Emil O. W. Kirkegaard blog
Some people think that human differences are just a matter of throwing enough money at the problem. Naturally, then, they always advocate for more educational spending whenever inconvenient gaps are such, such as those between kids of rich and poor kids: Hanushek, E. A., Peterson, P. E., Talpey, L. M., & Woessmann, L. (2020). Long-Run…
Continue ReadingSpeaking of philosophy of science, one of the things about new paradigms is that they are supposed to solve anomalies of older paradigms. A while ago, Dalliard (2014) mentioned (in a footnote!) one of these, namely the attitude-achievement paradox. There’s quite a number of studies on it: The brief version is that black, Hispanic etc….
Continue ReadingPeople commonly ascribe large effects to having this or that teacher, or this or that classmate. They usually cite some anecdotes from their personal lives for this, but large sample size, systematic data are strongly negative on the idea. This means that to the extent one can measure things, teachers are largely interchangeable in terms…
Continue ReadingI apparently did not post this one on the blog, only on Twitter. Or at least, I can’t find it. Here’s the analysis: http://rpubs.com/EmilOWK/pub_bias_early_intervention Figures
Continue ReadingMay be another case of a zombie idea: one that keeps being refuted only to come back under another term, and then await refutation for 10-20 years. It is also fairly obvious: systematic approaches to more or less everything work better than ad hoc, haphazard ones. There’s no reason to expect this also not to…
Continue ReadingDisclaimer: I only took a brief look. Doing the reading and writing this post took maybe 30 minutes. I may have missed something, but unlikely it would have a major effect on the conclusions. I so very much want to believe this! Expert criticism wanted. @KirkegaardEmil @turingcop @ProfSteveFuller @JamesPsychol https://t.co/S8Km9ivKEp — Chris Cooper (@chris_r_cooper) March…
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Continue ReadingSome of the talks from ISIR 2016 in Saint Petersburg are now online. In particular, I enjoyed Detterman’s talk, but of course I think he is too pessimistic about reproductive genetics. All the talks were recorded, but only the long ones with the most famous people are published so far, so you will have to…
Continue ReadingA 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 and columnist popular in the Bay Area. The decline in good jobs. My optimistic side predicts that improved education and gene editing to improve intelligence…
Continue ReadingIt seems that no one has integrated this literature yet. I will take a quick stab at it here. It could be expanded into a proper paper later in case someone wants to and have time to do that. Stereotypes Lee Jussim (also blog) has done a tremendous job at reviewing the stereotype literature in…
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