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Read more about the article American Jewish gentile differences

American Jewish gentile differences

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:9. April 2026
  • Post category:intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability/Stereotypes

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…

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Assessment of the Confidence Calibration Test + new test

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:4. April 2026
  • Post category:intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability

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…

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Read more about the article Which countries are best at esports? 2026 update

Which countries are best at esports? 2026 update

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:2. April 2026
  • Post category:intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability/Media studies

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…

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Read more about the article Meta-Analysis of American Race Differences in Intelligence

Meta-Analysis of American Race Differences in Intelligence

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:30. March 2026
  • Post category:intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability

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.…

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Read more about the article Dysgenics for whom?

Dysgenics for whom?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:27. March 2026
  • Post category:Demographics/Genetics / behavioral genetics/intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability/Psychiatry

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…

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Read more about the article Motivated reasoning and intelligence

Motivated reasoning and intelligence

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:26. March 2026
  • Post category:intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability/Political science

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:…

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Read more about the article New York Times is back on the race science beat

New York Times is back on the race science beat

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:25. January 2026
  • Post category:intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability

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,…

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Read more about the article Good science on national IQs

Good science on national IQs

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:15. January 2026
  • Post category:intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability

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…

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Understanding audit (resumé) studies

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:11. January 2026
  • Post category:intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability/Social psychology

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…

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Read more about the article Robert Sternberg returns

Robert Sternberg returns

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:20. December 2025
  • Post category:intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability

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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