There's an odd old paper sometimes mentioned and even worse, used for calculations: Buj, Vinko. (1981). Average IQ values in various European countries. Personality and Individual Differences, 2(2), 168-169. Paper…
Back in 2015 at ISIR, a researcher gave a presentation about mental illness and intelligence, reporting it was elevated at high intelligence levels, along with all kinds of other issues.…
The American Jewish hate organization ADL famously has a funny list of forbidden words and numbers. One recent addition to their list of 'hate symbols' is 13/52. For the uninitiated,…
Noah Carl has recently written about the African IQs debate, basically defending the usual numbers. Aside from arguing that the data are good enough to use, though obviously not perfect,…
OK, it has been written about already by some others, but I also want to talk about this John Protzko pile-on: https://twitter.com/JProtzko/status/1554112968245137408 Here's the original plot in case the tweet…
One of the best things about R is that there is a never-ending stream of new short textbooks being written. Most of these are now written using the neat bookdown…
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…
I am currently reading Bryan Caplan's new book collection of old blogposts in book format. One of them was pretty interesting: Behaviorial Geneticists versus Policy Implications from 2009. He quotes…
There is a nice theory in economics about why capitalism is better than socialism. It goes like this. Under socialism, central planners try to estimate what the public wants and…
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…