Italian north-south genetic differences confirmed
Davide Piffer and Richard Lynn has a new study out: Piffer, D., & Lynn, R. (2022). In Italy, North-South Differences in Student Performance Are Mirrored by Differences in Polygenic Scores…
How unreal is long-COVID?
Research funding for COVID is amazing. A lot of academics got and continue to get grants promising to do research on COVID. Unfortunately, COVID kinda died out recently and the…
New study out: Admixture and Social Status in Chile
The new June issue of Mankind Quarterly is out, and naturally it features a paper of mine: Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2022). Admixture and Social Status in Chile. Mankind Quarterly,…
So Le Pen didn’t wen
Back in April, I posted the results of my predictive model about Marine Le Pen's winning chances. The model produced a much higher chance of victory than most other people…
Unnatural hair color really is a danger zone marker (new study out)
Probably many of you have seen this meme about aposematic hair color: For those not into memes: the idea is that poisonous animals advertise their dangerousness by bright colors to…
New study out: Will Intelligent Latter-day Saints and Smart Conservatives Inherit the Earth?
Ed Dutton and I have a new study out: Kirkegaard, E. O. W., & Dutton, E. (2022). Will Intelligent Latter-day Saints and Smart Conservatives Inherit the Earth? Differential Selection for…
Brain size and intelligence: 2022
There's a new meta-analysis out for brain size/volume and intelligence: Pietschnig, J., Gerdesmann, D., Zeiler, M., & Voracek, M. (2022). Of differing methods, disputed estimates and discordant interpretations: the meta-analytical…
Affirmative action at the Intelligence journal (Elsevier)
We recently published a big study looking at hiring bias for editorial boards. One could argue that hiring is perhaps a bit too strong a word, as I think these…
Men like vs. women like
What sort of things are women interested in compared to men? Maybe we should ask Mel Gibson. A more scientific way is to study this is to study something called…
New study on the effect of university education on political views in the UK
Someone sent me this new study that I hadn't included in my review from back in January: Scott, R. (2022). Does university make you more liberal? Estimating the within-individual effects…