Workers are people too: review of We wanted workers (Borjas)
Next up in my review series I picked something anti-libertarian. I ended up with We wanted workers, based on a recommendation by Heiner Rindermann. It turned out to be a…
AI stereotype accuracy too
https://twitter.com/timothycbates/status/852778717411659776 Humans have stereotypes, that is, they hold beliefs about groups of people. When examined, these beliefs tend to reflect reality quite well, sometimes very well (for review, see Jussim's…
Comments about my interview with Thinking Ape (2017-04-06)
Just a quick post to summarize or reference the evidence for various claims and mistakes I made. The interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttzqXeX2hjw Previous interview with Tara McCarthy I should have done a…
Criticism of me and my research on SlateStarCodex’s subreddit
On the commentariat here, and why I don't think I can be associated with this community, despite liking the blog. My reply, as found in the comments. Most of it…
Cognitive ability of Westerners and non-Westerners: data from the Danish military draft
Rnotebook: http://rpubs.com/EmilOWK/immigrant_IQ_Danish_draft Because I was discussing this dataset with a friend, I decided to reexamine it. Examining this dataset was my first reviewed paper (Kirkegaard 2013). It was manually done…
Captain Obvious Science
In many ways, my science -- and my colleagues' science -- generally involves collecting evidence for obvious hypotheses that are mainly denied by leftist-leaning people (more precisely, egalitarian). Here's a…
Swedish immigrant crime data from the 1980s
I was skimming a Wikipedia article related to immigrant crime and came across an obscure Swedish language report from the 1990s: Ahlberg, J. (1996). Invandrares och invandrares barns brottslighet: En…