Using data from across the world, we estimated the speed of selection against intelligence across countries. There is a certain regionality to the data

Some big accounts as asking why so many MAGA types are suddenly so very anti-Indian, considering that Indians in the US and to some degree in the rest of the West, are model immigrants (high performance, low crime). The main answer is not difficult to understand.


This answer is based on the typical finding of sociology. In terms of partisanship, whichever groups in society you dislike is just the ones you perceive to be most different from you politically. Brandt and colleagues worked this out in 2014.

Maybe you've seen a map like this one. It gives one the impression that Europeans were uniquely or particularly evil regarding slavery, in this case of Africans. However, slavery was more or less a human universal. Pre-Columbian Americas, ancient China, or the Islamic world.

Lewis Terman thought that the average American would be a believer in egalitarianism regarding sexes, races etc., and that was in 1922. archive.org/details/worlds…

New study of 2700 Indian whole genomes shows that Indo-European/Yamnaya/Steppe is quite low, about 15%. It is a bit higher in the north (almost 20%) and among those who speak IE languages, but not impressively so. Too much mixing since the arrival. Inbreeding is strong. The median person had identical blocks in their genome at the level suggesting their parents were 3rd cousins, whereas the human average is about close to 4th cousins (Africans less).

Not everybody commit scientific fraud at the same rate. Let's look at some data. First retraction rates. We can also look at the top list of most fraudulent researchers ever (so far those that were caught). Note: data from 2019 list. There's quite a few non-Europeans.

You have maybe seen this plot. It shows ratings of races in USA by race. The key result is that each race favors their own, except for Whites who are apparently race-blind. Since it only covered a single year, 2020, I wondered if this would replicate across years of data. So I downloaded the data for 1964-2024.

So we see that the result replicated (I didn't use survey weights). And indeed, in 2020 and 2024, Whites have about zero ethnocentrism.

Mental issues roughly follow a hierarchical pattern, like cognitive abilities, like a general factor on top. At least, statistically. The motivating factors behind this approach compared to the categorical (diagnostic) approach are: 1) evidence of continuity between clusters, 2) binary encoding of continuous data loses information, 3) correlations among diagnoses are the norm, 4) a given person may not quality for any particular diagnosis, yet have severe symptoms.

What makes a good computer game?
An analysis of 60k Steam game ratings First ratings were adjusted for small sample bias using empirical Bayes

We just published a study showing that national stereotypes of intelligence are also accurate. It looks like this. You may be able to see that the pattern is quite nonlinear, and a spline test confirms this.

It looks like the more women we get into academia, the less of a university it will be and the more of a left-wing emotional playground it will be. emilkirkegaard.com/p/who-values-a…

US Naval Academy: "a white applicant with a 5% chance of admission would have a 50% chance if evaluated as Black, and more than 70% of Black admits would not have been admitted under a race-neutral system"

Whites the most systematically discriminated against race. The usual SAT gaps among applicants.

Americans are super fat, so many people look for explanations for this, usually something USA-specific like seed oils, or corn syrup. Americans have some race differences too, but they aren't that large. The White Americans are quite fat by themselves, only Asians drag the mean down.

Soyboyism is also heritable. In fact, the most heritable (snp h²) dietary habit in this study! (bottom right) Study

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Can Europe learn from Ghana? Buried on Wikipedia is a 3 sentence part about how Ghana deported 20% of the population -- 3 million people -- all the non-Ghanans. And it only took 3 months. The "Ghana Aliens Compliance Order" (GACO)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_i… This website provides the history. It begins, of course, with economic migration since Ghana was the gold coast. In fact, these migrants were going into a British colony, probably for the usual reasons of wanting to live under European domain: rule of lawand prosperity.

The racism of teachers In Germany, non-German students (anyone with "migration background") get lower grades and test scores.

The decline of intelligence, as measured by genetic scores. The decline of intelligence estimated by fertility and intelligence correlations by country.

New Dutch results on immigration. Sobering as usual. There are 3.7 million foreigners in the Netherlands. One can calculate a given person's contribution to the state budget by adding up all their contributions (revenue) and subtracting all of their costs. Doing so gives a net contribution metric. Dutch people are c. net 0, and the others groups net negatives.

Bold. Paper argues that Unwin and Huxley were right about sexual freedom and modernity. The more sexual freedom, the less economic freedom, and less patience (higher time pref.). They examined party manifestos cross Western OECD countries.

Many of you have seen this figure. A pessimist's favorite. A massive innovation decline starting from 1880 or so. It fits suspiciously well with the onset of dysgenic fertility in NW Europe, or at least the UK.

Decolonization was as great a success in Zanzibar as many other places. If colonialism was so bad why did the natives love it?