Harvard SAT and IQ: How much regression towards the mean?

http://pumpkinperson.com/2015/04/13/is-the-sat-an-iq-test/ Blog commenter Lion of the Judah-sphere has claimed that the SAT does not correlate as well with comprehensive IQ tests as said IQ tests correlate with one another. At…

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How exactly does one properly remove the effect of one variable? Residuals, partial correlation, multiple regression, semi-partial?

I ran into trouble trying to remove the effects of one variable on other variables doing the writing my reanalysis of the Noble et al 2015 paper. It was not…

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International differences in intelligence can be confusing: A commentary on Harrison et al (2015)

Abstract In this commentary I explain how mean differences between normal distributions give rise to different percentages of the populations being above or below a given threshold, depending on where…

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Understanding restriction of range with Shiny!

I made this: https://emilkirkegaard.shinyapps.io/Understanding_restriction_of_range/ Source: # ui.R shinyUI(fluidPage(   titlePanel(title, windowTitle = title),     sidebarLayout(     sidebarPanel(       helpText("Get an intuitive understanding of restriction of range using this interactive…

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Is the summed cubes equal to the squared sum of counting integer series?

https://twitter.com/standupmaths/status/524470545199673344 R can tell us: DF.numbers = data.frame(cubesum=numeric(),sumsquare=numeric()) #initial dataframe for (n in 1:100){ #loop and fill in   DF.numbers[n,"cubesum"] = sum((1:n)^3)   DF.numbers[n,"sumsquare"] = sum(1:n)^2 } library(car) #for the…

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