Fake causal claims: A game of “telephone” in science
. . . all the major players get what they want out of it: clicks and attention, and there is no mechanism for punishing this kind of behavior.
Project 100,000: The military’s misunderstood IQ experiment
Project 100,000 was a social program started in 1966 that lowered minimum medical and IQ standards for acceptance into the military. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announced the program as a way to train poor men and give them the discipline, self-confidence, and job skills needed to break out of poverty after their military service.…
The ultimate test of emotional intelligence theory: Where is it?
I am throwing down the gauntlet for advocates of emotional intelligence theory.
Greater male variability: The factual taboo
On September 2, 2025, The Washington Post published an article (Bogage, 2025) reporting that E. J. Antoni, Donald Trump’s nominee for head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, had “shared a controversial scientific theory of inherent differences in intellect between men and women” to interns at the Heritage Foundation, where he works. [Update, September 30,…
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Stereotype threat theory makes liars of us all
A noble lie is still a lie. And people do not trust institutions that lie to them.
Cognitive strengths and weaknesses are the norm
These results show that it is normal to have some cognitive strengths and weaknesses.
The impact of motivation on IQ: Going… going… (almost) gone
“. . . the Bates and Gignac (2022) studies are the best evidence currently available about the impact of motivation on IQ.”
Measuring cognitive aging with memory and processing speed tasks
A person at the 90th percentile in processing speed among people aged 80 or older performs worse than over 75% of people under 30.
