What the Navigators Knew
David Lewis’s classic study of Pacific wayfinding shows how Indigenous knowledge can be taken seriously—neither romanticised nor dismissed.
Social Science
19 articles
Education’s Elephant in the Room
We devote a lot of resources to trying to equalise student outcomes, but under ideal learning conditions, individual differences in student achievement widen.
The WEF’s Gender Disinformation Campaign
A combination of activism and evolved cognitive bias results in suboptimal social and economic policies.
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.
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.
Males in the Tails?
Greater male variability, biology, and bell curves.
Intelligence and Health Outcomes
The importance of cognitive ability to disparities in human health is being overlooked.
If The Findings Detract, You Must Retract
How dissent is policed in social science.
Running Amok
An empirical analysis of spree killings finds that two distinct patterns emerge.
Father Absence Has Already Peaked
A Reply to David C. Geary's 'The Rise of Father Absence and Its Attendant Social Ills.'
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.
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.