Worldwide subnational intelligence estimates
It is already known that intelligence causes social status for persons. There's a very large amount of cross-sectional data, and causal conclusions are derived from various family studies, such as…
New paper out: Intelligence and General Psychopathology in the Vietnam Experience Study: A Closer Look
Kirkegaard, E. O. W., & Nyborg, H. (2021). Intelligence and General Psychopathology in the Vietnam Experience Study: A Closer Look. Mankind Quarterly, 61(4). https://doi.org/10.46469/mq.2021.61.4.2 Prior research has indicated that one…
Enhancing archival datasets with machine learned psychometrics
Today I was reading a paper advocating the idea that science is slowing down because we have changed to incentivizing boring stuff that gets cited a lot instead of potentially…
Politics from text — not so easy?
I came across this obscure study while doing some research on other matters. Yan, H., Lavoie, A., & Das, S. (2017). The Perils of Classifying Political Orientation From Text. Linked…
ISIR 2019 talk: Machine learning psychometrics
Machine learning psychometrics: Improved cognitive ability validity from supervised training on item level data Andrew Cutler gave the talk since I was unable to attend. Slides are here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xxfYTWP2R0ZFvbI24sR1jVyFC_qN_Lw85782zE5Q2Jo/edit#slide=id.p Live…