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Read more about the article Whose benefit of the doubt?

Whose benefit of the doubt?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:10. January 2026
  • Post category:Differential psychology/psychometrics

In selection contexts (e.g. hiring), there is the notion of the benefit of the doubt. If you have some non-meritocratic desires for selection, and you find yourself with 2 otherwise…

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Read more about the article Who wants to die for globalists?

Who wants to die for globalists?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:5. September 2022
  • Post category:intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability

Men constitute the vast majority of the fighting power of a country. When women make inroads by political forcing, the results are often comical or disturbing, depending on your level…

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Read more about the article Affirmative action at the Intelligence journal (Elsevier)

Affirmative action at the Intelligence journal (Elsevier)

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:27. May 2022
  • Post category:intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability/Psychology

We recently published a big study looking at hiring bias for editorial boards. One could argue that hiring is perhaps a bit too strong a word, as I think these…

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Read more about the article Too many women in the wrong places: Norwegian navy edition

Too many women in the wrong places: Norwegian navy edition

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:20. January 2022
  • Post category:Psychology

As women increasingly are hired into traditionally male jobs via affirmative action laws or indirect pressure via media, we see more and more incompetence. This is true whether it is…

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Harvard’s half-meritocracy

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:29. December 2021
  • Post category:intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability

Many people are aware that American universities practice something called affirmative action. Really, this just means a kind of reverse racism that was instituted during the 1960s cultural takeover (or…

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Death by affirmative action: race quotas in medicine

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:13. April 2019
  • Post category:intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability/Medicine
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See also previous 2017 post. I have been repeatedly asked about this topic, so here is a post that covers the basics. The argument goes like this: Affirmation action is…

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