trouble…
Book review: Science Wars: Politics, Gender, and Race (Anthony Walsh)
This is a short book summarizing human biodiversity stuff. Since it's from 2013, it doesn't cover the latest tranny-mania, but otherwise it covers a lot of ground. Acknowledgements sets the…
Book reviews: Apocalypse Never (Michael Shellenberger) and Unsettled (Steven E. Koonin)
So I've gone back to my old habit of binge reading on mostly unrelated topics to my main work in the genetics-social science cluster. Climate science is a long running…
New paper out: Intelligence and General Psychopathology in the Vietnam Experience Study: A Closer Look
Kirkegaard, E. O. W., & Nyborg, H. (2021). Intelligence and General Psychopathology in the Vietnam Experience Study: A Closer Look. Mankind Quarterly, 61(4). https://doi.org/10.46469/mq.2021.61.4.2 Prior research has indicated that one…
Fluoride, good for your teeth, not bad for your brain
Many countries add fluoride to the drinking water in the belief this will improve dental health. As with anything else public health, some people think this is a grave mistake.…
PhD students aren’t what they used to be either
One very basic fact of humans is that ability to do anything varies. This is also true for ability to do cognitively demanding jobs of which the main requirement is…
New paper out: County-level USA: No Robust Relationship between Geoclimatic Variables and Cognitive Ability
This one came out in Februrary, so we are a bit behind, but that's because I wanted to time the blogpost with the video. Aaaand the video is online now.…
New video: Are There Complex Assortative Mating Patterns For Humans?
Forgot to blog this one earlier. It's a video walkthrough of the usual sorts, based on my paper in Mankind Quarterly back from March: Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2021). Are…
East Asian ability tilt and ideographic written language
https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1392623731835506691 I have not, but Lynn has noted that East Asians have a relative advantage in visual-spatial ability, and that's their written language, possibly some gene-culture co-evolution. One study shows…
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