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…