Attitude towards nuclear energy and correlates: educational attainment, gender, age, self-rated knowledge, experience, etc.

Nuclear energy often gets bad press. However, journalists are mostly very leftist, scientifically ill-educated women, so perhaps they are not quite the right demographic to tell us about this issue.…

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Measuring scientific knowledge: can we use questions that are denied by the religious?

In reply to http://www.ljzigerell.com/?p=534 and his working paper here: http://www.ljzigerell.com/?p=2376 We are discussing his working paper over email, and I had some reservations about his factor analysis. I decided to…

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Understanding restriction of range with Shiny!

I made this: https://emilkirkegaard.shinyapps.io/Understanding_restriction_of_range/ Source: # ui.R shinyUI(fluidPage(   titlePanel(title, windowTitle = title),     sidebarLayout(     sidebarPanel(       helpText("Get an intuitive understanding of restriction of range using this interactive…

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Review: What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought (Stanovich, 2009)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6251150-what-intelligence-tests-miss MOBI on libgen I've seen this book cited quite a few times and when looking for what to read next, it seemed like on okay choice. The book is…

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