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Sometimes I take the time to read a ‘normal’ book. This was one of them, prompted by some friends who wanted my opinion. The best thing I can say about this book is that it is short. It’s rather boring. It consists mostly of vague predictions, mostly hedged in the extreme, about the future. It’s…
Continue Reading2020 was a productive year in terms of book reading. I set a goal of 25 and I ended up at 54. I track my book reading at Goodreads, and here’s the 2020 page. Saving you the work, here’s the books with links and comments. Other stuff Read this just to get some background on…
Continue ReadingCooper, C. (2018). Psychological testing: theory and practice. Routledge. This is a pretty food good introduction to psychometrics (the science of psychological measurement). There is the now customary dislike for NHST, more focus on effect sizes, mostly equation-free presentation (except when needed). The table of contents gives a good idea of the conceptual space covered:…
Continue ReadingBaumeister, H., & Montag, C. (Eds.). (2019). Digital Phenotyping and Mobile Sensing: New Developments in Psychoinformatics. Springer Nature. This book offers a snapshot of cutting-edge applications of mobile sensing for digital phenotyping in the field of Psychoinformatics. The respective chapters, written by authoritative researchers, cover various aspects related to the use of these technologies in…
Continue ReadingDid anyone reads this 1995 edited book on stereotype accuracy? Seems it didn't get too much attention. It's on libgen.https://t.co/Gmb5LpLVgO pic.twitter.com/3rb6AmWVm3 — Emil O W Kirkegaard (@KirkegaardEmil) January 25, 2020 McCauley, C. R., Jussim, L. J., & Lee, Y. T. (1995). Stereotype accuracy: Toward appreciating group differences. American Psychological Association. http://93.174.95.27/book/index.php?md5=A0B7B83B064D2C087EEBDEA8032D90EA I recently tweeted this…
Continue ReadingKirkegaard, E. O. W. (2020). Human Biodiversity for Beginners: A Review of Charles Murray’s Human Diversity. Mankind Quarterly, 60(3). Journal (gated) Human Diversity is Charles Murray’s latest book. This review evaluates the claims made in the book and places both the author’s theses and their criticisms in their historical context. It concludes that this book…
Continue ReadingEysenck, H. J. (1995). Genius: The natural history of creativity (Vol. 12). Cambridge University Press. The book is on LibGen I continue my Eysenck readings with his popular genius book (prior review The Psychology of Politics (1954)). Having previously read some of Simonton’s work, Eysenck sure is a very different beast! The writing style follows…
Continue ReadingI document my reading habits on Goodreads platform, so it’s easy for anyone to follow along. I don’t review all books I read, just when I feel like it. I do however rate them all. 2019 is over, so I can look back at the year and see what I read. Below, I organized them…
Continue ReadingHans Eysenck. The Psychology of Politics. 1963 (first published 1954). From time to time, I like to read old books to get a sense of what people were interested in many decades ago. Often this produces surprises, where you find out that people were already talking about the same thing you are thinking about now,…
Continue ReadingRauch, J. (1993). Kindly inquisitors: The new attacks on free thought. University of Chicago Press. There is a slightly updated 2014 version which I read. It’s on Libgen. Many years ago, I was at a public library in Viborg (my home town, ish), and I was telling a friend that I had never stumbled upon…
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