Emil O. W. Kirkegaard blog
Got another video out today. It’s covering my 2017 paper, that people were posting about on Twitter, suggesting interest in this kind of work. Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2017). Sex Distribution, Life Expectancy and Educational Attainment of Comedians. Mankind Quarterly, 58(1), 180-194. As a bonus, doing this video revealed a data error, which I fixed….
Continue ReadingWühr, P., Lange, B. P., & Schwarz, S. (2017). Tears or fears? Comparing gender stereotypes about movie preferences to actual preferences. Frontiers in psychology, 8, 428. This study investigated the accuracy of gender-specific stereotypes about movie-genre preferences for 17 genres. In Study 1, female and male participants rated the extent to which 17 movie genres…
Continue ReadingGiven the recent discussion of sex differences in variation in traits, The Audacious Epigone has a quick post based on the GSS (you guessed it). He finds: The weight finding is probably related to female self-starvation for beauty purposes (anorexia) which creates a stronger left tail for women but not for men. The physical attractiveness…
Continue ReadingWhitley, E., Deary, I. J., Ritchie, S. J., Batty, G. D., Kumari, M., & Benzeval, M. (2016). Variations in cognitive abilities across the life course: Cross-sectional evidence from Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study.Intelligence, 59, 39–50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2016.07.001 Background Populations worldwide are aging. Cognitive decline is an important precursor of dementia, illness and death and,…
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Continue ReadingSome readers may have fun reading this. I have not edited anything. Due to the conversion some extra lines were added, but his emails genuinely contains lots of oddly placed line breaks. The odd use of e.g. bold is his (Jayl is a male name, apparently). The topic of the email is “University of Toronto,…
Continue ReadingI read this study: Palejwala, M. H., & Fine, J. G. (2015). Gender differences in latent cognitive abilities in children aged 2 to 7. Intelligence, 48, 96-108. It reminded me that these studies rarely test what happens when one uses a bunch of different methods on the same dataset. Nyborg (2003) wrote years ago that…
Continue Readinghttp://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8765372-is-there-anything-good-about-men http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=B21C5698CE12510CDEDBE940259BDF6F If you read the original essay, there is not much to recommend about the book. It taught me very little, has no data tables, no plots, no figures. Numbers are only mentioned in the text and sources are only given in the back of the book. There were a few interesting works mentioned,…
Continue Readinghttp://bookos.org/s/?q=taking+sex+differences&t=0 This shortish book contains a wealth of information and 100s of citations. Unfortunately, the author has not kept a high standard of citing things, nor does he make it clear when he cites something less reliable. This makes it the case that one cannot just take the points for granted and have to check…
Continue ReadingI stumbled across some Men Right’s Activist websites, which i had not payed particularly attention to before, and found something that sounded dubious: There are roughly 5100 men in Swedish prisons and almost 300 women – which is the most disproportionate inmates number by gender in Europe and an obvious proof of leniency propensity on…
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