Emil O. W. Kirkegaard blog
Have you ever looked into the hypothesis of genetic differences underlying language types? such as pic.twitter.com/RWktYdllwK — Whyvert (@whyvert) May 12, 2021 I have not, but Lynn has noted that East Asians have a relative advantage in visual-spatial ability, and that’s their written language, possibly some gene-culture co-evolution. One study shows East Asians who speak…
Why this post? This law is falsely attributed to Robert Conquest 1000s of times, including by me. So we need some counter-attribution! There is this post on tracking down the actual Robert Conquest laws. It seems that we can blame John Derbyshire for the false attribution, since he wrote in 2003: Several readers have asked…
I,Hypocrite runs a fun and popular Twitter account, and apparently, also a Youtube account. I went on the show to talk science of race differences in intelligence since there is an upcoming debate of sorts. There is also a backup of this video on Odysee: By popular request, I too have an Odysee cross-posting account:…
So why trust science? I would say I am a proud supporter of scientism, crude versions aside. Naomi Oreskes is a prominent science historian who mostly writes history books attacking climate skepticism and Big Capitalism. But now she has a new brief book defending science. Actually, some of the main content is about attacking how…
Before the advent of internet blogging and stuff, there was an email list of people interested in race and stuff. Steve Sailer was there, Charles Murray, Phil Rushton, and others. Name was Human Biodiversity Group. Some hater even has a list of the members. I want to bring attention to a specific conversation where Charles…
Sometimes I get asked for compilations. There are some! I made this compilation of compilations in November 2020 in reply to an email. I guess I never posted it for some reason. Well, I got another email asking for this kind of thing, so this time I am definitely posting. There are a number of…
This is a pretty good book. It covers a lot of basics, and gets almost everything right. Twins, adoptees, genomics are given ample attention. Mitchell is very interesting in developmental randomness, so this point gets a lot of coverage. Good! Not many people accept this. The book is fine on sex differences too, and even…
Kirkegaard, E. O. W., & Fedorov, J. (2021). Country of Origin IQ and Muslim Percentage Predict Grade Point Average in School among 116 Immigrant Groups in Denmark. Mankind Quarterly, 61(3). Immigrants to Western countries typically have worse social outcomes than natives, but country of origin immigrant groups differ widely. We studied school performance in Denmark…
A new preprint is out on a massive many teams study. In this design, a single dataset (or database) is given to a bunch of researchers, and they are asked to answer some questions (research hypotheses). They are left to their own choices in how to deal with the data, transformations, outliers, models, and so…
I do not maintain any strong position on the claim at all. The only thing I say is that I think the claim (of substantial difference in mean) is currently not based on strong evidence. Further, to solve the question, I argue the best bet is to get better within-family evidence. — Inquisitive Bird (@Scientific_Bird)…
