Men like vs. women like
What sort of things are women interested in compared to men? Maybe we should ask Mel Gibson. A more scientific way is to study this is to study something called…
“the claim (of substantial difference in mean) is currently not based on strong evidence”
https://twitter.com/Scientific_Bird/status/1379100080863649807 This kind of claim is very common, even among people who explicitly reject blank slatism. It is odd because there are such results around, and they have been around…
New video out: Who are the comedians?
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…
The amazing stereotype accuracy of sex differences in movie genre preferences
Wühr, 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…
A sex difference that won’t go away and measurement invariance
Whitley, 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:…
Email exchange with ‘cognitive neuroscience researcher’ Jayl Feynman
Some 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…
The inconsistency of studies of gender differences in cognitive abilities: due to using different methods?
I 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…
Review: Is there anything good about men? (Roy F. Baumeister)
http://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.…
Review: Taking sex differences seriously (Steven E. Rhoads)
http://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…