Some more reviews for our PING paper
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…
What exactly is the value of psychotherapists?
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…
Estimating the polygenicity of traits: an update
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…
Health dysgenics: a very brief review
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…
Women and computer science: a no-brainer
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…
WHO on genomics and health, 2002
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…
2 years of bugged screenshotting in Mint / Cinnamon
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…
Herrnstein’s famous 1971 article in The Atlantic
Richard Herrnstein, (1971), IQ, The Atlantic Had been looking for this one for years. Gwern managed to find it. I'll host a mirror here. Perhaps the most interesting thing about…
Why the race and intelligence question is still not resolved
It could probably have been resolved decades ago, and definitely within the last 10 years with genomic data, yet it is still not. Why? Essentially, it's because of bias in…
Large scale sex, race etc. discrimination studies: what do they show?
Given enough motivation, QRPs, biased reviewing and time, one can build an entire literature of studies proving anything. There's plenty of all of these to prove left-wing ideological beliefs (and…
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