https://twitter.com/timothycbates/status/852778717411659776 Humans have stereotypes, that is, they hold beliefs about groups of people. When examined, these beliefs tend to reflect reality quite well, sometimes very well (for review, see Jussim's…
Just a quick post to summarize or reference the evidence for various claims and mistakes I made. The interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttzqXeX2hjw Previous interview with Tara McCarthy I should have done a…
On the commentariat here, and why I don't think I can be associated with this community, despite liking the blog. My reply, as found in the comments. Most of it…
Brian Boutwell et al has a new preprint out: The Experience of Discrimination in Contemporary America: Results from a Nationally Representative Sample of Adults A large body of social science…
Rnotebook: http://rpubs.com/EmilOWK/immigrant_IQ_Danish_draft Because I was discussing this dataset with a friend, I decided to reexamine it. Examining this dataset was my first reviewed paper (Kirkegaard 2013). It was manually done…
In many ways, my science -- and my colleagues' science -- generally involves collecting evidence for obvious hypotheses that are mainly denied by leftist-leaning people (more precisely, egalitarian). Here's a…
I read the following interesting paper: Braun, S. T., & Stuhler, J. (2016). The Transmission of Inequality Across Multiple Generations: Testing Recent Theories with Evidence from Germany. The Economic Journal,…
I was skimming a Wikipedia article related to immigrant crime and came across an obscure Swedish language report from the 1990s: Ahlberg, J. (1996). Invandrares och invandrares barns brottslighet: En…
Kirkegaard, E. O. W., & Becker, D. (2017). Immigrant crime in Germany 2012-2015. Open Quantitative Sociology & Political Science. Retrieved from https://openpsych.net/paper/50 So the German paper is finally out. As…
Woodley convinced me that these are of actual interest. As some of you may recall, I compiled a large county level (n≈3000) dataset some time ago, but didn't use it…