Category Archives: IQ

Why can’t we talk about IQ?

Posted on October 9, 2015 by Luke Ford

Jason Richwine writes for Politico: “IQ is a metric of such dubiousness that almost no serious educational researcher uses it anymore,” the Guardian’s Ana Marie Cox wrote back in May. It was a breathtakingly ignorant statement. Psychologist Jelte Wicherts noted … Continue reading →

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What’s the Average Credit Score of a Mass Shooter?

Posted on October 8, 2015 by Luke Ford

Steve Sailer writes: In a country that has hundreds of millions of guns lying around, it’s hard to stop a dedicated, competent individual with a long time horizon and no fear of death or prison from acquiring guns. But a … Continue reading →

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Credit Scores Correlate With Relationship Health

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Luke Ford

Credit score correlates highly with IQ. WP: The one number that’s eerily good at predicting your success in love When people are looking for a significant other, they often try to find someone whose values, education, earnings, hobbies and even … Continue reading →

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IQ And Doing Dumb Things

Posted on September 24, 2015 by Luke Ford

Blog: Once there were 3 classes of birds of a feather: Dumb birds, Smart birds and Genius birds. There was also a genius bird of a different feather hanging around. All summer the genius bird of a different feather went … Continue reading →

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Steven Pinker: “Replicability Crisis in Psych DOESN’T Apply to IQ: Huge N’s, Replicable Results. But People Hate the Message.”

Posted on September 19, 2015 by Luke Ford

From Steve Sailer: Steven Pinker’s tweet makes the same point about the Replicability Crisis in psychology that I made recently: IQ research is almost boringly replicable. Pinker’s link directs us to the big International Society for Intelligence Research conference going … Continue reading →

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