14 Facts About Satoshi Kanazawa

Satoshi Kanazawa was born on 1962 and is an American-born British evolutionary psychologist and writer.

Satoshi Kanazawa is currently Reader in Management at the London School of Economics.

Satoshi Kanazawa received his PhD in 1994 from the University of Arizona.

Satoshi Kanazawa began working at the London School of Economics in 2003.

Satoshi Kanazawa wrote a blog, The Scientific Fundamentalist, for Psychology Today until his dismissal in 2011.

Satoshi Kanazawa was criticised for arguing that the common factor of subjective interviewer ratings of attractiveness used in his analysis constitutes an objective scale of attractiveness.

An internal LSE investigation found that Satoshi Kanazawa had brought the school into disrepute and prohibited him from publishing in non-peer-reviewed outlets for a year.

Satoshi Kanazawa has used the term Savanna principle to denote his hypothesis that societal difficulties exist because "the human brain" evolved in Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago, a drastically different environment from today's urban, industrial society.

In 2006, Satoshi Kanazawa used this principle to explain the correlation of health and IQ vs health and wealth.

Satoshi Kanazawa argued that IQ is a better predictor for health than wealth or inequality in most regions of the world, except in Sub-Saharan Africa, where health is more strongly correlated to wealth than to IQ.

Satoshi Kanazawa claimed that this was because Sub-Saharan Africa represents an "evolutionarily familiar" environment with lesser selection pressure on IQ than elsewhere.

In 2012 Satoshi Kanazawa published an analysis of three large-scale randomly sampled studies from the US and UK, and found that in both males and females, homosexuals scored higher for intelligence.

Satoshi Kanazawa concludes, "es, we need a woman in the White House, but not the one who's running", suggesting that in his opinion someone like Ann Coulter is preferable.

Satoshi Kanazawa warned of growing concern over Psychology Today's position, at the time, regarding issue, expressed by various academics and numerous public intellectuals, among them the publication's own authors, such as Mikhail Lyubansky, who criticized the publication, noting that "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and editorial oversight".