Who’s your out-group?
See related posts in rationalist sphere: Scott Alexander, I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup Jakob Falkovich, In-Groups, Out-Groups, and the IDW (in Quillette) So the story goes like this:…
Not telling the whole story
In the prior post, I quoted some parts of a paper written by sociologist Howard S. Becker in 1967 which advocated a distortion model of science. To quote the most…
Whose side are sociologists on?
A very telling paper from 1967 written by a top sociologist called Howard S. Becker. Becker, H. S. (1967). Whose side are we on?. Social problems, 14(3), 239-247. I quote:…
Nice RCT in real life: Team Incentives and Performance: Evidence from a Retail Chain
Sometimes when I complain about the horrible state of the art in social science, and especially in human resource management, senior colleagues tell me that it's near impossible to convince…
Shuey (1966)
Audrey M. Shuey (who even has a barebones Wikipedia page) is one of the most important female early researchers in intelligence research along with Barbara Burks and Leta Hollingworth. Shuey,…
New study & video out: Pupil size and intelligence
Also, the front page is now updated and runs in Django. This is much easier to manage than the old PHP site, but the front page currently redirects to the…
Installing R on Ubuntu 20.04: still too damn difficult
Here's a whiny post on annoying R features. I love R and all, but it's obnoxious to install. Not only does it take a long time to compile so many…
Monkeys, climate, intelligence
Anon on Reddit writes me: Hey, Emil! I’ve been a fan of your work for a while now. I respect your effort to give a voice to persecuted research directions.…
Transracial adoption study: Finet et al (2019)
More posts with this tag https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1215984044564975616 Finet, C., Vermeer, H. J., Juffer, F., Bijttebier, P., & Bosmans, G. (2019). Remarkable cognitive catch-up in Chinese Adoptees nine years after adoption. Journal…
Banned Medium post listing 279 terrorism supporting companies
https://twitter.com/Communism_Kills/status/1270050817089900546 This was unsurprising given Medium's increasingly censorious behavior (also for COVID data). I absolutely hate censorship, so I am reposting this list. It exists in archived versions already (https://archive.vn/mG72Y,…