Joseph Henrich published two books based on the Hajnal line or WEIRD (Western Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) personality cluster idea (The Secret of Our Success 2016; The WEIRDest People in…
Some time ago I read Bradley Campbell's The Geometry of Genocide: A Study in Pure Sociology. Like his other books, it's short, to the point, and well worth reading. First,…
This is the 1601st post on this blog since 2007 (I regret not seeing the counter was at 1599 yesterday!). That's kinda crazy to think about. In about 2.5 years…
Here's a fun analysis I did as a side-project. I have a dataset of ~620 Danes who took a long vocabulary test, as well as answered 30 political questions. One…
Recently, there has been much talk about national IQs, again. Here's the recent significant writings: Jan. 13. Lyman Stone has a reply to my piece on within vs. between dysgenics.…
Lyman Stone has a new post over at Institute for Family Studies: Are We Headed Towards ‘Idiocracy’? A Look at ‘Dysgenic Fertility’. His main point is that the strength of…
People have been posting results from this new Dutch study of immigration, so I thought I would cover it here to increase the reach. van de Beek, J., Hartog, J.,…
There is much discussion in these days about immigration to the West, and in particular, skilled migration to the United States. Critics of migration often point to regression towards the…
There's debate about the decline of sex, or how the young people these days aren't what they used to be. There's plots like this one: I'm pretty sure there is…
Heiner Rindermann strikes back with a new study of immigrants in Germany: Rindermann, H., Klauk, B. & Thompson, J. (2024). Intelligence of refugees in Germany: levels, differences and possible determinants.…