Book review: The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect (Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie)

Pearl, J., & Mackenzie, D. (2018). The book of why: the new science of cause and effect. Basic Books. This is an interesting but annoying book. The basic pattern of…

Continue ReadingBook review: The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect (Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie)

New paper out: book review of Lynn and Becker’s The Intelligence of Nations (2019)

Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2019). Solid numbers, missed opportunities: Review of The intelligence of nations. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1037/ebs0000181 ResearchGate I was asked to review this new book written by…

Continue ReadingNew paper out: book review of Lynn and Becker’s The Intelligence of Nations (2019)

Massive Danish sibling study confirms Charles Murray’s findings

Massive sibling study just dropped, and was also presented at ISIR 2019. Hegelund, E. R., Flensborg-Madsen, T., Dammeyer, J., Mortensen, L. H., & Mortensen, E. L. (2019). The influence of…

Continue ReadingMassive Danish sibling study confirms Charles Murray’s findings

ISIR 2019 talk: Machine learning psychometrics

Machine learning psychometrics: Improved cognitive ability validity from supervised training on item level data Andrew Cutler gave the talk since I was unable to attend. Slides are here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xxfYTWP2R0ZFvbI24sR1jVyFC_qN_Lw85782zE5Q2Jo/edit#slide=id.p Live…

Continue ReadingISIR 2019 talk: Machine learning psychometrics