Review: The Nurture Assumption (Judith Harris)
This book turned out to be not what i had expected, but still interesting. Not sure why it got all the bad press. It's behavior realistic but focuses on the…
Intelligence/IQ/GRE by academic field
Data are based on GRE averages. Data from here: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/01/classicists-are-smart/ I have sorted them for Average-SDU, i.e. estimated g (intelligence). As a funny note, top 10 includes 5 different physics…
Review: Helmuth Nyborg ed., The scientific study of general intelligence
[Helmuth_Nyborg]_The_Scientific_Study_of_General_I(Bookos.org) From Introduction It has been said: If you have no enemies, you have no point of view. Art has many enemies, and I will describe some of the more…
How misinformed are people about psychometrics?
Data from here: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54218.The_Mismeasure_of_Man No one informed about this subject can give this book more than 2, and it really should only get 1's for this pathetic performance, even if…
A Galton quote of interest
General impressions are never to be trusted. Unfortunately when they are of long standing they become fixed rules of life and assume a prescriptive right not to be questioned. Consequently…
Ebook: The Scientific Study of General Intelligence: Tribute to Arthur Jensen (Helmuth Nyborg)
Nyborg, Helmuth, ed. The Scientific Study of General Intelligence: Tribute to Arthur Jensen. Access Online via Elsevier, 2003. [Helmuth_Nyborg]_The_Scientific_Study_of_General_I(Bookos.org) And this paper I thought was a book chapter from the…
Paper: Introducing the construct curiosity for predicting job performance
Introducing the construct curiosity for predicting job performance Mussel, Patrick. "Introducing the construct curiosity for predicting job performance." Journal of Organizational Behavior (2012). I read this a while ago. pretty…
Review: Future Human Evolution: Eugenics in the Twenty-First Century (John Glad)
Found here: http://whatwemaybe.org/ http://whatwemaybe.org/txt/txt0000/glad.john.2006.future_human_evolution.book.full.003k.en.pdf The homepage is really weird, but the book turned out to be... pretty good. At first I was not impressed, especially because he went into insufficient…