I read this study: Palejwala, M. H., & Fine, J. G. (2015). Gender differences in latent cognitive abilities in children aged 2 to 7. Intelligence, 48, 96-108. It reminded me…
A link on Reddit claimed that exercise could be an effective treatment for depression. I felt it necessary to comment that: Exercise does not have a causal effect on depression…
A person on ResearchGate asked the following question: How can I correlate ordinal variables (attitude Likert scale) with continuous ratio data (years of experience)? Currently, I am working on my…
This is a rewritten version of this old post. Motive Most people want to learn stuff. Some people prioritize learning higher than other people. But what is true for all…
So this should be fairly easy according to various guides, but it is not. The goal is to create a test installation of Wordpress on the server, so we can…
I started a workgroup for going thru the Doing Bayesian Data Analysis: A Tutorial Introduction with R and BUGS book. See thread on forum.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18526647-misbehaving-science libgen.org/book/index.php?md5=ac86923b7bf1ed0639abf0e1c22810f8 The book is a sociologist trying to interpret the history of behavior genetics into sociology theories. I didn't pay much attention to their theorizing, being familiar with that…
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/134567.Reassembling_the_Social http://gen.lib.rus.ec/search.php?req=Reassembling+the+Social&open=0&view=simple&column=def This is quite possibly the worst non-amateur book I've ever read. My notes to this book are so many that in the latter parts of the book, I…
BMI (body mass index) is often used a proxy for fat percent or similar measures. This is for a good reason: So, the mean correlation across age groups and gender…
Sometimes, one sees references to this or that handbook of intelligence. I have not previously read any of these, not even in part, because I could not find any anywhere…