Does racial diversity cause lower fertility?
I know, it sounds like a far right conspiracy theory, however: Gurun, U. G., & Solomon, D. H. (2024). E Pluribus, Pauciores (Out of Many, Fewer): Diversity and Birth Rates.…
Norwegian cognitive inequality and its social consequences
There's a new kickass study based on Norwegian register data: Bratsberg, B., Fjell, A. M. M., Rogeberg, O. J., Skirbekk, V. F., & Walhovd, K. B. (2024). Differences in early…
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…
The general disease (“d”) factor and mutational load
Last year, this study was published: Brandt, V., Zhang, Y., Carr, H., Golm, D., Correll, C. U., Arrondo, G., ... & Cortese, S. (2023). First evidence of a general disease…
The ethnic meritocracy in the United Kingdom
Some of my colleagues have a new paper out: Te Nijenhuis, J., Pesta, B. J., & Fuerst, J. G. R. (n.d.). General mental ability testing and adverse impact in the…
The value of intelligence
There are many studies that report correlations between intelligence -- however measured -- and economic outcomes, mainly (self-reported) income. This is however somewhat abstract since correlations are unitless. They don't…
The first admixture mapping study for intelligence
There's a new study out of note: Xia, R., Jian, X., Rodrigue, A. L., Bressler, J., Boerwinkle, E., Cui, B., ... & Fornage, M. (2024). Admixture mapping of cognitive function…
The gender equality ‘paradox’ and genetics
There's a number of studies that find that egalitarian cultural values correlates with larger not smaller actual measured sex differences. These are the first major studies using large international surveys:…
Reaction time based intelligence measurements and race differences
There's a wide variety of different ways to measure (general) intelligence, or what researchers call g. One can estimate vocabulary size, query about verbal analogies, general knowledge, ask people to…
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