Who is gaining Danish citizenship?
The Danish constitution says: §44 (1) No alien shall be naturalized except by statute. (2) The extent of the right of aliens to become owners of real property shall be…
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…