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State Capitalism (Probably) Failed: Singapore versus Hong Kong
The economic discourse has often compared the evolution of economic outcomes of the interventionist Singapore and the market capitalist Hong Kong since…
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Fair and Square: A Conclusion on IQ Test Bias
The most important studies on internal test bias with respect to racial groups in the item-level, subtest-level and construct-level are reviewed. The…
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National IQ papers must be retracted: Why Kevin Bird and Rebecca Sear don’t get it
A recent article by Samorodnitsky and co-authored by two renowned censorship champions, namely, Kevin Bird and Rebecca Sear, requests that all published…
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Sometimes Biased, But Not Systematically: Twin Study Assumptions with A Focus on the Equal Environment
The Classical Twin Design (CTD) has always been criticized for being oversimplistic, and consistently overestimating heritability estimates due to not…
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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…
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Controversy over the predictive validity of IQ on job performance
Sackett et al. (2022) recently questioned prior meta-analytic conclusions about the high IQ validity since the studies by Schmidt & Hunter decades ago…
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Gender wage gap: Why the discrimination theory (likely) fails
Probably the most rehearsed explanation of the gender pay gap is discrimination.
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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
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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…
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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.
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DIF Review and Analysis of Racial Bias in Wordsum Test using IRT and LCA
As reviewed in my previous article, the majority of studies on measurement bias, either on the item- or subtest-level, reached an agreement about the…
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Why Academic Papers’ Abstracts Should Not Be Trusted, and Why Academic Publishing Should Not Be Regulated
Academic papers’ abstracts are sometimes manipulated to display what is seemingly a good result.
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