Not just dysgenic outcomes, but dysgenic intentions too
I have a new study out with Ed Dutton: Kirkegaard, E. O. W. & Dutton, E. Intelligence and Anti-Natalist Intentions on Dating Sites: An Analysis of the OKCupid Dataset. In…
I have a new study out with Ed Dutton: Kirkegaard, E. O. W. & Dutton, E. Intelligence and Anti-Natalist Intentions on Dating Sites: An Analysis of the OKCupid Dataset. In…
As announced late August, here is the promised discussion with Davide Piffer on ancient genomics: where we are, and where we hope to go. 1 hour and 7 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_XbrzSfEz4…
In discussion of my recent book review of The Past is a Future Country: The Coming Conservative Demographic Revolution, J.O.A. Rayner-Hilles questioned whether embryo selection could really become powerful enough…
We have a new study out: Piffer, D., Dutton, E., & Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2023). Intelligence Trends in Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of Roman Polygenic Scores. OpenPsych,…
I try to read many different kinds of books each year. Outside of my own fields, I try to consume high quality popular science, but mainly read academic books within…
Ed Dutton and I have a new study out: Kirkegaard, E. O. W., & Dutton, E. (2022). Will Intelligent Latter-day Saints and Smart Conservatives Inherit the Earth? Differential Selection for…
I've written many times about the current dysgenic selection in humans, where evolution seems to be going the wrong way according to our preferences. Specifically, after the industrial revolution, the…
The Flynn effect is famously the result that IQ scores seem to keep going up. That is, at least, they did so from 1917 until 2010 or so (when decline…
Prior post: Rise and fall of empires: genetic version? (2017) I found this stuff a while ago, and tweeted it, but I wanted to save it properly so it doesn't…
This study keeps getting attention. This otherwise alright Quillette piece: Mate Selection for Modernity Studies using data from classic online dating websites and speed-dating both found that men exhibited less…