Indian states: G and S factors
Paper PDF. Abstract I reanalyze data published by Lynn and Yadav (2015) for Indian states. I find both G and S factors which correlate at .61. Method of correlated vectors…
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…
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…
Review: The Roma: A Balkan Underclass (Jelena Cvorovic)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23621169-the-roma Richard Lynn is so nice to periodically send me books for free. He is working on establishing his publisher, of course, and so needs media coverage. In this case,…
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.…
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…
Review: Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One’s Looking) (Christian Rudder)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21480734-dataclysm http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=9d2c0744b6bcce6ec9e67625125244a8 This good is based on the popular but discontinued OKTrends blog, but now apparently active again becus of the book release. There is some more info in the…
New paper out: The international general socioeconomic factor: Factor analyzing international rankings
http://openpsych.net/ODP/2014/09/the-international-general-socioeconomic-factor-factor-analyzing-international-rankings/ Abstract Many studies have examined the correlations between national IQs and various country-level indexes of well-being. The analyses have been unsystematic and not gathered in one single analysis or…