Understanding that race realism meme
A few days ago I posted this deboonker meme on Twitter: I guess it got reposted somewhere by some woke people, since my feed has been filled with dumb replies…
A few days ago I posted this deboonker meme on Twitter: I guess it got reposted somewhere by some woke people, since my feed has been filled with dumb replies…
I've got a new paper out of some nontrivial interest to many. Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2021). New paper out: Genetic ancestry and social race are nearly interchangeable. OpenPsych It…
A straightforward research idea: Compare the recognized count of subspecies (races/breeds/breeding populations/clusters etc.) with measures of genetic variation. The most obvious is the Fst but it's not an optimal metric.…
See also previous 2017 post. I have been repeatedly asked about this topic, so here is a post that covers the basics. The argument goes like this: Affirmation action is…
Few people actually read this, which is a shame because the science is interesting for historical purposes, and the fulltext of his famous fallacy is rarely read. I believe this…
Given enough motivation, QRPs, biased reviewing and time, one can build an entire literature of studies proving anything. There's plenty of all of these to prove left-wing ideological beliefs (and…
We have a new big paper out: Kirkegaard, E. O. W., & Fuerst, J. (2017). Admixture in Argentina. Mankind Quarterly, 57(4). Retrieved from http://mankindquarterly.org/archive/issue/57-4/4 Abstract Analyses of the relationships between…
In reply to: http://nautil.us/issue/48/chaos/what-both-the-left-and-right-get-wrong-about-race http://www.geneticshumanagency.org/gha/origin-of-race-differences-in-intelligence-is-not-a-scientific-question/ There's a new kind of 'environmentalist' (rather, anti-hereditarian) defense in town, or at least, one that's not commonly seen. It goes like this: This is…
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…
Back in January, Steve Hsu did an interview with Daphne Martschenko who is a phd candidate at Cambridge in education. She's basically doing science journalism on behavioral genetics as far…