A collection of 18 posts
We devote a lot of resources to trying to equalise student outcomes, but under ideal learning conditions, individual differences in student achievement widen.
A combination of activism and evolved cognitive bias results in suboptimal social and economic policies.
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.
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.
Greater male variability, biology, and bell curves.
The importance of cognitive ability to disparities in human health is being overlooked.
How dissent is policed in social science.
An empirical analysis of spree killings finds that two distinct patterns emerge.
A Reply to David C. Geary's 'The Rise of Father Absence and Its Attendant Social Ills.'
Loury’s scholarship deserves particular attention because he has grappled with the issue of racial inequality from both sides of the structure-agency debate.
Fatherless children are at higher risk of delinquency that undermines their own prospects and disrupts the communities in which they reside.
How the culture wars came for Wikipedia’s articles about human intelligence.
Is contemporary liberal-left culture producing greater mental distress?
Identical twins, especially, are favorites when it comes to exploring identity and duality in dramatic and literary works.
Obviously, greater intellectual diversity among researchers would be a key corrective, but adversarial collaboration is also critical.