The low quality of psychology as a field, and how to improve science: reading material

I recently came across an interesting journal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspectives_on_Psychological_Science_%28journal%29 It was becus of a recent issue about the status of psychology as a scientific field. Its both distressing and very interesting…

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Paper: “Positive” Results Increase Down the Hierarchy of the Sciences

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0010068     The hypothesised Hierarchy of the Sciences (henceforth HoS) is reflected inmany social and organizational features of academic life. When 222 scholars rated their perception of similarity between…

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Review of The 10000 year explosion (Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending)

The 10000 year explosion - Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending, download, free, ebook, pdf   This is a nontechnical overall introduction to how human evolution has happened. it mentions a…

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Review and thoughts: Intelligence: A Unifying Construct for the Social Sciences (Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen, 2012)

Richard Lynn was so kind to send me a signed copy of his latest book. i immediately paused the reading of another book to read this one. some comments and…

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Thoughts about Ashraf and Galor (2012)

Via Steve Sailer. The Out of Africa Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor Abstract This research advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that,…

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Review and thoughts about The g Factor (Christopher Brand, 1996)

The-g-Factor-General-Intelligence-and-Its-Implications-Chris-Brand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_g_Factor:_General_Intelligence_and_Its_Implications_%28book%29 The g Factor: General Intelligence and Its Implications is a book by Christopher Brand, a psychologist and lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. It was published by John…

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