For those who have been living under a rock (i.e. not following my on Twitter), John Fuerst have been very good at compiling data from published research. Have a look…
Found null results for a proposed metric (actually two). In the spirit of publishing failed ideas, I wrote this up. Abstract General intelligence (g) is known to predict grades at…
G.M. IQ & Economic growth I noted down some comments while reading it. --- In Table 1, Dominican birth cohort is reversed. “0.70 and 0.80 in world-wide country samples.…
Just a quick write-up before I write up a paper with this for ODP. Introduction Altho general cognitive ability (g) has received the most attention by differential psychologists, personality receives…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…