The WEF’s Gender Disinformation Campaign
A combination of activism and evolved cognitive bias results in suboptimal social and economic policies.
David C. Geary
· 14 min read
social science
A collection of 17 posts
The Great Divergence
Many psychological and behavioural gaps between men and women have widened in more gender-equal countries, dealing a major blow to sociological theories of sex differences.
David C. Geary, Lewis G. Halsey
· 8 min read
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
· 13 min read
Males in the Tails?
Greater male variability, biology, and bell curves.
Theodore P. Hill
· 18 min read
Intelligence and Health Outcomes
The importance of cognitive ability to disparities in human health is being overlooked.
Robert J. Morris
· 9 min read
If The Findings Detract, You Must Retract
How dissent is policed in social science.
Jukka Savolainen
· 10 min read
Running Amok
An empirical analysis of spree killings finds that two distinct patterns emerge.
Robert King
· 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
· 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.
Aaron Hanna
· 25 min read
The Rise of Father Absence and Its Attendant Social Ills
Fatherless children are at higher risk of delinquency that undermines their own prospects and disrupts the communities in which they reside.
David C. Geary
· 12 min read
Cognitive Distortions
How the culture wars came for Wikipedia’s articles about human intelligence.
Shuichi Tezuka
· 24 min read
Progressivism, Sexuality, and Mental Illness
Is contemporary liberal-left culture producing greater mental distress?
Eric Kaufmann
· 12 min read
Shame and Silence: The LWS Twin Studies Revisited
Identical twins, especially, are favorites when it comes to exploring identity and duality in dramatic and literary works.
Nancy L. Segal
· 8 min read
The Social Science Monoculture Doubles Down
Obviously, greater intellectual diversity among researchers would be a key corrective, but adversarial collaboration is also critical.
Keith E. Stanovich
· 18 min read
Immigration and the Social Science Echo Chamber
Surely an organisation like this, which researches and aims to accurately interpret attitudes to immigration, could be relied upon for accuracy?
David Hansard
· 8 min read