An examination of Linda Gottfredson’s “why g matters” and of its references, leaves several important questions unanswered. The most striking, in my mind, is “why are all these semi-literate people getting through graduate school”? The average person with a graduate degree is appearently closer to the average BA than the BA is to the average […]

The extreme localization of g strongly confirms that psychometric tests are measuring something real, but also strongly suggests that g is only an aspect of intelligence. After all, the rest of the brain is also doing information processing of a variety of types. This information processing is vital to goal accomplishment. Ultimately, this should not […]

It occurs to me that many of the people interested in IQ would find it worth their time to investigate other psychometrics. Here (doc) and here would be a few places to start. I would like to know how well major intellectual accomplishments can be predicted from the combined knowledge of IQ and big 5 […]

I would like to suggest that many of the people who argue against large genetic influences on behavior are actually doing so in good faith. They assert that environment influences behavior more than genes do because it is obvious that this is the case. It is, for instance, obvious that the difference between the behavior […]