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…
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…
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…
My interview with Noah Carl over at Aporia Magazine has just been released. This was 90 minute long interview where we discussed the historical background of stereotype research, the evolutionary…
We just published a new article: Jensen, S., & Kirkegaard, E. (2025). Stereotypes of the Intelligence of Nations. Comparative Sociology, 24(2), 272-295. https://doi.org/10.1163/15691330-bja10134 The authors surveyed a nationally representative sample…
Back in March I published this study: Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2025). Does intelligence have nonlinear effects on political opinions? OpenPsych, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.26775/OP.2025.03.24 We sought to study intelligence’s relationship with…
I was browsing studies out in Lee Jussim's newish journal, The Journal of Open Inquiry in Behavioral Science (JOIBS), and saw this one: Rausch, Z. M. (2023). The value gap:…
William Costello spawned discussion at X over his polling results: The same man before and after going hard in the gym. Women preferred the before picture and men the after…
By now, you've probably heard that the US military, and many other militaries around the world, has some kind of intelligence test that they use for admission. The US even…
It is already known that intelligence causes social status for persons. There's a very large amount of cross-sectional data, and causal conclusions are derived from various family studies, such as…
For months, some journalist called Ashley Smart has been emailing me for quotes for some upcoming hit piece. E.g., back form January: Hi Emil, I'm a journalist with Undark Magazine, and…