January 2018 Archives

Making better use of the scientific literature: large-scale automatic retrieval of data from published figures

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:28. January 2018
Post category:Math/Statistics Metascience
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Science is a set of related methods that aim at finding true patterns about the world. These methods are generally designed so as to remove noise from random circumstances (the…

Interview with me about the recent furor about the London conference

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:11. January 2018
Post category:Uncategorized
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I had a talk with Tara about the recent furor. (I did not choose the title: I would have chosen something less clickbaity!) https://youtu.be/B4zeW5McZB0 Note to self: maybe move around…

Standard deviation of total SAT scores: not simply the sum of the standard deviations of subtests

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:10. January 2018
Post category:intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability Math/Statistics
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Someone on Reddit for SlateStarCodex: AFAIK, SATs are normed to mean of 500 per section and standard deviation of 100. Assuming that math and verbal are highly correlated, that approximates…