Money and crime: the relationship that wasn’t
There must be 10,000s of studies and news articles reporting findings that wealth or income is negatively related to crime. In other words, poverty causes crime. The popular theory being…
There must be 10,000s of studies and news articles reporting findings that wealth or income is negatively related to crime. In other words, poverty causes crime. The popular theory being…
This is a natural follow-up to my prior post about fertility, and how cities (or population density in some sense) cause fertility to decline. In fact, cities seem to be…
We just published a new study in OpenPsych: Hu, M., Kirkegaard, E. O. W., & Fuerst, J. (2023). Income and Education Disparities Track Genetic Ancestry. OpenPsych, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.26775/OP.2023.09.11 Structural racism…
David Friedman, a self-described "anarchist-anachronist-economist" and author of The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism (on my to-read list) has written a criticism of the hereditarian position on…
We've been over this before, but it's a perennial topic. People like to claim that beyond a certain level of intelligence, additional intelligence doesn't help to get X, where X…
Gark N. Marks has a new review article out. And it doesn't pull punches! Marks, G. N. (2022). Cognitive ability has powerful, widespread and robust effects on social stratification: Evidence…
Many countries add fluoride to the drinking water in the belief this will improve dental health. As with anything else public health, some people think this is a grave mistake.…
Emil O. W. Kirkegaard Bo Tranberg Abstract We present and analyze data from a dataset of 2358 Danish first names and socioeconomic outcomes not previously made available to the public…
UNFINISHED ANALYSIS. POSTED HERE TO ESTABLISH PRIORITY. MORE TO FOLLOW! Updated 2015-12-04 Remains to be done: Admixture analysis (doing) Proofreading and editing Deciding how to control for age and scanner…