Workgroup: Doing Bayesian Data Analysis: A Tutorial Introduction with R and BUGS
I started a workgroup for going thru the Doing Bayesian Data Analysis: A Tutorial Introduction with R and BUGS book. See thread on forum.
Review: Misbehaving Science: Controversy and the Development of Behavior Genetics (Aaron Panofsky)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18526647-misbehaving-science libgen.org/book/index.php?md5=ac86923b7bf1ed0639abf0e1c22810f8 The book is a sociologist trying to interpret the history of behavior genetics into sociology theories. I didn't pay much attention to their theorizing, being familiar with that…
Criticism of BMI and simple IQ tests – a conceptual link?
BMI (body mass index) is often used a proxy for fat percent or similar measures. This is for a good reason: So, the mean correlation across age groups and gender…
Handbooks of intelligence
Sometimes, one sees references to this or that handbook of intelligence. I have not previously read any of these, not even in part, because I could not find any anywhere…
Review: The Roma: A Balkan Underclass (Jelena Cvorovic)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23621169-the-roma Richard Lynn is so nice to periodically send me books for free. He is working on establishing his publisher, of course, and so needs media coverage. In this case,…
Admixture in the Americas: Introduction, partial correlations and IQ predictions based on ancestry
For those who have been living under a rock (i.e. not following my on Twitter), John Fuerst have been very good at compiling data from published research. Have a look…
Orthographic reform and psycholinguistics: a selective synthesizing review
I wrote this for a class some time ago, but apparently forgot to post it here before. I need to cite it in my bachelor's thesis, so I will put…
Review: Writing Systems: An Introduction to Their Linguistic Analysis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16641082-writing-systems http://libgen.org/search.php?req=coulmas+writing&open=0&view=simple&phrase=1&column=def I read this book as part of background reading for my bachelor (which im writing here) after seeing it referred to in a few other books. As a…
Discrimination against females in grant applications or publication bias?
While looking for peer-review related studies, I came across a meta-analysis of gender bias in grant applications. That sounds good. Bornmann, L., Mutz, R., & Daniel, H. D. (2007). Gender…
New paper out: The personal Jensen coefficient does not predict grades beyond its association with g
Found null results for a proposed metric (actually two). In the spirit of publishing failed ideas, I wrote this up. Abstract General intelligence (g) is known to predict grades at…
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