I don't have time to provide extensive citations for this post, so some things are cited from memory. You should be able to locate the relevant literature, but otherwise just…
Nisbett's 2009 book on intelligence, Intelligence and how to get it, is a goldmine of stupid claims that one can quote-mine for introduction and discussion sections of papers. For instance,…
https://twitter.com/HoustonEuler/status/837894199814955008 There's been some talk about whether the SIRE (self-identified race/ethnicity) gaps are closing and if so how much and when they did that. The matter is complicated for many…
In many ways, my science -- and my colleagues' science -- generally involves collecting evidence for obvious hypotheses that are mainly denied by leftist-leaning people (more precisely, egalitarian). Here's a…
Whitley, E., Deary, I. J., Ritchie, S. J., Batty, G. D., Kumari, M., & Benzeval, M. (2016). Variations in cognitive abilities across the life course: Cross-sectional evidence from Understanding Society:…
I was reviewing a paper on social inequality in Brazil at the state level (I published one myself in 2015), and it struck me that one should be able to…
Back in January, Steve Hsu did an interview with Daphne Martschenko who is a phd candidate at Cambridge in education. She's basically doing science journalism on behavioral genetics as far…
So, I posted this: Abstract We used data from the PING study (n≈1200) to examine the relationship between cognitive ability, socioeconomic outcomes and genomic racial ancestry. We found that when…
Some of the talks from ISIR 2016 in Saint Petersburg are now online. In particular, I enjoyed Detterman's talk, but of course I think he is too pessimistic about reproductive…