The Racists Aren’t Where the Prof Said They’d Be

This about HBD, tagged , , , , was written by for on September 4, 2013 .15 Comments

A few months late, but worth posting anyway. The results are based on the latest “wave” of the World Values Survey, a very interesting project that tracks sociological data across countries – and which I will likely post more about in the future. Interesting observations: (1) The West in general is the world’s least “racist”* […]

Map of Natural Population Growth in the Former USSR in 2012

This about Demographics, tagged , , , was written by for on August 9, 2013 .12 Comments

H/t AP for this beauty. It is for 2012. [Click to enlarge]. It speaks for itself so comprehensively that I’m not sure it’s worth commenting further on my part here. Let’s leave that to the comments section.

Mapping The Dark Enlightenment

This about Philosophy, tagged , , was written by for on April 24, 2013 .5 Comments

I’m a sucker for classification graphs, so I was delighted to see that “Another Reactionary Blog” had compiled a “map” of the neo-reactionary / “Dark Enlightenment” thinkers. It’s reproduced below: I’m not disappointed not to see myself there, as I blog about a lot of different things making classification quite hard. If I had to […]

Here Be Dragons: World Map Of Women’s Studies Programs

This about Society, tagged , , , , was written by for on August 18, 2012 .23 Comments

One notices a remarkable correlation between this, and the perceived attitudes of local women and their obesity rates. (The map above was made by RVF commentator “durangotang” based on the geographic data here).

Analysis Of Russia’s PISA 2009 Results

This about HBD, tagged , , , was written by for on August 18, 2012 .18 Comments

A few months ago I posted a table and map of Russian IQ’s as derived from regional PISA performance. Those figures are based on Jarkko Hautamäki’s slideshow comparing regional PISA performance in Finland and Russia. That material is a bit inadequate because, as had been my custom up that point, I was only making IQ estimates based […]

Graphing Influence

This about History, tagged , , was written by for on August 15, 2012 .2 Comments

As today seems to be the day of cool visualizations on this blog, so on this note I’d like to highlight a really cool way of analyzing the influence of various people (philosophers, coding languages, etc) on history. One of the basic strategies is to feed the information in Wikipedia info-boxes into a computer program […]

The World Economy’s Orbit

This about Economy, tagged , , was written by for on August 15, 2012 .1 Comment

The map below shows the shifting location of the world’s economic center of gravity. It was compiled by McKinsey and reproduced by The Economist. All is broadly as one might expect. In pre-industrial times, the world’s economic center of gravity was always basically triangulated between India, China, and the Roman Empire (later North-West Europe). By […]