Substack vs. Magazines: growth
Substack is doing well. They have successfully avoided being woke censors so far, even avoided COVID censorship while everybody else was toeing the party line. Back in January, they published…
Neil deGrasse Tyson, not much of an astrophysicist
Due to popular demand, we do another one of these. The pattern is that of the Kardashian index. The idea of that is that often people from some group who…
Sam Harris, not much of a neuroscientist
Sam Harris brands himself as a neuroscientist. We can read on his website that: Sam Harris is a neuroscientist, philosopher, New York Times best-selling author, host of the Making Sense…
Collected works of Robert A. Gordon
Robert (Bob) Arthur Gordon (born August 10, 1932, so age 90 as of writing) is an American sociologist notable enough to have a short Wikipedia page (well for now). He…
Cognitive and income inequality: the relationship that wasn’t
The theoretical prediction seems straightforward. If income is a function of intelligence (and other factors), then all else equal, a country with more inequality in intelligence will have more inequality…
The worldwide prison rates mystery
I regret to inform you that they are at it again. That is, blocking me on Twitter for the wrong ideas. It started benignly, as it usually does, with a…
How many people get arrested?
A friend of mine sent me this article for evaluation. Basically he thought the findings were too wild to be believed: Brame, R., Bushway, S. D., Paternoster, R., & Turner,…
56 GB of Emil
I recently had my full genome sequenced at Nebula genomics for their 30x. The results were satisfactory: Good eyes too: Literally unbreakable: You ready to get your own great results?…
African IQs using only age heaping data
Age heaping is a fascinating method. I blogged about it back in 2015, hoping that someone would take up the idea of fusing this literature from historical economics with modern…
Buj (1981) is probably fraudulent and shouldn’t be used
There's an odd old paper sometimes mentioned and even worse, used for calculations: Buj, Vinko. (1981). Average IQ values in various European countries. Personality and Individual Differences, 2(2), 168-169. Paper…