One thing I found interesting from the COVID Inquiry is how clear it was that Johnson was *not* cowed by even his own advisers at times. I think it is a mistake to underestimate the government's… (View Post)

Do you accept that there have been a large number of randomised controlled trials of the vaccines that provide direct evidence that they work? (View Post)

Much of the compressed timeline was just about organising the research more quickly, not changing the design of the trials. But, yes, there was an initial shorter follow-up to track effects in some t… (View Post)

Sure, there are lots of problems with IQ as a measure, and whatever IQ measures, it clearly isn’t everything that matters. Levels of both income and wealth are also clearly linked to things such as “… (View Post)

Estimates of the heritability of IQ are about 50%, which I wouldn’t call “extremely”. IQ has a correlation with income of about 0.3-0.4, so it explains about 10-15% of variation in income. The correl… (View Post)