Link: http://www.gwern.net/Embryo%20selection Embryo selection an add-on to IVF [his summary]: harvest x eggs fertilize them and create x embryos culture the embryos to either cleavage (2-4 days) or blastocyst (5-6…
Paper is on Scihub. There are a few researchers engaged in the cognitive sociology adventure. Aside from myself and John Fuerst, Noah Carl has also taken up the task. There…
Apparently, only a few studies have examined this question and they are not easily available. Because we obtained these, it makes sense to share our results. The datafile is on…
(Broad-strokes modeling of how to think about immigrant performance. Some references are gone because they were written using the Zotero plugin, which I later uninstalled. I have re-added those I…
This was an exchange between researchers that took place in 2006 in the academic journal Intelligence (34). Templer, D. I., & Arikawa, H. (2006). Temperature, skin color, per capita income,…
Chisala has his 3rd installment up: http://www.unz.com/article/closing-the-black-white-iq-gap-debate-part-3/ One idea I had while reading it was that tail effects interact with population ethnic/racial heterogeneity. To show this, I did a simulation…
Van Ijzendoorn, M. H., Juffer, F., & Poelhuis, C. W. K. (2005). Adoption and cognitive development: a meta-analytic comparison of adopted and nonadopted children's IQ and school performance. Psychological bulletin,…
I found this one a long time ago and tweeted it, but apparently forgot to blog it. Odenstad, A., Hjern, A., Lindblad, F., Rasmussen, F., Vinnerljung, B., & Dalen, M.…
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…
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…