Round-up: Does IQ trump looks in online dating?

The most interesting articles that came to our attention this week

Review of The Science of Human Intelligence. Jared Taylor reviews the revised edition of The Science of Human Intelligence by Richard Haier and colleagues. While praising many aspects of the book, he identifies an important factual error in the section on race differences. When discussing the Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study, the authors misreport the average IQs of adopted black children, thereby overstating the effect of adoption.

Are We Headed Towards ‘Idiocracy’? A Look at ‘Dysgenic Fertility’. Lyman Stone challenges the narrative that dysgenic fertility is a problem. He argues that nothing about modern society makes dysgenic fertility inevitable, and that the negative association between cognitive ability and fertility is far from universal. He also argues that a positive association between income and fertility is beginning to re-emerge.