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Thoughts about “Why night owls are more intelligent”

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:16. June 2012
  • Post category:Evolutionary Psychology/Psychology
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Why night owls are more intelligent, Personality and Individual Differences 47 (2009) 685–690. Abstract: The origin of values and preferences is an unresolved theoretical problem in social and behavioral sci-…

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Study: Simpler writing associated with judged intelligence and quality

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:13. June 2012
  • Post category:Psychology
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Consequences of erudite vernacular utilized irrespective of necessity: problems with using long words needlessly, Applied Cognitive Psychology, Volume 20, Issue 2, pages 139–156, March 2006 Abstract: Most texts on writing…

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Suggested reading material about intelligence research for newcomers

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:12. June 2012
  • Post category:Differential psychology/psychometrics
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This post is mainly meant to be used as a thing that I can copypaste when I need to. I'm tired of having to find the same links over and…

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Personality psychology, five factor model and online tests

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:7. June 2012
  • Post category:Differential psychology/psychometrics/Evolutionary Psychology
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Since hearing about the five factor model (FFM), i have had an interest in personality psychology. I'm very happy that someone has invented a proper test so that we can…

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Some Wikipedia links and remarks to them

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:5. June 2012
  • Post category:Education/Linguistics/language
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaedeutic_value_of_Esperanto It is somewhat depressive that we do not have EO (esperanto) taught as a foreign language in all european countries. The evidence cited in this article in undeniable and…

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Ebook collections, some links and thoughts

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:5. June 2012
  • Post category:Copyright and filesharing/Science
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Some thoughts on the current situation Altho the publishers have recently made it more difficult than it was earlier to get ahold of ebooks, it is still possible. What the…

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Geniuses, very high IQ people, science generalism

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:4. June 2012
  • Post category:Differential psychology/psychometrics/Philosophy/Psychology
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I recently read this article. Not sure how i found it. Perhaps when doing some research on super-high IQ people (e.g. Christopher Langan who is mentioned in the article). While…

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Men, attractiveness ratings and women who look like they are easy to get to bed

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:4. June 2012
  • Post category:Evolutionary Psychology
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A friend of mine mentioned this topic to me. He got it from The Young Turks a youtube news commentary channel. The video is shown below: Actually, i normally kinda…

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Chess and intellligence, how does it work?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:4. June 2012
  • Post category:Differential psychology/psychometrics
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One wud expect a small to moderate positive correlation, but it is simply not that simple. Abstract Although it is widely acknowledged that chess is the best example of an…

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Ebook: Fooled by Randomness (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:3. June 2012
  • Post category:Economics/Philosophy/Psychology
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A friend of mine 'told' me (by letting the book lie on his table when i came to visit him!) about this book, Fooled by Randomness. If i weren't busy…

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