In reply to: http://nautil.us/issue/48/chaos/what-both-the-left-and-right-get-wrong-about-race http://www.geneticshumanagency.org/gha/origin-of-race-differences-in-intelligence-is-not-a-scientific-question/ There's a new kind of 'environmentalist' (rather, anti-hereditarian) defense in town, or at least, one that's not commonly seen. It goes like this: This is…
Along with some other people, I was asked to produce a list of the top 5 books that had the largest influence on me. https://twitter.com/BenWinegard/status/871773406110154753 Note that this is not…
One can find quite a lot of popular articles on the topic: https://newrepublic.com/article/139700/democrats-party-science-not-really http://reason.com/reasontv/2016/07/15/are-republicans-or-democrats-more-anti-s https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/apr/28/can-the-republican-party-solve-its-science-denial-problem http://www.pewinternet.org/2016/10/04/the-politics-of-climate/ http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/why-republicans-still-reject-the-science-of-global-warming-w448023 http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/democrats-have-a-problem-with-science-too-107270 https://www.city-journal.org/html/real-war-science-14782.html http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/09/left-science-gmo-vaccines with wildly diverging conclusions. So what is true? It at…
Based on: https://gnxp.nofe.me/2017/05/30/ancient-egyptians-black-or-white/ https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15694 Abstract Egypt, located on the isthmus of Africa, is an ideal region to study historical population dynamics due to its geographic location and documented interactions with…
For whatever reason, John Fuerst created a bunch of different blogs on IQ matters, and posted a lot of nice content all over the place. At some later point, one…
I have been complaining to colleagues about this one for several months. Of the various criticisms of this method, I don't recall one pointing out this problem. I don't have…
After the recent London conference on Intelligence, we visited the Science Museum in South Kensington. Unfortunately, we did not have enough time to explore everything, but we did spend some…
I could not find someone that briefly described this problem, so I'll just do a very quick job at doing so. I take it that this is a common observation…
In reply to: Scott Alexander's Learning To Love Scientific Consensus. Actually, I have planned (in my mind) a somewhat longer post on my take on the 'correct contrarian cluster', or…
https://twitter.com/timothycbates/status/852778717411659776 Humans have stereotypes, that is, they hold beliefs about groups of people. When examined, these beliefs tend to reflect reality quite well, sometimes very well (for review, see Jussim's…