Men like vs. women like
What sort of things are women interested in compared to men? Maybe we should ask Mel Gibson. A more scientific way is to study this is to study something called…
Ancient eugenics confirmed
I've written many times about the current dysgenic selection in humans, where evolution seems to be going the wrong way according to our preferences. Specifically, after the industrial revolution, the…
The origins of cold winters theory
Richard Lynn famously spent a few decades collecting data on human intelligence around the world. Eventually, he was able to generate world maps of average intelligence levels by nations and…
The genetics of mental illness
In popular discourse and the media, the debate is between those who recognize significant genetic causation in mental illnesses versus the status quo blank slate people who leave all such…
Political deletionism at Wikipedia
What content should be in an online encyclopedia like Wikipedia? One can contrast two extreme views on the matter: Inclusivism: just about everything should be included that can be properly…
New video out on the Dunning Kruger effect, of lack thereof
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19NB8MtlPIQ This is the accompanying video of our 2021 paper: Kirkegaard, E. O. W. & Gerritsen, A. (2021). Looking for evidence of the Dunning-Kruger effect: an analysis of 2400 online…
What do 0/10 scales mean?
We often use the 0-10 scale to rate people for various things, but especially attractiveness. But what do people really mean when they say someone is an 8 out of…
“positively motivated to help all of humankind”
As soft censorship in academia is the law of the land, we've been accumulating a bunch of funny worded rejections and pre-rejections. Rejections arise when you submit some work for…
Those unwanted results from the Ontario’s Mathematics Proficiency Test
You may recall a few months back that Canada's highest court declared a math test for school teachers to be ... unconstitutional: As a result of a recent decision of…
IQs by university degrees from SATs
There's a bunch of these claims floating around. The good ones are based on Razib Khan's 10 year old write-up, which I also reblogged later. It looks like this: The…
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