Occupations, cognitive ability and stereotypes
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…
Cognitive ability and tattoos and piercings
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…
Genomic autocorrelation of quantitative traits
https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/662840970166280192 See first: Some methods for measuring and correcting for spatial autocorrelation Piffer's method Piffer's method to examine the between group heritability of cognitive ability and height uses polygenic scores…
Polygenic traits and the distribution of effect sizes: years of education from Rietveld et al (2013)
It is often said that polygenic traits are based on tons of causal variants each of which has a very small effect size. What is less often discussed is the…
A general conspiracy theory factor
The topic came up whether people who believe in one conspiracy theory also believe in other theories. Probably, but let's find some data! I found some data in this paper…
Polygenic scores, genetic engineering, validity of GWAS results across major racial groups and the Piffer method
A PDF of this paper without formatting errors can be downloaded here. Abstract I review recent findings in human behavioral genetics and their implications for selective breeding and estimation of…
William Shockley, verbal tilt and interpersonal sensitivity
I recently read the biography of William Shockley. Basically, I am reading biographies of prominent researchers to gain an understanding of them. I was also thinking of writing one about…
Review of Metapedia’s Race and Intelligence review
Wikipedian battlegrounds For those who don't know, Wikipedia is a common battleground for the ideological part of the race and intelligence debate. One can see this in the talk pages…
Review: The Nurture Versus Biosocial Debate in Criminology: On the Origins of Criminal Behavior and Criminality
Goodreads. The book is on Libgen (free download). Since I have ventured into criminology as part of my ongoing research program into the spatial transferability hypothesis (psychological traits are stable…
What exactly is age heaping and what use is it?
What is age heaping? Number heaping is a common tendency of humans. What this means is that we tend round numbers to the nearest 5 or 10 (those of us…
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