Migration and feelings of safety in Denmark
A politician from the Social Democrats called Frederik Vad (center-left government party) posted results of a survey about how safe citizens report feeling in various areas of the country. There…
Who is gaining Danish citizenship?
The Danish constitution says: §44 (1) No alien shall be naturalized except by statute. (2) The extent of the right of aliens to become owners of real property shall be…
European women and migrants: are children the solution?
I saw this funny and one might say provocative study: Schahbasi, A., Huber, S., & Fieder, M. (2021). Factors affecting attitudes toward migrants—An evolutionary approach. American Journal of Human Biology,…
What explains the Big Pisa Decline of 2022? It’s not COVID
You may have seen posts like this: Two explanations are commonly offered: Phones/computers got suddenly more addictive than before (Tiktok-era) COVID was bad for learning. Let's start with the second.…
Population size is not important for country outcomes
There is a recurrent feature of the immigration debate that goes like this: Emil: Look at how negative the fiscal contributions of 3rd world migrants are. People: Heh, that's nice,…
Indian IQ in the USA: GSS data
Aaron has a new short piece on Indian IQ in the USA using the GSS. I decided to replicate this analysis with better methods. The GSS is somewhat of a…
Understanding American right-wing Indian hate
In the last few years, there has been a stark increase in anti-Indian posts. You can surely find your own examples on social media. Because of this, various right-leaning posters…
Garett Jones finishes his trilogy
In the last 10 years, economist Garett Jones has been writing a series of books, a trilogy to be exact: Jones says in the post-script: THIS IS THE FINAL BOOK…
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…
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…
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