2019 in books
I document my reading habits on Goodreads platform, so it's easy for anyone to follow along. I don't review all books I read, just when I feel like it. I…
I document my reading habits on Goodreads platform, so it's easy for anyone to follow along. I don't review all books I read, just when I feel like it. I…
Since there was much interest in my tweet... https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1180945694586220544 The spreadsheet will be updated here. title author url active Reason without restraint Anon https://reasonwithoutrestraint.com/ 1 Untangler Sebastian Jensen https://theuntangler.wordpress.com/ 1…
Some time ago, I was building a large reference FAQ for use on Wikipedia. Unfortunately, some activist admins came along and deleted it. The archived version is here. The background…
Quoting from Arthur Jensen's book Educability and group differences (1973). He was being criticized for postulating genetic causes, which some critics think would cause great social harm if they were…
A while ago, I had an idea for a direct estimate of the between group heritability from polygenic scores. The idea is based on the old DeFries (1972) paper, which…
Paul Graham's 2004 essay What you can't say had a big influence on me and remains my favorite essay. In he argued essentially that popular morality shows fashion tendencies i.e.…
Since this topic comes up repeatedly and I have to find the same studies over and over, here's a little review. Vertical cultural transfer (various other names: vertical cultural inheritance,…
Most environmentalists have by now given up denying the existence of racial gaps in head size, but they only retreated a few yards: Nisbett, R. E., Aronson, J., Blair, C.,…