Rationality and bias test results
I've always considered myself a very rational and fairly unbiased person. Being aware of the general tendency for people to overestimate themselves (see also visualization of the Dunning-Kruger effect), this…
Review: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (Jonathan Haidt)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11324722-the-righteous-mind I had heard good things about this book, sort of. It has been cited a lot. Enough that I would be wiling to read it, given that the author…
Attitude towards nuclear energy and correlates: educational attainment, gender, age, self-rated knowledge, experience, etc.
Nuclear energy often gets bad press. However, journalists are mostly very leftist, scientifically ill-educated women, so perhaps they are not quite the right demographic to tell us about this issue.…
Freedom of expression and Facebook: Shall local FoE laws prevent Facebook from blocking content?
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2015/03/french-court-says-french-freedom-of-speech-may-trump-facebooks-censorship/ This is not so straight forward as could be thought. On the one hand one might argue: Facebook is a private company. They offer a service to users (free…
THC and driving: Causal modeling and statistical controls
I am a major proponent of drug legalization, and have also been following the research on drugs' influence on driving skills. In media discourse, it is taken for granted that…
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…
Costs and benefits of publishing in legacy journals vs. new journals
I recently published a paper in Open Differential Psychology. After it was published, I decided to tell some colleagues about it so that they would not miss it because it…
Venice wants to be independent: analysis of possible outcomes given self-selection of the voting population
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/03/europes-latest-secession-movement-venice/284562/ Venice seems to be tired of Italy. It's a bad economic trade off for them. They want to return to their former glory. Good! We need more power decentralization.…
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