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…
Notes on Steve Hsu’s second interview w/ Daphne Martschenko
Back in January, Steve Hsu did an interview with Daphne Martschenko who is a phd candidate at Cambridge in education. She's basically doing science journalism on behavioral genetics as far…
Book review: Hive mind (Garett Jones)
Read Gwern's review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1433728829 Aside from that, it's a lot of wasted opportunity. For instance, the income~IQ relationship. The discussion is extremely economisty. Not even mentioned that people vary a…
Individual genomic admixture and cognitive ability
So, I posted this: Abstract We used data from the PING study (n≈1200) to examine the relationship between cognitive ability, socioeconomic outcomes and genomic racial ancestry. We found that when…
Useful datasets for country of origin analyses
Here's a collection of previously unused datasets (by hereditarians) that are useful. Australia: 45 and Up. Huge, n=250k, medical dataset that has country of origin and many socioeconomic indicators. Costs…
Talks from ISIR 2016 Saint Petersburg
Some of the talks from ISIR 2016 in Saint Petersburg are now online. In particular, I enjoyed Detterman's talk, but of course I think he is too pessimistic about reproductive…
Important gender gaps
Following the publication of another gender pay gap article, I wondered: What kinds of gender gaps do people think are important to talk about? Googling stuff is a crude measure…
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