The WORDSUM question
I tweeted about this already, but I'm dumping some notes here for future reference. The Wordsum is a 10 word vocabulary test that's been used for decades as a brief…
Environmentalists like admixture analysis too (until they don’t)
See previous post about quotes from the medical genetics and physical anthropology literature on admixture analysis and the causal interpretation. There's quite a few older admixture studies that examined relationships…
Admixture analysis and genetic causation: some quotes from the literature
A common comment on bias in scientific peer review is that reviewers don't usually say openly they are applying double standards. Instead, they just silently increase their standards. If their…
Genetic evidence for historical polygyny — Rushton vindicated?
Sometimes references are made to such findings. For instance, in Is There Anything Good About Men? (Roy F. Baumeister, 2007): Recent research using DNA analysis answered this question about two…
It works in practice, but does it work in (my) theory?
There's a certain type of person that doesn't produce any empirical contribution to "Reducing the heredity-environment uncertainty". Instead, they contribute various theoretical arguments which they take to undermine the empirical…
You can’t ignore gene-environment correlations when looking for gene-environment interactions
Humans love interactions, they tell interesting stories (however, no study has investigated this bias, AFAIK). However, statistics and nature hate interactions. Interactions in general have low prior, and because people…
Sociologist’s fallacy: origins of the term
This term deserves more widespread use, since the fallacy is still so common, more than 50 years after it was given a name. I have traced the naming of it…
Thomas Bouchard on pseudoanalysis
Modgil & C. Modgil (eds.). (1984). Arthur Jensen: consensus and controversy. Lewes, Sussex, Falmer Press In a book that's not widely-read but should be, Thomas Bouchard notes in his chapter…
Peer review and innovation
Spier, R. (2002). Peer review and innovation. Science and Engineering Ethics, 8(1), 99-108. This little read paper from 2002 is worth quoting at length. It underlines the inability of peer…
Writings on ethics and politics of race and intelligence research
Sometimes people argue that one shouldn't even be allowed to research race and intelligence causes. I'm sometimes asked directly why I choose to study this topic. Well, I could outline…
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