Tweets: personal capacity. PSY/open science, working memory, attn, mindwandering (also edu; skepticism). Living well with #Tourette. Art: Miles Johnston; Haring
Jul 29, 2020 • 15 tweets • 7 min read
Interested in mind wandering? In measurement (schmeasurement) and construct validation? After years in the making, I'm so proud--& relieved--that our new study preprint is available to check out. (THREAD) psyarxiv.com/te9yc
2: Here's our abstract:
Jun 12, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I hesitate to engage with this issue for fear of amplifying it, but @EPoe187 isn't a troll-bot with 5 followers, and I teach about intelligence & IQ in undergrad courses. So, in that educational spirit, a VERY brief argument/thread. (1/few)
(2) If u believe the best estimates of mean IQ scores from sub-Saharan African countries are 65-85, then you also must believe either: (a) most sub-Saharan Africans are classifiable as intellectually disabled, or (b) IQ scores don't mean/measure the same things across cultures.
Jun 2, 2020 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
THREAD: Gelman rightly argues that visualizing the data is critical to making sense of complex analyses/findings like those in this "national IQ" study. It argues that "high IQ" countries may better weather secular trends like decreasing religiosity. Doesn't seem so to me. (1/n)
