Intelligence (journal) is dead, long live Intelligence (&CA) journal
As Noah Carl covered at Aporia in December 2024, the old Intelligence journal experienced a hostile takeover by Elsevier and their woke academic friends. As a result, most of the…
Book review: The Intelligence Men: Makers of the I.Q. Controversy (Fancher 1985)
I've been reading old writings recently, which is why I was posting about Terman's views. Some years ago, I heard about the book called The Intelligence Men: Makers of the…
Lewis Terman on human diversity and intelligence in 1922
I've been reading through some old papers and stumbled across an exchange between journalist Walter Lippmann and Lewis Terman in 1922 (original). Unfortunately, I wasn't fast enough to convert my…
Heritability of achievement tests at age 10-14 in Norway’s entire population
Since discussing heritability estimates is all the rage, with Seb Jensen producing a new meta-analysis, and Scott Alexander providing a great review (which was somehow praised by both sides since…
National IQ stereotypes are accurate too
We just published a new article: Jensen, S., & Kirkegaard, E. (2025). Stereotypes of the Intelligence of Nations. Comparative Sociology, 24(2), 272-295. https://doi.org/10.1163/15691330-bja10134 The authors surveyed a nationally representative sample…
Does intelligence have nonlinear effects on political opinions?
Back in March I published this study: Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2025). Does intelligence have nonlinear effects on political opinions? OpenPsych, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.26775/OP.2025.03.24 We sought to study intelligence’s relationship with…
Military intelligence and racial discrimination
By now, you've probably heard that the US military, and many other militaries around the world, has some kind of intelligence test that they use for admission. The US even…
Worldwide subnational intelligence estimates
It is already known that intelligence causes social status for persons. There's a very large amount of cross-sectional data, and causal conclusions are derived from various family studies, such as…
The Undark race science summary
For months, some journalist called Ashley Smart has been emailing me for quotes for some upcoming hit piece. E.g., back form January: Hi Emil, I'm a journalist with Undark Magazine, and…
Special issue of Swiss magazine Schweizer Monat about intelligence
The Swiss libertarian (classical liberal) leaning magazine Schweizer Monat ('Swiss monthly') has a new issue out focused on intelligence. For a magazine, it has a quite impressive roster of authors,…