Jun 11, 2026 · writings • free · 0 comments
Looking at Society Quantitatively
Distributions, decomposition, and fundamental parts
Apr 23, 2026 · writings • free · 0 comments
Financial Markets as Products of Evolution
No intelligent design
Mar 30, 2026 · writings • free · 0 comments
Check out the new & improved Sociobiology.org
Now my main website
Mar 1, 2026 · writings • free · 0 comments
How to Read Leon Voß's Writings from 2023 through 2025
A map of my writings
Jan 21, 2026 · writings • free · 0 comments
Top 10 Reasons Early Marriage is Better than Late Marriage
Are there any even downsides?
Jan 10, 2026 · writings • free · 0 comments
How much do intelligence and g correlate?
Probably around 0.90
Dec 27, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Errors in Robert Sapolsky's "Behave" Chapter 6
Fake teenage brain stuff from 2017 NYT bestseller
Dec 16, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Understanding IQ qualitatively
Most people can hardly pass middle school algebra
Dec 7, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Kalshi: Decline of the USA?
Is the US economy one big scam?
Nov 3, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Measurement error in sibling models
Herasight's correction is correct
Oct 29, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Why the Center for Educational Progress won't achieve anything
Only radical overhaul can improve education
Oct 19, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Review of "When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows"
And the Aumann Agreement Theorem
Oct 11, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Re Cofnas: Facts and Logic About Woke
Some fights just can't be won
Sep 28, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
The Fertility Crisis and the Postmodern Marriage Pattern in Germany
First came low marital fertility, then came extremely late marriage
Sep 15, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Reanalysis of the political diversity paper
This paper (pic related above) is floating around X.
Sep 9, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Signaling in The Case Against Education
Education isn't about signaling, it's about the right tail paying for the median's teenage quality of life
Aug 5, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
The possible origins of the Modern Western European Marriage Pattern
Was everyone before 1600 AD a pedophile?
Jul 13, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Can we afford classical eugenics?
Yes, but it's still expensive
Jun 5, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
The Sleeping Beauty Problem
Philosophy professors are failing a high school level word problem
Apr 23, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
What's Wrong with Classical Eugenics?
We're missing 30 IQ points because nobody listened to Galton
Apr 22, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
The Mean IQ of SMPY Participants is Only 132
I've released a library for estimating latent traits like g from test scores and reliabilities. I apply this to the SMPY.
Apr 20, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
How to Major in Sociobiology At University
Reading list I would use if I could create a sociobiology department at a university
Apr 17, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Against Aella's "AI Child Porn Will Probably Save Real Children"
Porn probably increases the tendency to seek out the real thing
Apr 15, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Steve Keen's Critique of Neoclassical Economics: Not Far Enough
How to dismiss neoclassical economics from an armchair
Apr 4, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Commentary on "On Entrepreneurial Success"
Are the rich evil?
Mar 28, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Contra Seb Jensen on Mutational Load
I think his article is overall weakly in favor of my theory of mutational load
Mar 25, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Evolution explains regional differences in China best
According to a new paper in Nature
Mar 22, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Are We Smart Enough for Eugenics?
The dysgenic feedback loop: can't do eugenics because we don't have eugenics
Mar 3, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Why I am not a Conflict or Mistake Theorist
Both theories are poorly defined and flawed
Jan 21, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Chinese Rice Farms and "Culture"
Do rice farms select for collectivism?
Jan 10, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Demystifying Regression to the Mean
Math, genetics, and intuitions on why it happens and when
Dec 30, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
Werner Zagrebbi and the Origins of Woke
And why hereditarianism is too complex
Dec 25, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
Reply to "Genes, culture, and scientific racism"
Could an article be any more wrong?
Oct 27, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
What do SNP Heritabilities Really Tell Us?
That you can explain a lot of phenotypic variance with a surprisingly small fraction of the human genome
Oct 8, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
New Meta-Analysis of GWAS Highlights Missing Heritability Problem
Also debunks most of Sasha Gusev's claims about IQ not being like height
Sep 26, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
How much information are parental phenotypes expected to provide about offspring genotypes?
Not much, on average
Sep 21, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
The Eugenic Origins of Modernity
Why evolution probably drives history
Sep 15, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
Does Molecular Data Overturn IQ Twin Studies?
Replying to "No, intelligence is not like height"
Sep 10, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
Estimating the IQ Distributions of Languages
Will high IQ people switch to German as the new language of high culture?
Aug 31, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
Estimating Mutational Pressure on IQ through the Effect of De Novo Mutations in the Exome on Intellectual Disability
Molecular data shows the mutational pressure on IQ is significant
Aug 11, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
Does "Cultural" Transmission Bias Twin Studies?
