Turkheimer strikes back! (but misses)
Recently, I took a poke at Eric Turkheimer. And now he's ready with a retaliation: https://twitter.com/ent3c/status/1009245615367315456 Eric is trying a guilt by association attack by tying me to Roger Pearson…
Ancestry effects in Brazil: economist approach with person names
I have written a lot about ancestry approaches, generally from a psychometric and genomic angle. However, economists can also play this game. Daniel A. F. Lopes, Geraldo A. Silva Filho,…
Why is Eric Turkheimer so unreasonable about race and intelligence?
Eric Turkheimer is by many counts a good scientist. He has about 11.6k citations on Google Scholar, 6.3 since 2013 (i.e. last 5 years). He is prominent enough that he…
Nobel prize winners are very unlikely to be religious
This page on Wikipedia claims rather surprisingly that: This list comprises laureates of the Nobel Prize who self-identified as atheist, agnostic, freethinker or otherwise nonreligious at some point in their…
The non-contributions of Robert Sternberg to ISIR
This year (2018) Robert Sternberg is slated to give a distinguished contributor interview at the ISIR meeting to be held in Edinburgh. There's already tons of material on his behavior:…
Review: Cognitive Capitalism (Heiner Rindermann)
Rindermann, H. (2018). Cognitive capitalism: human capital and the wellbeing of nations. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY: University Printing House. Heiner was kind enough to send me a reviewer's…
Corvus intelligence
Doing a lot of background reading on animal ecology, I found this review paper: Lefebvre, L. (2013). Brains, innovations, tools and cultural transmission in birds, non-human primates, and fossil hominins.…
Intelligence and religiousness in OKCupid dataset
Miron Zuckerman is updating his meta-analysis of the religion and intelligence relationship, and asked me to compute some extra analyses of the OKCupid dataset. Results: http://rpubs.com/EmilOWK/intell_religion_OKCupid Main findings Cognitive ability…
Q/A with Antonio Regalado for genomics
Antonio Regalado is providing us with a recent series of the arguably best informed (compared to Guardian, Nature news etc.) popular science articles on genomics and its relevance to modern…
East Asian intelligence and UV radiation
It has been noted that East Asians are positive outliers for the latitude ~ IQ pattern, they're too far south for their high IQs. Some possible reasons for this are:…
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