New paper out: Intelligence and General Psychopathology in the Vietnam Experience Study: A Closer Look

Kirkegaard, E. O. W., & Nyborg, H. (2021). Intelligence and General Psychopathology in the Vietnam Experience Study: A Closer Look. Mankind Quarterly, 61(4). https://doi.org/10.46469/mq.2021.61.4.2 Prior research has indicated that one…

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New paper out: County-level USA: No Robust Relationship between Geoclimatic Variables and Cognitive Ability

This one came out in Februrary, so we are a bit behind, but that's because I wanted to time the blogpost with the video. Aaaand the video is online now.…

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East Asian ability tilt and ideographic written language

https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1392623731835506691 I have not, but Lynn has noted that East Asians have a relative advantage in visual-spatial ability, and that's their written language, possibly some gene-culture co-evolution. One study shows…

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John O’Sullivan’s First Law: All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing

Why this post? This law is falsely attributed to Robert Conquest 1000s of times, including by me. So we need some counter-attribution! There is this post on tracking down the…

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