Country level indicators of altruism
A traditional approach to studying altruism has been to do some kind of economic game. E.g. seeing how nice people are in ultimatum games. One such study: Oosterbeek, H., Sloof,…
Ancestry effects in Brazil: economist approach with person names
I have written a lot about ancestry approaches, generally from a psychometric and genomic angle. However, economists can also play this game. Daniel A. F. Lopes, Geraldo A. Silva Filho,…
Review: Cognitive Capitalism (Heiner Rindermann)
Rindermann, H. (2018). Cognitive capitalism: human capital and the wellbeing of nations. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY: University Printing House. Heiner was kind enough to send me a reviewer's…
About that blog: Italian IQs, Lynn IQs, brain size and doctors
https://notpoliticallycorrect.me/ Twitter: RaceRealist88 Since I am repeatedly asked by a bunch of differently looking people to comment on that particular blog. I don't know the guy, but he's been quite…
Acquiring immigrant scores on the Belgian military test? Nope, denied for unexplained ‘ethical reasons’
These are the Google Translated versions of the original French. We are trying to obtain regional data for Belgian communes to use for our study, as well as nationality or…
WHO on genomics and health, 2002
I have been tweeting annotated snippets from a WHO report I'm reading. Like this: https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/895006070388772866 Basically, the report does a decent job at summarizing the state of the art in…
Large scale sex, race etc. discrimination studies: what do they show?
Given enough motivation, QRPs, biased reviewing and time, one can build an entire literature of studies proving anything. There's plenty of all of these to prove left-wing ideological beliefs (and…
Workers are people too: review of We wanted workers (Borjas)
Next up in my review series I picked something anti-libertarian. I ended up with We wanted workers, based on a recommendation by Heiner Rindermann. It turned out to be a…
Austrian economics: worse than expected — Review of Democracy, the God that failed (Hoppe)
After reading a book defending limitations to free trade/protectionism, it was time for something completely different. So I looked around after any current, well-regarded (in their circles) Austrian libertarian economist.…
New paper out: Admixture in Argentina (with John Fuerst)
We have a new big paper out: Kirkegaard, E. O. W., & Fuerst, J. (2017). Admixture in Argentina. Mankind Quarterly, 57(4). Retrieved from http://mankindquarterly.org/archive/issue/57-4/4 Abstract Analyses of the relationships between…
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