Amphetamine vs. methylphenidate for ADHD
Brief summary of thinking: The war on drugs makes it difficult or impossible to study drugs on the ban list. A drug's presence on the ban list is primary due…
Crowdsourcing a dataset: Multiparty democracies, election thresholds and running for parliament
I've decided to re-do my old and not too well done 2013 study. It goes like this, for multiparty democracies: Countries differ in the number of houses: 1 vs. 2.…
Preparation for: Municipality level social inequality in Brazil
I was reviewing a paper on social inequality in Brazil at the state level (I published one myself in 2015), and it struck me that one should be able to…
Syncthing: some notes and recommendations
Syncthing is a open source synchronization application. It's a replacement for the closed source Bittorrent Sync (BTS). If you are currently using BTS, I recommend switching because 1) it's closed…
Why didn’t Denmark sell Greenland? Some comments
Gwern has an old note on the US' offer to buy Greenland from Denmark after WW2. Aside from the usual nationalist feelings about land, the Greenland population is ~25% genetically…
Did Turkheimer et al (2003) replicate?
Lots of published psychology studies don't replicate well, in particular cute things like interactions, counter-intuitive or priming effects. In general, traditional behavioral genetics studies have replicated well. This is not…
Notes on Steve Hsu’s second interview w/ Daphne Martschenko
Back in January, Steve Hsu did an interview with Daphne Martschenko who is a phd candidate at Cambridge in education. She's basically doing science journalism on behavioral genetics as far…
SQL server for population frequencies from 1000 genomes
Note: 2018 June 26 Server down right now, investigating. Note: August 16, 2017 server IP changed to 67.207.92.10. Original post We need dplyr for this: library(dplyr) First, use the anon…
Book review: Hive mind (Garett Jones)
Read Gwern's review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1433728829 Aside from that, it's a lot of wasted opportunity. For instance, the income~IQ relationship. The discussion is extremely economisty. Not even mentioned that people vary a…
Individual genomic admixture and cognitive ability
So, I posted this: Abstract We used data from the PING study (n≈1200) to examine the relationship between cognitive ability, socioeconomic outcomes and genomic racial ancestry. We found that when…
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