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…
Email exchange with ‘cognitive neuroscience researcher’ Jayl Feynman
Some readers may have fun reading this. I have not edited anything. Due to the conversion some extra lines were added, but his emails genuinely contains lots of oddly placed…
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…
Rationality and bias test results
I've always considered myself a very rational and fairly unbiased person. Being aware of the general tendency for people to overestimate themselves (see also visualization of the Dunning-Kruger effect), this…
Betas and residualized variables / does non-g ability predict GPA?
https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/641272758257717248 https://twitter.com/pnin1957/status/641284556818096128 Let's test that. Since we don't have the original data, we can't use that. We can however use open datasets. I like to use Wicherts' dataset. So let's…
Looking for commenters for our Admixture in the Americas target article
We will be submitting the Admixture in the Americas article (first part) to Mankind Quarterly as a target article. Therefore, we are looking for people to comment on it. We…
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…
Tail effects in climate science and the pleasures of polymathy
From the interactive visualization I previously published to give foster an intuitive understanding of the concept: Tail effects are when there are large differences between groups at the extremes (tails)…
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