How to read SlateStarCodex (Scott Alexander) blog
TL;DR tweet version of this post. The cultural revolution has come to SlateStarCodex (which now also has a Wikipedia page). Journalist is threatening to reveal his real name and endanger…
Personality and Individual Differences censors skin color study (Rushton and Templer)
I hate censorship, so I repost the content they don't want you to read here. I'm hoping to contribute to a Streisand effect. This week, the time has come to…
Crime measurement and the black-white crime gap
A lot of instant experts have appeared on the black-white crime question. Many of these are somewhat unfamiliar with the quite large literature on the topic. The people who mostly…
Who’s your out-group?
See related posts in rationalist sphere: Scott Alexander, I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup Jakob Falkovich, In-Groups, Out-Groups, and the IDW (in Quillette) So the story goes like this:…
Not telling the whole story
In the prior post, I quoted some parts of a paper written by sociologist Howard S. Becker in 1967 which advocated a distortion model of science. To quote the most…
Whose side are sociologists on?
A very telling paper from 1967 written by a top sociologist called Howard S. Becker. Becker, H. S. (1967). Whose side are we on?. Social problems, 14(3), 239-247. I quote:…
Nice RCT in real life: Team Incentives and Performance: Evidence from a Retail Chain
Sometimes when I complain about the horrible state of the art in social science, and especially in human resource management, senior colleagues tell me that it's near impossible to convince…
Shuey (1966)
Audrey M. Shuey (who even has a barebones Wikipedia page) is one of the most important female early researchers in intelligence research along with Barbara Burks and Leta Hollingworth. Shuey,…
New study & video out: Pupil size and intelligence
Also, the front page is now updated and runs in Django. This is much easier to manage than the old PHP site, but the front page currently redirects to the…
Installing R on Ubuntu 20.04: still too damn difficult
Here's a whiny post on annoying R features. I love R and all, but it's obnoxious to install. Not only does it take a long time to compile so many…
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