Predicting immigrant performance: Does inbreeding have incremental validity over IQ and Islam?

https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/555217814488092673 So, she came up with: https://twitter.com/hbdchick/status/555223247244242944 So I decided to try it out, since I'm taking a break from reading Lilienfeld which I had been doing that for 5…

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Age differences in the WISC-IV has a positive Jensen coefficient, maybe

Group differences in cognitive scores have generally been found to be g-loaded, i.e. the differences are larger on the items/subtests that load more strongly on the general factor. This is…

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Intelligence, income inequality and prison rates: It’s complicated

There was some talk on Twitter around prison rates and inequality: https://twitter.com/JayMan471/status/553912823215325184 And IQ and inequality: https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/553937263953190912 But then what about prison data beyond those given above? I have downloaded…

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Review: Race (John Baker)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/875481.Race http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=5624936a816b96dd3e6a4af6808ee69b I had seen references to this book in a number of places which got me curious. I am somewhat hesitant to read older books since I know much…

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The inconsistency of studies of gender differences in cognitive abilities: due to using different methods?

I read this study: Palejwala, M. H., & Fine, J. G. (2015). Gender differences in latent cognitive abilities in children aged 2 to 7. Intelligence, 48, 96-108. It reminded me…

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Review: The Roma: A Balkan Underclass (Jelena Cvorovic)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23621169-the-roma Richard Lynn is so nice to periodically send me books for free. He is working on establishing his publisher, of course, and so needs media coverage. In this case,…

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Admixture in the Americas: Introduction, partial correlations and IQ predictions based on ancestry

For those who have been living under a rock (i.e. not following my on Twitter), John Fuerst have been very good at compiling data from published research. Have a look…

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New paper out: The personal Jensen coefficient does not predict grades beyond its association with g

Found null results for a proposed metric (actually two). In the spirit of publishing failed ideas, I wrote this up. Abstract General intelligence (g) is known to predict grades at…

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