Shockley’s 1980 interview with Playboy
...is surprisingly interesting. And long, more than 30 pages, though including ads. Playboy interviews have a well-earned reputation it seems. shockley_playboy_1980
“This manuscript addresses a politically sensitive issue that I would prefer not to include in Frontiers in Evolutionary Sociology and Biosociology.”
While I am re-writing our PING study to become a substantial target article, John is sending it to various journals in the mean time to poke about their editorial biases.…
The end of anonymity in the crowd is near
Not an endorsement of this technology or the use of it, just stating that it will happen. Given sufficient measurement precision, all humans have unique genomes and fingerprints, but also…
Sources of bias in science (comments on Tara McCarthy interview 2017/09/11)
This is a follow-up summary of my new interview with Tara McCarthy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXOeiKbhJqM The problems Science is a broad cluster of methods and practices used to discover patterns in nature…
Battle of the sexes: island survival edition
I don't know of any scientific studies, but there's been a bunch of shows where they put teams of women and men on islands and had them try to survive…
The US Black-White cognitive ability gap in 1850, 1870 and 1900 censuses
Using the crude measures of literacy and numeracy discussed in a previous post, it is possible to quantify the cognitive ability gap for US Black-White in the 1800s. The data…
Acquiring immigrant scores on the Belgian military test? Nope, denied for unexplained ‘ethical reasons’
These are the Google Translated versions of the original French. We are trying to obtain regional data for Belgian communes to use for our study, as well as nationality or…
Some more reviews for our PING paper
How easy is it to get provocative findings using mainstream methods published? Well, it depends on how provocative. Here's a second round of generally nonsensical reviews for our PING paper…
What exactly is the value of psychotherapists?
This must be the most hilariously trolly study I've seen in a while. Understanding the Therapist Contribution to Psychotherapy Outcome: A Meta-Analytic Approach Understanding the role that therapists play in…
Estimating the polygenicity of traits: an update
Readers will perhaps recall that I tried to come up with some metrics for the polygenicity of a trait back in 2016. Well, there's a new preprint now: Estimation of…
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