New study out: Systemic Racism Does Not Explain Variation in Race Gaps on Cognitive Tests
The new issue of Mankind Quarterly just came out. It appears I have no less than 6 pieces in this, so let's get started. Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2023). Systemic…
Fertility questions: the role of population density?
There is a worldwide decline in fertility: The COVID-19 years seem to have been particularly bad on some countries. The poster child for future problems is South Korea: Even Reuters…
Personality and politics of 263 occupations
Recently, I wrote about a great study showing the intelligence and crude personality differences between 300+ jobs. There is now a replication of this using a set of 263 occupations…
Youtube talk: Who Will Fight For Their Country Now?
Some time ago I went to the United Kingdom to give this talk at the Traditional Britain Group, which I just discovered has been posted on Youtube. It was a…
Palestinians in your country: what to expect?
With a war looming and probably lots of Palestinian refugee applications on the horizon, I thought it would be wise to summarize what we have so far about them. The…
Is the past the future?
Edward Dutton (AKA. Jolly Heretic) and J.O.A. Rayner-Hilles has a new book out: The Past is a Future Country: The Coming Conservative Demographic Revolution (2022). The summary is: Since the…
GDP problems, but what solutions?
Suppose you want to measure how well a country is doing. If you're an economist you will be immediately reaching for your trusted variant of the GDP per capita metric.…
Which occupation are you?
About a month ago this very interesting paper was published: Wolfram, T. (2023). (Not just) Intelligence stratifies the occupational hierarchy: Ranking 360 professions by IQ and non-cognitive traits. Intelligence, 98,…
Hanania’s diversity hypothesis tested and found wanting
Richard Hanania has a new post out: Diversity Really is Our Strength. (Noah Carl has a reply here, and Seb Jensen has a reply here) His piece is part-troll, part-serious…
Who is safe from Pakistani groomer gangs?
England is famous for its football, and also for its inability to deal with Pakistani groomer gangs. As the talk online about groomers is mostly about the transsexuals and homosexuals…