Archive - Meng Hu on HBD and Austrian Economics

How IQ became less important than personality: A critical examination of Borghans et al. (2016)

Borghans et al. (2016) analyze 4 datasets with diverse measures of IQ and, shockingly, concluded that the impact of IQ on social outcomes is weak…

May 7 •

April 2024

Wealth, Poverty and Politics: A must read for understanding group differences

Thomas Sowell’s book, Wealth, Poverty and Politics, provides a thorough explanation as to why nations and groups of peoples developed at different…

Apr 3 •

February 2024

The Structure of Well Designed Online IQ Tests

There are convenient ways researchers can collect IQ scores and correlate the observed scores with measures of self-reported health, socio-economic…

Feb 23 •

Gender wage gap: Why the discrimination theory (likely) fails

Probably the most rehearsed explanation of the gender pay gap is discrimination. After accounting for traditional labor market factors, a large residual…

Feb 5 •

November 2023

Affirmative action failed: An extensive and complicated literature review

Despite the US Supreme Court recently overturning affirmative action (AA), many scholars believe that AA bans in higher education hurt minorities…

Nov 19, 2023 •

September 2023

Central Banking Quite Harmful for Emerging Countries: The Case for (first) Dollarization and (then) Free Banking

A sound banking system is a necessary component of economic prosperity. The mainstream view on banking is that a central bank must prevail. In the case…

Sep 30, 2023 •

Spearman's g Explains Black-White but not Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities in the Project Talent

In this analysis of the Project Talent data, the g factor model as represented by the Spearman’s Hypothesis (SH) was confirmed for the black-white…

Sep 1, 2023 •

August 2023

A remarkable similarity between IQ and SAT scores across ethnic groups

Chuck recently published the IQ estimates for almost 30 ethnic groups/subgroups in the ABCD of the 10-year old US children. The post was an astounding…

Aug 6, 2023 •

June 2023

Government Failure: The Strongest Argument For Protectionist Policies

While it is well known that free trade promotes prosperity for all, as Krugman explained in his book, a less known theory and yet by far the strongest…

Jun 15, 2023 •

Government Inefficiency: Crowding Out and High Debt Ratio in China

After the global financial crisis in 2008-2009, the global debt increased substantially and was mainly driven by governmental and nonfinancial corporate…

Jun 1, 2023 •

April 2023

The Untold Group Interaction in the Black-White IQ Gap

When observable measures such as socio-economic and health factors are adjusted, the IQ gap is substantially reduced yet a non-trivial difference…

Apr 28, 2023 •

How Autism Drives Human Invention: But Is It Just Autism?

In The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention (2020), Baron-Cohen proposes the Systemizing Mechanism as an explanation for human progress…

Apr 7, 2023 •

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