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I tweet links to research published in peer-reviewed scientific journals on human intelligence and other psychological traits.

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'We found little support for the idea that psychological sex differences will vanish as societies develop... Instead, it appears that the dominant feature of psychological sex differences is their robustness in the face of social change.'

theconversation.com/sex-difference…

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'Taken together with increases in IQ throughout the 20th century, these secular trends in [larger] brain volume may contribute to greater cognitive resilience.'

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How often is a pair of individuals from one race genetically more dissimilar than two individuals chosen from two different races?

If genetic similarity is measured over many thousands of loci, the answer becomes “never”.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

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“If differences in mental abilities are inherited, and if success requires those abilities, and if earnings and prestige depend on success, then social standing... will be based to some extent on inherited differences among people.”

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'In modern era Great Britain, genetic effects contribute towards some of the observed socioeconomic inequalities.'

The study (using a sample of 286,301 participants from UK Biobank) identified 30 independent-loci associated with income.

nature.com/articles/s4146…

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Self-control is about 60% heritable, according to this meta-analysis of 31 studies.

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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'Psychology students do not simply lack a proper background in the science of intelligence, but instead (and worse), have been exposed to superficial (but often dogmatic), outdated, and misleading claims.'

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“A study using fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) data to estimate IQ achieves a correlation of 0.68 with intelligence scores.”

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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'This review considers the potential utility of [genetic] ancestry studies to... gain insight into the genetic underpinnings of [racially-unequal sleep patterns].'

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Twin studies typically find that the heritability of income in Western countries is 40-45%.

link.springer.com/article/10.100…

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GWAS research found genetic links between poor math ability and most psychiatric disorders.

Links between strong language ability and schizophrenia and employment in creative professions were also found.

nature.com/articles/s4159…

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