Bayesian statistics for environmentalists
See also previously: Environmentalists like admixture analysis too (until they don’t) Let's talk a little Bayesian statistics and how it applies to model selection in the race and IQ debate.…
Data mining Erowid to study drugs
Erowid has thousands of reviews of 100s of different drugs. So it should be possible to easily scrape these reports, and then use various text analysis methods on them to…
Replies to Birney, Raff, Rutherford & Scally
Ewan Birney, Jennifer Raff, Adam Rutherford, Aylwyn Scally. Race, genetics and pseudoscience: an explainer. Ewan's Blog: Bioinformatician at large. Additional remarks by Raff on her blog On Race, Genetics, and…
Media darling scientists
Being on Twitter you quickly run into some people calling themselves scientists, but who seem to not be doing much science at all and instead spending their time on politics…
The Psychology of Politics (1954) by Hans Eysenck (review)
Hans Eysenck. The Psychology of Politics. 1963 (first published 1954). From time to time, I like to read old books to get a sense of what people were interested in…
It’s not Lewontin’s seed metaphor
Rushton, J. P. (1997). Review essay. [Review of the books The Bell Curve Debate, The Bell Curve Wars, Final Solutions, The Mismeasure of Man, The Nazi Connection, The Race Gallery,…
Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought by Jonathan Rauch (review)
Rauch, J. (1993). Kindly inquisitors: The new attacks on free thought. University of Chicago Press. There is a slightly updated 2014 version which I read. It's on Libgen. Many years…
IQ blogs collections (2019 October)
Since there was much interest in my tweet... https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1180945694586220544 The spreadsheet will be updated here. title author url active Reason without restraint Anon https://reasonwithoutrestraint.com/ 1 Untangler Sebastian Jensen https://theuntangler.wordpress.com/ 1…
Political bias in science: quotes from Gunnar Myrdal’s 1944 book
Gunnar Myrdal, who was Swedish, expresses an early version of the views the media repeat endlessly these days. To give some examples: White prejudice and discrimination keep the Negro low…
Scientific misconduct by ancestry/country
There's a few studies on this already. This is a rare event/person situation, so sampling error is large and problematic (cf. discussion in esports paper). Ignoring this, we can draw…