Not just dysgenic outcomes, but dysgenic intentions too
I have a new study out with Ed Dutton: Kirkegaard, E. O. W. & Dutton, E. Intelligence and Anti-Natalist Intentions on Dating Sites: An Analysis of the OKCupid Dataset. In…
Blogs I’m reading: September 2023
I have occasionally posted compilations of blogs on IQ or HBD in general. However, it's been a while since the 2019 compilation. More have come, some are gone. Here's an…
Personality structure problems
In hereditarian circles, there's a lot of talk about the general factor of personality (GFP). Briefly, the data shows that if you take typical Big Five (OCEAN) tests, they tend…
Interview with me by Hitchslap on intelligence, polygenic scores, behavioral genetics and more
Just finished a Twitter Space interview with Hitchslap. It was FAQ style format and lasted about 2.5 hours, so I was getting hoarse at the end. Hope you enjoy! https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1kvJpmMbZQdxE…
Does aspartame cause cancer?
Recently, the popular artificial sweetener aspartame was put on a list of "possibly carcinogenic" chemicals. This is a rather low category: So naturally we might wonder what the truth is.…
Jan-Erik Lönnqvist vs. Emil Kirkegaard on mental illness and the left
Occasionally, academics launch an unprompted attack on me. Unprompted in the sense that I had never previously heard of this person as far as I know. Recently a Swedish professor…
New study out: Income and Education Disparities Track Genetic Ancestry
We just published a new study in OpenPsych: Hu, M., Kirkegaard, E. O. W., & Fuerst, J. (2023). Income and Education Disparities Track Genetic Ancestry. OpenPsych, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.26775/OP.2023.09.11 Structural racism…
Ancient genomes discussion with Davide Piffer & Emil at Lake Como
As announced late August, here is the promised discussion with Davide Piffer on ancient genomics: where we are, and where we hope to go. 1 hour and 7 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_XbrzSfEz4…
The other Anglo exceptionalism
Economists are fond of talking about the specialness of the United Kingdom back when it kicked off the industrial revolution. Similarly, USA is doing remarkably well by some metrics compared…
How to make psychology items (questions) with ChatGPT4
In the comments on my last post on measuring intelligence in online surveys, PaleoPolak asked: > It is fairly easy to make new vocabulary items for most languages using the…