Response to “Closing the Black-White IQ Gap Debate, Part I” by Chanda Chisala
Chanda Chisala wrote an article in the Unz Review claiming to have falsified racial hereditarianism. Chisala bases his claim on the lack of “regression to the mean” seen in African immigrants to the...
View ArticleRegression to the Mean
Here’s a thought experiment. Randomly pick two White individuals who have IQs of 140. They marry and have children. What is the adult IQ of their children? Research on the heritability of adult...
View ArticleGender Gaps in Behavior by Race
Suppose you have two populations: A and B. In population A, 2 percent of the boys and 1 percent of the girls get suspended from school. In population B, 20 percent of the boys get suspended compared to...
View ArticleA critique of ‘The Myth of American Meritocracy’
I never believed Ron Unz’s Myth of American Meritocracy article and am alarmed by the number of people across the alt-Right who cite it uncritically. It was cited recently in an article by Anatoly...
View ArticleHomophobia is No Mystery
A few years ago Jayman wrote a blog post titled “A Gay Germ? Is Homophobia a Clue?“, referring to Greg Cochran’s gay germ theory. Recently, he tweeted about it, among other people, I responded: No...
View Article*How Asia Works*
How Asia Works is a book by Joe Studwell which contrasts the successful development of capitalist Northeast Asia(Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan) with the “paper tigers” of capitalist Southeast...
View ArticleLynn+ Database of National IQs
Research student David Becker has gathered together Richard Lynn’s IQ data, along with additional studies, into a conveniently accessible spreadsheet, listing all the IQs found along with the age of...
View ArticleAre High School Girls Better At Math Than High School Boys?
Wendy Morrison and Grace Finley in AEI question whether this is true. We know there are significantly more boys among the top scorers, but is this true on average? Their first suggestion about why it...
View ArticlePiagatian Conservation
Conservation refers to the ability to recognize that quantities, number, volume, mass, ect, do not change when superficial changes are made, such as when water is poured from one glass into another....
View ArticleChanging My Mind About Race and IQ
Changing one’s mind is something everyone likes in theory, though much fewer actually do, when on the internet a pundit tells you about how he changed his mind about something, it will likely be a tale...
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