Paige-Harden, Turkheimer and the psychometric left
Kathryn Paige Harden is professor of psychology who belongs to the Turkheimerian 'left psychometrics' school. I've discussed the odd behavior of Eric Turkheimer before, but since then I found a…
It works in practice, but does it work in (my) theory?
There's a certain type of person that doesn't produce any empirical contribution to "Reducing the heredity-environment uncertainty". Instead, they contribute various theoretical arguments which they take to undermine the empirical…
Animal cross-fostering, race and IQ, and the deductivist’s fallacy
I wish to coin a fallacy I've seen a number of times, exemplified in this paper: Kempthorne, O. (1978). A BIOMETRICS INVITED PAPER: Logical, epistemological and statistical aspects of nature-nurture…
Chomsky on postmodernism [repost]
This text used to be hosted at Shalizi's university website, but it was recently taken down for unknown reasons. However, Internet Archive saves us, and I repost it here because…
Austrian economics: worse than expected — Review of Democracy, the God that failed (Hoppe)
After reading a book defending limitations to free trade/protectionism, it was time for something completely different. So I looked around after any current, well-regarded (in their circles) Austrian libertarian economist.…
On scientific consensus
In reply to: Scott Alexander's Learning To Love Scientific Consensus. Actually, I have planned (in my mind) a somewhat longer post on my take on the 'correct contrarian cluster', or…
On crackpottery (or why I don’t think I’m a pseudoscientist)
This post is unusually blunt because the topic concerns some rather serious criticism leveled against me. This necessitates replying with some facts that I've used for self-assessment purposes. In case…
Lord Kelvin on quantification and scientific knowledge
Being annoyed by some of the usual qualitative drivel masquerading as science (see almost any tweet by @RealPeerReview), I was moved to make a nice background/poster. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Thomson A slide from…
In favor of method diversity by the non-use of giants
I had the impression that, since recognition of [problem] dates back at least to [person from a long time ago], there was a voluminous literature and [statistics to deal with…
Predatory journals
I had my first Twitter controversy. So: https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/515857830524768256 https://twitter.com/rogierK/status/516162369350008832 I pointed out in the reply to this, that they don't actually charge that much normally. The comparison is here. The…