This article examines the U.S. Army's Comprehensive Soldier Fitness (CSF) program from a scientific, ethical, and pragmatic viewpoint. CSF is one of the largest single applications of psychologica...
Read ItUpdate: before being accused of being a bully because I compare social priming researchers to parapsychologists, a) I consider myself to be a psi researcher, so if anyone takes offense to being com...
Read ItWeird stuff happens from time to time – it’s a fact of life. When I was applying for a position as assistant professor in Exeter, the weeks before the interview the word ‘Exeter’ started to pop up ...
Read ItWhoa! Deepak Chopra is offering 1 million dollars to anyone able to present a falsifiable theory of consciousness, in response to James Randi’s $1 Million Dollar challenge to show paranormal (psi) ...
Read ItHmm, never thought (micro)blogging would be such an interesting experience… turns out it’s an excellent way to be exposed to different views and opinions. Last week, I posted an unpublished manuscr...
Read ItOver the last weeks, several interesting posts in which psi prominently featured were posted on the web: one by Alex Holcombe, in which he argues that as long as meta-analyses find evidence for psi...
Read ItThis post shares a shocking and counterintuitive fact about studies looking at interactions where effects are predicted to get smaller (attenuated interactions). I needed a working example and went...
Read ItAbstract I analyze the S factor in Italian states by reanalyzing data published by Lynn (2010) as well as new data compiled from the Italian statistics agency (7 and 10 socioeconomic variables, res...
Read ItAbstract I analyze the S factor in Chinese states using data obtained from Lynn and Cheng as well as new data obtained from the Chinese statistical agency. I find that S correlates .42 with IQ and ...
Read ItAbstract I reanalyze data published by Lynn and Yadav (2015) for Indian states. I find both G and S factors which correlate at .61. The statistical language R is used thruout the paper and the code...
Read ItIt is a long time ago since I did this project. I did not write about it here before but it is a pity since the results are thus not ‘out there’. I put the project page here in 2012 (!). In short, ...
Read ItThere was some talk on Twitter around prison rates and inequality: I wonder why. "Rates of imprisonment are higher in unequal countries t.co/ibDN21PqZX" pic.twitter.com/EJy9vSCMFL MT @ChartsandMap...
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