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A quick education in Edinburgh
One flight to Edinburgh and I could get an education: R programming: so I could crunch data again without SPSS. It might drive me mad, but I am told that thereafter all is serene and pure, like...
View ArticleRichard Lynn Intelligence database: Becker edition
Whereas there are many very well funded projects which study national and international scholastic ability without mentioning intelligence, there is one database for the national intelligence of the...
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Artificial general intelligence: A Von Neumann machine
Intelligence is the ability to perform well across a wide range of tasks. Intuition is inexpressible implicit knowledge.Creativity is synthesizing knowledge to produce novel ideas.One day my...
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Scientist stabbed to death by mentally ill illegal immigrant
That is the striking headline in The Telegraph, with all the makings of a modern horror...
View ArticleMore markers, more differentiation, and people know what race they are anyway
Cultural lag is the polite term for habits and hypotheses that never die. They become immune to refutation by virtue of constant repetition. One such meme, due to Lewontin (1972), asserts that there...
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Has Europe been enriched by contemporary immigration?
In a wish to show I am capable of building up dramatic tension, here is one slide from a talk by Prof Heiner Rindermann which shows the correlations between cognitive ability, institutions and the...
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Differences in sex differences: US trends and India
Sex differences fascinate, but would be easier to understand if only they would stand still for a moment! Reported sex differences vary in magnitude, 3 to 1, or 4 to 1, or 7 to 1. As usual, it depends...
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Do universities add value?
If you have anything to do with a university, you are probably above such childish things as university rankings. Just to explain to my esteemed readers what other less refined people get up to:...
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Sex differences in trauma
Despite having spent much of my professional life dealing with post-traumatic reactions, I rarely blog about it. One interpretation is that it arouses painful memories, but in fact most of my...
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No sex differences in Romania
I am slowly learning the perverse art of headline writing, but retain an inherent allegiance to telling the truth: I am sure that there are the usual sex differences in Romanian men and women, as...
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Election Special: Are Republicans brighter than Democrats?
As you know, I don’t do policy, but I am aware that there is an election happening in the US, and it is a particular feature of this election that each side is accusing the other side of being very...
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Advice to persons about to elect a government
Some people think it is not worth voting because their individual vote is insignificant when compared to the total electorate. For example, the total US electorate is estimated to be 226 million,...
View ArticleThe country is split: Post-election traumatic reactions
Whilst the US election is still being decided, I have jumped the gun over all other commentators, and got my wise post-election explanations in first.After every election commentators aver that “the...
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Opinion palls
Last night I went to bed expecting a Clinton victory, because although opinion polls can be wrong, the margin of Democrat advantage exceeded the apparent margin of polling error. To further confirm my...
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Losing an election
Losing an election is no fun. Hopes are dashed, and at least 4 years must pass (5 in the UK) before electors get a chance to vote the other lot out. Deferred gratification is a test of character.It is...
View ArticleLosing vector directions
A few hours ago I posted up a commentary on a paper:Brad Verhulst, Lindon J. Eaves, Peter K. Hatemi. Correlation not Causation: The Relationship between Personality Traits and Political Ideologies....
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The accuracy of stereotypes
Are immigrants more likely to claim benefits, or is this a stereotype? A stereotype is a preliminary insight. A stereotype can be true, the first step in noticing differences. For conceptual economy,...
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Stereotypes about immigrant criminality
Writing a blog can be fun. Post something up one day, get someone writing in with a good tip about another subject for the next day.The notion that immigrants are criminal has been described as a...
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Fourth Blog Birthday
A blogger is a harmless drudge, a filter paper between a sack of coffee beans and a small expresso.On the positive side, there is a sack of information to be read in the torrent of publications on...
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Intelligence, emotions and personality
In my day, intelligence and personality required completely different lectures. Indeed, the subject areas did not overlap at all and each had a very different tone: intelligence involved intelligence...
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Does Age make us sage or sag?
If you are of sensitive disposition, and certainly if you are over 60 years of age, look away now. Age is not good news for the thinking person. The results can be summarised in one word: decline. If...
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Faking good on PISA
One of the delights of being a member of a community of researchers in the modern age is the speed with which colleagues can come together to answer a question and scope out a solution to a...
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Der tag
Thank you to the 5018 readers who looked in on “Psychological Comments” yesterday.Why? Not complaining, just curious.For the previous highest daily total see:...
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Africa and the cold beauty of Maths
Things move fast. A published paper comes to the attention of Steve Sailer and suddenly a section of a puzzle gets completed. http://www.unz.com/isteve/school-test-scores-in-africa/Better still, the...
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Goodbye
It’s goodbye to drjamesthompson.blogspot.co.uk After 4 years of blogging, and 1,062,720 page views, here is a “change of address” notification. I have decided to transmute into being a columnist, at...
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