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…
Educational interventions keep not working
We've been over this topic previously in 2017, but since this is the eternal idea, let's look at more data. Let's start historically. 1969 Arthur Jensen's famous article “How much…
Thou shallt not look at the polygenic scores
With the coming of Open Science principles, many scientific institutions who were previously aggressively guarding their data decided to put them out for public consumption. Mostly this means other academics…
New video out: Biotech Eugenics: Creating Future People
This one has been a long time in the making. Which is to say, I was too busy doing other stuff to get this done. BUT here we are! Also,…
Comments on “The Inheritance of Inequality” (Bowles & Gintis, 2002)
Some anon sent me this paper, asked if there was a rebuttal somewhere. It's a well cited economics paper, 1248 citations on Google Scholar. I wasn't familiar with it, but…
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