Category Archives: IQ

The Correlation Between Looks & Brains

A professor tells me: “Sometimes I make decisions about whether I like students or not immediately based on their appearance. I do it all the time actually. It’s not that I like the more attractive ones more either. I call … Continue reading

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The decay of Western civilization: Double relaxed Darwinian Selection

REPORT: This article briefly describes Lynn’s view on what makes modern populations rise and fall. It then provides a demographic analysis of what happens to modern sub-fertile high-IQ Western populations when Internal Relaxation of Darwinian Selection (IRDS) combines with External … Continue reading

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‘Intelligence can be measured directly from brain scans, without tests of any sort.’

REPORT: Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies typically collapse data from many subjects, but brain functional organization varies between individuals. Here we establish that this individual variability is both robust and reliable, using data from the Human Connectome Project to … Continue reading

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Pinker on the Hunt for IQ Genes

Comments to Steve Sailer: * Steve Pinker has done a great job of slowly and cautiously getting HBD thinking into the mainstream. He needs to watch his every step or he will be Watsoned by the censorship mob. So far … Continue reading

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‘The Bell Curve’ 20 years later: A Q&A with Charles Murray

James Pethokoukis writes for AEI: October marks the 20th anniversary of “The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life,” the extraordinarily influential and controversial book by AEI scholar Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein. Here, Murray answers a few … Continue reading

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