Criticism of me and my research on SlateStarCodex’s subreddit
On the commentariat here, and why I don't think I can be associated with this community, despite liking the blog. My reply, as found in the comments. Most of it…
A fifth law of behavioral genetics?
First we had 3 laws, then a 4th. I'll propose a 5th: All human behavioral traits are heritable. The effect of being raised in the same family is smaller than…
Is miscegenation bad for your kids?
Generally my stance is that people should date/mate who they want. Furthermore, I don't personally care much about this question or the future survival of statistical clusters (races). Asserting that…
Lord Kelvin on quantification and scientific knowledge
Being annoyed by some of the usual qualitative drivel masquerading as science (see almost any tweet by @RealPeerReview), I was moved to make a nice background/poster. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Thomson A slide from…
Job offer: fill in meta-analysis data
Note: I found two persons to do this so far. 1. Skills required Ability to copy paste from this Wikipedia page into a spreadsheet. Ability to find the elementary information…
Celebrating an early female pioneer: Barbara Stoddard Burks
Because I hate seeing solid contributions go unnoticed. Few remember Barbara Stoddard Burks for the early pioneer of behavioral genetics she was. She doesn't even have a Wikipedia article. I…
The neuroscience of intelligence: very preliminary because of power failure and lack of multivariate studies
I don't have time to provide extensive citations for this post, so some things are cited from memory. You should be able to locate the relevant literature, but otherwise just…
Number of siblings vs. total fertility rate
This is commentary on: Ellis, L., Hoskin, A. W., Dutton, E., & Nyborg, H. The Future of Secularism: a Biologically Informed Theory Supplemented with Cross-Cultural Evidence. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 1-19.…
The Polgár sisters of … camming?
h/t to SSC for leading to me discovering the most curious thing. So it turns out there's a camgirl with an interesting blog featuring things like evidence-based camgirling (why not?)…
How common is perceived discrimination? Who reports/suffers it?
Brian Boutwell et al has a new preprint out: The Experience of Discrimination in Contemporary America: Results from a Nationally Representative Sample of Adults A large body of social science…
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