The general disease (“d”) factor and mutational load
Last year, this study was published: Brandt, V., Zhang, Y., Carr, H., Golm, D., Correll, C. U., Arrondo, G., ... & Cortese, S. (2023). First evidence of a general disease…
Last year, this study was published: Brandt, V., Zhang, Y., Carr, H., Golm, D., Correll, C. U., Arrondo, G., ... & Cortese, S. (2023). First evidence of a general disease…
Some of my colleagues have a new paper out: Te Nijenhuis, J., Pesta, B. J., & Fuerst, J. G. R. (n.d.). General mental ability testing and adverse impact in the…
There are many studies that report correlations between intelligence -- however measured -- and economic outcomes, mainly (self-reported) income. This is however somewhat abstract since correlations are unitless. They don't…
There's a new study out of note: Xia, R., Jian, X., Rodrigue, A. L., Bressler, J., Boerwinkle, E., Cui, B., ... & Fornage, M. (2024). Admixture mapping of cognitive function…
There's a number of studies that find that egalitarian cultural values correlates with larger not smaller actual measured sex differences. These are the first major studies using large international surveys:…
There's a wide variety of different ways to measure (general) intelligence, or what researchers call g. One can estimate vocabulary size, query about verbal analogies, general knowledge, ask people to…
If you have been paying attention, you will probably have noticed that a lot of the trans and non-binary people seem to be quite bright. Indeed, that's one of the…
Ah, yes, the perennial Jewish question. Historically, the Jewish question was what to do with the Jews from the perspective of those running countries: tolerate, integrate, convert, expel, or exterminate?…
Ever since Richard Lynn started compiling national intelligence averages (national IQs), there has been egalitarian minded researchers using these to find evidence of non-genetic causes of group differences. One frequently…
The Nazis famously carried out a number of atrocities involving the populations under their dominion. Most famously, this involved the mass murders of Jews in Europe, but quite a number…