Spearman’s hypothesis on item-level data from Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices: A replication and extension

Emil O. W. Kirkegaard1 Abstract Item-level data from Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices was compiled for 12 diverse groups from previously published studies. Jensen’s method (method of correlated vectors) was used…

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International differences in intelligence can be confusing: A commentary on Harrison et al (2015)

Abstract In this commentary I explain how mean differences between normal distributions give rise to different percentages of the populations being above or below a given threshold, depending on where…

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Opinions about nuclear energy and global warming, and wordsum intelligence

Abstract Using data from the ANES 2012 survey, I investigate the relationship between wordsum IQ estimates (unweighted sums, factor analytic and item-response theory scores) and opinions about nuclear energy and…

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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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