Woke behavioral geneticists
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…
New paper out: County-level USA: No Robust Relationship between Geoclimatic Variables and Cognitive Ability
This 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.…
I,Hypocrite appearance: Race & IQ Debate Prep w/ Emil Kirkegaard
I,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…
Editor Matthias Ziegler rejects paper for political reasons, then says science should be neutral
Some 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…
The verbal tilt model
Some 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).…
Expert opinion on race and intelligence
I 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,…
New paper out: Race Differences: A Very Brief Review
Kirkegaard, 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…
Why is Eric Turkheimer so unreasonable about race and intelligence?
Eric 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…
“This manuscript addresses a politically sensitive issue that I would prefer not to include in Frontiers in Evolutionary Sociology and Biosociology.”
While 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.…
Some more reviews for our PING paper
How 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…