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…
Support Bryan Pesta’s academic freedom lawsuit
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…
Is some alcohol good for you?
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…
Convenience samples are fine because interactions are mostly not real
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…
AI, MRI and the legal system
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…
IQ estimates of public intellectuals and personas
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…
Modern neuroscience confirms race differences in brain size and functioning
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…
Killing Hollywood and Youtube and
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…
Cui bono and science
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.…
Group differences are just individual differences, really
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…