Education, autodidactism, etc.: Another Wikipedia trip
It began with this conversation with my friend Chad on Skype: [09:54:34] Chad Stearns - Economist: A friend of mine met Aubrey De Grey [09:54:41] Chad Stearns - Economist:…
Mining data from OKCupid: using OKC’s questions as an IQ-test
Is it possible? Yes. In the exact same way that one normally makes an IQ-test, one can do so with OKC. Handpick a lot of questions that have to do…
Big Five’s Openness to Experience and declicious correlations (yummy!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openness_to_experience Lots of interesting correlations! “Intelligence and knowledge Openness correlates with intelligence, correlation coefficients ranging from about r = .30 to r = .45.[11] Openness is moderately associated with crystallized…
Some random things that i read recently+thoughts
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-rt-brazil-prisonreadingl2e8hp75l-20120625,0,7694158.story This is an interesting idea. - http://news.yahoo.com/math-anxiety-school-scientists-too-190128180--abc-news-tech.html http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/06/22/1205259109 Not surprised. Surely, there is a similar aversion among filosofy students at my university to logic, since its the formal near-equivalent…
Suggested reading material about intelligence research for newcomers
This post is mainly meant to be used as a thing that I can copypaste when I need to. I'm tired of having to find the same links over and…
Personality psychology, five factor model and online tests
Since hearing about the five factor model (FFM), i have had an interest in personality psychology. I'm very happy that someone has invented a proper test so that we can…
Geniuses, very high IQ people, science generalism
I recently read this article. Not sure how i found it. Perhaps when doing some research on super-high IQ people (e.g. Christopher Langan who is mentioned in the article). While…
Chess and intellligence, how does it work?
One wud expect a small to moderate positive correlation, but it is simply not that simple. Abstract Although it is widely acknowledged that chess is the best example of an…
Are u very smart and want a free genome sequencing?
... in that case u might want to check out: https://www.cog-genomics.org/volunteer/ Credit goes to infoproc for making me aware of this. It is good to see that someone serious is…
Some thoughts about Richard Lynn
http://racialreality.blogspot.com/2010/03/richard-lynn-on-italian-iq.html Apparently sometimes either a sloppy or an intellectually dishonest writer. Check the links about manipulating data, and the cases of choice with samples seems doubtful. Still, there is no…