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A decline in science?

Greg Cochran continues to be one of my current favorite reads. I learned something entirely new to me, the breeder's equation, from his recent post of the same name. R = h2 S. R is the response to selection, S is the selection differential, and h2 is the narrow-sense

Has Intelligence Declined in the Modern Era?

Has Intelligence Declined in the Modern Era?

I mentioned this subject a couple of times before. Simple reaction time data from Woodley et al.Bruce Charlton is the first person I know of to discuss the implications of the change in simple reaction time data in the paper by Woodley et al. Charlton claims the data shows

Simple Reaction Time Data

Simple Reaction Time Data

There has been a story trending recently in the news about the Victorians being cleverer than us. I've been following this story since Bruce Charlton broke it in February of 2012. I've never been that impressed, but I've thought about looking up the data

Ed West leaving Telegraph blogs

But what a goodbye. I've only recently started reading West, through the odd confluence of Steve Sailer and Damian Thompson, but I shall enjoy his snark wherever he goes. It's my job as a conservative to depress you, so I'm sad to say that,

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Immigration and High-Skill Employment in the US

Immigration and High-Skill Employment in the US

I had been wanting to look into this subject, and lo, I find that someone else has already done it. Guestworkers in the High-Skill U.S. Labor Market. I've long been dubious that we don't have enough native-born STEM graduates in the US. My reasoning is

Two Good Articles

Two good articles came out in the last week. Ross Douthat exposes the anti-egalitarian heart of our top universities in the New York Times, and Dalliard defends g at Human Varieties. Nothing Douthat said came as a surprise to me, but I have been following this train of thought for