Review: What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought (Stanovich, 2009)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6251150-what-intelligence-tests-miss MOBI on libgen I've seen this book cited quite a few times and when looking for what to read next, it seemed like on okay choice. The book is…

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Admixture in the Americas: Admixture among US Blacks and Hispanics and academic achievement

Some time ago a new paper came out from the 23andme people reporting admixture among US ethnoracial groups (Bryc et al, 2014). Per our still on-going admixture project (current draft…

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Predicting immigrant performance: Does inbreeding have incremental validity over IQ and Islam?

https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/555217814488092673 So, she came up with: https://twitter.com/hbdchick/status/555223247244242944 So I decided to try it out, since I'm taking a break from reading Lilienfeld which I had been doing that for 5…

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Age differences in the WISC-IV has a positive Jensen coefficient, maybe

Group differences in cognitive scores have generally been found to be g-loaded, i.e. the differences are larger on the items/subtests that load more strongly on the general factor. This is…

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Intelligence, income inequality and prison rates: It’s complicated

There was some talk on Twitter around prison rates and inequality: https://twitter.com/JayMan471/status/553912823215325184 And IQ and inequality: https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/553937263953190912 But then what about prison data beyond those given above? I have downloaded…

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