American Jewish gentile differences
Jews are an extraordinarily successful ethnic group in almost everything they choose to engage in, from physics to politics with the curious exception of US presidencies. Seb Jensen compiled a…
Assessment of the Confidence Calibration Test + new test
Yesterday, I posted a new cognitive test on taketest.xyz, the Confidence Calibration Test. If you want to take the test without biased results, take it now before reading further. You…
Which countries are best at esports? 2026 update
Given the ease of obtaining scraped datasets with Claude Code, I thought we could update my 2019 study of mental sports with the newest data and better methods. The primary…
Meta-Analysis of American Race Differences in Intelligence
So our new meta-analysis of the American race gaps in IQ is published! Kirkegaard, E. & Jensen, S. (2025). Meta-Analysis of American Race Differences in Intelligence. Mankind Quarterly, 66(2), 290-300.…
Dysgenics for whom?
Some time ago, we published studies showing that the negative correlation between intelligence and fertility varies by other factors. Specifically, we found that it varies by religiousness and conservatism, in…
Motivated reasoning and intelligence
Years ago, a very flashy finding by Kahan and colleagues (2017) got popular (1200+ citations). It goes like this, you give people some matrices of fake study data like these:…
New York Times is back on the race science beat
Back on the 23rd October 2025, some journalist I hadn't heard of called Mike McIntire emailed me. He said he was writing some smear piece for the New York Times,…
Good science on national IQs
Shae Mclaughlin (SM) has a new blogpost attacking national IQs. I thought it would be suitable to provide the usual rebuttal since I don't see any such post yet. She…
Understanding audit (resumé) studies
John B. Holbein is a mild mannered economist on X. 2 days ago he posted a long post on Lee Jussim's new review paper of racial discrimination in hiring. Jussim…
Robert Sternberg returns
Robert Sternberg has licked his wounds and returned to the fray. OK, it was limited to some viral video (2M), but nevertheless. Here's a repost of it: Not really worth…
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