Some people have IQs of 160
Erik Hoel recently wrote a piece with a lot of problems: Your IQ isn't 160. No one's is. Since it appears no one has written a reply, I will provide…
Erik Hoel recently wrote a piece with a lot of problems: Your IQ isn't 160. No one's is. Since it appears no one has written a reply, I will provide…
David Friedman, a self-described "anarchist-anachronist-economist" and author of The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism (on my to-read list) has written a criticism of the hereditarian position on…
Unfortunately, Kareem Carr decided to do another popular thread filled with misinformation. Since it is useful to have a go-to rebuttal, I will provide one. The usual rule applies with…
We published a new paper a few days ago: Wright, S., & Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2023). Intelligence Inequality and Income Inequality: The Missing Link. Comparative Sociology, 22(2), 298–319. https://doi.org/10.1163/15691330-bja10077…
Rorschach tests are those inkblot things you sometimes see in movies. They are generally considered bad, in line with Myers-Briggs of bad early 1900s ideas in psychology. Here's Wikipedia: Some…
I read this book the other day and it's worth reviewing in some detail. Krause, J., & Trappe, T. (2022). A short history of humanity: A new history of old…
Given the interest in the recent estimates of Scott Alexander's, Gwern's etc. IQs on Twitter, I thought it might be informative and entertaining to carry out a real survey (defined…
There has been frequent criticism of Phil Rushton's role as synthesizer of research on race differences. Ed Dutton's deep dive into Rushton's own claims about his life revealed some inconsistencies…
Noah Carl has a new post on treating the ethics of individual differences the same as ethics of group differences: Which prompts the question: if genes contributing to group differences…
Dworak, E. M., Revelle, W., & Condon, D. M. (2023). Looking for Flynn effects in a recent online US adult sample: Examining shifts within the SAPA Project. Intelligence, 98, 101734.…