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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Review: Making sense of heritability

Download: http://www.libgen.net/search.php?search_type=magic&search_text=making+sense+of+heritability&submit=Dig+for   This is a GREAT book, which goes down to the basics about heritability and the various claims people have made against it. Highly recommended. Best book of…

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Review: The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies

[Bryan_Caplan]_The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter_Why(Bookos.org)   This is very interesting book. Most interesting I've read in a while.   -   If neither way of verifying the existence of preferences over beliefs appeals to…

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