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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 all educational levels. A Jensen coefficient is the correlation of subtests’ g-loadings with a vector of interest. I hypothesized that the personal Jensen coefficient from…
Continue ReadingG.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. Figure 1 gives an impression of this relationship.” Figure 1 shows regional IQs, not GDP relationships. “We still depend on these descriptive methods of…
Continue ReadingMartin Gardner is 100 today. 1³+2³+3³+4³ = 100 = (1+2+3+4)². Does the sum of the first numbers cubed always equal the square of their sum? — Matt Parker (@standupmaths) October 21, 2014 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”]…
Continue ReadingI 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 believe it is sincere. Some quotes below. Abstract: While the open-access (OA) movement purports to be about making scholarly content open-access, its true motives are…
Continue ReadingSame 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 a good idea to just rely on Wikipedia. So i did the best thing: fetched both the data from Wiki and the data from the…
Continue ReadingAn 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 of lots of other things (accidents, warfare, parasites/contagious disease, hunger/thirst), they don’t ling long enough to get cancer. I already had life expectancy data from…
Continue ReadingJust 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 a fair share now a days. And just as g has been shown to have great predictive power in large meta-analyses in a variety of…
Continue ReadingI 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 OCEAN means and SDs. These two are nearly uncorrelated (.07). As for factor strength, they are not too bad: > DF.OCEAN.mean.omega Omega Call: omega(m =…
Continue Readinghttp://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 contains a strong general socioeconomic factor (S) which is highly predictable from country-level variables (National IQ .59, Islam prevalence -.71, international general socioeconomic factor .72,…
Continue ReadingJan 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 well, it may be the only paper i publish in Intelligence. Primary author is a cool guy: http://www.uva.nl/over-de-uva/organisatie/medewerkers/content/n/i/j.tenijenhuis/j.te-nijenhuis.html The second author is his former…
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