tail effects

Ethnic heterogeneity and tail effects

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:10. December 2015
Post category:Differential psychology/psychometrics

Chisala has his 3rd installment up: http://www.unz.com/article/closing-the-black-white-iq-gap-debate-part-3/ One idea I had while reading it was that tail effects interact with population ethnic/racial heterogeneity. To show this, I did a simulation…

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)…