Personality and Individual Differences censors skin color study (Rushton and Templer)
I hate censorship, so I repost the content they don't want you to read here. I'm hoping to contribute to a Streisand effect. This week, the time has come to…
Mainstreamers keep making progress: educational attainment variation “likely” caused by ancestry variation in Europe
Lawson, D. J., Davies, N. M., Haworth, S., Ashraf, B., Howe, L., Crawford, A., ... & Timpson, N. J. (2020). Is population structure in the genetic biobank era irrelevant, a…
Bayesian statistics for environmentalists
See also previously: Environmentalists like admixture analysis too (until they don’t) Let's talk a little Bayesian statistics and how it applies to model selection in the race and IQ debate.…
New paper out: Filling in the Gaps: The Association between Intelligence and Both Color and Parent-Reported Ancestry in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997
We've got a new important paper out in the special issue on race and intelligence in Psych: Hu et al, 2019, Filling in the Gaps: The Association between Intelligence and…
Extreme phenotype colorism
One prominent model for why (some) nonwhite race groups do worse is that they experience hostile experience based on skin color. For instance, Hunter (2007) writes: How does colorism operate?…
Tests of colorism in Pelotas (Brazil) sample for income, wealth and education outcomes
In 2016, a Brazilian PHD student with access to the Brazilian Pelotas dataset was kind enough to run a few regressions for us. We apparently forgot to make the results…
Nisbett’s 2009 book on Intelligence: reviews
Nisbett's 2009 book on intelligence, Intelligence and how to get it, is a goldmine of stupid claims that one can quote-mine for introduction and discussion sections of papers. For instance,…
Testing colorism using genomic data without phenotypic data
Normally, testing colorism or other causal models of why human racial traits have nonzero relationships to socioeconomic outcomes requires that one has the following data: Measure of racial ancestry Measures…