The benefits of marriage
If we have to name the single largest problem with social science in itself it is that of confounding (in real-life social science, the bigger issue is probably statistical cheating…
If we have to name the single largest problem with social science in itself it is that of confounding (in real-life social science, the bigger issue is probably statistical cheating…
I have a speculative model of sex differences among people with extreme beliefs. Here I just mean extreme in the sense of statistically uncommon, say, being a full-blown libertarian, HBD…
There's a few findings that no one seems to have integrated, so this is my attempt. First off, women are higher in neuroticism than men. Neuroticism can generally be described…
Were you curious about the actual works by the much maligned Richard Lynn? Fear not, we have a new memorial site up with most of his works accessible. https://richardlynn.net/ This…
Joseph Henrich published two books based on the Hajnal line or WEIRD (Western Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) personality cluster idea (The Secret of Our Success 2016; The WEIRDest People in…
Some time ago I read Bradley Campbell's The Geometry of Genocide: A Study in Pure Sociology. Like his other books, it's short, to the point, and well worth reading. First,…
This is the 1601st post on this blog since 2007 (I regret not seeing the counter was at 1599 yesterday!). That's kinda crazy to think about. In about 2.5 years…
Here's a fun analysis I did as a side-project. I have a dataset of ~620 Danes who took a long vocabulary test, as well as answered 30 political questions. One…
Recently, there has been much talk about national IQs, again. Here's the recent significant writings: Jan. 13. Lyman Stone has a reply to my piece on within vs. between dysgenics.…
Lyman Stone has a new post over at Institute for Family Studies: Are We Headed Towards ‘Idiocracy’? A Look at ‘Dysgenic Fertility’. His main point is that the strength of…