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Why Is Most Journalism About IQ So Bad?

It is easy to create a negative image of intelligence research because most people know very little about the topic. But distorting intelligence research does a disservice to the field’s hard-working scientists and the general public.

Russell T. Warne

30 Oct 2024 · 13 min read

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Males in the Tails?

Greater male variability, biology, and bell curves.

Theodore P. Hill

25 Oct 2024 · 18 min read

Intelligence and Health Outcomes

The importance of cognitive ability to disparities in human health is being overlooked.

Robert J. Morris

12 Jan 2024 · 9 min read

If The Findings Detract, You Must Retract

How dissent is policed in social science.

Jukka Savolainen

18 Jun 2023 · 10 min read

Running Amok

An empirical analysis of spree killings finds that two distinct patterns emerge.

Robert King

27 May 2023 · 8 min read

Father Absence Has Already Peaked

A Reply to David C. Geary's 'The Rise of Father Absence and Its Attendant Social Ills.'

Nicholas Wolfinger

23 Apr 2023 · 5 min read

Glenn Loury and the Great Partisan Divide

Loury’s scholarship deserves particular attention because he has grappled with the issue of racial inequality from both sides of the structure-agency debate.