Herrnstein’s famous 1971 article in The Atlantic
Richard Herrnstein, (1971), IQ, The Atlantic Had been looking for this one for years. Gwern managed to find it. I'll host a mirror here. Perhaps the most interesting thing about…
Why the race and intelligence question is still not resolved
It could probably have been resolved decades ago, and definitely within the last 10 years with genomic data, yet it is still not. Why? Essentially, it's because of bias in…
ISIR 2017 Montreal – poster + poster talk
For sound academic damage control reasons, I was given a poster at ISIR this year. So, I improvised and did a very brief poster talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI3Zv68bz90 More!?: Poster Paper
Race and exam pass rates (data dump)
In the SSC subreddit, someone reposted that data showing the strong race bias in the admission process for medicine. I reposted it on Twitter with some snark, to the usual…
New paper out: Admixture in Argentina (with John Fuerst)
We have a new big paper out: Kirkegaard, E. O. W., & Fuerst, J. (2017). Admixture in Argentina. Mankind Quarterly, 57(4). Retrieved from http://mankindquarterly.org/archive/issue/57-4/4 Abstract Analyses of the relationships between…
Against CFAR
Note: snarky, critical. Happy to be proven wrong. Edit: after writing this, I found some more evidence, but it's not particularly convincing either. CFAR, The Center for Applied Rationality, is…
The race and intelligence question is solvable
In reply to: http://nautil.us/issue/48/chaos/what-both-the-left-and-right-get-wrong-about-race http://www.geneticshumanagency.org/gha/origin-of-race-differences-in-intelligence-is-not-a-scientific-question/ There's a new kind of 'environmentalist' (rather, anti-hereditarian) defense in town, or at least, one that's not commonly seen. It goes like this: This is…
Rise and fall of empires: genetic version?
Based on: https://gnxp.nofe.me/2017/05/30/ancient-egyptians-black-or-white/ https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15694 Abstract Egypt, located on the isthmus of Africa, is an ideal region to study historical population dynamics due to its geographic location and documented interactions with…
The sampling problem with meta-analyses of Jensen’s method findings
I have been complaining to colleagues about this one for several months. Of the various criticisms of this method, I don't recall one pointing out this problem. I don't have…
On scientific consensus
In reply to: Scott Alexander's Learning To Love Scientific Consensus. Actually, I have planned (in my mind) a somewhat longer post on my take on the 'correct contrarian cluster', or…
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