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Eulogy for Richard Lynn (1930-2023)

Richard Lynn passed away a few days ago in his sleep. His health had been in decline for some time, so his passing was expected. Still, it offers us a…

What are the most important human biodiversity books?

Yesterday I ran a survey on Twitter asking people to rate 49 human biodiversity books for importance. Human biodiversity here used in the broad sense of any study of biological…

The dimensionality of politics

Most political science research is based on a 1 dimensional model of politics: left vs. right. However, this model is actually and obviously false in a nontrivial way. Take studies…

A theory of Ashkenazi genius: intelligence and mental illness

I want to put together a theory to explain a putative phenomenon: Ashkenazi Jews have more geniuses relative to non-Jewish Europeans (gentiles) than one would expect based on their average…

Reader survey 2022 results

So let's see those survey results from the 2022 reader survey. Some of them are funny. There were a total of 318 takers, of which 125 were complete (answered every…

Variance explained is mostly bad

Reporting the proportion of variance explained by some statistical model is ubiquitous. However, just like p-values, it is a misleading metric. I'll try explain why it is used, and why…

Book review: What We Owe the Future, 2022, by William MacAskill

While I am no longer the philosophy blogger I once was, I do occasionally read philosophy that's got something to do with science. I saw some references to this book…

Nathaniel Weyl: collected works

Nathanial Weyl was a very interesting chap. Wikipedia says: Nathaniel Weyl (July 20, 1910 – April 13, 2005) was an American economist and author who wrote on a variety of…