Educational socialism
Some 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…
Politically motivated retraction of benign national intelligence study by Clark et al (2020)
Original 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…
Whose side are sociologists on?
A 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:…
Nice 1100 IQ
Predicting aggregate intelligence level from non-cognitive data
Follow-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…
New paper out: Are Danes’ Immigration Policy Preferences Based on Accurate Stereotypes?
Yes, 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…
New paper out: Human Biodiversity for Beginners: A Review of Charles Murray’s Human Diversity
Kirkegaard, 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…
New paper out: Public Preferences and Reality: Crime Rates among 70 Immigrant Groups in the Netherlands
Kirkegaard, 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…
Studies using national IQs for predicting immigration outcomes
Below I list all the studies I am aware of that use national IQs in studies of immigrants, usually as an estimate of their IQ levels in the host country.…
Political bias in science: quotes from Gunnar Myrdal’s 1944 book
Gunnar Myrdal, who was Swedish, expresses an early version of the views the media repeat endlessly these days. To give some examples: White prejudice and discrimination keep the Negro low…
No Swedish refugee miracle: large negative net contributions of immigrants
Recently, I found a Swedish language report that discusses economic consequences of refugee immigration to Sweden. Ruist, Joakim. 2018:3 Tid för integration – en ESO-rapport om flyktingars bakgrund och arbetsmarknadsetablering.…
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