Citizen Scientific Racism
Aaron Panofsky (Associate Professor in the Institute for Society and Genetics, Public Policy, and Sociology, UCLA) is your typical history focused Jewish, anti-racist academic. Some years ago, he wrote an…
Trying out tidymodels package
If you want to train machine learning models, R offers thousands of packages to try out. However, most of these are written by random students and academics, so they are…
Editor Matthias Ziegler rejects paper for political reasons, then says science should be neutral
Some colleagues wrote a paper summarizing intelligence/cognitive ability gaps in the United Kingdom based on large samples. Many of these were new results derived from government testing via freedom of…
The Facebook super spy AI
So, recently, we saw that Facebook added more sites to its block list. I don't know if there's a public listing of these, but the list must be getting very…
The verbal tilt model
Some years ago I came up with a rough model for explaining some curious demographic associations (I later told a friend about it, and he had the same idea independently).…
Lynn’s impossible regression values: bounded outcome variables with OLS
Someone emails me: Hello Mr. Kirkegaard, This is a question I emailed to Richard Lynn about data in regression analysis in his book Intelligence that did not make sense to…
New video out: Who are the comedians?
Got another video out today. It's covering my 2017 paper, that people were posting about on Twitter, suggesting interest in this kind of work. Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2017). Sex…
Reverse publication bias: a collection
See also Sesardić's conjecture, a related idea. Publication bias as normally considered is really positive publication bias, i.e., the bias is away from zero, towards finding larger than reality results.…
Military psychology: a review
Some of the best psychology related to intelligence and other applications have been conducted by the Anglo-sphere military. I don't actually know much about the research that has been conducted…
Mafia Mark gets grant to study intellectual humility while planning to use AI to identify enemies
Now that we're on the topic of curious people, it may be in order to recap the story of Mafia Mark, also know as Mark Alfano. He's an associate professor…
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