Are compensatory education IQ gains g-loaded? No one knows, because the data are probably lost

It has been shown that training effects and the FLR effect are not g-loaded. Spitz in his discussion of the many types of compensatory education that has been tried, mentions…

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Semantic discussions of intelligence and the (un)importance of the study of race and g: A comment on Hunt and Jaeggi (2013)

I submitted this paper to the new open access Journal of Intelligence. But apparently, the first issue is invite only, so they won't accept my paper. At least it is…

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Eugenics and the Welfare State: Sterilization Policy in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland (1996)

Interesting small book that casts light on the use of sterilizations in nordic countries. It shows quite clearly that eugenics has it origin in collectivist and socialist thinking and was…

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Paper published: Predicting Immigrant IQ from their Countries of Origin, and Lynn’s National IQs: A Case Study from Denmark

I published my first peer reviewed paper in a journal. Predicting Immigrant IQ from their Countries of Origin, and Lynn's National IQs: A Case Study from Denmark

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Review: The raising of intelligence

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17772014-raising-of-intelligence-the Spitz, Herman H. The raising of intelligence: A selected history of attempts to raise retarded intelligence. 1986. http://bookos.org/book/2175637/d00805 Very useful book. I had read about it in multiple sources.…

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Review: Making sense of heritability

Download: http://www.libgen.net/search.php?search_type=magic&search_text=making+sense+of+heritability&submit=Dig+for   This is a GREAT book, which goes down to the basics about heritability and the various claims people have made against it. Highly recommended. Best book of…

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Review: Helmuth Nyborg ed., The scientific study of general intelligence

[Helmuth_Nyborg]_The_Scientific_Study_of_General_I(Bookos.org) From Introduction It has been said: If you have no enemies, you have no point of view. Art has many enemies, and I will describe some of the more…

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