Authoritarianism and fertility: maybe, probably
Last year, this meme was floating around: The data are real enough, and the years are right. It seems that Franco was able to sustain fertility in Spain during his…
The Bird paper, and hereditarian predictions
I keep getting asked about this, so I figure a short note is in order. Some months ago, Commie Kevin (Twitter) AKA. Kevin Bird published an anti-hereditarian study: Bird, K.…
New paper and video out: The Negative Religiousness-IQ Nexus is a Jensen Effect on Individual-Level Data: A Refutation of Dutton et al.’s ‘The Myth of the Stupid Believer’
Dutton, E., & Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2021). The Negative Religiousness-IQ Nexus is a Jensen Effect on Individual-Level Data: A Refutation of Dutton et al.’s ‘The Myth of the Stupid…
Harvard’s half-meritocracy
Many people are aware that American universities practice something called affirmative action. Really, this just means a kind of reverse racism that was instituted during the 1960s cultural takeover (or…
Wealth gains and IQ gains since Ron Unz’ 2012 post
In 2012, Ron Unz (of Unz.com) wrote a long article with the title Race, IQ, and Wealth published in The American Conservative (follow-up also in 2012 Race/IQ: Irish IQ &…
Woke behavioral geneticists
Book review of The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality by Kathryn Paige Harden. Most people know about the top woke biologists of the past. I am of…
Testosterone battles
Back in October Razib Khan had Carole Hooven on his podcast. She's the author of a new popsci book on testosterone: T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates…
Math scores for 2nd generation immigrants in Norway by country of origin
A reader sent me this interesting report that I had previously somehow not heard of: Rune Jørgen Sørensen, Jon Marius Iversen, Johan From, and Hans Bonesrønning. Culture and school performance:…
Misleading plots on secular trends and education
This mistake is very common, and here we look at an arbitrary example I was sent promoted by Rob Henderson on Twitter. This error is quite common (first example I…
IQ nationalism
Borderless Welfare State: The Consequences of Immigration on Public Finances Sometimes white nationalists describe me as a proponent of 'IQ nationalism', they don't mean it well. It's somewhat of a…
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