The ethnic meritocracy in the United Kingdom
Some of my colleagues have a new paper out: Te Nijenhuis, J., Pesta, B. J., & Fuerst, J. G. R. (n.d.). General mental ability testing and adverse impact in the…
Some of my colleagues have a new paper out: Te Nijenhuis, J., Pesta, B. J., & Fuerst, J. G. R. (n.d.). General mental ability testing and adverse impact in the…
There's a wide variety of different ways to measure (general) intelligence, or what researchers call g. One can estimate vocabulary size, query about verbal analogies, general knowledge, ask people to…
What is a taboo? Well, the dictionaries tell us (according to GPT4): Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003): "A prohibition imposed by social custom or as a protective measure." Oxford…
It is commonly said that heritability is a population level statistic that doesn't apply to individuals. For instance, here's Robert Plomin et al's textbook Behavioral Genetics (2017, 7th edition), the…
The new issue of Mankind Quarterly just came out. It appears I have no less than 6 pieces in this, so let's get started. Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2023). Systemic…
It is sometimes said that as long as we accept the various group differences in society, it doesn't matter what the etiology really is. For instance, here's Richard Hanania: https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1688213682998931456…
I have somehow not heard of this case, but there's an ongoing case in Sweden where a 80-ish year old man, Bertil Malmberg, talked about the intelligence of nations, specifically…