Job offer: fill in meta-analysis data
Note: I found two persons to do this so far. 1. Skills required Ability to copy paste from this Wikipedia page into a spreadsheet. Ability to find the elementary information…
Celebrating an early female pioneer: Barbara Stoddard Burks
Because I hate seeing solid contributions go unnoticed. Few remember Barbara Stoddard Burks for the early pioneer of behavioral genetics she was. She doesn't even have a Wikipedia article. I…
The neuroscience of intelligence: very preliminary because of power failure and lack of multivariate studies
I don't have time to provide extensive citations for this post, so some things are cited from memory. You should be able to locate the relevant literature, but otherwise just…
Number of siblings vs. total fertility rate
This is commentary on: Ellis, L., Hoskin, A. W., Dutton, E., & Nyborg, H. The Future of Secularism: a Biologically Informed Theory Supplemented with Cross-Cultural Evidence. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 1-19.…
European produced culture
This is a break from the usual technical sciency stuff! I talked with John Fuerst about how weird it is that people all over the Western world were watching the…
The Polgár sisters of … camming?
h/t to SSC for leading to me discovering the most curious thing. So it turns out there's a camgirl with an interesting blog featuring things like evidence-based camgirling (why not?)…
How common is perceived discrimination? Who reports/suffers it?
Brian Boutwell et al has a new preprint out: The Experience of Discrimination in Contemporary America: Results from a Nationally Representative Sample of Adults A large body of social science…
Comments on Gwern’s Counteracting Dysgenics
https://www.gwern.net/Embryo%20selection#counteracting-dysgenics Gwern has a very long and detailed post/page on embryo selection and related matters. You should definitely read it. He has just added a new section on counteracting dysgenics…
The reverse time reversal heuristic?
Gelman proposed the time reversal heuristic when evaluating discussions about failed replications. One helpful (I think) way to think about this episode is to turn things around. Suppose the Ranehill…
Cognitive ability of Westerners and non-Westerners: data from the Danish military draft
Rnotebook: http://rpubs.com/EmilOWK/immigrant_IQ_Danish_draft Because I was discussing this dataset with a friend, I decided to reexamine it. Examining this dataset was my first reviewed paper (Kirkegaard 2013). It was manually done…
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