Marxist ideologue Steven Jay Gould famously claimed this in a 2000 interview called The Spice of Life. It follows a questions-answers format, and the entirety of this question is: L2L:…
Probably most social science is done using data that are based on self-report. Thus, they are crucially dependent on assumptions that self-report data reflect objective reality. There are some large…
Dutton, E., & Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2021). The Negative Religiousness-IQ Nexus is a Jensen Effect on Individual-Level Data: A Refutation of Dutton et al.’s ‘The Myth of the Stupid…
Because on this blog we love anything that has to do with calipers. The most obscure weapon in the HBD arsenal? Goes like this: Figure from this 2015 study. Alright,…
I for one welcome our new vaccines. I think the transhumanist angle to this has not been properly spelled out, so let's give it a shot. Humans come with two…
This study keeps getting attention. This otherwise alright Quillette piece: Mate Selection for Modernity Studies using data from classic online dating websites and speed-dating both found that men exhibited less…
As every reader knows, whenever powers that be come up with a new euphemism for something, this works, and the previous meanings and associations are quickly forgotten. That's why we...…
Russell Warne has a new post: Implications of average group differences for the design of intelligence tests He writes: The implication is that if test creators can force an average…
I know some people are who are into conspiratorial thinking about COVID vaccines. Bill Gates trying to decrease your fertility stuff. Anyway, so I did the science thing, that is,…
Raymond Cattell was one of the early 1900s eminent psychologists. Like Meehl, he had a philosophical bent with some odd ideas in ethics. That ended up getting him into trouble…