Emil O. W. Kirkegaard blog
This sort of thing should not be necessary. However, due to long time mentally ill online stalker Oliver D. Smith (see here), and various people who repeat his lies and distortions, writing something like this has become necessary. At various times, my colleagues are accused of being connected to me, “well-known neo-Nazi” (as one random…
Continue ReadingData coder needed Research assistant job for 15 USD/hour. I need to estimate the percentage of English speakers per country for use in a study as a control variable. I want to use Wikitravel information. We find phrases discussing the English ability of ~230 countries/territories, such as: “English is spoken by almost no one, even…
Continue ReadingSo, some smart people say melatonin is useful for sleep deprivation. I submit that it doesn’t do much of anything. Take a random meta-analysis cited in favor: Brzezinski, A., Vangel, M. G., Wurtman, R. J., Norrie, G., Zhdanova, I., Ben-Shushan, A., & Ford, I. (2005). Effects of exogenous melatonin on sleep: a meta-analysis. Sleep medicine…
Continue ReadingAs a follow-up to my prior guide on how to use Sci-hub to download academic papers for free, here’s a simple guide to use Library Gensis aka. Libgen. Library Genesis is another guerilla open access project, also run by people from the Russia-sphere. It’s relatively easy to use. 1. Go to the Libgen website There’s…
Continue ReadingI had a talk with Tara about the recent furor. (I did not choose the title: I would have chosen something less clickbaity!) Note to self: maybe move around less when doing interviews, lol.
Continue ReadingThis is beyond even normal levels of stupidity seen in politics and smear attacks. felixonline.co.uk/news/6705/kings-lecturer-sparks-racism-row/ Image form for easier reposting Here’s the data from the DST report: www.dst.dk/da/Statistik/Publikationer/VisPub?cid=20704 Any journalist with even 5% of a brain could have easily verified this. The Norwegian and Finnish data are from Skardhamar et al 2014.
Continue ReadingWhat happens if you take a bunch of socially inept, above average intelligence, and mentally ill people and have them try to do stuff together? Sounds like a disaster. Well… lesswrong.com/lw/p23/dragon_army_theory_charter_30min_read/ One comment, which I repost here because some are advocating for censorship, is very telling: Comment author: 18239018038528017428 26 May 2017 08:43:41PM * 22…
Continue ReadingOne can find quite a lot of popular articles on the topic: newrepublic.com/article/139700/democrats-party-science-not-really reason.com/reasontv/2016/07/15/are-republicans-or-democrats-more-anti-s www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/apr/28/can-the-republican-party-solve-its-science-denial-problem www.pewinternet.org/2016/10/04/the-politics-of-climate/ www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/why-republicans-still-reject-the-science-of-global-warming-w448023 www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/democrats-have-a-problem-with-science-too-107270 www.city-journal.org/html/real-war-science-14782.html www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/09/left-science-gmo-vaccines with wildly diverging conclusions. So what is true? It at these times that we want to take a look at the raw data ourselves. Fortunately, The Audacious Epigone did some legwork for us: Item Rep%…
Continue ReadingConsider the findings from the large UK study I recently blogged (Akarlin blogs it too): Some of these have steep declines. It’s not just an artifact of the FLynn effect, age really has a strong negative effect on cognitive abilities. Consider the rates of dementia and age: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10891908 So, by age ≥85 some close to…
Continue ReadingIn the fallout of the OKCupid dataset release, some people wrote a complaint letter to Aarhus University. I haven’t read the letter, but Aarhus University has now replied to it: Reply to Oliver Keyes et al Basically, the letter affirms everything I’ve already said, namely: University was not involved, so: Their ethics rules do not…
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