Emil O. W. Kirkegaard blog
Well, this one has been public as as preprint for a while (PsyArxiv [this is tagged as private?!], OSF and ResearchGate ~9k views), but it is now officially published in Mankind Quarterly, the best place to publish human biodiversity content (also OpenPsych but currently inactive pending completion of ongoing development work). Kirkegaard, E. O. W….
Since a lot of foreigners are talking about this one and I am in a position to read the Danish language, it seems worthwhile to recap it here. The Danish website for the report is here. There is no English language summary that I can see. The background for the report, Google translated (with manual…
There is now a memorial site for Hans Jürgen Eysenck, the famous and controversial psychologist. https://hanseysenck.com/ The website includes free PDFs of many of his older works, including books going back to the 1950s! Some of these are actually quite informative, and I have previously reviewed some (Psychology of Politics, Genius: The natural history of…
This one is from a while back, 2017, but since we are bringing some sunlight to these academic censors, let’s get this one out in the open too. This paper is actually still not published, since we decided to re-do some of the stats. Actually this paper is quite politically correct in the sense that…
Aaron Panofsky (Associate Professor in the Institute for Society and Genetics, Public Policy, and Sociology, UCLA) is your typical history focused Jewish, anti-racist academic. Some years ago, he wrote an interesting book, Misbehaving Science: Controversy and the Development of Behavior Genetics (2014), a history on behavioral genetics. Although hostile, it contains a lot of interesting…
If you want to train machine learning models, R offers thousands of packages to try out. However, most of these are written by random students and academics, so they are not proper standardized. It can looks like this: So, it’s a nightmare trying out a lot of models or (learning) algorithms to predict a specific…
Some colleagues wrote a paper summarizing intelligence/cognitive ability gaps in the United Kingdom based on large samples. Many of these were new results derived from government testing via freedom of information act requests. The aim of such a meta-analysis is of course to get a broad overview of what gaps exist. From a blank slate…
So, recently, we saw that Facebook added more sites to its block list. I don’t know if there’s a public listing of these, but the list must be getting very low indeed. It’s justified all the usual ways totalitarians justify their censorship: it begins with stuff ‘everybody can agree with’, such as spam sites and…
Some years ago I came up with a rough model for explaining some curious demographic associations (I later told a friend about it, and he had the same idea independently). The idea is that verbal tilt has independent effects or at least associations with various things. Specifically, verbal tilt shows positive correlations with: Creativity Political…
Someone emails me: Hello Mr. Kirkegaard, This is a question I emailed to Richard Lynn about data in regression analysis in his book Intelligence that did not make sense to me. [Lynn is busy]. I thought maybe you could answer this question since he cannot, which is why I am forwarding the email I sent…
