So you’re interested in the national IQ of a country, what do you do?
You might know the following scenario: you or your ancestors migrated from a given country, or you yourself is a member of the major ethnic group of some country. At…
You might know the following scenario: you or your ancestors migrated from a given country, or you yourself is a member of the major ethnic group of some country. At…
In our third installment of our new work in this issue of Mankind Quarterly, we're branching off into political science: Jensen, S., & Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2023). Who Believes…
There is this claim sometimes seen when discussing highly gifted people. One interested reader emailed me to ask where it was that Arthur Jensen made this claim: Anyway, what I…
George Francis and I have a new exciting study out, the formal and finalized version of George Francis' 2022 blogpost: Francis, G., & Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2023). Intelligence and…
The new issue of Mankind Quarterly just came out. It appears I have no less than 6 pieces in this, so let's get started. Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2023). Systemic…
I have often talked about how measurement error impacts correlations between two variables. Here we are talking about classical measurement error, which is theoretically understood as adding a normally distributed…
There is a new preprint that's making the rounds on Twitter: Schraiber, J. G., & Edge, M. D. (2023). Heritability within groups is uninformative about differences among groups: cases from…
Undark magazine has a new piece out where a journalist expresses concern about people looking at their own DNA results: From a Fledgling Genetic Science, A Murky Market for Prediction.…
We've recently seen national "basic skills" and Team Economist is now back with another one: National "learning-adjusted years of schooling". We might say that national intelligence enjoys a paradoxical popularity.…
Sasha Gusev is a statistical geneticist who spends a lot of time on Twitter. He has been attacking various behavioral genetics studies lately, thus earning some ire from people in…