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)…
What exactly is age heaping and what use is it?
What is age heaping? Number heaping is a common tendency of humans. What this means is that we tend round numbers to the nearest 5 or 10 (those of us…
Can we make humans that are 1,000 SDs smarter than current humans?
Note that perhaps there should be doubt quotation marks around human in the title. Would humans with a 1,000 SD increase in (general) cognitive ability (CA) really be human? Steve…
The performance of African immigrants in Europe: Some Danish and Norwegian data
Due to lengthy discussion over at Unz concerning the good performance of some African groups in the UK, it seems worth it to review the Danish and Norwegian results. Basically,…
IQ and socioeconomic development across Regions of the UK: a reanalysis
Abstract A reanalysis of (Carl, 2015) revealed that the inclusion of London had a strong effect on the S loading of crime and poverty variables. S factor scores from a…
Interesting non-linear relationship between TV watching, age and reading comprehension
Some time ago, I stumbled upon this paper: Searls, D. T., Mead, N. A., & Ward, B. (1985). The relationship of students' reading skills to TV watching, leisure time reading,…
The general socioeconomic factor among Colombian departments
Abstract A dataset was compiled with 17 diverse socioeconomic variables for 32 departments of Colombia and the capital district. Factor analysis revealed an S factor. Results were robust to data…
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