Why are female intellectuals crazy?
I have a speculative model of sex differences among people with extreme beliefs. Here I just mean extreme in the sense of statistically uncommon, say, being a full-blown libertarian, HBD…
Language and clusters
The recent Trump executive order on sex and gender spurred some debate about the intricacies of biology of sex. Here's the relevant part: Sec. 2. Policy and Definitions. It is…
Danish women also don’t like nuclear power
Here's a fun analysis I did as a side-project. I have a dataset of ~620 Danes who took a long vocabulary test, as well as answered 30 political questions. One…
Large environmental effects on hand grip strength internationally
Hand grip strength is a pretty interesting measurement. Fast to do, reliable, and seemingly irrelevant to most of modern life devoid of physical labor. But it turns out to be…
Hostile sexism is live and well, but mostly in favor of women
The feminist movement can be seen as a reaction of egalitarians against then prevailing views about women vs. men, that viewed men in a too favorable light for their tastes.…
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…
Rationality and the fair sex
Rationality is great. It's what separates humans from other species to a very large extent. There's not one but two philosophical movements named after this (rationalism of Descartes et al,…
What has feminism done for women? Review of Louise Perry’s The Case Against the Sexual Revolution
Self-proclaimed feminists like to describe their movement as being very diverse. This is not generally true, most of them hold more or less the same views. There are a few…
Research credibility and group differences
Suppose you did some research that you want to publish. Say you investigated the difference between men on women on some number of traits that are relevant to your current…
Affirmative action at the Intelligence journal (Elsevier)
We recently published a big study looking at hiring bias for editorial boards. One could argue that hiring is perhaps a bit too strong a word, as I think these…