Opinions about nuclear energy and global warming, and wordsum intelligence

Abstract Using data from the ANES 2012 survey, I investigate the relationship between wordsum IQ estimates (unweighted sums, factor analytic and item-response theory scores) and opinions about nuclear energy and…

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Attitude towards nuclear energy and correlates: educational attainment, gender, age, self-rated knowledge, experience, etc.

Nuclear energy often gets bad press. However, journalists are mostly very leftist, scientifically ill-educated women, so perhaps they are not quite the right demographic to tell us about this issue.…

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Review: What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought (Stanovich, 2009)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6251150-what-intelligence-tests-miss MOBI on libgen I've seen this book cited quite a few times and when looking for what to read next, it seemed like on okay choice. The book is…

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Predicting immigrant performance: Does inbreeding have incremental validity over IQ and Islam?

https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/555217814488092673 So, she came up with: https://twitter.com/hbdchick/status/555223247244242944 So I decided to try it out, since I'm taking a break from reading Lilienfeld which I had been doing that for 5…

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