Emil O. W. Kirkegaard blog
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 course thinking here of Richard Lewontin (evolutionary biologist mainly population genetics) now known primarily for his Marxism and fallacy about classification, and Steven Jay Gould…
Continue ReadingThis one came out in Februrary, so we are a bit behind, but that’s because I wanted to time the blogpost with the video. Aaaand the video is online now. Pesta, B. J., Fuerst, J. G. R., & Kirkegaard, E. (2021). County-level USA: No Robust Relationship between Geoclimatic Variables and Cognitive Ability. Journal of Geographical…
Continue ReadingI,Hypocrite runs a fun and popular Twitter account, and apparently, also a Youtube account. I went on the show to talk science of race differences in intelligence since there is an upcoming debate of sorts. There is also a backup of this video on Odysee: By popular request, I too have an Odysee cross-posting account:…
Continue ReadingSome colleagues wrote a paper summarizing intelligence/cognitive ability gaps in the United Kingdom based on large samples. Many of these were new results derived from government testing via freedom of information act requests. The aim of such a meta-analysis is of course to get a broad overview of what gaps exist. From a blank slate…
Continue ReadingSome years ago I came up with a rough model for explaining some curious demographic associations (I later told a friend about it, and he had the same idea independently). The idea is that verbal tilt has independent effects or at least associations with various things. Specifically, verbal tilt shows positive correlations with: Creativity Political…
Continue ReadingI was asked about survey data by various kinds of experts on race and intelligence. Happy to oblige, of course. Sean Last has already reviewed some of these last year, I quote from him: Rindermann et al. (2020) The most recent survey of intelligence researchers comes from Rindermann, Becker, and Coyle (2020) who emailed 1237…
Continue ReadingKirkegaard, E. O. W. (2019). Race Differences: A Very Brief Review. Mankind Quarterly, 60:2 The nature of race differences, and even the mere “existence” of human races, continues to be a major source of controversy and confusion. This brief review summarizes the empirical evidence about race differences and the conceptual issues related to taxonomy, as…
Continue ReadingEric 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 has a Wikipedia page, is a full professor at a University of Virginia (world rank ~150), and has published about 126 articles (according to his…
Continue ReadingWhile I am re-writing our PING study to become a substantial target article, John is sending it to various journals in the mean time to poke about their editorial biases. Here’s a recent reply, which was thankfully quite up front about the bias: From: Frontiers <noreply@frontiersin.org> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2017 5:05 PM To: j122177@hotmail.com…
Continue ReadingHow easy is it to get provocative findings using mainstream methods published? Well, it depends on how provocative. Here’s a second round of generally nonsensical reviews for our PING paper (which you can read here and judge yourself: a good chunk of readers of this blog are themselves researchers and don’t need others to review…
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