Quotes from Nyborg (ed.) The Scientific Study of Human Nature (
The Scientific Study of Human Nature - Helmuth Nuborg ed I had thought about reading this book, but decided against it due to its age (1997). The reasoning is that…
Peer-review again
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/03/no-comments-please-weve-made-it-through-peer-review/ http://www.genomesunzipped.org/2011/07/why-publish-science-in-peer-reviewed-journals.php http://breast-cancer-research.com/content/12/S4/S13
RE: THE ACCURACY OF INFERENCES ABOUT CRIMINALITY BASED ON FACIAL APPEARANCE
THE ACCURACY OF INFERENCES ABOUT CRIMINALITY But they didnt control for IQ which is strange. They even mention it that one can spot intelligent people: “As far as empirical findings…
Quote from: Everyday Life as an Intelligence Test: Effects of Intelligence and Intelligence Context
gordon-1997-everyday-life-as-an-intelligence-test-effects-of-intelligence-and-intelligence-context (Thanks to this guy for making me aware of the paper) "Take, for example, complaints concerning a Year IV-6 Stanford-Binet item, which shows three pairs of sharply contrasting drawings…
Review of Psychology Applied to Modern Life: ADJUSTMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY
http://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Applied-Modern-Life-Adjustment/dp/1111186634/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1332697052&sr=8-1 I heard of the book from LessWrong. I was reading the series about the science of winning at life by Lukeprog and he recommended this book if one had…
Beneficial effects of expore to nature
“If taking up mindfulness meditation does not seem to be a likely course of action for you anytime soon, there is a simpler way for you to increase your atten-…
Sex difference in hygiene
A friend of mine recently showed me a blog of one of her friends. Since it has an absurd amount of posts (like my blogs, but even more!), i tried…
Vocab size of non-native english speakers by country
http://testyourvocab.com/blog/2011-09-10-Results-by-country.php Somewhat surprising Denmark and Norway (difference perhaps not statistically significant) are at the top. I was expecting to see France because most english words have french or latin (both…
Very high IQ and drug use: a mystery?
Focus article: Intelligence and past use of recreational drugs Summary: (Using the 'the Savannah principle') one gets the idea that the smarter people are, the more likely it is that…
Proposed method for estimating how much a person has read using an electronic library
Introduction Many studies show that self-assessment is hard and often biased in a positive direction, i.e., people tend to overestimate themselves. Therefore, if one wants a correct self-assessment one needs…
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