Meisenberg’s new book chapter on intelligence, economics and other stuff
G.M. IQ & Economic growth I noted down some comments while reading it. --- In Table 1, Dominican birth cohort is reversed. “0.70 and 0.80 in world-wide country samples.…
Does conscientiousness predict PISA scores at the national level? A cautious meta-analysis
Just a quick write-up before I write up a paper with this for ODP. Introduction Altho general cognitive ability (g) has received the most attention by differential psychologists, personality receives…
International general factor of personality? yes, but…
I merged the dataset from Schmitt et al (2007)'s paper about OCEAN traits in 56 countries with the rest of the megadataset. Then i extracted the first factor of the…
New paper out: Crime, income, educational attainment and employment among immigrant groups in Norway and Finland
http://openpsych.net/ODP/2014/10/crime-income-educational-attainment-and-employment-among-immigrant-groups-in-norway-and-finland/ Abstract I present new predictive analyses for crime, income, educational attainment and employment among immigrant groups in Norway and crime in Finland. Furthermore I show that the Norwegian data…
Causal effect of education on IQ scores using the discordant twin design?
Recently, the twin-control design has been used to test causal models (e.g. exercise→happiness, exercise→¬depression/anxiety symptoms, casual sex→depression/suicidal thoughts). The theory is simple. Suppose we do a standard cross-sectional design study…
Assortative mating for general intelligence: A meta-analysis
Can we crowd-fund a meta-analysis? Simply find studies that report summary statistics, and add them to the dataset. The data so far: Study N r Willoughby (1927, 1928), A 90…
The hereditarian hypothesis is almost certainly true
And I'm not even referring to the latest results from any Pifferian methods (e.g. this). Currently there are many large GWAS for IQ/educational attainment/other g proxies that have data gathered…
Rinderman’s 2013 survey of experts in intelligence research
I was planning to re-do the Snyderman et al survey from 1987, but someone beat me to it (very nice). 2013 survey of expert opinion on intelligence
The g factor in autistic persons?
Check http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19572193 Eyeballing their figure seems to indicate that the g factor is much less strong in these children. A quick search on Scholar didn't reveal any studies that investigated…
Comments on Learning Statistics with R
So I found a textbook for learning both elementary statistics much of which i knew but hadnt read a textbook about, and for learning R. http://health.adelaide.edu.au/psychology/ccs/teaching/lsr/ book is free legally…
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