Why this post? This law is falsely attributed to Robert Conquest 1000s of times, including by me. So we need some counter-attribution! There is this post on tracking down the…
Well, this one has been public as as preprint for a while (PsyArxiv [this is tagged as private?!], OSF and ResearchGate ~9k views), but it is now officially published in…
Since a lot of foreigners are talking about this one and I am in a position to read the Danish language, it seems worthwhile to recap it here. The Danish…
Many libertarians defend women's voting rights (women's suffrage) by reference to general principles about equality of legal rights. The historical reason for this move, I think, is that libertarians and…
Kirkegaard, E. O. W., & Pesta, B. J. (2019). Smart and Poor, or Rich and Dull? A U.S. County-Level Analysis of the Relationship between IQ and Presidential-Election Voting Behavior. Mankind…
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…
I came across this obscure study while doing some research on other matters. Yan, H., Lavoie, A., & Das, S. (2017). The Perils of Classifying Political Orientation From Text. Linked…
Kirkegaard, E. O. W., Bjerrekær, J. D., & Carl, N. (2017). Cognitive ability and political preferences in Denmark. Open Quantitative Sociology & Political Science, 1(1). Various critics of Noah Carl…
Since people keep asking about my results on such tests, and because my position has been misrepresented (e.g. by Les Temps). There's a lot of political tests online one can…
NYT has a cool new dataviz called An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2016 Election. Really, it's just a more detailed version of their initial county election page which I…