Review: Superintelligence (Nick Bostrom)
Goodreads. Ebook. To those who don't know Bostrom, he's a prof of filosofy at Oxford. His book concerns superintelligence which is defined "any intellect that greatly exceeds the cognitive performance…
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…
Gender distribution of comedians over time
It is a long time ago since I did this project. I did not write about it here before but it is a pity since the results are thus not…
The personal Jensen coefficient, useful for detecting teaching to the test?
In my previous paper, I examined whether a personal Jensen coefficient could predict GPA beyond the general factor (or just the normal summed score). I found this not to be…
A general assortative mating factor?: An idea in need of a dataset
I was talking with my girlfriend about how on some areas we don't match, and on others we match well, and then it occurred to me that there may be…
Predicting immigrant performance: Does inbreeding have incremental validity over IQ and Islam?
https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/555217814488092673 So, she came up with: https://twitter.com/hbdchick/status/555223247244242944 So I decided to try it out, since I'm taking a break from reading Lilienfeld which I had been doing that for 5…
Age differences in the WISC-IV has a positive Jensen coefficient, maybe
Group differences in cognitive scores have generally been found to be g-loaded, i.e. the differences are larger on the items/subtests that load more strongly on the general factor. This is…
Intelligence, income inequality and prison rates: It’s complicated
There was some talk on Twitter around prison rates and inequality: https://twitter.com/JayMan471/status/553912823215325184 And IQ and inequality: https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/553937263953190912 But then what about prison data beyond those given above? I have downloaded…
Review: Race (John Baker)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/875481.Race http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=5624936a816b96dd3e6a4af6808ee69b I had seen references to this book in a number of places which got me curious. I am somewhat hesitant to read older books since I know much…
Do different intelligence tests measure the same g?
The most direct way to test this is to employ latent variable modeling (SEM/CFA) and correlate the general factors from different IQ batteries. Below I quote the abstracts from all…
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