Jews and IQ/race research
There is a popular claim in White Nationalist circles that Jews have been involved in the suppression of IQ and race related research. They can list persons like: Leon Kamin,…
National chess skill: European culture, intelligence
http://www.unz.com/jthompson/chisalas-last-word/ How far should the net be cast as regards intellectual achievements? I suggest as far and wide as possible, or it will be assumed that some results are being…
Pedophilia and related traits
The question of whether homosexuality is related to various bad things is independent of one's stance towards homosexuals as citizens, their rights to marriage etc. which is fine by me.…
About that blog: Italian IQs, Lynn IQs, brain size and doctors
https://notpoliticallycorrect.me/ Twitter: RaceRealist88 Since I am repeatedly asked by a bunch of differently looking people to comment on that particular blog. I don't know the guy, but he's been quite…
No special sex-linked inheritance of cognitive ability/intelligence (except for a few rare disorders)
Some guy on SSC: I remember hearing somewhere that the IQ of the mother is what determines the IQ of the children. Is this accurate? To what extent does the…
Spearman’s extended hypothesis
Dahlke, J. A., & Sackett, P. R. (2017). The Relationship Between Cognitive-ability Saturation and Subgroup Mean Differences Across Predictors of Job Performance. Journal of Applied Psychology. Abstract The authors quantify…
Evolution and imperfect mediators
Skoyles, J. R. (1999). Human evolution expanded brains to increase expertise capacity, not IQ. Psycoloquy, 10(002). Chicago Skoyles is arguing a rather implausible claim: Why do modern humans have larger…
The race and intelligence question is solvable
In reply to: http://nautil.us/issue/48/chaos/what-both-the-left-and-right-get-wrong-about-race http://www.geneticshumanagency.org/gha/origin-of-race-differences-in-intelligence-is-not-a-scientific-question/ There's a new kind of 'environmentalist' (rather, anti-hereditarian) defense in town, or at least, one that's not commonly seen. It goes like this: This is…
The neuroscience of intelligence: very preliminary because of power failure and lack of multivariate studies
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: reviews
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,…
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