Protestantism and Western Civilization

In this post, I want to document the relationship between Protestantism and the rise in Western civilization that occurred via the Industrial revolution, the Enlightenment, and the Scientific Revolution. (In case anyone was wondering, I am not a Christian, and so these posts about religion do not reflect a bias on my part about which …

Racial Ancestry and IQ

In this post I will document the relationship between racial ancestry and IQ while assessing its strength as evidence about the causes of racial IQ differences. In America, there have been studies going back to the 1920's which looked at the correlation between racial phenotypes like skin color, or nose width, and IQ, among African …

Population Differences in IQ-Related Genes

This post will document the research done thus far looking at population differences in the frequency of gene variants known to predict cognitive ability. I will also evaluate the strength of this research as evidence for the view that genes are significantly involved in population differences in cognitive ability. This research began around 2013 and …

Expert Surveys on Race and IQ

In this post, I want to document the results of surveys of expert opinion on the causes of racial differences in IQ. As will be seen, the majority of experts in this area believe that genes are significantly involved in racial IQ disparities and this view has probably increased in popularity with time. Rindermann et …

The Leftist Influence of Catholicism

In this post, I want to document the consistency with which Catholicism is associated with leftism in the modern world and the leftist influence that Catholics have exerted on the United States. International Data To begin with, internationally we see that the more catholic a nation is the more likely its population is to endorse …

IQ’s Influence on Individual Economic and Educational Success

The purpose of this post is to document the basic facts concerning the relationship between IQ scores and individual success in the economy and in education. Simple Correlations The first thing to establish is the bi-variate relationship between IQ and these outcomes. Strenze (2015) gives estimates of .20 to .27 for the correlation between income and …

How Racist are White Americans?

This post will argue that, on net, white Americans do not act in a way that could properly be described as racist, though they might have beliefs and feelings which some would describe as racist, but not to the degree that other racial groups do. Importantly, this post is not about institutional racism. I have …

Racial Bias in Police Stops and Searches

Leftists often argue that police disproportionately stop and search black people and that this is evidence of racial bias in our criminal justice system and our society more broadly. In this post I will argue that this conclusion is not justified by the available evidence. New York Pedestrian Stops The research most often cited by …

Inheritance and Racial Inequality

Sometimes, leftists will argue that contemporary racial differences in wealth and income are due to differences in the amount of wealth that people inherit from their parents. In this post, I'll argue that this probably isn't true. This will go over some of the same material as my article on slavery and modern racial inequality, …

On Racial Bias in Criminal Sentencing

Sometimes, people say things like "Black Americans get harsher criminal sentences than white Americans even when race is the only thing differentiating the black and white defendants". This fact is then pointed to as evidence that racial bias is at work in the American criminal justice system, and American society at large. In this post, …