VOX Goes From âjunkâ To âno goodâ: Thatâs a Bit of Intelligent Progress The worst that detractors can say about the podcast is that Murray and Harris prematurely endorsed the Default Hypothesis as resolved. Richard Haier 21 Jun 2017 · 6 min read
Are Liberals Dying Out? The evidence for the heritability of psychological traits is immense. Hrishikesh Joshi / Jonathan Anomaly 14 Jun 2017 · 7 min read
No Voice at VOX: Sense and Nonsense about Discussing IQ and Race We know that genes are not necessarily deterministic. They are probabilistic and we are learning how to change genes and their functional expression. Richard Haier 11 Jun 2017 · 7 min read
A Risk Not Worth Taking: An Open Letter to My Colleagues in The Academy We need a strategy that insulates us from hate, no matter what empirical research uncovers about the world. Brian Boutwell 10 Jun 2017 · 4 min read
Getting Voxed: Charles Murray, Ideology, and the Debate on IQ âThe impulse to think that environmental sources of differences are less threatening than genetic ones is natural but illusory.â Charles Murray B Winegard and B Winegard with B Boutwell and TK Shackelford 2 Jun 2017 · 18 min read
Censorship, the Authoritarian's Snake Oil The desire to censor is not entirely impossible to understand. When you encounter an idiotic YouTube comment or forum post. Matthew Mott 31 May 2017 · 6 min read
Paradoxes of Probability and Other Statistical Strangeness Nowadays, researchers can access a wealth of software packages that can readily analyse data and output the results of complex statistical tests. Stephen Woodcock 26 May 2017 · 7 min read
Why Citing a Scientific Study Does Not Finish An Argument A single study is rarely anything more than suggestive, and often it takes many replications under a variety of circumstances to provide strong justification for a conclusion. Jonathan Anomaly / Brian Boutwell 25 Apr 2017 · 7 min read
The Rhetorical Trap at the Heart of the "Neurosexism" Debate The Motte and Bailey Doctrine has been a successful rhetorical device for anti-sex difference academics and authors for some time now, but it is beginning to fray at the edges. Claire Lehmann / Debra Soh 17 Apr 2017 · 7 min read
Reviving "Essentialism" and Other Scientific Straw Men In factâitâs even more interesting than that. Multiple matings do (perhaps surprisingly) benefit females in all sorts of ways across all sort of species. Robert King 11 Apr 2017 · 10 min read
Epigenetics Has Become Dangerously Fashionable âMany of our expert epigenetics research colleagues are deeply embarrassed by the warm, uncritical response their work has attracted from the social sciences,â Brian Boutwell / Conor Barnes 7 Apr 2017 · 6 min read
Not Everything Is An Interaction Despite strong genetic influences on IQ (and there are strong genetic influences on IQ), we canât calculate the proportion of credit for Einsteinâs intellect that is owed solely to his genes. Brian Boutwell 31 Mar 2017 · 4 min read
A Tale of Two Bell Curves The truth, surprising as it may seem today, is this: The Bell Curve is not pseudoscience. Bo Winegard and Ben Winegard 27 Mar 2017 · 12 min read
Why Powerful People Fail to Stop Bad Behavior by Their Underlings Although the failure to stop an unethical practice is often attributed to character problems such as greed, sexism or the relentless pursuit of self-interest, our explanation is subtler. Jessica A Kennedy and Cameron Anderson 16 Mar 2017 · 6 min read
Censorship-Free Social Media: the Next Big Thing, or Just Another Echo Chamber? One of the forefathers of the modern internet, John Gilmore, famously remarked that the net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. Matthew Mott 10 Mar 2017 · 6 min read
