Ripping books from UMDL Text: Leta S. Hollingworth’s Gifted children, their nature and nurture

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/g/genpub/AGE2118.0001.001?view=toc Due to this book repeatedly coming up in conversation regarding the super smart people, it seems to be worth reading. It is really old, and should obviously be out…

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Storbeck, Justin, and Gerald L. Clore. “On the interdependence of cognition and emotion.” Cognition and Emotion 21.6 (2007): 1212-1237.

Storbeck, Justin, and Gerald L. Clore. "On the interdependence of cognition and emotion." Cognition and Emotion 21.6 (2007): 1212-1237. On the interdependence of cognition and emotion The “New Look” in…

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More reading material about race and intelligence/IQ/g

I hit open a wealth of good reading material: http://www.aei.org/article/society-and-culture/religion/the-inequality-taboo/ For those who consider it important to know what percentage of the IQ difference is genetic, a methodology that would…

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“I used improper factor analysis, and now there isnt a g factor. Spearman was wrong!”

"I should point out that a number of factor analytic studies of Piagetian tests along with other measures commit an egregious psychological error by orthogonally rotating the factors (or principal…

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Reading material on cognitive epidemiology

I recently got interested in a new field https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_epidemiology Cognitive epidemiology is a field of research that examines the associations between intelligence test scores (IQ scores or extracted g-factors) and…

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Paper: Retaking ability tests in a selection setting implications for practice effects, training performance, and turnover

Retaking ability tests in a selection setting implications for practice effects, training performance, and turnover Found via http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/High_IQ_society   -   Abstract This field study investigated the effect of retaking…

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Educational psychologist 41(4), the issue that is about multiple intelligence ‘theories’

Waterhouse, Lynn. "Multiple intelligences, the Mozart effect, and emotional intelligence: A critical review." Educational Psychologist 41.4 (2006): 207-225. Gardner, Howard, and Seana Moran. "The science of multiple intelligences theory: A…

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Paper: Men and Women Are From Earth: Examining the Latent Structure of Gender

Men and women are from Earth Examining the latent structure of gender. Understanding Dimensions and Taxa One reason why the underlying nature of gender differences has been difficult to address…

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