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Read more about the article Worldwide results for migrant outcomes

Worldwide results for migrant outcomes

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:20. October 2026
  • Post category:Immigration/intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability

I've researched the outcomes of migrants by country of origin in many studies and posts, but now with the power of AI, I've been quickly able to compile all of…

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Read more about the article Adult cognitive gaps in the PIAAC

Adult cognitive gaps in the PIAAC

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:15. October 2026
  • Post category:intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability

For fun, I posted some results for sex differences in cognitive tests from taketest.xyz on Twitter. Replotted, they look like this: Most tests show male advantages, and only 3 show…

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The data based approach to winning Slay the Spire 2

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:7. October 2026
  • Post category:Games

Months ago, we made a Slay the Spire 2 statistics portal, https://sts2.fun/. It has been collecting a decent amount of data, some 400k runs from 3000 players. For those not…

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Read more about the article Interactions are still not important: not in medical data either

Interactions are still not important: not in medical data either

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:4. October 2026
  • Post category:Math/Statistics/Medicine

Yesterday I wrote about a study I did of the OKCupid dataset. The point was to show that interaction effects are almost always tiny and you should adjust your effect…

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Read more about the article Interactions are generally not important in social science

Interactions are generally not important in social science

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:3. October 2026
  • Post category:Differential psychology/psychometrics/Math/Statistics

Some years ago both me and Jonatan Pallesen looked into the generality of statistical interaction effects. These look like this: In real life, however, interactions are mostly not a real…

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Read more about the article Which country do you fit in?

Which country do you fit in?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:1. October 2026
  • Post category:Differential psychology/psychometrics/Sociology

There are hundreds of values tests on the internet. Almost all of these are theory-based also known as made-up dimensions. These are dimensions that one could think of, make some…

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