Kirkegaard, E. O. W., & Pesta, B. J. (2019). Smart and Poor, or Rich and Dull? A U.S. County-Level Analysis of the Relationship between IQ and Presidential-Election Voting Behavior. Mankind…
Aside from the usual Magic Dirt Theory, there is also the Magic (American) Racism Theory. James Flynn explains the conundrum for environmentalists: There is no doubt that high h² [heritability]…
I am posting this because this is not widely known, but I think this angle should be taken more seriously. I hope philosophers will read this and get inspired! Urbach,…
People keep asking me about the state of the art re. evidence for physiognomy, so here's a brief review. Phrenology used to be considered legit, and then eventually people realized…
See also previously: Environmentalists like admixture analysis too (until they don’t) Let's talk a little Bayesian statistics and how it applies to model selection in the race and IQ debate.…
Ewan Birney, Jennifer Raff, Adam Rutherford, Aylwyn Scally. Race, genetics and pseudoscience: an explainer. Ewan's Blog: Bioinformatician at large. Additional remarks by Raff on her blog On Race, Genetics, and…
Rushton, J. P. (1997). Review essay. [Review of the books The Bell Curve Debate, The Bell Curve Wars, Final Solutions, The Mismeasure of Man, The Nazi Connection, The Race Gallery,…
Since there was much interest in my tweet... https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1180945694586220544 The spreadsheet will be updated here. title author url active Reason without restraint Anon https://reasonwithoutrestraint.com/ 1 Untangler Sebastian Jensen https://theuntangler.wordpress.com/ 1…
Wang, M., Rieger, M. O., & Hens, T. (2016). How time preferences differ: Evidence from 53 countries. Journal of Economic Psychology, 52, 115-135. We present results from the first large-scale…
Since people keep asking about this, yes, there are several lengthy replies to Nassim Taleb's anti-IQ piece from January 2019 "IQ Is Largely a Pseudoscientific Swindle". He's a loose cannon,…