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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
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…
Administering physical (corporal) punishment has a long history. Public flogging or whipping used to be commonplace, and now they are mostly illegal, and we regard foreign countries who employ these…