Steam game ratings don’t show recency effect
Due to a data error, some of these findings are not entirely true. See next post. Previously, I showed that IMDB movie ratings are inflated for recent movies. I speculated this…
Newest results on the sex difference in intelligence
Richard Lynn noted a 'paradox' or incongruency many years ago (1994): A paradox concerning sex differences in intelligence and brain size has recently been noted by Ankney (1992) and Rushton…
Who makes the most highly rated movies?
Working with the IMDB data, we can also have another look at who makes the best movies. I previously examined this using the best foreign film category from the American…
Recency bias in IMDB ratings
In 2024 I wrote a post showing this plot (well, a similar one): The pattern is that newer movies have been getting progressively lower rated. Now there can be some…
Climate science and conspiracy theories
Joe Duarte (of Political Diversity Will Improve Social Psychological Science fame) has been complaining about some climate science denial/skepticism being linked to conspiracy theories study for years. He posted a…
Bryan Pesta tells his story + the closing of HDF
Some years ago we published the world's first admixture regression studies. These were done using a series of datasets starting with the relatively small PING, then moving on to PNC/TCP,…
Who is best at the Olympics? Not America
I am not particularly interested in sports unless it involves statistics. Recently, a major topic on X is posting about this or that US winner. Stuff like this: So let's…
Good vs. bad scientific questions
The scientific method is a kind of general truth generating approach that involves: Making some claim (hypothesis) in clear enough language (clarity) ... ... that some observation can be done…
January book reviews (4-6): Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code by Matt Ridley
There's 2 books left of the January books, but one of them were not that noteworthy in the literal sense that I didn't take any interesting notes while reading them.…
January book reviews (4): Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
In this 4th book review of those I read in January, we come to Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa,…