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Back in October Razib Khan had Carole Hooven on his podcast. She’s the author of a new popsci book on testosterone: T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us (342 pages). In the book she mentions some other recent woke books on testosterone, specifically: Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography (288 pages) by…
Continue ReadingPeople keep asking me about the state of the art re. evidence for physiognomy, so here’s a brief review. Phrenology used to be considered legit, and then eventually people realized it was all bogus. Since then, it is usually brought up an example of how science goes wrong in terms of stereotyping, and references to…
Continue ReadingMost environmentalists have by now given up denying the existence of racial gaps in head size, but they only retreated a few yards: Nisbett, R. E., Aronson, J., Blair, C., Dickens, W., Flynn, J., Halpern, D. F., & Turkheimer, E. (2012). Intelligence: new findings and theoretical developments. American psychologist, 67(2), 130. Brain size and IQ….
Continue ReadingI often read statistics textbooks. In textbooks, they often use example datasets, some of which are interesting in themselves (e.g. the Boston dataset). In this case, I am reading An Introduction to Applied Multivariate Analysis with R. It features a dataset of Egyptian skulls spanning about 4000 years. Given the scholarly interest in dysgenics and…
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