Noah Carl has been investigating the relationship between cognitive ability and political opinions aside from the usual confused 1-axis left-right model. Specifically, looking at the economic freedom and personal freedom…
In a recent paper, Beaver et al looked at the relationships between crime, gender and sexual orientation: This study examined the association between sexual orientation and nonviolent and violent delinquency…
OKCupid dataset (not public right now, contact me if you want the password). Draft paper: https://osf.io/p9ixw/ I looked at whether there was evidence for cognitive dysgenics in the OKCupid dataset.…
In the interest of publishing null findings: I tried estimating US state IQs from the mean cognitive ability for users in the OKCupid dataset. However, this did not work out.…
I forgot to post this blog post at the time of publication as I usually do. However, here it is. As explored in some previous posts, John Fuerst and I…
Link: http://www.gwern.net/Embryo%20selection Embryo selection an add-on to IVF [his summary]: harvest x eggs fertilize them and create x embryos culture the embryos to either cleavage (2-4 days) or blastocyst (5-6…
Van Ijzendoorn, M. H., Juffer, F., & Poelhuis, C. W. K. (2005). Adoption and cognitive development: a meta-analytic comparison of adopted and nonadopted children's IQ and school performance. Psychological bulletin,…
I found this one a long time ago and tweeted it, but apparently forgot to blog it. Odenstad, A., Hjern, A., Lindblad, F., Rasmussen, F., Vinnerljung, B., & Dalen, M.…
It seems that no one has integrated this literature yet. I will take a quick stab at it here. It could be expanded into a proper paper later in case…
https://staffanspersonalityblog.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/openness-to-experience-that-liberal-je-ne-sais-quoi/ Tattoos and piercing. I haven’t found any evidence that this relates to intelligence or even creativity. On the other hand, what underlying factor of openness would it be an…