Dimensions of the dating mind
A decade ago I got into my first media circus by scraping the OKCupid dating site. The site uses (or used) a novel approach of having users answer 100s of…
American Jewish gentile differences
Jews are an extraordinarily successful ethnic group in almost everything they choose to engage in, from physics to politics with the curious exception of US presidencies. Seb Jensen compiled a…
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…
The distribution of attractiveness
Recently there was a piece on ISF about this by 'Alexander' AKA. datepsych on Twitter: Is Physical Attractiveness Normally Distributed?. Basically, he takes the OKCupid results and thinks these show…
Criticism of me and my research on SlateStarCodex’s subreddit
On the commentariat here, and why I don't think I can be associated with this community, despite liking the blog. My reply, as found in the comments. Most of it…
Personal freedom and cognitive ability: OKCupid dataset replication
Noah Carl has been investigating the relationship between cognitive ability and political opinions aside from the usual confused 1-axis left-right model. Specifically, looking at the economic freedom and personal freedom…
Aarhus University’s reply to SJW letter
In the fallout of the OKCupid dataset release, some people wrote a complaint letter to Aarhus University. I haven't read the letter, but Aarhus University has now replied to it:…
Who prefers to date people of their own race?
Data from the OKCupid project. In light of a recent paper examining who prefers to date within their own religion, I recalled that there was a question about this in…
Cognitive dysgenics in the OKCupid dataset: a few simple analyses
OKCupid dataset (not public right now, contact me if you want the password). Draft paper: https://osf.io/p9ixw/ I looked at whether there was evidence for cognitive dysgenics in the OKCupid dataset.…
US state IQs cannot be estimated from OKCupid data
In the interest of publishing null findings: I tried estimating US state IQs from the mean cognitive ability for users in the OKCupid dataset. However, this did not work out.…