I don't get the point of the study.
The authors are suspicious.
Their affiliations are undisclosed.
Whole thing smacks of scientific racism.
Google's first result:
>OpenPsych is an online collection of three open access journals covering behavioral genetics, psychology, and quantitative research in sociology. The journals were started in 2014 by Davide Piffer and Emil Kirkegaard, who had difficulty publishing their hereditarian research in mainstream peer-reviewed scientific journals.[1] The website describes them as open peer reviewed journals, but the qualifications and biases of the reviewers have been disputed. Many articles on OpenPsych are about scientific racism, and the site has been described as a "pseudoscience factory-farm"[2] and "academically dodgy".[3]
When one searches for the Ulster Institute for Social Research, the institute of the primary author, on Wikipedia, this is the result: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lynn
So yes, this seems like little more than racist pseudoscience being conducted at a sham institution and published in a sham journal.
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>OpenPsych is an online collection of three open access journals covering behavioral genetics, psychology, and quantitative research in sociology. The journals were started in 2014 by Davide Piffer and Emil Kirkegaard, who had difficulty publishing their hereditarian research in mainstream peer-reviewed scientific journals.[1] The website describes them as open peer reviewed journals, but the qualifications and biases of the reviewers have been disputed. Many articles on OpenPsych are about scientific racism, and the site has been described as a "pseudoscience factory-farm"[2] and "academically dodgy".[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPsych
So yes, this seems like little more than racist pseudoscience being conducted at a sham institution and published in a sham journal.