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…

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IQ blogs collections (2019 October)

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…

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Unfinished Wikipedia FAQ on IQ etc.

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…

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“a kind of social paranoia, a belief that mysterious, hostile forces are operating to cause inequalities in educational and occupational performance, despite all apparent efforts to eliminate prejudice and discrimination”

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…

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