Transracial adoption study: Odenstad et al (2008)
I found this one a long time ago and tweeted it, but apparently forgot to blog it. Odenstad, A., Hjern, A., Lindblad, F., Rasmussen, F., Vinnerljung, B., & Dalen, M.…
I found this one a long time ago and tweeted it, but apparently forgot to blog it. Odenstad, A., Hjern, A., Lindblad, F., Rasmussen, F., Vinnerljung, B., & Dalen, M.…
It seems that no one has integrated this literature yet. I will take a quick stab at it here. It could be expanded into a proper paper later in case…
https://staffanspersonalityblog.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/openness-to-experience-that-liberal-je-ne-sais-quoi/ Tattoos and piercing. I haven’t found any evidence that this relates to intelligence or even creativity. On the other hand, what underlying factor of openness would it be an…
https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/662840970166280192 See first: Some methods for measuring and correcting for spatial autocorrelation Piffer's method Piffer's method to examine the between group heritability of cognitive ability and height uses polygenic scores…
It is often said that polygenic traits are based on tons of causal variants each of which has a very small effect size. What is less often discussed is the…
The topic came up whether people who believe in one conspiracy theory also believe in other theories. Probably, but let's find some data! I found some data in this paper…
Some readers may have fun reading this. I have not edited anything. Due to the conversion some extra lines were added, but his emails genuinely contains lots of oddly placed…
A PDF of this paper without formatting errors can be downloaded here. Abstract I review recent findings in human behavioral genetics and their implications for selective breeding and estimation of…
I've always considered myself a very rational and fairly unbiased person. Being aware of the general tendency for people to overestimate themselves (see also visualization of the Dunning-Kruger effect), this…
https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/641272758257717248 https://twitter.com/pnin1957/status/641284556818096128 Let's test that. Since we don't have the original data, we can't use that. We can however use open datasets. I like to use Wicherts' dataset. So let's…