April 2013 Archives

Review: The Signal and the Noise

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:23. April 2013
Post category:Economics Epistemology Metascience Science Sociology
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The Signal and the Noise Why So Many Predictions Fail - but Some Don’t Nate Silver 544p It is a pretty interesting book especially becus it covers some areas…

Reading material on cognitive epidemiology

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:17. April 2013
Post category:Differential psychology/psychometrics Genetics / behavioral genetics Medicine Sociology
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I recently got interested in a new field https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_epidemiology Cognitive epidemiology is a field of research that examines the associations between intelligence test scores (IQ scores or extracted g-factors) and…

Comments on Linguistic Anthropology (Laura Ahearn)

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:6. April 2013
Post category:Linguistics/language
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Consider Marx’s famous words in “The Eighteenth Brumaire o f Louis Bonaparte” : “Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do…

Review + comments: Analyzing Grammar, An Introduction (Paul R. Kroeger, 2005)

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:2. April 2013
Post category:Language Linguistics/language
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Cambridge.University.Press.Analyzing.Grammar.An.Introduction.Jun.2005 free pdf download Overall, there is nothing much to say about this book. It covers most stuff. Neither particularly good, or interesting, or particularly bad or uninteresting, IMO.…