The other Anglo exceptionalism
Economists are fond of talking about the specialness of the United Kingdom back when it kicked off the industrial revolution. Similarly, USA is doing remarkably well by some metrics compared…
How to make psychology items (questions) with ChatGPT4
In the comments on my last post on measuring intelligence in online surveys, PaleoPolak asked: > It is fairly easy to make new vocabulary items for most languages using the…
Measuring intelligence online: best practices
Over the years I have been involved in quite a number of studies that measured intelligence (g) online in some way or another. Since people occasionally ask what is a…
Ancient genomics AMA with Davide Piffer
I am in Italy together with Davide Piffer. We will be filming a conversation about ancient genomes and group differences. Please post your questions below so we can cover them…
Skill vs. luck in games: a survey study
Some games involve chance elements. We can theoretically distinguish between a few types of chance elements. First, the simplest, are direct chance elements as in rolling dice, flipping a coin,…
The dream of ratio scale psychology measures
Anon asks: Dear Emil Kirkegaard, I just read your article about the intelligence quotient being very arbitrary and not being able to divide or multiply with it, what about raw…
On Paul Bloom’s Psych (2023)
Psychology is a popular field, so there's quite a big market for introductory textbooks. I occasionally read these just to see how authors are introducing and treating various topics. In…
Can psychology become a proper science?
There is idealized science and there is real life science. In idealized science, disinterested, smart, rational agents attempt to figure out how reality works out of sheer curiosity. They collaborate…
Polygenic score validity and group differences
Probably the most common objection to studies of polygenic scores for education/intelligence for race differences is that the polygenic scores are less valid for non-European populations. For instance, here's a…
Might makes right, well, sort of
In moral philosophy, there is a theory of morality which is nearly universally used as a wrong-headed theory. It's the might makes right theory. In other words, whoever is in…
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