By coincidence I found this paper the other day: Sturgis, P., Brunton-Smith, I., Allum, N., & Fuglsang, S. (2024). Testing the cultural-invariance hypothesis: A global analysis of the relationship between…
You might know the following scenario: you or your ancestors migrated from a given country, or you yourself is a member of the major ethnic group of some country. At…
We've recently seen national "basic skills" and Team Economist is now back with another one: National "learning-adjusted years of schooling". We might say that national intelligence enjoys a paradoxical popularity.…
We published a new paper a few days ago: Wright, S., & Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2023). Intelligence Inequality and Income Inequality: The Missing Link. Comparative Sociology, 22(2), 298–319. https://doi.org/10.1163/15691330-bja10077…
Ludger Woessmann tells us about some dire facts: https://twitter.com/Woessmann/status/1581884461007785986 It's about their new 75 page working paper which they summarize thus: How far is the world away from ensuring that…
The main function of angry activist people on Twitter is to limit the discourse to within the limits they find acceptable. Since Twitter and other social media have mostly left-wing…
Noah Carl has recently written about the African IQs debate, basically defending the usual numbers. Aside from arguing that the data are good enough to use, though obviously not perfect,…
The companion video for the paper, published back in December https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5OjZ2BK99Q
Kirkegaard, E. O. W., & Karlin, A. (2020). National Intelligence Is More Important for Explaining Country Well-Being than Time Preference and Other Measured Non-Cognitive Traits. Mankind Quarterly, 61(2). https://doi.org/10.46469/mq.2020.61.2.11 Patient…
A lot of national intelligence criticism focuses on the measurement validity. Are the scores really comparable across countries? Most of the criticism is armchair stuff, or vaguer claims based on…