Category Archives: IQ

Turkheimer in Vox: Demonizing Charles Murray Is Good for the Jews

Posted on June 16, 2017 by Luke Ford

Steve Sailer writes: From Vox: There’s still no good reason to believe black-white IQ differences are due to genes Our response to criticisms. Updated by Eric Turkheimer, Kathryn Paige Harden, and Richard E. Nisbett Jun 15, 2017, 12:00pm EDT Actually, … Continue reading →

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USC’s Polygenic Prediction and its Application in Social Science Conference

Posted on May 24, 2017 by Luke Ford

Comment: “Last week’s USC polygenetic social science seminar. I have only got through the first two sessions. Pure iSteve candy. Watch the tapdancing during the comments when a woman started to discuss the implications of the data for genes and … Continue reading →

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What Makes For A High IQ?

Posted on May 23, 2017 by Luke Ford

Comments at Steve Sailer: * Kiss of death for a high IQ is having ancestors that evolved in a tropical or subtropical environment. You absolutely need severe winters to weed out the lesser lights, unmotivated, peeps with a “next week” … Continue reading →

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Vox: “Charles Murray Is Once Again Peddling Junk Science About Race and IQ”

Posted on May 19, 2017 by Luke Ford

Steve Sailer writes: Getting worked up over Charles Murray being allowed on a podcast seems a little bizarre. (Here’s the podcast.) Under the faux indignation and clickbait headline, however, this is about as good an attempt as any to shore … Continue reading →

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Estimating IQ with a Brain Scan

Posted on May 15, 2017 by Luke Ford

Comments at Steve Sailer: * I’m having a hard time penetrating the science jargon, but let me take a guess at what it means. Synaptic networks comprising the human brain make up a fractal pattern. The more space filling that … Continue reading →

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