Corvus intelligence
Doing a lot of background reading on animal ecology, I found this review paper: Lefebvre, L. (2013). Brains, innovations, tools and cultural transmission in birds, non-human primates, and fossil hominins.…
How to use Sci-hub to get academic papers for free
I regularly tell people on Twitter to use Sci-hub when they say they can't access papers: https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/983828394843484160 However, it seems that people don't really know how to use Sci-hub. So…
Intelligence and religiousness in OKCupid dataset
Miron Zuckerman is updating his meta-analysis of the religion and intelligence relationship, and asked me to compute some extra analyses of the OKCupid dataset. Results: http://rpubs.com/EmilOWK/intell_religion_OKCupid Main findings Cognitive ability…
Q/A with Antonio Regalado for genomics
Antonio Regalado is providing us with a recent series of the arguably best informed (compared to Guardian, Nature news etc.) popular science articles on genomics and its relevance to modern…
East Asian intelligence and UV radiation
It has been noted that East Asians are positive outliers for the latitude ~ IQ pattern, they're too far south for their high IQs. Some possible reasons for this are:…
Race gaps in brain size in the very young
Most environmentalists have by now given up denying the existence of racial gaps in head size, but they only retreated a few yards: Nisbett, R. E., Aronson, J., Blair, C.,…
How much should you trust IQ etc. information from The Guardian? Experts answer: not so much
There's an interesting slide in Rindermann's survey: Rindermann, H. (2013). 2013 survey of expert opinion on intelligence. International Society for Intelligence Research, ISIR 2013 List of surveys here James Thompson's…
The national IQ of Nepal
There's an interesting study making the rounds on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JProtzko/status/971763351805075457 Dulal, S., Liégeois, F., Osrin, D., Kuczynski, A., Manandhar, D. S., Shrestha, B. P., ... & Prost, A. (2018). Does…
Comments on Fagan and Holland (2007)’s racial equality paper
Someone sent me some questions on this study: Fagan, J. F., & Holland, C. R. (2007). Racial equality in intelligence: Predictions from a theory of intelligence as processing. Intelligence, 35(4),…
Making better use of the scientific literature: large-scale automatic retrieval of data from published figures
Science is a set of related methods that aim at finding true patterns about the world. These methods are generally designed so as to remove noise from random circumstances (the…
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