Captain Obvious Science
In many ways, my science -- and my colleagues' science -- generally involves collecting evidence for obvious hypotheses that are mainly denied by leftist-leaning people (more precisely, egalitarian). Here's a…
Cold winter theory in non-human animals
Disclaimer: I did not read Rushton's seminal book on the topic. I was only first recently able to obtain a complete electronic copy (i.e. not abridged version). I did in…
Getting personality right
This post covers some stuff already covered by others, but more briefly. Two studies of interest: Riemann, R., Angleitner, A., & Strelau, J. (1997). Genetic and Environmental Influences on Personality:…
Thinking about intergenerational stability of socioeconomic status
I read the following interesting paper: Braun, S. T., & Stuhler, J. (2016). The Transmission of Inequality Across Multiple Generations: Testing Recent Theories with Evidence from Germany. The Economic Journal,…
New paper out: Immigrant crime in Germany 2012-2015
Kirkegaard, E. O. W., & Becker, D. (2017). Immigrant crime in Germany 2012-2015. Open Quantitative Sociology & Political Science. Retrieved from https://openpsych.net/paper/50 So the German paper is finally out. As…
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…
A sex difference that won’t go away and measurement invariance
Whitley, E., Deary, I. J., Ritchie, S. J., Batty, G. D., Kumari, M., & Benzeval, M. (2016). Variations in cognitive abilities across the life course: Cross-sectional evidence from Understanding Society:…
PSA: bugfix for the scoreIrt function in psych package, you should re-do your analyses!
I was working on a study and while doing so, I updated all my R packages. To my surprise, this changed the results in my analysis to a degree that…
Preparation for: Municipality level social inequality in Brazil
I was reviewing a paper on social inequality in Brazil at the state level (I published one myself in 2015), and it struck me that one should be able to…
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