Basics on hereditarian thinking about genotypic means
Recently I got a private question from anon: A quick question if you don't mind: how come Blacks from sub-Saharan Africa have an average IQ of 70, which is even…
Woke behavioral geneticists
Book review of The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality by Kathryn Paige Harden. Most people know about the top woke biologists of the past. I am of…
Thou shallt not look at the polygenic scores
With the coming of Open Science principles, many scientific institutions who were previously aggressively guarding their data decided to put them out for public consumption. Mostly this means other academics…
Paige-Harden, Turkheimer and the psychometric left
Kathryn Paige Harden is professor of psychology who belongs to the Turkheimerian 'left psychometrics' school. I've discussed the odd behavior of Eric Turkheimer before, but since then I found a…
What you can’t say: genetic group difference edition
Paul Graham's 2004 essay What you can't say had a big influence on me and remains my favorite essay. In he argued essentially that popular morality shows fashion tendencies i.e.…
Turkheimer strikes back! (but misses)
Recently, I took a poke at Eric Turkheimer. And now he's ready with a retaliation: https://twitter.com/ent3c/status/1009245615367315456 Eric is trying a guilt by association attack by tying me to Roger Pearson…
Why is Eric Turkheimer so unreasonable about race and intelligence?
Eric Turkheimer is by many counts a good scientist. He has about 11.6k citations on Google Scholar, 6.3 since 2013 (i.e. last 5 years). He is prominent enough that he…