THC and driving: Causal modeling and statistical controls
I am a major proponent of drug legalization, and have also been following the research on drugs' influence on driving skills. In media discourse, it is taken for granted that…
Review: The Second Machine Age (Brynjolfsson & McAfee)
Goodreads. Libgen. This book is background material for CGPGrey's great short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU So, if you saw that and are more curious, perhaps this book is for you. If the…
Review: Superintelligence (Nick Bostrom)
Goodreads. Ebook. To those who don't know Bostrom, he's a prof of filosofy at Oxford. His book concerns superintelligence which is defined "any intellect that greatly exceeds the cognitive performance…
Review: What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought (Stanovich, 2009)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6251150-what-intelligence-tests-miss MOBI on libgen I've seen this book cited quite a few times and when looking for what to read next, it seemed like on okay choice. The book is…
As AI improves, what is the long-term solution to spam?
I've thought about this question a few times but haven't found a good solution yet. The problem needs more attention. AI and computer recognition of images is getting better. I'll…
Gender distribution of comedians over time
It is a long time ago since I did this project. I did not write about it here before but it is a pity since the results are thus not…
Admixture in the Americas: Admixture among US Blacks and Hispanics and academic achievement
Some time ago a new paper came out from the 23andme people reporting admixture among US ethnoracial groups (Bryc et al, 2014). Per our still on-going admixture project (current draft…
Sometimes doing elementary things in R is a pain
Getting a percentage table from a dataframe A reviewer asked me to: 1) As I said earlier, there should be some data on the countries of origin of the immigrant…
The personal Jensen coefficient, useful for detecting teaching to the test?
In my previous paper, I examined whether a personal Jensen coefficient could predict GPA beyond the general factor (or just the normal summed score). I found this not to be…
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