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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Since the 1930s, people are getting older and older before having children, as the importance of careers and education to people seems to increase without stop. As older people are…
I try to read many different kinds of books each year. Outside of my own fields, I try to consume high quality popular science, but mainly read academic books within…
Since is there yet another character and cancellation attempt on me, I thought it might be useful to write a post about my actual politics, which could then stand in…