https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/662840970166280192 See first: Some methods for measuring and correcting for spatial autocorrelation Piffer's method Piffer's method to examine the between group heritability of cognitive ability and height uses polygenic scores…
It is often said that polygenic traits are based on tons of causal variants each of which has a very small effect size. What is less often discussed is the…
The topic came up whether people who believe in one conspiracy theory also believe in other theories. Probably, but let's find some data! I found some data in this paper…
A PDF of this paper without formatting errors can be downloaded here. Abstract I review recent findings in human behavioral genetics and their implications for selective breeding and estimation of…
I recently read the biography of William Shockley. Basically, I am reading biographies of prominent researchers to gain an understanding of them. I was also thinking of writing one about…
Wikipedian battlegrounds For those who don't know, Wikipedia is a common battleground for the ideological part of the race and intelligence debate. One can see this in the talk pages…
Goodreads. The book is on Libgen (free download). Since I have ventured into criminology as part of my ongoing research program into the spatial transferability hypothesis (psychological traits are stable…
What is age heaping? Number heaping is a common tendency of humans. What this means is that we tend round numbers to the nearest 5 or 10 (those of us…
Note that perhaps there should be doubt quotation marks around human in the title. Would humans with a 1,000 SD increase in (general) cognitive ability (CA) really be human? Steve…
Due to lengthy discussion over at Unz concerning the good performance of some African groups in the UK, it seems worth it to review the Danish and Norwegian results. Basically,…