Researchers often talk about getting into the better journals. There is an assumption that better journals are those with high impact factors, and these publish better science. Of course, if…
Twitter user AnechoicMedia has an amusing new example of research incompetence in economics. The paper in question is: Cook, L. D. (2014). Violence and economic activity: evidence from African American…
This one keeps coming up whenever I post things about mental illness and X, like politics. So it's worth having a go-to summary for a popular audience. Mental illness is…
Back in 2010, Norwegian comedian Harald Eia made a rather extraordinary science documentary series called Hjernevask, or Brainwash in English. The series consists of Harald himself talking to various gender…
Back in May 2020, I published a paper provocatively titled Mental Illness and the Left. It was based on the common observation (stereotype!) that conservatives seem less prone to mental…
Recently I got a private question from anon: A quick question if you don't mind: how come Blacks from sub-Saharan Africa have an average IQ of 70, which is even…
Some time ago, I published a 50 minutes long video walkthrough of some research on economics effects of immigration for Nordic countries. Since some people don't really watch videos, I…
As women increasingly are hired into traditionally male jobs via affirmative action laws or indirect pressure via media, we see more and more incompetence. This is true whether it is…
Last year, this meme was floating around: The data are real enough, and the years are right. It seems that Franco was able to sustain fertility in Spain during his…
A lot of people are interested in fertility. As a matter of fact, there is no more important metric for long term viability of a civilization (Romans knew it too).…