Small children are not particularly creative
There is a meme among educationalists and other people who like unverifiable but inspirational quotes. It goes like this: One can find an endless number of popular articles repeating this…
Pedophilia and related traits
The question of whether homosexuality is related to various bad things is independent of one's stance towards homosexuals as citizens, their rights to marriage etc. which is fine by me.…
Predictions for an individual-level general crime factor study using Swedish register data
There is a lot of research on the link between crime and cognitive ability. (For criminal outcomes, see the problems in my previous post.) E.g. Is the Association between General…
Interesting non-linear relationship between TV watching, age and reading comprehension
Some time ago, I stumbled upon this paper: Searls, D. T., Mead, N. A., & Ward, B. (1985). The relationship of students' reading skills to TV watching, leisure time reading,…
Age differences in the WISC-IV has a positive Jensen coefficient, maybe
Group differences in cognitive scores have generally been found to be g-loaded, i.e. the differences are larger on the items/subtests that load more strongly on the general factor. This is…