Pasting numbers with leading zeros into spreadsheet without losing the zeros
I found some interesting data in a PDF. I want to get it into R for statistical analysis. However, the author has removed the decimals. So, when I try to…
International differences in intelligence can be confusing: A commentary on Harrison et al (2015)
Abstract In this commentary I explain how mean differences between normal distributions give rise to different percentages of the populations being above or below a given threshold, depending on where…
How to integrate Winnower, blog posts and ResearchGate?
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…
Opinions about nuclear energy and global warming, and wordsum intelligence
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…
Review: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (Jonathan Haidt)
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…
Attitude towards nuclear energy and correlates: educational attainment, gender, age, self-rated knowledge, experience, etc.
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.…
Freedom of expression and Facebook: Shall local FoE laws prevent Facebook from blocking content?
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…
Automatic testing of all possible multiple regression models given a set of predictors
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…
Measuring scientific knowledge: can we use questions that are denied by the religious?
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…
Personality correlates of breadth vs. depth of research scholarship
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…
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