Turkheimer strikes back! (but misses)
Recently, I took a poke at Eric Turkheimer. And now he's ready with a retaliation: https://twitter.com/ent3c/status/1009245615367315456 Eric is trying a guilt by association attack by tying me to Roger Pearson…
Ancestry effects in Brazil: economist approach with person names
I have written a lot about ancestry approaches, generally from a psychometric and genomic angle. However, economists can also play this game. Daniel A. F. Lopes, Geraldo A. Silva Filho,…
Why is Eric Turkheimer so unreasonable about race and intelligence?
Eric Turkheimer is by many counts a good scientist. He has about 11.6k citations on Google Scholar, 6.3 since 2013 (i.e. last 5 years). He is prominent enough that he…
Lewontin’s famous 1972 book chapter
Few people actually read this, which is a shame because the science is interesting for historical purposes, and the fulltext of his famous fallacy is rarely read. I believe this…
Nobel prize winners are very unlikely to be religious
This page on Wikipedia claims rather surprisingly that: This list comprises laureates of the Nobel Prize who self-identified as atheist, agnostic, freethinker or otherwise nonreligious at some point in their…
Null hypothesis testing for loadings in unit weighted factor analysis
Just a minor stats point for an otherwise excellent paper. Woodley of Menie, M. A. & Fernandes, H. B., & Hopkins, W. D. (2015). The more g-loaded, the more heritable,…
The non-contributions of Robert Sternberg to ISIR
This year (2018) Robert Sternberg is slated to give a distinguished contributor interview at the ISIR meeting to be held in Edinburgh. There's already tons of material on his behavior:…
Review: Cognitive Capitalism (Heiner Rindermann)
Rindermann, H. (2018). Cognitive capitalism: human capital and the wellbeing of nations. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY: University Printing House. Heiner was kind enough to send me a reviewer's…
Review: The Censor’s Hand (Carl E. Schneider)
Schneider, C. (2015). The censor’s hand: the misregulation of human-subject research. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. Medical and social progress depend on research with human subjects. When that research is…
Wanted: scientific immune system to identify weak studies getting lots of attention
In the interest of keeping the scientific enterprise towards finding truth, it is important to reduce the impact of problematic studies in the scientific literature. Studies can be problematic in…
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