Those unwanted results from the Ontario’s Mathematics Proficiency Test
You may recall a few months back that Canada's highest court declared a math test for school teachers to be ... unconstitutional: As a result of a recent decision of…
IQs by university degrees from SATs
There's a bunch of these claims floating around. The good ones are based on Razib Khan's 10 year old write-up, which I also reblogged later. It looks like this: The…
People do not overestimate their romantic partner’s IQ by 30
It's all based on this article, which received ample media attention: Gignac, G. E., & Zajenkowski, M. (2019). People tend to overestimate their romantic partner's intelligence even more than their…
Small children are not particularly creative
There is a meme among educationalists and other people who like unverifiable but inspirational quotes. It goes like this: One can find an endless number of popular articles repeating this…
What have we learned from the 2022 education GWAS?
Okbay, A., Wu, Y., Wang, N., Jayashankar, H., Bennett, M., Nehzati, S. M., ... & Young, A. I. (2022). Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide…
Witty&Jenkins 1936 confirmed and debunked
There's a really old study that is sometimes brought up. It was covered in depth by John Fuerst and HBD.info. I think Nisbett 2009 (Intelligence and how to get it,…
How many people can solve this kind of problem?
There's a thread on 4chan that's been spread all over Twitter, Reddit etc.. It concerns some guy who supposedly worked with inmates and reports how poorly they are able to…
IQ can be increased by more education but can intelligence? Does it matter?
Maybe you are thinking: wait I thought IQ was more or less the same as intelligence? IQ tests do measure intelligence well, right? Well, sometimes it is, sometimes it is…
Ukrainians in our countries: what are we getting, what can we expect?
As the war rages on, the war refugees are starting to come and more are announced. They are being widely accepted even by the nationalist parties. For instance, Danish New…
Science Outside The Overton Window – Interview with Alexandra Kaschuta
I had a fun chat with Alexandra Kaschuta, a very unusual Romanian woman. Hope you enjoy! I chat to rogue researcher Emil Kirkegaard about the fraught intersection between intelligence research…
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