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…
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…
Gender differences in personality: a ratio scale approach
One of the things that bother me with the current research on gender differences in personality is the reference group approach problem. Researchers ask questions that require participants to make…
Stumbling into someone’s else’s field and getting things right
I stumbled upon another physicist venturing into someone else's field and getting things right. I quote from Pinker's Better Angels: In the early 1950s, two eminent British scholars reflected on…
Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS): useful for testing spatial & generational transferability
In a not so well written paper (that we should update to be better presented), John Fuerst and I previously used two hypotheses using the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshman…
Review: Intelligence: all that matters (Stuart Ritchie)
I was recently asked to suggest introductory reviewing materials for bright laymen (see also my previous post). I ended up giving the following recommendations: - Intelligence: A very short introduction…
Administration time and reliability in measurement
For some research designs, one pays the participants by the amount of time they spend on the task (like regular work). For other designs where one does not, usually participants…
Clinical vs. statistical prediction
I learned about this topic many years ago reading Scott Lilienfeld's 50 Myths of popular psychology. In it, they write: In his blockbuster bestselling book Blink: The Power of Thinking…
Predictions for an individual-level general crime factor study using Swedish register data
There is a lot of research on the link between crime and cognitive ability. (For criminal outcomes, see the problems in my previous post.) E.g. Is the Association between General…
Music and work performance: what do we know?
Many people listen to some kind of music while working, or perhaps to some kind of colored noise. Many people will swear that this works. There are multiple ways it…
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