I stumbled upon another physicist venturing into someone else's field and getting things right. I quote from Pinker's Better Angels: In the early 1950s, two eminent British scholars reflected on…
In a not so well written paper (that we should update to be better presented), John Fuerst and I previously used two hypotheses using the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshman…
I noticed that Facebook wasn't showing any preview images for a website I maintain (http://teknologipartiet.dk/, my pet grey tribe political party/think tank). It turns out that Facebook wants a metatag…
Installing R packages on Windows is easy: you run the install code and it always works. Not so on Linux! Here one sometimes has to install them thru apt-get (or…
I'm posting this here so I can find it more easily because this is at least the third time I had to google the issue to retrace my own steps…
I was recently asked to suggest introductory reviewing materials for bright laymen (see also my previous post). I ended up giving the following recommendations: - Intelligence: A very short introduction…
For some research designs, one pays the participants by the amount of time they spend on the task (like regular work). For other designs where one does not, usually participants…
There is a famous paper arguing the case for libertarian paternalism by using organ donation consent rates. Johnson, E. J., & Goldstein, D. (2003). Do defaults save lives?. Science, 302(5649),…
I learned about this topic many years ago reading Scott Lilienfeld's 50 Myths of popular psychology. In it, they write: In his blockbuster bestselling book Blink: The Power of Thinking…
I saw this paper at random: The consequences of heavy alcohol use remain a serious public health problem. Consistent evidence has demonstrated that both genetic and social influences contribute to…