The US Black-White cognitive ability gap in 1850, 1870 and 1900 censuses
Using the crude measures of literacy and numeracy discussed in a previous post, it is possible to quantify the cognitive ability gap for US Black-White in the 1800s. The data…
Using the crude measures of literacy and numeracy discussed in a previous post, it is possible to quantify the cognitive ability gap for US Black-White in the 1800s. The data…
These are the Google Translated versions of the original French. We are trying to obtain regional data for Belgian communes to use for our study, as well as nationality or…
This is beyond even normal levels of stupidity seen in politics and smear attacks. http://felixonline.co.uk/news/6705/kings-lecturer-sparks-racism-row/ Image form for easier reposting Here's the data from the DST report: http://www.dst.dk/da/Statistik/Publikationer/VisPub?cid=20704 Any journalist…
How easy is it to get provocative findings using mainstream methods published? Well, it depends on how provocative. Here's a second round of generally nonsensical reviews for our PING paper…
This must be the most hilariously trolly study I've seen in a while. Understanding the Therapist Contribution to Psychotherapy Outcome: A Meta-Analytic Approach Understanding the role that therapists play in…
Readers will perhaps recall that I tried to come up with some metrics for the polygenicity of a trait back in 2016. Well, there's a new preprint now: Estimation of…
Woodley reminded me of the dysgenics for health outcomes by linking me to a study about the increasing rates of cancer. I had first reached this conclusion back in 2005…
Since this one is well-covered already, I don't need to add much. See e.g.: Nintil: Why so few women in CS: the Google memo is fundamentally right Slatestarcodex: Contra Grant…
I have been tweeting annotated snippets from a WHO report I'm reading. Like this: https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/895006070388772866 Basically, the report does a decent job at summarizing the state of the art in…
Open source tends to get into these sorts of situations... https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=202909 https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/3981 https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1620318 The workaround is to do this: Command: sh -c 'sleep 0.1; gnome-screenshot -a' I think what it…