Reader survey 2025 (survey)
It's time for the sort of annual reader survey. Click here to participate. It should take 10-15 minutes. Prior years survey results: 2024 results (I apparently forgot in 2023) 2022…
On having negative knowledge
I'm reading Jason Brennan's 2016 book Against Democracy, actually in favor of votes weighted by competence, which he calls epistocracy. In discussing the very low levels of political knowledge seen…
Cancer research funding seems biased against men
You have no doubt seen headlines like these: You might also have concluded this might have been true in the past (and maybe not even that) and probably isn't true…
American race relations 1964-2024
The American National Election Studies (ANES) is a series of surveys that has been administered to broadly representative samples of Americans since 1948. They asked thousands of questions, though most…
Effective Africanism
In moral philosophy, there's a variety of competing theories of normative morality. Normative meaning actual claims about what is good and bad, and what actions are correct and which are…
Interview in Aporia about stereotype research
My interview with Noah Carl over at Aporia Magazine has just been released. This was 90 minute long interview where we discussed the historical background of stereotype research, the evolutionary…
What makes a good computer game? An analysis of Steam ratings
What makes a better computer game? While we can discuss game design (e.g. I studied skill vs. randomness before), we can also take an empirical approach. What we need is…
Solar and wind are very expensive
Danish cheaper energy activist Bjørn Lomborg posted this on X: The obvious problem here is that maybe electricity prices just reflect prices overall (presumably because electricity generation in part costs…
GDP, yes, but GDP per what?
Many free marketers have an almost religious devotion to seeing GDP lines go up. The American subset of these are therefore quite happy when they see plots like this one…
National IQ stereotypes are accurate too
We just published a new article: Jensen, S., & Kirkegaard, E. (2025). Stereotypes of the Intelligence of Nations. Comparative Sociology, 24(2), 272-295. https://doi.org/10.1163/15691330-bja10134 The authors surveyed a nationally representative sample…
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