Professorial ethics
Being a minor celebrity (is that what we call this?) has the amusing side effect that various people will be talking about you elsewhere on the internet. Thanks to the…
Medium censors Coronavirus post
I hate censorship, so here I provide backups. Note that Twitter censors linking to the archive.ph archived version, giving users a false error message. https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1241734643948359680 Twitter apparently auto-throttles tweets that…
Bo Winegard firing — time for action
Bo Winegard. I’ve Been Fired. If You Value Academic Freedom, That Should Worry You. Quillette. So it finally came to pass. This has been a long time in the coming.…
Human Biodiversity 2020 March Research Fundraiser!
We need more money to collect data etc., so donate us some! We set up a charity (US) for this. 'Official' tweet: https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1235907818127048704 Official link: https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/hbd2020march Shortlink: http://tiny.cc/HBD2020Mar See also…
Open data and behavioral genetics: room for improvement!
Open data is a fundamental part of getting science to work well. Primary reasons for this: Redundancy is data archiving. Most data are lost because no backups exist! Easy access…
New paper out: Intelligence and Religiosity among Dating Site Users (with Jordan Lasker)
Kirkegaard, E. O. W., & Lasker, J. (2020). Intelligence and Religiosity among Dating Site Users. Psych, 2(1), 25-33. We sought to assess whether previous findings regarding the relationship between cognitive…
The many lies of Ben van der Merwe
Ben van der Merwe (covered by others here, here), the social justice activist journalist, has been working for some years now to produce various hit pieces on researchers associated with…
On Nazism and Jews
This sort of thing should not be necessary. However, due to long time mentally ill online stalker Oliver D. Smith (see here), and various people who repeat his lies and…
Data coder needed [job ad]
Data coder needed Research assistant job for 15 USD/hour. I need to estimate the percentage of English speakers per country for use in a study as a control variable. I…
Against melatonin
So, some smart people say melatonin is useful for sleep deprivation. I submit that it doesn't do much of anything. Take a random meta-analysis cited in favor: Brzezinski, A., Vangel,…