International general factor of personality? yes, but…
I merged the dataset from Schmitt et al (2007)'s paper about OCEAN traits in 56 countries with the rest of the megadataset. Then i extracted the first factor of the…
New paper out: Crime, income, educational attainment and employment among immigrant groups in Norway and Finland
http://openpsych.net/ODP/2014/10/crime-income-educational-attainment-and-employment-among-immigrant-groups-in-norway-and-finland/ Abstract I present new predictive analyses for crime, income, educational attainment and employment among immigrant groups in Norway and crime in Finland. Furthermore I show that the Norwegian data…
Causal effect of education on IQ scores using the discordant twin design?
Recently, the twin-control design has been used to test causal models (e.g. exercise→happiness, exercise→¬depression/anxiety symptoms, casual sex→depression/suicidal thoughts). The theory is simple. Suppose we do a standard cross-sectional design study…
Assortative mating for general intelligence: A meta-analysis
Can we crowd-fund a meta-analysis? Simply find studies that report summary statistics, and add them to the dataset. The data so far: Study N r Willoughby (1927, 1928), A 90…
Review: Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One’s Looking) (Christian Rudder)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21480734-dataclysm http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=9d2c0744b6bcce6ec9e67625125244a8 This good is based on the popular but discontinued OKTrends blog, but now apparently active again becus of the book release. There is some more info in the…
Review: G Is for Genes: The Impact of Genetics on Education and Achievement (Kathryn Asbury, Robert Plomin)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17015094-g-is-for-genes http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=97ac0ec914522d3c888679e9c02291c6 So i kept finding references to this book in papers, so i decided to read it. It is a quick read introducing behavior genetics and the results from…
Review: Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them (Joshua D. Greene)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17707599-moral-tribes http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=08a6526a7a706c4ae5f5aa7543ffc702 Years ago when i used to study filosofy, i came across Joshua's website. On the site i found his phd thesis which i read. It is probably the…
The hereditarian hypothesis is almost certainly true
And I'm not even referring to the latest results from any Pifferian methods (e.g. this). Currently there are many large GWAS for IQ/educational attainment/other g proxies that have data gathered…
Rinderman’s 2013 survey of experts in intelligence research
I was planning to re-do the Snyderman et al survey from 1987, but someone beat me to it (very nice). 2013 survey of expert opinion on intelligence
Costs and benefits of publishing in legacy journals vs. new journals
I recently published a paper in Open Differential Psychology. After it was published, I decided to tell some colleagues about it so that they would not miss it because it…
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