Hereditarianism: a progressive research program
I am posting this because this is not widely known, but I think this angle should be taken more seriously. I hope philosophers will read this and get inspired! Urbach,…
Physiognomy: a field ready for scientific revival
People keep asking me about the state of the art re. evidence for physiognomy, so here's a brief review. Phrenology used to be considered legit, and then eventually people realized…
Bayesian statistics for environmentalists
See also previously: Environmentalists like admixture analysis too (until they don’t) Let's talk a little Bayesian statistics and how it applies to model selection in the race and IQ debate.…
Replies to Birney, Raff, Rutherford & Scally
Ewan Birney, Jennifer Raff, Adam Rutherford, Aylwyn Scally. Race, genetics and pseudoscience: an explainer. Ewan's Blog: Bioinformatician at large. Additional remarks by Raff on her blog On Race, Genetics, and…
The Psychology of Politics (1954) by Hans Eysenck (review)
Hans Eysenck. The Psychology of Politics. 1963 (first published 1954). From time to time, I like to read old books to get a sense of what people were interested in…
It’s not Lewontin’s seed metaphor
Rushton, J. P. (1997). Review essay. [Review of the books The Bell Curve Debate, The Bell Curve Wars, Final Solutions, The Mismeasure of Man, The Nazi Connection, The Race Gallery,…
IQ blogs collections (2019 October)
Since there was much interest in my tweet... https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1180945694586220544 The spreadsheet will be updated here. title author url active Reason without restraint Anon https://reasonwithoutrestraint.com/ 1 Untangler Sebastian Jensen https://theuntangler.wordpress.com/ 1…
Time preferences and national IQ
Wang, M., Rieger, M. O., & Hens, T. (2016). How time preferences differ: Evidence from 53 countries. Journal of Economic Psychology, 52, 115-135. We present results from the first large-scale…
Replies to Taleb
Since people keep asking about this, yes, there are several lengthy replies to Nassim Taleb's anti-IQ piece from January 2019 "IQ Is Largely a Pseudoscientific Swindle". He's a loose cannon,…
Unfinished Wikipedia FAQ on IQ etc.
Some time ago, I was building a large reference FAQ for use on Wikipedia. Unfortunately, some activist admins came along and deleted it. The archived version is here. The background…
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