Book review: A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe by Johannes Krause
I read this book the other day and it's worth reviewing in some detail. Krause, J., & Trappe, T. (2022). A short history of humanity: A new history of old…
I read this book the other day and it's worth reviewing in some detail. Krause, J., & Trappe, T. (2022). A short history of humanity: A new history of old…
TL;DR go to this website and give poor Bryan some money to help him get justice from the Wokes at his former university. This is Bryan Pesta. He's your typical…
In medicine, there are two normal dose-response functions for a chemical (or other treatment) and your health. In the first case, any amount of the chemical is bad and more…
Attacking a study for using a non-representative, typically online convenience sample is common practice. However, for most studies, this is wrong-headed and here I want to argue why that is…
What if lying was impossible? You've surely seen lie detectors in movies, and heard about them being used in court rooms with questionable validity data. But what if we could…
Given the interest in the recent estimates of Scott Alexander's, Gwern's etc. IQs on Twitter, I thought it might be informative and entertaining to carry out a real survey (defined…
There has been frequent criticism of Phil Rushton's role as synthesizer of research on race differences. Ed Dutton's deep dive into Rushton's own claims about his life revealed some inconsistencies…
So you've seen stuff like this: There's an endless such number of photos, nearly literally. AI will generate these on the fly for any content you desire. So since a…
There's a new bombshell paper out finding some very obvious findings: Zhang, F. J. (2023). Political endorsement by Nature and trust in scientific expertise during COVID-19. Nature Human Behaviour, 1–11.…
Noah Carl has a new post on treating the ethics of individual differences the same as ethics of group differences: Which prompts the question: if genes contributing to group differences…