Ripping books from UMDL Text: Leta S. Hollingworth’s Gifted children, their nature and nurture

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/g/genpub/AGE2118.0001.001?view=toc Due to this book repeatedly coming up in conversation regarding the super smart people, it seems to be worth reading. It is really old, and should obviously be out…

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Storbeck, Justin, and Gerald L. Clore. “On the interdependence of cognition and emotion.” Cognition and Emotion 21.6 (2007): 1212-1237.

Storbeck, Justin, and Gerald L. Clore. "On the interdependence of cognition and emotion." Cognition and Emotion 21.6 (2007): 1212-1237. On the interdependence of cognition and emotion The “New Look” in…

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More reading material about race and intelligence/IQ/g

I hit open a wealth of good reading material: http://www.aei.org/article/society-and-culture/religion/the-inequality-taboo/ For those who consider it important to know what percentage of the IQ difference is genetic, a methodology that would…

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“I used improper factor analysis, and now there isnt a g factor. Spearman was wrong!”

"I should point out that a number of factor analytic studies of Piagetian tests along with other measures commit an egregious psychological error by orthogonally rotating the factors (or principal…

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Reading material on cognitive epidemiology

I recently got interested in a new field https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_epidemiology Cognitive epidemiology is a field of research that examines the associations between intelligence test scores (IQ scores or extracted g-factors) and…

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