Proper embryo selection just landed
Today is an exciting day. First, the HHS announced a more open data policy (in the direction of my suggestions), and second and more importantly, a new company just went…
Video: Davide Piffer and I talk about ancient genomics, polygenic scores and history
The first of many videos for paid subscribers (on Substack). Actually, this first one will be free, and some later ones may also be free (which I will also post…
Odd sibling RDR results: is the problem measurement error in IBD?
You've probably seen the recent Scott Alexander discussion about heritability, with comments from key players and commentators in the field, but if not: Scott Alexander: Missing Heritability: Much More Than…
People overestimate the size of every minority group
Lot of studies go like this: Now, you can quibble that they used poor estimates of immigrant% that only counted first generation, or those with only foreign citizenship, or in…
Intelligence (journal) is dead, long live Intelligence (&CA) journal
As Noah Carl covered at Aporia in December 2024, the old Intelligence journal experienced a hostile takeover by Elsevier and their woke academic friends. As a result, most of the…
Book review: The Intelligence Men: Makers of the I.Q. Controversy (Fancher 1985)
I've been reading old writings recently, which is why I was posting about Terman's views. Some years ago, I heard about the book called The Intelligence Men: Makers of the…
Lewis Terman on human diversity and intelligence in 1922
I've been reading through some old papers and stumbled across an exchange between journalist Walter Lippmann and Lewis Terman in 1922 (original). Unfortunately, I wasn't fast enough to convert my…
Heritability of achievement tests at age 10-14 in Norway’s entire population
Since discussing heritability estimates is all the rage, with Seb Jensen producing a new meta-analysis, and Scott Alexander providing a great review (which was somehow praised by both sides since…
Video with Noah Carl: how heterodox can a science conference realistically be?
Final chance to participate in the 2025 reader survey. I will analyze the results in a few days once the data from the last stragglers are in. While I was…
American race relations 1964-2024
The American National Election Studies (ANES) is a series of surveys that has been administered to broadly representative samples of Americans since 1948. They asked thousands of questions, though most…
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