Showing posts with label psychology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label psychology. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

SMPY 65: Help support the SMPY Longitudinal Study

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The Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) needs your help to support the Age-65 phase of their unique longitudinal study.  For...
Thursday, August 24, 2023

Aella: Sex Work, Sex Research, and Data Science — Manifold #42

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  Aella is a sex worker, sex researcher, and data scientist.  Aella on X: https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl   Interviews with ex-prostitutes on...
Thursday, December 15, 2022

Geoffrey Miller: Evolutionary Psychology, Polyamorous Relationships, and Effective Altruism — Manifold #26

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  Geoffrey Miller is an American evolutionary psychologist, author, and a professor of psychology at the University of New Mexico. He is kno...
Thursday, November 17, 2022

Abdel Abdellaoui: Genetics, Psychiatric Traits, and Educational Attainment — Manifold #24

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  Abdel Abdellaoui is Assistant Professor of Genetics in the Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam.  Abdel Abdell...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

The Future of Human Evolution -- excerpts from podcast interview with Brian Chau

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The transcript excerpts below are from my recent conversation with Brian Chau (aka Cactus Chu) on his podcast. Segments begin at 47m and 1h0...
Saturday, February 05, 2022

Annals of Psychometry: Wordcels and Shape Rotators

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Fun with psychometrics!  Did it all start with High V, Low M , a 2011 post about Stephen J. Gould? A famous theoretical physicist once compl...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

ManifoldOne podcast

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Please visit  Manifold1.com First episode is up! James Lee on Polygenic Prediction and Embryo Selection
Monday, January 10, 2022

Recent Papers on Socio-Economic Status and Student Achievement: Marks and O'Connell

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I received the message below from Michael O'Connell , University College Dublin, and Gary Marks , University of Melbourne.  See also thi...
Saturday, November 27, 2021

Social and Educational Mobility: Denmark vs USA (James Heckman)

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Despite generous social programs such as free pre-K education, free college, and massive transfer payments, Denmark is similar to the US in ...
Tuesday, September 07, 2021

Kathryn Paige Harden Profile in The New Yorker (Behavior Genetics)

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This is a good profile of behavior geneticist Paige Harden (UT Austin professor of psychology, former student of Eric Turkheimer), with a...
Sunday, March 21, 2021

The Contribution of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills to Intergenerational Social Mobility (McGue et al. 2020)

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If you have the slightest pretension to expertise concerning social mobility, meritocracy, inequality, genetics, psychology, economics, educ...
Thursday, June 11, 2020

Warren Hatch on Seeing the Future in the Era of COVID-19: Manifold Episode #50

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Steve and Corey talk to Warren Hatch, President and CEO of Good Judgment Inc. Warren explains what makes someone a good forecaster and how...
Tuesday, June 02, 2020

Re-Post: Joe Cesario on Police Decision Making and Racial Bias in Deadly Force Decisions (Manifold Episode #11)

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Re-posting this because of its relevance to the terrible events in Minneapolis. Manifold Episode #11: Joe Cesario on Police Decision Makin...
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Thursday, May 21, 2020

University of California to end use of SAT and ACT

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University of California Will End Use of SAT and ACT in Admissions (NYT) This decision by the UC Regents (most of whom are political appo...

Scott Adams on Trump, and his book Loserthink – Manifold Podcast #47

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Corey and Steve talk to Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert and author of Loserthink. Steve reviews some of Scott's predictions, including...
Thursday, March 05, 2020

Kaja Perina on the Dark Triad: Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and Psychopathy - Manifold Podcast #36

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Kaja Perina is the Editor in Chief of Psychology Today. Kaja, Steve, and Corey discuss so-called Dark Triad personality traits: Narcissism...
Thursday, January 09, 2020

Zach Hambrick on Psychometrics and the Science of Expertise -- Manifold Podcast #28

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MSU Psychology Professor Zach Hambrick joins Corey and Steve to discuss general cognitive ability, the science of personnel selection, and...
Sunday, December 15, 2019

Feynman and Tukey (Working Memory); Dom and Brexit

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I received this message over the weekend. Dear Dr. Hsu, With great interest I regularly read your excellent Information Processing Bl...
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

College quality measures highly correlated to student SAT scores

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Research by Brown, Chabris, and Wai shows that quality of students is strongly correlated to other quality measures of a college. (Thanks...
Thursday, June 27, 2019

Manifold Podcast #13: Joe Cesario on Political Bias and Problematic Research Methods in Social Psychology

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Corey and Steve continue their discussion with Joe Cesario and examine methodological biases in the design and conduct of experiments in s...