The art of skeptical statistics
In the very enjoyable book The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data David Spiegelhalter mentions as example of an experiment that sounds too good to be true: In…
Book review: David Sinclair – Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don’t Have To (2019)
David A. Sinclair - Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To, 2019 (free ebook is on libgen) I know Scott Alexander has already reviewed this, but since I…
Higher impact factor journals have lower replicability indexes
Researchers often talk about getting into the better journals. There is an assumption that better journals are those with high impact factors, and these publish better science. Of course, if…
The big Black patent decline, or how not to use composite datasets
Twitter user AnechoicMedia has an amusing new example of research incompetence in economics. The paper in question is: Cook, L. D. (2014). Violence and economic activity: evidence from African American…
Mental illness and intelligence: the relationship is negative
This one keeps coming up whenever I post things about mental illness and X, like politics. So it's worth having a go-to summary for a popular audience. Mental illness is…
The Norwegian Hjernevask (Brainwash) series (2010)
Back in 2010, Norwegian comedian Harald Eia made a rather extraordinary science documentary series called Hjernevask, or Brainwash in English. The series consists of Harald himself talking to various gender…
The conservative advantage in mental health keeps replicating
Back in May 2020, I published a paper provocatively titled Mental Illness and the Left. It was based on the common observation (stereotype!) that conservatives seem less prone to mental…
Basics on hereditarian thinking about genotypic means
Recently I got a private question from anon: A quick question if you don't mind: how come Blacks from sub-Saharan Africa have an average IQ of 70, which is even…
Immigration economics for economist dummies
Some time ago, I published a 50 minutes long video walkthrough of some research on economics effects of immigration for Nordic countries. Since some people don't really watch videos, I…
Too many women in the wrong places: Norwegian navy edition
As women increasingly are hired into traditionally male jobs via affirmative action laws or indirect pressure via media, we see more and more incompetence. This is true whether it is…