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Administration time and reliability in measurement

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:19. July 2016
  • Post category:Differential psychology/psychometrics/intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability

For some research designs, one pays the participants by the amount of time they spend on the task (like regular work). For other designs where one does not, usually participants…

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Organ donation consent vs. actual rates

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:5. July 2016
  • Post category:Medicine/Politics

There is a famous paper arguing the case for libertarian paternalism by using organ donation consent rates. Johnson, E. J., & Goldstein, D. (2003). Do defaults save lives?. Science, 302(5649),…

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Clinical vs. statistical prediction

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:5. July 2016
  • Post category:Psychology

I learned about this topic many years ago reading Scott Lilienfeld's 50 Myths of popular psychology. In it, they write: In his blockbuster bestselling book Blink: The Power of Thinking…

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