How much does University of Aarhus spend a year on journals?
Upon reading about the obscene costs of journals, e.g. in this post, I decided to write to my local university library and ask. They responded with this: Hej Emil Du…
The general socioeconomic factor among Colombian departments
Abstract A dataset was compiled with 17 diverse socioeconomic variables for 32 departments of Colombia and the capital district. Factor analysis revealed an S factor. Results were robust to data…
What is a good name? The S factor in Denmark at the name-level
Emil O. W. Kirkegaard Bo Tranberg Abstract We present and analyze data from a dataset of 2358 Danish first names and socioeconomic outcomes not previously made available to the public…
An S factor among census tracts of Boston
Abstract A factor analysis was carried out on 6 socioeconomic variables for 506 census tracts of Boston. An S factor was found with positive loadings for median value of owner-occupied…
The sibling control design
A friend of mine and his brother just received their 23andme results. In a table they look like this (I have added myself for comparison): Macrorace Bro1 Bro2 Emil European…
Tox, a decent alternative to Skype etc.
This post is severely outdated, and only kept here for historical reasons. For years I have looked for a good alternative to Skype. Skype has some nice features including: Group…
Installing an RStudio server on DigitalOcean
Not as easy as claimed, but not that difficult. I used the default values and stuff with Ubuntu like in the guide. Some difficulties: Had to learn SSH Just read…
Why do persons from higher mean IQ populations do better even after selection?
Abstract It has been found that workers who hail from higher socioeconomic classes have higher earnings even in the same profession. An environmental cause was offered as an explanation of…
Presentation for my talk for LCI15
Posted here as a sneak peak for those not coming, and for easy access for myself.
Developers refuse to make it possible to disable automatic, forced date recognition in Libre Office
It's a really annoying 'feature'. I'm searching for a way to disable the very annoying number formatting in Libre Office Calc. Whenever I enter some number or a string containing…
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