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New paper out: The Intelligence Gap between Black and White Survey Workers on the Prolific Platform

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:21. September 2022
Post category:intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability

This one was overshadowed by the more important paper on economic growth that I wrote about in the prior post. Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2022). The Intelligence Gap between Black…

Making better use of the scientific literature: large-scale automatic retrieval of data from published figures

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:28. January 2018
Post category:Math/Statistics Metascience
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Science is a set of related methods that aim at finding true patterns about the world. These methods are generally designed so as to remove noise from random circumstances (the…

Why the race and intelligence question is still not resolved

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:29. July 2017
Post category:Differential psychology/psychometrics Metascience
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It could probably have been resolved decades ago, and definitely within the last 10 years with genomic data, yet it is still not. Why? Essentially, it's because of bias in…

Cross-validating the Human Accomplishment dataset with Wikipedia

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:29. January 2017
Post category:History Wikipedia

(Partial Rnotebook) Last year I convinced Charles Murray to share some of his data underlying his great book Human Accomplishment. He put it on OSF, where it remains available. So…

Data sharing and Add Health

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:29. March 2016
Post category:Differential psychology/psychometrics Sociology

I am doing an S factor study of US counties in the usual way. For that reason, I need some kind of county-level cognitive ability estimate. I know that this…