The US congress is also an intelligence meritocracy
S. Lant had a good idea over on Twitter: Fellow poaster Jerome Sneed Democrat had a second good idea: There was that IQ study that showed that Episcopalians were the…
What is the average IQ of holocaust deniers?
I made a troll poll on Twitter, and it's going well. 100s of those people showed up in the replies to insult me or provide stupid arguments for why it…
Bayesian hereditarianism
In august 2023, Sean Last wrote an important post that didn't receive enough attention. His point was that model comparisons are not correctly (Bayesically) applied in the hereditarianism vs. egalitarianism…
End stage global capitalism
Let's define global capitalism as market economy combined with relatively free movement of labor (people) and capital. This is approximately world we live in. We have an unequal world to…
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…
Why are female intellectuals crazy?
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…
Women’s neuroticism, relationships, and fertility
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…
Richard Lynn memorial site
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…
When did NW Europeans become WEIRD? Not from lack of inbreeding
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…
On genocide and the worst modern ideology
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,…
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