How to norm a score
Suppose you have created a new scale of something ("Science Blog Rating Scale"). It can be psychology or some other soft science, but it doesn't have to be. Suppose you…
The genetics of beliefs
Nathan Cofnas wrote a great piece the other day, Beating Woke with Facts and Logic, which included this part: Beliefs Aren’t Genetically Determined Should we execute murderers? Raise taxes on…
Indian IQ in 1944
Some of you may have seen this table posted on X: Upon seeing the table, some have mistakenly concluded that the first row has British world scale IQs, but as…
New paper: Psychometric Analysis of the Multifactor General Knowledge Test
A while ago, Seb Jensen and I did this new study, and it was only released now due to technical issues: Kirkegaard, E. O. W., & Jensen, S. (2025). Psychometric…
Who has how much dysgenics? The worldwide picture
In 2024, Seb Jensen published a report over at Hanania's CSPI (Are We Getting Dumber?) summarizing his findings concerning the speed of global dysgenics. Due to various reasons, the formal…
Indian IQ in the USA: GSS data
Aaron has a new short piece on Indian IQ in the USA using the GSS. I decided to replicate this analysis with better methods. The GSS is somewhat of a…
Is it impossible to build general artificial intelligence?
Before we start this book review, consider these quotes about the possibility of nuclear power: Albert Einstein, 1922 Translation by Henry L. Brose (Einstein the Searcher: His Work Explained from…
Indian average intelligence: not a mystery
Talking about the current thing on X often results in viral posts: The replies are full of hostility for a variety of reasons, one of them being that Taleb posted…
Babymaxxing
And so the day came, August 12, our first child joined the world: Given how great early life interventions work, I started immediately with important topics like British history: Kidding…
Proper embryo selection just landed
Today is an exciting day. First, the HHS announced a more open data policy (in the direction of my suggestions), and second and more importantly, a new company just went…