The neuroscience of intelligence: very preliminary because of power failure and lack of multivariate studies

I don't have time to provide extensive citations for this post, so some things are cited from memory. You should be able to locate the relevant literature, but otherwise just…

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Cognitive ability of Westerners and non-Westerners: data from the Danish military draft

Rnotebook: http://rpubs.com/EmilOWK/immigrant_IQ_Danish_draft Because I was discussing this dataset with a friend, I decided to reexamine it. Examining this dataset was my first reviewed paper (Kirkegaard 2013). It was manually done…

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How to do a meta-analysis of Black-White IQ gap

https://twitter.com/HoustonEuler/status/837894199814955008 There's been some talk about whether the SIRE (self-identified race/ethnicity) gaps are closing and if so how much and when they did that. The matter is complicated for many…

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Thinking about intergenerational stability of socioeconomic status

I read the following interesting paper: Braun, S. T., & Stuhler, J. (2016). The Transmission of Inequality Across Multiple Generations: Testing Recent Theories with Evidence from Germany. The Economic Journal,…

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