Group differences are just individual differences, really
Noah Carl has a new post on treating the ethics of individual differences the same as ethics of group differences: Which prompts the question: if genes contributing to group differences…
New paper: On group differences in the heritability of intelligence: A reply to Giangrande and Turkheimer (2022)
So it was finally published, our reply to our frenemies Eric Turkheimer and his student Evan J. Giangrande. For good measure, it's these two guys: The saga begins in 2020:…
Who’s afraid of the big bad data?
Before the advent of internet blogging and stuff, there was an email list of people interested in race and stuff. Steve Sailer was there, Charles Murray, Phil Rushton, and others.…
Missing Arthur Jensen videos: money if you can find them!
We are always looking to expand our Arthur Jensen coverage (https://arthurjensen.net/). Recently, we got a tip that some video material exist somewhere that we don't have. Specifically: While critical of…
Lost Jensen 1969 debate video published!
Head on over to the Arthur Jensen site for details, but here's the video! Stay tuned, we also have a copy of the 1980 Phil Donahue Show, coming up shortly!…
Richard Haier on the Nature of Human Intelligence || The Psychology Podcast (Scott Barry Kaufman)
There's a new interview/podcast-video out, with Richard Haier, the editor in chief of Intelligence journal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQR8BrGasSQ Here's the contents/times. I have bolded the topics probably of most interest to readers…
Magic (American) Racism Theory
Aside from the usual Magic Dirt Theory, there is also the Magic (American) Racism Theory. James Flynn explains the conundrum for environmentalists: There is no doubt that high h² [heritability]…
“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…
Sociologist’s fallacy: origins of the term
This term deserves more widespread use, since the fallacy is still so common, more than 50 years after it was given a name. I have traced the naming of it…
Gladwell, the threshold effect for IQ, and Jensen
I don't think Malcolm Gladwell has been debunked hard enough, so here's my contribution towards that goal. For Steven Pinker's take, see here. Gladwell is essentially a story teller, and…