Emil O. W. Kirkegaard blog
This one came out in Februrary, so we are a bit behind, but that’s because I wanted to time the blogpost with the video. Aaaand the video is online now. Pesta, B. J., Fuerst, J. G. R., & Kirkegaard, E. (2021). County-level USA: No Robust Relationship between Geoclimatic Variables and Cognitive Ability. Journal of Geographical…
Continue ReadingKirkegaard, E. O. W., & Fedorov, J. (2021). Country of Origin IQ and Muslim Percentage Predict Grade Point Average in School among 116 Immigrant Groups in Denmark. Mankind Quarterly, 61(3). Immigrants to Western countries typically have worse social outcomes than natives, but country of origin immigrant groups differ widely. We studied school performance in Denmark…
Continue ReadingResearchgate link (ungated) Kirkegaard, E. O. W., & Dumoulin, B. (2020). What Happened to Brussels? The Big Decline and Muslim Immigration. Mankind Quarterly, 61(2). https://doi.org/10.46469/mq.2020.61.2.8 We examined regional inequality in Belgium, both in the 19 communes of Brussels and in the country as a whole (n = 589 communes). We find very strong relationships between…
Continue ReadingSome people think that human differences are just a matter of throwing enough money at the problem. Naturally, then, they always advocate for more educational spending whenever inconvenient gaps are such, such as those between kids of rich and poor kids: Hanushek, E. A., Peterson, P. E., Talpey, L. M., & Woessmann, L. (2020). Long-Run…
Continue ReadingOriginal version: Clark, C. J., Winegard, B. M., Beardslee, J., Baumeister, R. F., & Shariff, A. F. (2020). Declines in Religiosity Predict Increases in Violent Crime—but Not Among Countries With Relatively High Average IQ. Psychological science, 31(2), 170-183. Retraction notice on journal website Andrew Gelman has a write-up from his perspective with woke title: Retraction…
Continue ReadingA very telling paper from 1967 written by a top sociologist called Howard S. Becker. Becker, H. S. (1967). Whose side are we on?. Social problems, 14(3), 239-247. I quote: To have values or not to have values: the question is always with us. When sociologists undertake to study problems that have relevance to the…
Continue ReadingFollow-up to my recent post on machine learning psychometrics. Some years ago, I read this paper by Gerhard Meisenberg: Meisenberg, G., & Williams, A. (2008). Are acquiescent and extreme response styles related to low intelligence and education?. Personality and individual differences, 44(7), 1539-1550. Several lines of evidence suggest that acquiescent and extreme response styles are…
Continue ReadingYes, I know, images are not working right now. It’s due to site maintenance! Kirkegaard, E. O., Carl, N., & Bjerrekær, J. D. (2020). Are Danes’ Immigration Policy Preferences Based on Accurate Stereotypes?. Societies, 10(2), 29. Stereotypes about 32 country-of-origin groups were measured using an online survey of the adult, non-elderly Danish population (n =…
Continue ReadingKirkegaard, E. O. W. (2020). Human Biodiversity for Beginners: A Review of Charles Murray’s Human Diversity. Mankind Quarterly, 60(3). Journal (gated) Human Diversity is Charles Murray’s latest book. This review evaluates the claims made in the book and places both the author’s theses and their criticisms in their historical context. It concludes that this book…
Continue ReadingKirkegaard, E. O. W. & de Kuijper, M. (2020). Public Preferences and Reality: Crime Rates among 70 Immigrant Groups in the Netherlands. Mankind Quarterly, 60(3) journal link (gated) We estimated crime rates among 70 origin-based immigrant groups in the Netherlands for the years 2005-2018. Results indicated that crime rates have overall been falling for each…
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