“Cultural Differences in Response to Pain” revisited
I was sent this viral image about ethnicity and pain management: Tracing the source of this, it comes from a 2017 blogpost, which cites an article in NYPost. The complaints…
I was sent this viral image about ethnicity and pain management: Tracing the source of this, it comes from a 2017 blogpost, which cites an article in NYPost. The complaints…
Last year, I remembered that I think most books are too long. Perhaps one sensible response to this is to favor reading shorter books in general. So I sorted my…
By whatever accidents of history, the otherwise obscure German Jewish Karl Marx became an internationally known hero and villain (depending on your view). I was somewhat familiar with his ideas…
Robert Sternberg has licked his wounds and returned to the fray. OK, it was limited to some viral video (2M), but nevertheless. Here's a repost of it: Not really worth…
A friend sent me this study yesterday, so let's cover it here: Taddess, B., Zhang, L., & Trejo, S. (2025). Leveraging Genomic Data to Document Within-Race Attractiveness Penalties Among Black…
I saw this funny and one might say provocative study: Schahbasi, A., Huber, S., & Fieder, M. (2021). Factors affecting attitudes toward migrants—An evolutionary approach. American Journal of Human Biology,…
Going back to Lyman Stone's tweet: in fact, national IQ’s predictiveness of GDP is often very weak within-region, i.e. within-ancestry-groups. measurement error is obviously a plausible part of this, but…
We are finally ready to share our big follow-up to the first Admixture in the Americas project from 2016. Fuerst, J., & Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2025, December 5). Continental…
Countries (and subnational divisions within some countries) differ quite a bit in how difficult it is to obtain a driver's license. The requirements here parallel those seen for various kinds…
This paper came out a while ago, but I neglected to comment on it. You may recall 5 years ago I forwarded the verbal tilt model of certain behavioral patterns…