Abstract I argue that traditional scientific publication is extremely costly and that scientific publication must move towards more rapid publication practices. I discuss how this might be accomplished by integrating…
Abstract Using data from the ANES 2012 survey, I investigate the relationship between wordsum IQ estimates (unweighted sums, factor analytic and item-response theory scores) and opinions about nuclear energy and…
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11324722-the-righteous-mind I had heard good things about this book, sort of. It has been cited a lot. Enough that I would be wiling to read it, given that the author…
Nuclear energy often gets bad press. However, journalists are mostly very leftist, scientifically ill-educated women, so perhaps they are not quite the right demographic to tell us about this issue.…
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2015/03/french-court-says-french-freedom-of-speech-may-trump-facebooks-censorship/ This is not so straight forward as could be thought. On the one hand one might argue: Facebook is a private company. They offer a service to users (free…
Abstract Researcher choice in reporting of regression models allow for questionable research practices. Here I present a function for R that reports all possible regression models given a set of…
In reply to http://www.ljzigerell.com/?p=534 and his working paper here: http://www.ljzigerell.com/?p=2376 We are discussing his working paper over email, and I had some reservations about his factor analysis. I decided to…
Also posted on the Project Polymath blog. An interesting study has been published: Thomas S. Bateman, and Andrew M. Hess. Different personal propensities among scientists relate to deeper vs. broader…
Abstract The S factor in 21 Italian regions was examined by reanalyzing data published by Lynn (Lynn, 2010) as well as new data compiled from the Italian statistics agency (7…
Abstract A dataset of 25 diverse socioeconomic indicators for US states was compiled and subjected to factor analysis. Results showed that Washington DC was a strong outlier, but if it…