Stats dump October 2017
Anatoly Karlin - The State of the Altsphere (October 2017) He writes: Otherwise, the most popular HBD/IQ blogger, with around 100,000 monthly visits, is… Emil Kirkegaard. This is especially remarkable…
Shockley’s 1980 interview with Playboy
...is surprisingly interesting. And long, more than 30 pages, though including ads. Playboy interviews have a well-earned reputation it seems. shockley_playboy_1980
“This manuscript addresses a politically sensitive issue that I would prefer not to include in Frontiers in Evolutionary Sociology and Biosociology.”
While I am re-writing our PING study to become a substantial target article, John is sending it to various journals in the mean time to poke about their editorial biases.…
The end of anonymity in the crowd is near
Not an endorsement of this technology or the use of it, just stating that it will happen. Given sufficient measurement precision, all humans have unique genomes and fingerprints, but also…
Sources of bias in science (comments on Tara McCarthy interview 2017/09/11)
This is a follow-up summary of my new interview with Tara McCarthy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXOeiKbhJqM The problems Science is a broad cluster of methods and practices used to discover patterns in nature…
Battle of the sexes: island survival edition
I don't know of any scientific studies, but there's been a bunch of shows where they put teams of women and men on islands and had them try to survive…
The US Black-White cognitive ability gap in 1850, 1870 and 1900 censuses
Using the crude measures of literacy and numeracy discussed in a previous post, it is possible to quantify the cognitive ability gap for US Black-White in the 1800s. The data…
Acquiring immigrant scores on the Belgian military test? Nope, denied for unexplained ‘ethical reasons’
These are the Google Translated versions of the original French. We are trying to obtain regional data for Belgian communes to use for our study, as well as nationality or…
Trying to force academics to apologize for reporting official employment statistics
This is beyond even normal levels of stupidity seen in politics and smear attacks. http://felixonline.co.uk/news/6705/kings-lecturer-sparks-racism-row/ Image form for easier reposting Here's the data from the DST report: http://www.dst.dk/da/Statistik/Publikationer/VisPub?cid=20704 Any journalist…
Some more reviews for our PING paper
How easy is it to get provocative findings using mainstream methods published? Well, it depends on how provocative. Here's a second round of generally nonsensical reviews for our PING paper…