Another political bias test
See also: Rationality and bias test results I stumbled upon another political bias test: http://econturingtest.com/ Basically, you will be given 10 questions: 5 about why US-style conservatives favor/oppose a given…
Cognitive ability and tattoos and piercings
https://staffanspersonalityblog.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/openness-to-experience-that-liberal-je-ne-sais-quoi/ Tattoos and piercing. I haven’t found any evidence that this relates to intelligence or even creativity. On the other hand, what underlying factor of openness would it be an…
Genomic autocorrelation of quantitative traits
https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/662840970166280192 See first: Some methods for measuring and correcting for spatial autocorrelation Piffer's method Piffer's method to examine the between group heritability of cognitive ability and height uses polygenic scores…
Review: Quantitative Research in Linguistics: An Introduction
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19823567-quantitative-research-in-linguistics http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=3bb68f8bfea90338ad2efa04569108e2 There are few good things to say about this book. The best thing is on the very first page: Some things never change: the sun rises in the…
In favor of method diversity by the non-use of giants
I had the impression that, since recognition of [problem] dates back at least to [person from a long time ago], there was a voluminous literature and [statistics to deal with…
Polygenic traits and the distribution of effect sizes: years of education from Rietveld et al (2013)
It is often said that polygenic traits are based on tons of causal variants each of which has a very small effect size. What is less often discussed is the…
A general conspiracy theory factor
The topic came up whether people who believe in one conspiracy theory also believe in other theories. Probably, but let's find some data! I found some data in this paper…
Empirical math, or how experiments can increase our confidence in mathematical conclusions despite access to formal proofs
Earlier posts: Something about certainty, proofs in math, induction/abduction, Is the summed cubes equal to the squared sum of counting integer series? The things I'm going to say for math…
Some methods for measuring and correcting for spatial autocorrelation
Published to The Winnower 2015/10/20. A properly formatted PDF of this paper can be downloaded here (not sized to A4 sheets). Abstract Two new approaches to spatial autocorrelation (SAC) were…
Email exchange with ‘cognitive neuroscience researcher’ Jayl Feynman
Some readers may have fun reading this. I have not edited anything. Due to the conversion some extra lines were added, but his emails genuinely contains lots of oddly placed…