Country level indicators of altruism
A traditional approach to studying altruism has been to do some kind of economic game. E.g. seeing how nice people are in ultimatum games. One such study: Oosterbeek, H., Sloof,…
Free trade: yay or not? (Review of Free Trade Doesn’t Work: What Should Replace It and Why)
Recently, I decided it was time for catching up on my to-read list. I try to read >=30 books a year, and I was behind, owing to spending a lot…
Some simple models of US county voting outcomes
Woodley convinced me that these are of actual interest. As some of you may recall, I compiled a large county level (n≈3000) dataset some time ago, but didn't use it…
Cross-national data for social desirability bias in polling
This is just a brief post summarizing some stuff because I don't have time to do more right now. Noah Carl asks me: Can you point me to some evidence…
Crowdsourcing a dataset: Multiparty democracies, election thresholds and running for parliament
I've decided to re-do my old and not too well done 2013 study. It goes like this, for multiparty democracies: Countries differ in the number of houses: 1 vs. 2.…
Cognitive ability and political preferences in Denmark: knitr edition
http://rpubs.com/EmilOWK/208757 Analysis of the data collected so far, presented side by side with R code. It will be expanded into a proper paper and submitted to OQSPS soonish. Soonish here…
Personal freedom and cognitive ability: OKCupid dataset replication
Noah Carl has been investigating the relationship between cognitive ability and political opinions aside from the usual confused 1-axis left-right model. Specifically, looking at the economic freedom and personal freedom…
Another political bias test
See also: Rationality and bias test results I stumbled upon another political bias test: http://econturingtest.com/ Basically, you will be given 10 questions: 5 about why US-style conservatives favor/oppose a given…
New paper out: The international general socioeconomic factor: Factor analyzing international rankings
http://openpsych.net/ODP/2014/09/the-international-general-socioeconomic-factor-factor-analyzing-international-rankings/ Abstract Many studies have examined the correlations between national IQs and various country-level indexes of well-being. The analyses have been unsystematic and not gathered in one single analysis or…
The IQ Controversy, the Media and Public Policy (1988, Snyderman, Rothman)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2404700.The_IQ_Controversy_the_Media_and_Public_Policy The I. Q. Controversy The Media and Public Policy Stanley Rothman 323p_0887381510 I read this becus i want to do a follow-up study like this. Both analyzing media…