Review: Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government Is Smarter (Ilya Somin)

This book is a quick read and covers the area decently well. The major drawback is that it doesnt discuss deliberative democracy or liquid democracy. IMO this book is not…

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Are compensatory education IQ gains g-loaded? No one knows, because the data are probably lost

It has been shown that training effects and the FLR effect are not g-loaded. Spitz in his discussion of the many types of compensatory education that has been tried, mentions…

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Prediction: Good dating sites of the future will use genomic data to select partners with matching MHC

Prediction: Good dating sites of the future will use genomic data to select partners with matching MHC. The idea is obvious. Genomic sequencing prices will fall. People will have copies…

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Semantic discussions of intelligence and the (un)importance of the study of race and g: A comment on Hunt and Jaeggi (2013)

I submitted this paper to the new open access Journal of Intelligence. But apparently, the first issue is invite only, so they won't accept my paper. At least it is…

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Eugenics and the Welfare State: Sterilization Policy in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland (1996)

Interesting small book that casts light on the use of sterilizations in nordic countries. It shows quite clearly that eugenics has it origin in collectivist and socialist thinking and was…

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Paper published: Predicting Immigrant IQ from their Countries of Origin, and Lynn’s National IQs: A Case Study from Denmark

I published my first peer reviewed paper in a journal. Predicting Immigrant IQ from their Countries of Origin, and Lynn's National IQs: A Case Study from Denmark

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Review of Introduction to psycholinguistics, Understanding Language Science by MJ Traxler

Overall an interesting introduction. Some chapters were much more interesting to me than others, which were somewhere between kinda boring and boring. Generally, the book is way too light on…

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Review: The raising of intelligence

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17772014-raising-of-intelligence-the Spitz, Herman H. The raising of intelligence: A selected history of attempts to raise retarded intelligence. 1986. http://bookos.org/book/2175637/d00805 Very useful book. I had read about it in multiple sources.…

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