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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 · 7 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.

Aaron Hanna

13 Apr 2023 · 24 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

7 Mar 2023 · 12 min read

Cognitive Distortions

How the culture wars came for Wikipedia’s articles about human intelligence.

Shuichi Tezuka

18 Jul 2022 · 23 min read

Progressivism, Sexuality, and Mental Illness

Is contemporary liberal-left culture producing greater mental distress?

Eric Kaufmann

14 Jun 2022 · 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

26 Sep 2021 · 7 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

30 Aug 2021 · 17 min read

Donald Trump and the Failure of Mainstream Social Science Part III

However, if we look to other situations I think there is at least grounds for further reflection. Let’s consider two situations.

Uri Harris

16 Nov 2016 · 3 min read