In a Gelman-like approach to turning email replies into posts. Someone sent me this email: Thanks for answering this and the other email, and the links as well. I am…
Follow-up to my recent post on machine learning psychometrics. Some years ago, I read this paper by Gerhard Meisenberg: Meisenberg, G., & Williams, A. (2008). Are acquiescent and extreme response…
The Bell Curve (TBC) was widely criticized in the media. This is to be expected since the media are left-wing, and left-wingers hate HBD related content. What did the experts…
A little compilation since I get many questions about these. ICAR (International Cognitive Ability Resource), cognitive items. Public domain but not open This is probably the largest project of open…
There's a large number of papers about the relationship between national intelligence and national scholastic scores, and to which degree the latter indexes the former. Some typical papers: Rindermann, H.…
Today I was reading a paper advocating the idea that science is slowing down because we have changed to incentivizing boring stuff that gets cited a lot instead of potentially…
Asil, M., & Brown, G. T. (2016). Comparing OECD PISA reading in English to other languages: Identifying potential sources of non-invariance. International Journal of Testing, 16(1), 71-93. The use of…
Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2020). Human Biodiversity for Beginners: A Review of Charles Murray's Human Diversity. Mankind Quarterly, 60(3). Journal (gated) Human Diversity is Charles Murray’s latest book. This review…
A lot of these people. Ferguson, R. F. (1998). Can schools narrow the Black–White test score gap?. Kober, N. (2001). It Takes More Than Testing: Closing the Achievement Gap. A…
Kirkegaard, E. O. W. & de Kuijper, M. (2020). Public Preferences and Reality: Crime Rates among 70 Immigrant Groups in the Netherlands. Mankind Quarterly, 60(3) journal link (gated) We estimated…