Found null results for a proposed metric (actually two). In the spirit of publishing failed ideas, I wrote this up. Abstract General intelligence (g) is known to predict grades at…
G.M. IQ & Economic growth I noted down some comments while reading it. --- In Table 1, Dominican birth cohort is reversed. “0.70 and 0.80 in world-wide country samples.…
https://twitter.com/standupmaths/status/524470545199673344 R can tell us: DF.numbers = data.frame(cubesum=numeric(),sumsquare=numeric()) #initial dataframe for (n in 1:100){ #loop and fill in DF.numbers[n,"cubesum"] = sum((1:n)^3) DF.numbers[n,"sumsquare"] = sum(1:n)^2 } library(car) #for the…
I came across this one. On the one hand it seems written in a serious tone. On the other hand, the claims are so ridiculous that it is hard to…
Same guy proposed another idea. Wikipedia has data here. However, since i had previously seen that people fudge data on Wikipedia articles (e.g. this one), then maybe it was not…
An online acquaintance asked me me to find data about these two and look for a relationship. It stands to reason that if you have a country where people die…
Just a quick write-up before I write up a paper with this for ODP. Introduction Altho general cognitive ability (g) has received the most attention by differential psychologists, personality receives…
I merged the dataset from Schmitt et al (2007)'s paper about OCEAN traits in 56 countries with the rest of the megadataset. Then i extracted the first factor of the…
http://openpsych.net/ODP/2014/10/crime-income-educational-attainment-and-employment-among-immigrant-groups-in-norway-and-finland/ Abstract I present new predictive analyses for crime, income, educational attainment and employment among immigrant groups in Norway and crime in Finland. Furthermore I show that the Norwegian data…
Jan te Nijenhuis, Birthe Jongeneel-Grimen and Emil O. W. Kirkegaard. Are Headstart gains on the g factor?: A meta-analysis. Intelligence. Volume 46, September–October 2014, Pages 209–215 If all goes…