Soviet and East German era (DDR/GDR) twin studies
I cover these here mainly because they are not widely known, and relate to ongoing discussions about the generalizability of twin estimates across time and space. To put things into…
Mankind Quarterly historical archive at unz.com
Many people don't know this, so I am posting here to increase awareness. Ron Unz (of unz.com fame) has a hobby of collecting scanned versions of older periodicals, anything goes…
Politically motivated retraction of benign national intelligence study by Clark et al (2020)
Original version: Clark, C. J., Winegard, B. M., Beardslee, J., Baumeister, R. F., & Shariff, A. F. (2020). Declines in Religiosity Predict Increases in Violent Crime—but Not Among Countries With…
“Self report bias hiding group differences in personality”
Anon writes me: Hi, Sorry for not tweeting this at you, I don't have a twitter. I saw this post: https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/?p=8629 and this is more conjecture than anything, but perhaps when…
Self-teaching stats with R in 2020
See 2019 post on introductions to psychology etc. for broader coverage Anon asks me today: What would be the best way to quickly self-teach enough statistics to be able to…
Richard Haier on the Nature of Human Intelligence || The Psychology Podcast (Scott Barry Kaufman)
There's a new interview/podcast-video out, with Richard Haier, the editor in chief of Intelligence journal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQR8BrGasSQ Here's the contents/times. I have bolded the topics probably of most interest to readers…
Personality and Individual Differences censors skin color study (Rushton and Templer)
I hate censorship, so I repost the content they don't want you to read here. I'm hoping to contribute to a Streisand effect. This week, the time has come to…
Crime measurement and the black-white crime gap
A lot of instant experts have appeared on the black-white crime question. Many of these are somewhat unfamiliar with the quite large literature on the topic. The people who mostly…
Who’s your out-group?
See related posts in rationalist sphere: Scott Alexander, I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup Jakob Falkovich, In-Groups, Out-Groups, and the IDW (in Quillette) So the story goes like this:…
Not telling the whole story
In the prior post, I quoted some parts of a paper written by sociologist Howard S. Becker in 1967 which advocated a distortion model of science. To quote the most…
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