Chomsky on postmodernism [repost]
This text used to be hosted at Shalizi's university website, but it was recently taken down for unknown reasons. However, Internet Archive saves us, and I repost it here because…
Race gaps in brain size in the very young
Most environmentalists have by now given up denying the existence of racial gaps in head size, but they only retreated a few yards: Nisbett, R. E., Aronson, J., Blair, C.,…
How much should you trust IQ etc. information from The Guardian? Experts answer: not so much
There's an interesting slide in Rindermann's survey: Rindermann, H. (2013). 2013 survey of expert opinion on intelligence. International Society for Intelligence Research, ISIR 2013 List of surveys here James Thompson's…
The national IQ of Nepal
There's an interesting study making the rounds on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JProtzko/status/971763351805075457 Dulal, S., Liégeois, F., Osrin, D., Kuczynski, A., Manandhar, D. S., Shrestha, B. P., ... & Prost, A. (2018). Does…
Comments on Fagan and Holland (2007)’s racial equality paper
Someone sent me some questions on this study: Fagan, J. F., & Holland, C. R. (2007). Racial equality in intelligence: Predictions from a theory of intelligence as processing. Intelligence, 35(4),…
Making better use of the scientific literature: large-scale automatic retrieval of data from published figures
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
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
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…
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