The distribution of attractiveness
Recently there was a piece on ISF about this by 'Alexander' AKA. datepsych on Twitter: Is Physical Attractiveness Normally Distributed?. Basically, he takes the OKCupid results and thinks these show…
Criticism of me and my research on SlateStarCodex’s subreddit
On the commentariat here, and why I don't think I can be associated with this community, despite liking the blog. My reply, as found in the comments. Most of it…
Personal freedom and cognitive ability: OKCupid dataset replication
Noah Carl has been investigating the relationship between cognitive ability and political opinions aside from the usual confused 1-axis left-right model. Specifically, looking at the economic freedom and personal freedom…
Aarhus University’s reply to SJW letter
In the fallout of the OKCupid dataset release, some people wrote a complaint letter to Aarhus University. I haven't read the letter, but Aarhus University has now replied to it:…
Who prefers to date people of their own race?
Data from the OKCupid project. In light of a recent paper examining who prefers to date within their own religion, I recalled that there was a question about this in…
Cognitive dysgenics in the OKCupid dataset: a few simple analyses
OKCupid dataset (not public right now, contact me if you want the password). Draft paper: https://osf.io/p9ixw/ I looked at whether there was evidence for cognitive dysgenics in the OKCupid dataset.…
US state IQs cannot be estimated from OKCupid data
In the interest of publishing null findings: I tried estimating US state IQs from the mean cognitive ability for users in the OKCupid dataset. However, this did not work out.…
Cognitive ability and tattoos and piercings
https://staffanspersonalityblog.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/openness-to-experience-that-liberal-je-ne-sais-quoi/ Tattoos and piercing. I haven’t found any evidence that this relates to intelligence or even creativity. On the other hand, what underlying factor of openness would it be an…
Review: Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One’s Looking) (Christian Rudder)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21480734-dataclysm http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=9d2c0744b6bcce6ec9e67625125244a8 This good is based on the popular but discontinued OKTrends blog, but now apparently active again becus of the book release. There is some more info in the…
Sex difference in hygiene
A friend of mine recently showed me a blog of one of her friends. Since it has an absurd amount of posts (like my blogs, but even more!), i tried…