An environmentarian called Sasha Gusev has recently written a critique of classical twin studies, claiming that their design is biased and cannot tell us about the heritability of traits.
Aug 5, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
How genetically similar are siblings compared to their peers?
It depends on assortative mating
Jul 20, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
How genetically similar are family?
Assortative mating hardly matters for sibling similarity
Jul 4, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
Why the United States Sucks and Europe is Better
Democracy sucks, demographics, dysgenics
Jun 23, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
How does Breastfeeding affect IQ?
The literature is unclear
May 23, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
Why Demanding Years of Experience in Tech is Age Discrimination
Civil Rights Law should be expanded to ban age discrimination against people under 40
Apr 26, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
Birth Order: Mutational Load or Environment?
Responding to Cremieux
Apr 23, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
How White Demographic Decline is Driven By Low Fertility
Immigration is a distraction compared to having an extra baby
Apr 8, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
Was Moldbug Right about the Cathedral?
No reason to think so
Mar 31, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
Review of "The Anxious Generation"
Extremely over-exaggerated claims. Boys are fine, girls less so
Mar 25, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
Do parents make a difference?
Responding to "Inquisitive Bird"
Mar 16, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
A Sociobiological Analysis of North Korea
Reviewing "The Real North Korea"
Mar 12, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
America's elite is mostly a meritocracy
Nepotism is overstated
Feb 24, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
Why Biology and Math are Key: Commenting on Keith Woods vs Academic Agent, 2024
Internet history repeats. Where are we 16 months later?
Feb 21, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
How Effective Will Embryo Selection Be?
Quick post on embryo selection math
Feb 20, 2024 · writings • free · 2 comments
The Extinction of the Dark Elves
Based high IQ people are dying out
Feb 12, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
A Theory of Democracy
Race, wealth, democracy, and the limits of mainstream political science
Jan 19, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
Everything I read in 2023
And my take on the book-question
Jan 8, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
Leftism has happened before
Examining the evidence for the leftism cycle
Dec 21, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
Why can't leftism be genes?
3 common misconceptions people have about the genetic nature of political change
Dec 12, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
Why can't it be genes?
Addressing bias against genetic hypotheses
Dec 6, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
How much do Big Tech companies discriminate against white people?
It depends how many white people they hire and whether open borders is discrimination
Nov 30, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
What grade should a 145 IQ 10 year old be in?
He could be getting a PhD
Nov 21, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
How to compute mutational pressure
Without purifying selection
Nov 14, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
Selection pressures on IQ, leftism, and other traits
Selection pressures can produce significant changes in a few generations
Nov 7, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
How to compute selection pressures
Part 1 of a series on evolutionary pressures and leftism
Sep 18, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
Review of "The Origins of Woke"
In his book, Hanania gets a lot of things right, while missing the bigger picture
Aug 29, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
Against Turchin on power: proposing a better model
Turchin's model fails to be sufficiently empirical or quantitative
Aug 21, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
Is everything liberal?
Things are more conservative than talking-points indicate
Jul 3, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
Voters are mostly rational: a response to Keith Woods
Voters are only random within a small range of policies
Jun 29, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
Don't ban affirmative action: abolish university instead
Banning affirmative action is educational perestroika. We need total privatization and decentralization instead.
Jun 25, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
Decline in Conservatism Between Generations Correlates Highly with Potential Signals of Mutational Load
What do left handedness, MS rates, Crohn's disease rates, youth cancer rates, autism rates, homosexuality rates, and conservatism rates all have in common?
Jun 24, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
A Brief Critique of Keith Woods' "Why Democracy is Fake"
Keith Woods, please abandon idealism
Jun 21, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
How important is the elite in wokeism?
Is woke just increasing mutational load or do the elites need to be considered?
Jun 17, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
A Critique of the Unabomber’s Ideology
Ted Kaczynski was probably just insane
Apr 28, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
Debunking "How to Argue with a Racist" by Adam Rutherford, Part 3
In part 3 of his book, Rutherford non-sequiturs his way to stating that race differences in sport are merely "cultural".
Mar 25, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
Why "Philosophy" is Invalid
And what is wrong with people who call themselves "philosophers?"
Nov 9, 2022 · writings • free · 0 comments
Debunking "How to Argue with a Racist" by Adam Rutherford, Part 2
The core “argument,” if it can be called that, of part II of Adam Rutherford’s How to Argue with a Racist, is that race is not real because everyone is related.
Oct 26, 2022 · writings • free · 0 comments
Debunking "How to Argue with a Racist" by Adam Rutherford, Part I
Rutherford is a dishonest activist and his book is terrible
Oct 14, 2022 · writings • free · 0 comments
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