Arguing with racists

Genetic diversity FAQs

Heritability doesn’t mean what it sounds like

Ned Block
On heritable environmental effects on IQ
The “Missing Heritability” of Psychiatric Disorders: Elusive Genes or Non-Existent Genes? -
Applied Developmental Science - Volume 16, Issue 2
Missing heritability: still missing
Heritability is a useless metric
Cosma Shalizi on accent
Eating bread is highly heritable
Heritability may be culture even more than it is genetics!

Your researchers suck

Rushton and skull size

Why Rushton is full of shit
lieberman-on-rushton.pdf
Quick illustration of why Lynn's methods suck
Richard Lynn, Fearless Champion of Truth
More on why Richard Lynn sucks
The Bell Curve is bad at causality
Smackdown of Nicholas Wade
New book on race by Nicholas Wade: Professor Ceiling Cat says paws down « Why Evolution Is
True

It's the environment, stupid

Micro-nutrient supplementation and the intelligence of children

Educational and ecological correlates of IQ: A cross-national investigation
Hookworm, Ascaris lumbricoides infection... [Trop Med Int Health. 2008] - PubMed - NCBI
Stupidity or worms: do intestinal worms impai... [Psychol Bull. 1997] - PubMed - NCBI
Parasite prevalence and the worldwide distribution of cognitive ability
Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function
The Effects of Poverty on Childhood Brain Development: The Mediating Effect of Caregiving
and Stressful Life Events
IQ variations across time and space : the why and wherefore?
Lead Poisoning and The Bell Curve
Measuring intelligence

Role of test motivation in intelligence testing

Cosma Shalizi on psychometric g
Better explanation of g than single factor
Why g doesn't work
Motivation > raw IQ
Intelligence can change a lot as teen
On stereotype threat

Intelligence is knowledge/ learning

IQ is knowledge
Yet More on the Heritability and Malleability of IQ
Intelligence and specialization
Understanding cultural diversity and learning - John Ogbu
Family socialization and the IQ test performance of traditionally and transracially adopted Black
children.
Intelligence: New Findings and Theoretical Developments 2012
Accent heritability is analagous to intelligence heritability
The relationship between academic and practical intelligence: a case study in Kenya
Academic and practical intelligence: A case study of the Yup'ik in Alaska

Evidence-based social justice

Diversity Training Doesn't Work - Peter Bregman - Harvard Business Review

White privilege *does* exist in nonwhite countries
Social Justice For The Highly-Demanding-Of-Rigor | Slate Star Codex
How race becomes biology: Embodiment of social inequality - Gravlee - 2009 - American
Journal of Physical Anthropology - Wiley Online Library
Can race be erased? Coalitional computation and social categorization
sociology - Does "raising awareness" have a meaningful impact? - Skeptics Stack Exchange
How internalizing power sytems hurts people, particularly women
It’s Not That They Don’t Understand, They Just Don’t Like The Answer |
Interesting if not nec correct argument re origins of gender dynamics
Conference Diversity Distribution Calculator

Who's inferior to whom?

Ben Franklin said the same thing about German immigrants that you're saying about Mexicans
Northerners used to think southerners were genetically lazy
People thought Jews were inherently good at basketball
A Modest Proposal: Alabama Whites Are Genetically Inferior to Massachusetts Whites (FOR
REALZ!) | Mike the Mad Biologist
Black Immigrant Model Minorities | Far Outliers
Noahpinion: How successful are Jews really?

Recent African inventions

Vivifi
CARDIOPAD Project | VC4Africa Venture
Mellowcabs
M-Pesa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Unsorted

Nope, the Flynn effect's still going strong!

Cross-cultural evaluation of predicted associations between race and behavior
black scientists manhattan project
Diverse authorship seems to improve research quality
Decolonization probably didn't hurt economies
Estimation and evidence in forensic anthropology: Sex and race - Konigsberg - 2009 - American
Journal of Physical Anthropology - Wiley Online Library
PLOS Biology: A Map of Recent Positive Selection in the Human Genome
The genetics of stupidity
Chimps show much greater genetic diversity than humans - University of Oxford
Recently-derived variants of brain-size genes ASPM, MCPH1, CDK5RAP and BRCA1 not
associated with general cognition, reading or language
7 Lies We Need to Stop Telling About Young African-American Men - PolicyMic
Overfitting and racism
Francis Allotey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Augustin Banyaga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of countries is good for shutting down Whitakerites
Crime is not as disproportionate as you're probably claiming
Let's end the lie that Black Americans commit the most crimes
Race vs coalition perception
Gender, culture, and mathematics performance
Jelte M. Wicherts Homepage
RaceandHistory.com - Sloppy Statistics, Bogus Science and the Assault on Racial Equity
Unz's takedown
g is dumb because neurons are nonlinear
nisbett-on-rushton-and-jensen.pdf
Shalizi on the Flynn effect
Nicholas Wade and race: building a scientific façade – Violent metaphors
Race Becomes Biology, Inequality Embodied - Anthropology 1.7
Quest for Intelligence Genes Churns Out More Dubious Results | Cross-Check, Scientific
American Blog Network
My Problem with “Taboo” Behavioral Genetics? The Science Stinks! | Cross-Check, Scientific
American Blog Network
Have researchers really discovered any genes for behavior? Candidates welcome | Cross-Check,
Scientific American Blog Network
No, future discounting rates are not innate
Nice stacked rationalist-rants against racism
Virtually no one majors in gender or ethnic studies
Note Grim Reaper's comment on lack of genetic evidence
People who consider selves objective are likelier to be prejudiced
Black immigrants' kids have IQs and aren't regressing to the mean