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Tail effects in climate science and the pleasures of polymathy

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:21. August 2015
  • Post category:Differential psychology/psychometrics/Metascience

From the interactive visualization I previously published to give foster an intuitive understanding of the concept: Tail effects are when there are large differences between groups at the extremes (tails)…

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Personality correlates of breadth vs. depth of research scholarship

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:6. March 2015
  • Post category:Differential psychology/psychometrics/Metascience

Also posted on the Project Polymath blog. An interesting study has been published: Thomas S. Bateman, and Andrew M. Hess. Different personal propensities among scientists relate to deeper vs. broader…

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Review: The Second Machine Age (Brynjolfsson & McAfee)

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:3. February 2015
  • Post category:Economics/Metascience

Goodreads. Libgen. This book is background material for CGPGrey's great short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU So, if you saw that and are more curious, perhaps this book is for you. If the…

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Thoughts about polymathy

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:26. April 2012
  • Post category:Philosophy
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Case in point, i'm taking a break from my reading of an introduction to relativity theory to write this post. I wrote this in a hurry becus i felt in…

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