Scott Alexander on the isolated demand for moral rigor and genetics
It appears this comment was deleted and I've checked the archive sites, and none of them appear to have just the right time in between him posting it and it…
Recent evidence on dysgenic trends (February 2021)
A friend asked me to give him some pointers to the recent evidence on dysgenics, or the selection against valued traits. Challenge was accepted. This is not an exhaustive review.…
New paper out: National Intelligence Is More Important for Explaining Country Well-Being than Time Preference and Other Measured Non-Cognitive Traits
Kirkegaard, E. O. W., & Karlin, A. (2020). National Intelligence Is More Important for Explaining Country Well-Being than Time Preference and Other Measured Non-Cognitive Traits. Mankind Quarterly, 61(2). https://doi.org/10.46469/mq.2020.61.2.11 Patient…
New paper out: What Happened to Brussels? The Big Decline and Muslim Immigration
Researchgate link (ungated) Kirkegaard, E. O. W., & Dumoulin, B. (2020). What Happened to Brussels? The Big Decline and Muslim Immigration. Mankind Quarterly, 61(2). https://doi.org/10.46469/mq.2020.61.2.8 We examined regional inequality in…
Hereditarian predictions
Putting these in writing in a single place for ease of reference. Unfortunately, no one wrote down all these predictions some years ago to show they really were predictions, but…
Quantitative genetic and natural selection: 2018-2020 studies
There are many studies that look at signs for selection using large genomic datasets. This post provides a selective summary of such studies from 2018 to now, so very recent…
Chanda Chisala did not come up with the UK race gaps argument
Many people seem to have this impression. These arguments go back more than 10 years. This post quotes various UK newspaper articles going back to 2006: Underperformance of Poor White…
Smart fraction theory: literature collection
I am finishing up a large study on smart fraction theory (intellectual classes model). To this end, I reviewed all the empirical papers on the topic, and some historical ones.…
Macroeconomics and intelligence: a collection
See prior post on national IQs and who you can't cite. Economists and intelligence researchers don't generally talk: Test scores, on the other hand, offer direct measures of a variety…
Motivation and IQ scores
Der er is a famous meta-analysis showing that motivation affects IQ scores to a substantial degree: Duckworth, A. L., Quinn, P. D., Lynam, D. R., Loeber, R., & Stouthamer-Loeber, M.…
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