The Polgár sisters of … camming?
h/t to SSC for leading to me discovering the most curious thing. So it turns out there's a camgirl with an interesting blog featuring things like evidence-based camgirling (why not?)…
How common is perceived discrimination? Who reports/suffers it?
Brian Boutwell et al has a new preprint out: The Experience of Discrimination in Contemporary America: Results from a Nationally Representative Sample of Adults A large body of social science…
Comments on Gwern’s Counteracting Dysgenics
https://www.gwern.net/Embryo%20selection#counteracting-dysgenics Gwern has a very long and detailed post/page on embryo selection and related matters. You should definitely read it. He has just added a new section on counteracting dysgenics…
The reverse time reversal heuristic?
Gelman proposed the time reversal heuristic when evaluating discussions about failed replications. One helpful (I think) way to think about this episode is to turn things around. Suppose the Ranehill…
Cognitive ability of Westerners and non-Westerners: data from the Danish military draft
Rnotebook: http://rpubs.com/EmilOWK/immigrant_IQ_Danish_draft Because I was discussing this dataset with a friend, I decided to reexamine it. Examining this dataset was my first reviewed paper (Kirkegaard 2013). It was manually done…
Systematic approaches to learning work better than haphazard ones, probably
May be another case of a zombie idea: one that keeps being refuted only to come back under another term, and then await refutation for 10-20 years. It is also…
Nisbett’s 2009 book on Intelligence: reviews
Nisbett's 2009 book on intelligence, Intelligence and how to get it, is a goldmine of stupid claims that one can quote-mine for introduction and discussion sections of papers. For instance,…
How to do a meta-analysis of Black-White IQ gap
https://twitter.com/HoustonEuler/status/837894199814955008 There's been some talk about whether the SIRE (self-identified race/ethnicity) gaps are closing and if so how much and when they did that. The matter is complicated for many…
Teaching kids philosophy to boost their abilities in other areas?
Disclaimer: I only took a brief look. Doing the reading and writing this post took maybe 30 minutes. I may have missed something, but unlikely it would have a major…
Some genomics papers I read recently
Doing some background reading on genomics topics such as: Cross-population predictive validity of genomic scores (polygenic scores). LD-decay. Causal variant tagging / distribution of causal variants / genetic architecture. Admixture…
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