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…
Wordcel before it was cool: verbal tilt
Recently, the fashionable word to refer to a certain class of talking or writing heads is wordcel. A play on wordy and incel, if we take it from Urban Dictionary…
How bad is low level lead poisoning? Probably not that bad
For some months, I've had a window open with some lead poisoning studies by economists. We know generally not to trust economist work without carefully checking out their tables and…
Mental illness and intelligence: the relationship is negative
This one keeps coming up whenever I post things about mental illness and X, like politics. So it's worth having a go-to summary for a popular audience. Mental illness is…
Basics on hereditarian thinking about genotypic means
Recently I got a private question from anon: A quick question if you don't mind: how come Blacks from sub-Saharan Africa have an average IQ of 70, which is even…
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