Against the economists on school spending
Some days ago I posted a chart about school spending (per-pupil spending) and math test scores: Note how I didn't say this cross-sectional scatterplot proves anything about causality, but we…
More waves in longitudinal studies do not help against initial sampling error
Suppose you ran 20 studies. By coincidence, one of them attains p < .05 and, by good fortune, it's in the right direction too. The other studies get thoroughly examined…
Comments on Marty Nemko’s “12 Predictions for 2050”
A reader asked me to comment on the predictions/musings by Marty Nemko at his blog. I had never heard of him before, but he's some kind of coach, radio host…
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…
Review: The Digital Scholar: How Technology is Transforming Academic Practice (Martin Weller)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12582388-the-digital-scholar http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=5343D586EEEFB7BB24DE5B71FBD07C32 Someone posted a nice collection of books dealing with the on-going revolution in science: https://twitter.com/melbaek/status/515140960548691968 So i decided to read some of them. Ironically, many of them are…
Review: G Is for Genes: The Impact of Genetics on Education and Achievement (Kathryn Asbury, Robert Plomin)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17015094-g-is-for-genes http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=97ac0ec914522d3c888679e9c02291c6 So i kept finding references to this book in papers, so i decided to read it. It is a quick read introducing behavior genetics and the results from…
Review: Making sense of heritability
Download: http://www.libgen.net/search.php?search_type=magic&search_text=making+sense+of+heritability&submit=Dig+for This is a GREAT book, which goes down to the basics about heritability and the various claims people have made against it. Highly recommended. Best book of…
Review: Who Stole Feminism? (Christina Sommers)
Downloaded from here: http://bookos.org/book/943755/f24cb0 http://bookos.org/book/693807/58eb83 - I came across Sommers years ago when i read her interview here: http://www.menweb.org/paglsomm.htm It had this bit: MS. PAGLIA: Well,…
Ripping books from UMDL Text: Leta S. Hollingworth’s Gifted children, their nature and nurture
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/g/genpub/AGE2118.0001.001?view=toc Due to this book repeatedly coming up in conversation regarding the super smart people, it seems to be worth reading. It is really old, and should obviously be out…
Polymaths, freedom of information, and copyright – why we need copyright reform to more effectively increase the number of polymaths
I forgot to mention that i hav riten a post about polymathy and copyriet reform over at Project Polymath. Reposted below. Direct link to post. ---- Introduction Polymaths are people…