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Read more about the article New video out on the Dunning Kruger effect, of lack thereof

New video out on the Dunning Kruger effect, of lack thereof

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:30. April 2022
  • Post category:Psychology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19NB8MtlPIQ This is the accompanying video of our 2021 paper: Kirkegaard, E. O. W. & Gerritsen, A. (2021). Looking for evidence of the Dunning-Kruger effect: an analysis of 2400 online…

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What do 0/10 scales mean?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:28. April 2022
  • Post category:Psychology

We often use the 0-10 scale to rate people for various things, but especially attractiveness. But what do people really mean when they say someone is an 8 out of…

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Read more about the article Heat and the great balls decline

Heat and the great balls decline

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:25. April 2022
  • Post category:Medicine/Physiology

OK, click baity title, but bear with me. In a prior post on Roman fertility decline, I had mentioned a speculative piece arguing that Roman fertility decline was in part…

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Read more about the article “positively motivated to help all of humankind”

“positively motivated to help all of humankind”

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:19. April 2022
  • Post category:intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability/Metascience

As soft censorship in academia is the law of the land, we've been accumulating a bunch of funny worded rejections and pre-rejections. Rejections arise when you submit some work for…

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Read more about the article Those unwanted results from the Ontario’s Mathematics Proficiency Test

Those unwanted results from the Ontario’s Mathematics Proficiency Test

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:16. April 2022
  • Post category:Education/intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability

You may recall a few months back that Canada's highest court declared a math test for school teachers to be ... unconstitutional: As a result of a recent decision of…

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IQs by university degrees from SATs

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:14. April 2022
  • Post category:Education/intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability

There's a bunch of these claims floating around. The good ones are based on Razib Khan's 10 year old write-up, which I also reblogged later. It looks like this: The…

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Read more about the article People do not overestimate their romantic partner’s IQ by 30

People do not overestimate their romantic partner’s IQ by 30

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:14. April 2022
  • Post category:intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability

It's all based on this article, which received ample media attention: Gignac, G. E., & Zajenkowski, M. (2019). People tend to overestimate their romantic partner's intelligence even more than their…

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Read more about the article Small children are not particularly creative

Small children are not particularly creative

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:9. April 2022
  • Post category:Differential psychology/psychometrics

There is a meme among educationalists and other people who like unverifiable but inspirational quotes. It goes like this: One can find an endless number of popular articles repeating this…

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Forecasts for the 2022 French election

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:7. April 2022
  • Post category:Uncategorized

Metaculus: Will Marine Le Pen win the 2022 French presidential election? Will Emmanuel Macron be re-elected as President of France in the 2022 Presidential Election? So let's try! Let's time…

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Read more about the article How bad is the Hungarian democracy? A quantitative approach

How bad is the Hungarian democracy? A quantitative approach

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:6. April 2022
  • Post category:Media studies/Political science

Hungarian president Viktor Orbán is not popular with western media and academics. This is obvious as he is a national conservative, and that's the least favorite group according to journalist…

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