Dysgenics for whom?
Some time ago, we published studies showing that the negative correlation between intelligence and fertility varies by other factors. Specifically, we found that it varies by religiousness and conservatism, in…
Words can’t bring me down
At least, that's a philosophy of life that some people subscribe to. Others think that words are sort of magic and can hurt you. Even if they are general statements…
Does assortative mating work?
In my recent post about differences on the tails, a good comment was posted by Kristine: Is there any correlation between IQ gap and divorce, I wonder... The generation observation…
Proper embryo selection just landed
Today is an exciting day. First, the HHS announced a more open data policy (in the direction of my suggestions), and second and more importantly, a new company just went…
My first politically motivated retraction
I finally managed to join the cool kids retraction club. The Scandinavian Journal of Psychology (SJoP) published a paper of ours about wokeness and mental health. I wrote about it…
Reader questions from 13th Feb 2025
Back in February I posted the first of a series of paid subs ask me questions threads. Readers has some questions, so I'll attempt to answer them. This is in…
Why are female intellectuals crazy?
I have a speculative model of sex differences among people with extreme beliefs. Here I just mean extreme in the sense of statistically uncommon, say, being a full-blown libertarian, HBD…
How strongly is leftism correlated with mental illness? Is it real?
Earlier this year, Finnish researcher Oskari Lahtinen published a new scale of wokism or critical social justicism: Lahtinen, O. (2024). Construction and validation of a scale for assessing critical social…
Tattoos and piercings, what do they tell you about someone?
Richard Hanania and I recently wrote on Twitter/X: Naturally, my reply and his general level of trolling on the platform attracted a lot of angry, dumb replies from people with…
High IQ trans and nonbinary confirmed
If you have been paying attention, you will probably have noticed that a lot of the trans and non-binary people seem to be quite bright. Indeed, that's one of the…