Emil O. W. Kirkegaard blog
Eysenck, H. J. (1995). Genius: The natural history of creativity (Vol. 12). Cambridge University Press. The book is on LibGen I continue my Eysenck readings with his popular genius book (prior review The Psychology of Politics (1954)). Having previously read some of Simonton’s work, Eysenck sure is a very different beast! The writing style follows…
Continue ReadingThe question of whether homosexuality is related to various bad things is independent of one’s stance towards homosexuals as citizens, their rights to marriage etc. which is fine by me. Given some recent tweets about the penile response of a large, clinical sample of men to various stimuli, there was some Twitter speculation that homosexuality…
Continue ReadingThis 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 psychotherapy outcome, and the contribution to outcome made by individual therapist differences has implications for service delivery and training of therapists. In this study we…
Continue ReadingGenerally my stance is that people should date/mate who they want. Furthermore, I don’t personally care much about this question or the future survival of statistical clusters (races). Asserting that there are problems with cross-racial mating smacks of 19th century race thinking. However, it would not the first time people in the past got things…
Continue ReadingWrote a new re-analysis for another meta-analysis of exercise for depression. Found good evidence of publication bias again. Unclear what the effect size really is, but my posterior 95% range is something like -.05 to .50. http://rpubs.com/EmilOWK/Schuch2016_reanalysis
Continue ReadingBrief summary of thinking: The war on drugs makes it difficult or impossible to study drugs on the ban list. A drug’s presence on the ban list is primary due to psychoactive effects. Medical researchers and companies are either too incompetent or too corrupt/incentivized to perform proper drug comparison studies. The efficacy of drugs is…
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