European polygenic scores predict Chinese provincial differences too
If you haven't seen my new article about the new David Reich lab ancient genomes results in Aporia magazine yet, head over there now: Overwhelming evidence of recent evolution in…
Scientific productivity by country
I've previously written about scientific misconduct by country, but what about good conduct, that is, (good) science? There are various ways to count this. The simplest is to count the…
From riches to rags to riches
One of the interesting lines of evidence about the importance of human capital in wealth disparities comes from examples of how groups can recover from setbacks. There's several examples to…
China economy predictions: 1990-2020
There is a list that's floating around (meaning: copy pasted without sources), and it's also got no exact sources, so it's unclear how legit it is. So I did some…
Transracial adoption study: Bruce et al (2009)
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…
The S factor in China
Study PDF. Abstract I analyze the S factor in Chinese province-level units using data obtained from Lynn and Cheng (2013) as well as new data obtained from the Chinese statistical…