New York Times is back on the race science beat
Back on the 23rd October 2025, some journalist I hadn't heard of called Mike McIntire emailed me. He said he was writing some smear piece for the New York Times,…
Assortative mating and differences
Cremieux has a viral post showing the absolute IQ gaps for spouses/partners as a function of the smartest spouse: This finding is trivial but apparently surprising to many people judging…
Good science on national IQs
Shae Mclaughlin (SM) has a new blogpost attacking national IQs. I thought it would be suitable to provide the usual rebuttal since I don't see any such post yet. She…
Understanding audit (resumé) studies
John B. Holbein is a mild mannered economist on X. 2 days ago he posted a long post on Lee Jussim's new review paper of racial discrimination in hiring. Jussim…
Whose benefit of the doubt?
In selection contexts (e.g. hiring), there is the notion of the benefit of the doubt. If you have some non-meritocratic desires for selection, and you find yourself with 2 otherwise…
Robert Sternberg returns
Robert Sternberg has licked his wounds and returned to the fray. OK, it was limited to some viral video (2M), but nevertheless. Here's a repost of it: Not really worth…
Do national IQs predict differently across regions?
Going back to Lyman Stone's tweet: in fact, national IQ’s predictiveness of GDP is often very weak within-region, i.e. within-ancestry-groups. measurement error is obviously a plausible part of this, but…
Admixture in Americas 2.0
We are finally ready to share our big follow-up to the first Admixture in the Americas project from 2016. Fuerst, J., & Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2025, December 5). Continental…
Verbal tilt model confirmed for political behavior
This paper came out a while ago, but I neglected to comment on it. You may recall 5 years ago I forwarded the verbal tilt model of certain behavioral patterns…
The issue with early interventions for cognitive traits
There are numerous intervention studies aim at improving cognitive traits. While one can aggregate these in ways that give the appearance of impact, when looked at properly they don't really…