The Psychology of Politics (1954) by Hans Eysenck (review)
Hans Eysenck. The Psychology of Politics. 1963 (first published 1954). From time to time, I like to read old books to get a sense of what people were interested in…
It’s not Lewontin’s seed metaphor
Rushton, J. P. (1997). Review essay. [Review of the books The Bell Curve Debate, The Bell Curve Wars, Final Solutions, The Mismeasure of Man, The Nazi Connection, The Race Gallery,…
IQ blogs collections (2019 October)
Since there was much interest in my tweet... https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1180945694586220544 The spreadsheet will be updated here. title author url active Reason without restraint Anon https://reasonwithoutrestraint.com/ 1 Untangler Sebastian Jensen https://theuntangler.wordpress.com/ 1…
Political bias in science: quotes from Gunnar Myrdal’s 1944 book
Gunnar Myrdal, who was Swedish, expresses an early version of the views the media repeat endlessly these days. To give some examples: White prejudice and discrimination keep the Negro low…
Scientific misconduct by ancestry/country
There's a few studies on this already. This is a rare event/person situation, so sampling error is large and problematic (cf. discussion in esports paper). Ignoring this, we can draw…
Time preferences and national IQ
Wang, M., Rieger, M. O., & Hens, T. (2016). How time preferences differ: Evidence from 53 countries. Journal of Economic Psychology, 52, 115-135. We present results from the first large-scale…
No Swedish refugee miracle: large negative net contributions of immigrants
Recently, I found a Swedish language report that discusses economic consequences of refugee immigration to Sweden. Ruist, Joakim. 2018:3 Tid för integration – en ESO-rapport om flyktingars bakgrund och arbetsmarknadsetablering.…
Measuring antisocial behavior well
I have previously written about issues with measuring antisocial/criminal behavior, but I found a study that did it very well, so we will be talking about it. Baker, L. A.,…
Economic impact of immigration: A Nordic perspective (Screencast lecture)
I made a new video, sort of as an experiment (with a bad microphone, will get another one for next video). The slides are here. I talk about economics of…
Replies to Taleb
Since people keep asking about this, yes, there are several lengthy replies to Nassim Taleb's anti-IQ piece from January 2019 "IQ Is Largely a Pseudoscientific Swindle". He's a loose cannon,…
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