Meng Hu on HBD and Austrian Economics

Biogeographic Ancestry and Socioeconomic Status: A New Meta-Analysis with Profound Implications

Our newly published meta-analysis reports robust correlations between biogeographic ancestry (BGA) and socioeconomic status (SES). European ancestry…

Dec 9, 2025 • Meng Hu

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September 2025

Why is Europe Lagging Behind the US? A Look at Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Several observers emphasized a critical EU-US productivity gap, mainly attributed to the tech gap. The burden of regulation in the EU is a serious…

Sep 5, 2025 • Meng Hu

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August 2025

What has significance test done for the advancement of science? Nothing.

In a 11-year old post I showed that the use of p-value misleads researchers about the conclusion in different ways: model selection, test bias…

Aug 3, 2025 • Meng Hu

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July 2025

Erectus Walks Amongst Us: A Book Arguing That Africans Are A Different Species...

In this book, Richard D. Fuerle (2008) first rigorously expounded upon the evolutionary principles and then argued that Africans lack many essential…

Jul 13, 2025 • Meng Hu

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November 2024

Why Academic Papers’ Abstracts Should Not Be Trusted, and Why Academic Publishing Should Not Be Regulated

Academic papers’ abstracts are sometimes manipulated to display what is seemingly a good result.

Nov 27, 2024 • Meng Hu

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Why for-profit college is so expensive? Not a market failure

For a long time, college tuition increased at a faster pace than inflation, and while the causes are certainly multifactorial, one seems to stick out…

Nov 2, 2024 • Meng Hu

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October 2024

Sometimes Biased, But Not Systematically: Twin Study Assumptions with A Focus on the Equal Environment

The Classical Twin Design (CTD) has always been criticized for being oversimplistic, and consistently overestimating heritability estimates due to not…

Oct 21, 2024 • Meng Hu

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July 2024

National IQ papers must be retracted: Why Kevin Bird and Rebecca Sear don’t get it

A recent article by Samorodnitsky and co-authored by two renowned censorship champions, namely, Kevin Bird and Rebecca Sear, requests that all published…

Jul 3, 2024 • Meng Hu

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June 2024

State Capitalism (Probably) Failed: Singapore versus Hong Kong

The economic discourse has often compared the evolution of economic outcomes of the interventionist Singapore and the market capitalist Hong Kong since…

Jun 25, 2024 • Meng Hu

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Controversy over the predictive validity of IQ on job performance

Sackett et al. (2022) recently questioned prior meta-analytic conclusions about the high IQ validity since the studies by Schmidt & Hunter decades ago…

Jun 1, 2024 • Meng Hu

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May 2024

How IQ became less important than personality: A critical examination of Borghans et al. (2016)

Borghans et al. (2016) analyze 4 datasets with diverse measures of IQ and, shockingly, concluded that the impact of IQ on social outcomes is weak

May 7, 2024 • Meng Hu

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April 2024

Wealth, Poverty and Politics: A must read for understanding group differences

Thomas Sowell’s book, Wealth, Poverty and Politics, provides a thorough explanation as to why nations and groups of peoples developed at different…

Apr 3, 2024 • Meng Hu

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