2023 in books
It's a new year, and therefore time to look back at what I read in 2023 in terms of books. Let's start out with the overview. Here's an ultra short…
It's a new year, and therefore time to look back at what I read in 2023 in terms of books. Let's start out with the overview. Here's an ultra short…
We can read in many outlets that the reason autism is increasing in prevalence is that clinicians are becoming more aware of it. The idea being that autism was already…
George Francis and I have a new exciting study out, the formal and finalized version of George Francis' 2022 blogpost: Francis, G., & Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2023). Intelligence and…
The new issue of Mankind Quarterly just came out. It appears I have no less than 6 pieces in this, so let's get started. Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2023). Systemic…
Glædelig jul og godt nytår. 🎄🎊 Following my prior post on how to use LibGen (Library Genesis) and Scihub, here's a new post on the most recent tool in the…
There must be 10,000s of studies and news articles reporting findings that wealth or income is negatively related to crime. In other words, poverty causes crime. The popular theory being…
This is a natural follow-up to my prior post about fertility, and how cities (or population density in some sense) cause fertility to decline. In fact, cities seem to be…
I thought this was general knowledge by now, but I still see quite a bit Substacks that are still suffering from this dumb Elon suppression move. Here's the problem: Such…
I have long been annoyed by how the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) seemed to work, so I decided to look more into this by reading a short textbook on the…
I have often talked about how measurement error impacts correlations between two variables. Here we are talking about classical measurement error, which is theoretically understood as adding a normally distributed…