Migration and feelings of safety in Denmark
A politician from the Social Democrats called Frederik Vad (center-left government party) posted results of a survey about how safe citizens report feeling in various areas of the country. There…
Who was politically intolerant in 2016?
i/o posted this figure on X: Leftist women were the most intolerant, an expected result. However, is this due to their ideology and sex, or something else, say, where they…
Wikipedia editors and politics
I've written a few times about the political bias (defined as deviation from population average) of journalists and academics. Earlier this year, I wrote about how one can study the…
Reader survey 2024
It's time for the yearly reader survey, where I ask questions about the blog, and an assortment of other questions. Actually, in 2023 I apparently forgot to ask readers, but…
Write simple questions in surveys
There is a movement on Wikipedia, and elsewhere, to use a simplified version of English. This is mainly achieved through the limitation of which words can appear. The chief goal…
Skill vs. luck in games: a survey study
Some games involve chance elements. We can theoretically distinguish between a few types of chance elements. First, the simplest, are direct chance elements as in rolling dice, flipping a coin,…
What are the race differences in sexual behavior?
Suppose you wanted to know about race differences in sexual behavior, how would you find out? Well, you could ask people, and if self-reports are accurate and don't have some…
Expert opinion on race and intelligence
I was asked about survey data by various kinds of experts on race and intelligence. Happy to oblige, of course. Sean Last has already reviewed some of these last year,…
Rinderman’s 2013 survey of experts in intelligence research
I was planning to re-do the Snyderman et al survey from 1987, but someone beat me to it (very nice). 2013 survey of expert opinion on intelligence