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Does school make students kill themselves?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:15. January 2023
  • Post category:Education/Psychiatry

I know, I know. It's fashionable to hate on formal education in the rationalist community. Here's an obligatory Twitter poll: And there's even some push-back in the funny article Why…

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Read more about the article Smart fraction theory vindicated

Smart fraction theory vindicated

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:8. January 2023
  • Post category:Economics/Education/intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability

In the last days of 2022, Noah Carl and I had a new paper out: Kirkegaard, E. O. W., & Carl, N. (2022). Smart Fraction Theory: A Comprehensive Re-evaluation. Comparative…

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Read more about the article New study on the effect of university education on political views in the UK

New study on the effect of university education on political views in the UK

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:20. May 2022
  • Post category:Education/Political science

Someone sent me this new study that I hadn't included in my review from back in January: Scott, R. (2022). Does university make you more liberal? Estimating the within-individual effects…

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Read more about the article Those unwanted results from the Ontario’s Mathematics Proficiency Test

Those unwanted results from the Ontario’s Mathematics Proficiency Test

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:16. April 2022
  • Post category:Education/intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability

You may recall a few months back that Canada's highest court declared a math test for school teachers to be ... unconstitutional: As a result of a recent decision of…

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IQs by university degrees from SATs

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:14. April 2022
  • Post category:Education/intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability

There's a bunch of these claims floating around. The good ones are based on Razib Khan's 10 year old write-up, which I also reblogged later. It looks like this: The…

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Read more about the article IQ can be increased by more education but can intelligence? Does it matter?

IQ can be increased by more education but can intelligence? Does it matter?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:24. March 2022
  • Post category:Education/intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability

Maybe you are thinking: wait I thought IQ was more or less the same as intelligence? IQ tests do measure intelligence well, right? Well, sometimes it is, sometimes it is…

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Read more about the article How bad is low level lead poisoning? Probably not that bad

How bad is low level lead poisoning? Probably not that bad

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:15. February 2022
  • Post category:Economics/Education/intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability/Medicine

For some months, I've had a window open with some lead poisoning studies by economists. We know generally not to trust economist work without carefully checking out their tables and…

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Read more about the article The art of skeptical statistics

The art of skeptical statistics

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:10. February 2022
  • Post category:Education

In the very enjoyable book The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data David Spiegelhalter mentions as example of an experiment that sounds too good to be true: In…

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Read more about the article The indoctrination effect of universities: overstated

The indoctrination effect of universities: overstated

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:10. January 2022
  • Post category:Book review/Education/Science

Dictionaries define indoctrination as: the act of indoctrinating, or teaching or inculcating a doctrine, principle, or ideology, especially one with a specific point of view (dictionary.com) the process of repeating…

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Read more about the article Misleading plots on secular trends and education

Misleading plots on secular trends and education

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:2. November 2021
  • Post category:Education/intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability

This mistake is very common, and here we look at an arbitrary example I was sent promoted by Rob Henderson on Twitter. This error is quite common (first example I…

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