Dahlke, J. A., & Sackett, P. R. (2017). The Relationship Between Cognitive-ability Saturation and Subgroup Mean Differences Across Predictors of Job Performance. Journal of Applied Psychology. Abstract The authors quantify…
Skoyles, J. R. (1999). Human evolution expanded brains to increase expertise capacity, not IQ. Psycoloquy, 10(002). Chicago Skoyles is arguing a rather implausible claim: Why do modern humans have larger…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
Since this one is well-covered already, I don't need to add much. See e.g.: Nintil: Why so few women in CS: the Google memo is fundamentally right Slatestarcodex: Contra Grant…
Richard Herrnstein, (1971), IQ, The Atlantic Had been looking for this one for years. Gwern managed to find it. I'll host a mirror here. Perhaps the most interesting thing about…
It could probably have been resolved decades ago, and definitely within the last 10 years with genomic data, yet it is still not. Why? Essentially, it's because of bias in…
Given enough motivation, QRPs, biased reviewing and time, one can build an entire literature of studies proving anything. There's plenty of all of these to prove left-wing ideological beliefs (and…