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Celebrating an early female pioneer: Barbara Stoddard Burks

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:24. March 2017
  • Post category:Differential psychology/psychometrics/Genetics / behavioral genetics

Because I hate seeing solid contributions go unnoticed. Few remember Barbara Stoddard Burks for the early pioneer of behavioral genetics she was. She doesn't even have a Wikipedia article. I…

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Transracial adoption study: Bruce et al (2009)

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:28. March 2015
  • Post category:Differential psychology/psychometrics/intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability

Introduction This is a post in the on-going series of comments on studies of international/transracial adoption. A global genetic/hereditarian model of cognitive differences and their socioeconomic effects implies that adoptees…

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Transracial adoption study: Stams et al, 2000

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:22. March 2015
  • Post category:Differential psychology/psychometrics/intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability

This is another relatively small international adoption study. 159 children were adopted in homes in the Netherlands from Sri Lanka, Korea and Colombia. Participants are described as: The present study…

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Transracial adoption study: Lindblad et al, 2003

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:22. March 2015
  • Post category:intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability/Psychology/Sociology

As Jason Malloy has mentioned, it is strange that in the race intelligence debates, people usually cite the same few studies over and over: Shortly after writing that post, I…

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