How bad is low level lead poisoning? Probably not that bad
For some months, I've had a window open with some lead poisoning studies by economists. We know generally not to trust economist work without carefully checking out their tables and…
Mental illness and intelligence: the relationship is negative
This one keeps coming up whenever I post things about mental illness and X, like politics. So it's worth having a go-to summary for a popular audience. Mental illness is…
Basics on hereditarian thinking about genotypic means
Recently I got a private question from anon: A quick question if you don't mind: how come Blacks from sub-Saharan Africa have an average IQ of 70, which is even…
Too many women in the wrong places: Norwegian navy edition
As women increasingly are hired into traditionally male jobs via affirmative action laws or indirect pressure via media, we see more and more incompetence. This is true whether it is…
Authoritarianism and fertility: maybe, probably
Last year, this meme was floating around: The data are real enough, and the years are right. It seems that Franco was able to sustain fertility in Spain during his…
The Bird paper, and hereditarian predictions
I keep getting asked about this, so I figure a short note is in order. Some months ago, Commie Kevin (Twitter) AKA. Kevin Bird published an anti-hereditarian study: Bird, K.…
New paper and video out: The Negative Religiousness-IQ Nexus is a Jensen Effect on Individual-Level Data: A Refutation of Dutton et al.’s ‘The Myth of the Stupid Believer’
Dutton, E., & Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2021). The Negative Religiousness-IQ Nexus is a Jensen Effect on Individual-Level Data: A Refutation of Dutton et al.’s ‘The Myth of the Stupid…
Harvard’s half-meritocracy
Many people are aware that American universities practice something called affirmative action. Really, this just means a kind of reverse racism that was instituted during the 1960s cultural takeover (or…
Wealth gains and IQ gains since Ron Unz’ 2012 post
In 2012, Ron Unz (of Unz.com) wrote a long article with the title Race, IQ, and Wealth published in The American Conservative (follow-up also in 2012 Race/IQ: Irish IQ &…
Woke behavioral geneticists
Book review of The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality by Kathryn Paige Harden. Most people know about the top woke biologists of the past. I am of…
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