2013 Archives

Introductory material to logic

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:30. November 2013
Post category:Logic

Someone needed this, so I made a quick collection. Introductory and more philosophical http://www.sfu.ca/~swartz/pw/text/pw_all.pdf Introductory not so philosophical/more formal https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/0415400678.Routledge.Logic_.An_.Introduction.Dec_.2005.pdf https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/0262511266.The_.MIT_.Press_.Logic_.Primer.-.2nd.Edition.Feb_.2001.pdf https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/A-Concise-Introduction-To-Logic-Hurley-7th-ed.pdf More advanced and very formal…

Papers about training effects: a collection

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:23. November 2013
Post category:Differential psychology/psychometrics

Being tired of finding these over and over again. Posting here for posterity. Hausknecht, John P., Charlie O. Trevor, and James L. Farr. "Retaking ability tests in a selection setting:…

Review: Bad Pharma

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:4. November 2013
Post category:Medicine Science

https://www.goodreads.com/book/similar/19171192-bad-pharma-how-drug-companies-mislead-doctors-and-harm-patients http://lib.free-college.org/view.php?id=864114 Having already read Peter Gøtzsche's Dødelig medicin og organiseret kriminalitet: Hvordan medicinalindustrien har korrumperet sundhedsvæsenet. Art People, 2013, this book did not bring so much new. However,…

Preimplantation genetic diagnosis, embryo slection

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:4. November 2013
Post category:Genetics / behavioral genetics Medicine Science

Kuliev, Anver, and Yury Verlinsky. "Preimplantation diagnosis: a realistic option for assisted reproduction and genetic practice." Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology 17.2 (2005): 179-183. Preimplantation diagnosis a realistic option…

Review: The raising of intelligence

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:3. November 2013
Post category:Differential psychology/psychometrics intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17772014-raising-of-intelligence-the Spitz, Herman H. The raising of intelligence: A selected history of attempts to raise retarded intelligence. 1986. http://bookos.org/book/2175637/d00805 Very useful book. I had read about it in multiple sources.…

DMCA #whatever

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:2. November 2013
Post category:Uncategorized

To Whom it May Concern, Pursuant to 17 USC 512(c)(3)(A), this communication serves as a statement that: (1). I am the duly authorized representative of the exclusive rights holder for…

Sony tries censorship…

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:24. October 2013
Post category:Uncategorized

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/10/when-a-virtual-actress-nude-images-leak-who-should-take-the-legal-blame/ When nude images of Jodie Holmes, actress Ellen Page's character from Beyond: Two Souls, began appearing on the Internet a few weeks ago (courtesy of a repositioned shower-scene…

Review: The intelligence of dogs

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:17. October 2013
Post category:Differential psychology/psychometrics Evolutionary biology Genetics / behavioral genetics intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability Psychology

The Intelligence of Dogs A Guide to the Thoughts, Emotions, and Inner Lives of Our Canine Companions Stanley Coren 320p This book is not very technical, has almost no…

Review: Genes, Peoples, and Languages

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:10. October 2013
Post category:Genetics / behavioral genetics

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/331816.Genes_Peoples_and_Languages http://lib.free-college.org/search.php?search_type=magic&search_text=GENES%2C+PEOPLES+AND++LANGUAGES+&submit=Dig+for I read it mostly becus i cudnt find his more critically acclaimed book online (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/404414.The_History_and_Geography_of_Human_Genes). The book is written in low-level nonfiction, i.e. very few academic…

The typical social science theory

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:2. October 2013
Post category:Psychology Science

Perhaps the easiest way to convince yourself is by scanning the literature of soft psychology over the last 30 years and noticing what happens to theories. Most of them suffer…