The typical social science theory
Perhaps the easiest way to convince yourself is by scanning the literature of soft psychology over the last 30 years and noticing what happens to theories. Most of them suffer…
Review: Making sense of heritability
Download: http://www.libgen.net/search.php?search_type=magic&search_text=making+sense+of+heritability&submit=Dig+for This is a GREAT book, which goes down to the basics about heritability and the various claims people have made against it. Highly recommended. Best book of…
Review: Taking sex differences seriously (Steven E. Rhoads)
http://bookos.org/s/?q=taking+sex+differences&t=0 This shortish book contains a wealth of information and 100s of citations. Unfortunately, the author has not kept a high standard of citing things, nor does he make it…
Review: The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
[Bryan_Caplan]_The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter_Why(Bookos.org) This is very interesting book. Most interesting I've read in a while. - If neither way of verifying the existence of preferences over beliefs appeals to…
Review: The Nurture Assumption (Judith Harris)
This book turned out to be not what i had expected, but still interesting. Not sure why it got all the bad press. It's behavior realistic but focuses on the…
Intelligence/IQ/GRE by academic field
Data are based on GRE averages. Data from here: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/01/classicists-are-smart/ I have sorted them for Average-SDU, i.e. estimated g (intelligence). As a funny note, top 10 includes 5 different physics…
Review: Helmuth Nyborg ed., The scientific study of general intelligence
[Helmuth_Nyborg]_The_Scientific_Study_of_General_I(Bookos.org) From Introduction It has been said: If you have no enemies, you have no point of view. Art has many enemies, and I will describe some of the more…
How misinformed are people about psychometrics?
Data from here: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54218.The_Mismeasure_of_Man No one informed about this subject can give this book more than 2, and it really should only get 1's for this pathetic performance, even if…
A Galton quote of interest
General impressions are never to be trusted. Unfortunately when they are of long standing they become fixed rules of life and assume a prescriptive right not to be questioned. Consequently…
Ebook: The Scientific Study of General Intelligence: Tribute to Arthur Jensen (Helmuth Nyborg)
Nyborg, Helmuth, ed. The Scientific Study of General Intelligence: Tribute to Arthur Jensen. Access Online via Elsevier, 2003. [Helmuth_Nyborg]_The_Scientific_Study_of_General_I(Bookos.org) And this paper I thought was a book chapter from the…
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