How good is Google Scholar?
I found this paper: The expansion of Google Scholar versus Web of Science: a longitudinal study - See also other interesting papers by the same author: Joost de Winter Abstract…
The g factor in autistic persons?
Check http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19572193 Eyeballing their figure seems to indicate that the g factor is much less strong in these children. A quick search on Scholar didn't reveal any studies that investigated…
New paper out: The international general socioeconomic factor: Factor analyzing international rankings
http://openpsych.net/ODP/2014/09/the-international-general-socioeconomic-factor-factor-analyzing-international-rankings/ Abstract Many studies have examined the correlations between national IQs and various country-level indexes of well-being. The analyses have been unsystematic and not gathered in one single analysis or…
Comments on Learning Statistics with R
So I found a textbook for learning both elementary statistics much of which i knew but hadnt read a textbook about, and for learning R. http://health.adelaide.edu.au/psychology/ccs/teaching/lsr/ book is free legally…
Review: Is there anything good about men? (Roy F. Baumeister)
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8765372-is-there-anything-good-about-men http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=B21C5698CE12510CDEDBE940259BDF6F If you read the original essay, there is not much to recommend about the book. It taught me very little, has no data tables, no plots, no figures.…
Review: Understanding human history (Michael H. Hart)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1737823.Understanding_Human_History http://gen.lib.rus.ec/search.php?req=Understanding+Human+History&open=0&view=simple&column=def I think Elijah mentioned this book somewhere. I can't find where. The basic idea of the book is to write a history book that does take known population…
Pun #4923
If a person is waiting to be treated at a hospital and he complains about waiting too long... is he being impatient? - [14:40:05] Emil - Deleet: is it funny…
So i tried linux again
Usually every few years i try linux just to see how it has improved since last time i tried it. So far i have not migrated permanently to linux on…
Comment on CPGGrey’s new video on the future of automatization
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU Posted on reddit. This is your best film yet, and that says something. For automatization for clinical decisions, it has been known for decades that simple algorithms are…
So that idea I had about using genetically informed dating sites…
Previous post: http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/?p=4103 Prediction: Good dating sites of the future will use genomic data to select partners with matching MHC. The idea is obvious. Genomic sequencing prices will fall. People…