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Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
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Emil O. W. Kirkegaard's personal blog at emilkirkegaard.dk covers science and politics. Since 2013, 68 different Hacker News readers have linked it 87 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Homepage of Emil O. W. Kirkegaard. Researcher with diverse interests.
Most-linked posts?
- /en/wp-content/uploads/Intelligence-and-socioeconomic-success-A-meta-analytic-review-of-longitudinal-research.pdf5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-09-03
- /en/2021/11/sweden-finally-publishes-new-immigrant-crime-rate-data-which-shows-no-surprises/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-04-01
- /en/wp-content/uploads/Men-and-things-women-and-people-A-meta-analysis-of-sex-differences-in-interests.pdf2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-08-11
- /en/wp-content/uploads/Robert-A.-Heinlein-All-You-Zombies.pdf2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-03-30
- /en/wp-content/uploads/Is-There-Anything-Good-About-Men.pdf2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-15
- /en/2022/03/supersize-me-failed-replication-well-sort-of/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-24
- /en/wp-content/uploads/Schmidt-and-Hunter-1998-Validity-and-Utility-Psychological-Bulletin.pdf2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-04-13
- /en/2021/02/backstabber-brennan-knifes-scott-alexander-with-2014-email/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-11
What Hacker News says?
Really appreciate the thoughtful reply. While I think you make a fair prima facie case that financial value could track merit in art, as it does so in so many other domains, I would caution that 'weirdness' in the market for art could easily distort this. ('Weirdness' being the proper technical term, if I recall correctly.) There are lots of reasons art markets are weird, imperfect substitutes, monopolies, winner-ta…
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on “Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour”Submitted Self-Perceived Expertise Predicts Claims of Impossible Knowledge [pdf] as a story · 7 points
HN discussion> 40% of CP investigations in Germany are started against minors This in particular seems like such a silly outcome of over-regulation and bureaucracy. Amazing. Research suggests most child sexual abuse does not have much of a long-term effect at all: https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/A-replicatio... This (of course!) does not mean it is good or should be done, but it suggests this is not an urgent iss…
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on “Messaging and chat control”Submitted A review of intelligence GWAS hits [pdf] as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI think you mean it doesn't have a single reference to the paper. This is why it's detrimental to have all these Journal articles locked away from public view. A researcher can make a claim that influences public opinion, but the general public must pay a lot of money to actually review what the claim is based upon! The paper is, incidentally: Cooper, H., Robinson, J. C., & Patall, E. A. (2006). Does homework improv…
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on “Let’s ban elementary homework”Submitted The persistent denial of the intelligence meritocracy: Gary Marks as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's not just me. It's 100+ years of psychological evidence. It is the strongest psychological test we have. The military uses similar concepts in the AFQT to determine suitability for recruitment and advancement for certain positions. The military has been using concepts like this since World War I, where it was important to scale up a military quickly. Our survival depended on having smart people with disparate ed…
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on “Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests”Submitted How long do we need affirmative action? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWell, the lit survey people tend to cite on interviewing is Schmidt and Hunter 98: http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/Schmidt-and-H...
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on “Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?”Submitted Genes, Evolution and Intelligence [pdf] as a story · 3 points
HN discussionScore on IQ tests is a far better predictor of SES than parental SES. Someone in the 95th percentile for IQ will, on average, earn more than someone with parents in the 95th percentile of earnings. See: http://www.emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/Intellige...
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on “To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider Janitors”Submitted Arts Foster Scientific Success (2008) [pdf] as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOkay well in that case the article is deficient (I skimmed it, assuming it was making the same case I already knew about[1] -- my bad). You can actually reproduce the DK graph without supposing that estimation bias depends on skill. There is an interactive visualization here[2] that does precisely that (click on the "line plot w/ centiles" tab). You can adjust the parameters to see how it behaves. [1] https://news.y…
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on “The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Autocorrelation”Submitted Indoctrination in Introduction to Psychology as a story · 2 points
HN discussion>The fact that the DK effect emerges with _completely random data_ is not surprising at all - in this case the intuitive null hypothesis would be that people are good at estimating their skill, therefore there would be strong a correlation between their performance and self-evaluation of said performance. If the data weren't related, then this hypothesis isn't likely, which is exactly what DK means. DK effect is not…
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on “The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Autocorrelation”Submitted Predictive validity of interests, personality and cognitive ability [pdf] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis was one of the most depressing charts https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/medschool.pn... if you're asian, your chance of being accepted to medical school is 1/8th of black in lower score zone. 1/8th. You can have the highest GPA and MCAT. Your chance of getting in is still lower than black with lowest GPA and MCAT. I don't know if the stats are adjusted for schools applied, but still quite an eye o…
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on “Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]”Submitted What is age heaping and what use is it? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion"As little bias as you can," huh. https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2021/02/backstabber-brennan-kni... He's a neoreactionary apologist and self-admitted scientific racist. Not...exactly a bastion of unbiased opinion. (And that's without getting into the deeply problematic nature of the capital-R Rationalists' horrible abuse of Bayesian reasoning as a replacement for actual expertise or scientific inquiry. Assigning arbit…
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on “We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA”Submitted Revisiting a 90-Year-Old Debate: The Advantages of the Mean Deviation (2005) [pdf] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFirst of all, are Murray's claims true? That's the important question. That article gets some things right, but it seems to imply that Murray is racist even if his beliefs are true. Second, if you're going to use that article's definition of racism (the belief that there are statistical differences in IQ between races) then most researchers on cognition are racist. If you survey experts anonymously, the majority wil…
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on “The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google”Submitted The Censor’s Hand – IRBs Considered Harmful as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2022/11/a-theory-of-ashkenazi-g...
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on “What Is Entropy?”Submitted From Terman to Today: A Century of Findings on Intellectual Precocity [pdf] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt's worth noting that the original publication doesn't claim that it is the trees that have the effect. That is a layer of confusion generated by the New Yorker author. Berman's original work compares "natural" vs urban environments. [1] http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/The-Cognitive...
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on “How Trees Calm Us Down”Submitted Non-language factors affecting judgments of non-native English TAs as a story · 1 points
HN discussion70% is actually on the low side of today’s results. Observed heritability is lower in early childhood (meaning the amount of variance in intelligence among children explained by genes is “only” 20%-50%, “only” in quotes because it’s still large amount, as far as phenotypical traits are concerned), but grows to 80%+ in adulthood, even higher than that if you correct for attenuation (i.e. measurement error, which will…
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on “Can progressives be convinced that genetics matters?”If you look at socioeconomic success (education and occupation), there is an extremely high correlation with IQ. http://www.emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/Intellige... There are a lot of reasons you would expect divergence when just looking at salary. A Reporter is averaging 41k, a Postdoctoral Research Associate is averaging under $48k while a nurse makes $65k and a elevator repairman is making 79k. Higher…
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on “IQ rates are dropping in many developed countries”I wrote a function once for a friend that modified the enclosing environment, and changed + so that sometimes it added two numbers together and sometimes it added to numbers and an extra 1 just to be helpful. I can sort myself out, but thanks for the thoughts. The issue is that I learn these things /after/ R does something absolutely off the wall with its type system. And a lot of my exposure comes from using other…
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on “A newcomer’s (angry) guide to R”His memo absolutely fails to mention the biases women deal with on a daily bases. It fails to mention how unjust such things can be and how they must make his female colleagues feel. And that such things are well supported by research. That failure makes his audience significantly less receptive, and puts them on the immediate defense. He should spend some serious time reading "Difficult Conversations" and other boo…
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on “Why I Was Fired by Google”
