Emil O. W. Kirkegaard blog
Some time ago, I was building a large reference FAQ for use on Wikipedia. Unfortunately, some activist admins came along and deleted it. The archived version is here. The background for this is that I commented on a discussion about user MjolnirPants/MPants at work, who has a very long history of breaking rules and getting…
Continue ReadingEditing Wikipedia is done by humans, and sometimes these humans have various ideas they want to push. I have covered a few questionable cases before on Twitter, but will repost here. Who do we blame for this particular incident, Commies or Antisemites? Swedish or Jew? Same page Enter Michel Gelobter Michael is a Berkeley lecturer,…
Continue Reading(Partial Rnotebook) Last year I convinced Charles Murray to share some of his data underlying his great book Human Accomplishment. He put it on OSF, where it remains available. So far so good. At some later point in 2016, I finally had a closer look at the dataset and made some rudimentary plots based on…
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