Everything is heritable:
“The contribution of de novo coding mutations to autism spectrum disorder”, Iossifov et al 2014 (media: 1, 2; discussion; excerpts)
“Cloning Cows From Steaks (and Other Ways of Building Better Cattle)”
Politics/religion:
“Whither the Blank Slate? A Report on the Reception of Evolutionary Biological Ideas among Sociological Theorists”, Horowitz et al 2014 (media; excerpts)
“Transcript of secret meeting between Julian Assange and Google CEO Eric Schmidt”
“The Micro-sociology of Violent Confrontations”
“Aum Shinrikyo and a Panic About Manga and Anime”, Gardner 2008 (excerpts)
“A Few Bad Men: Why America doesn’t really have a terrorism problem”
“Bottom of the Barrel: Today’s terrorists aren’t “sophisticated.” They’re stupider than ever.”
Statistics/AI/meta-science:
“What’s to know about the credibility of empirical economics?”, Ioannidis & Doucouliagos 2013 (excerpts)
“The Ironic Effect of Significant Results on the Credibility of Multiple-Study Articles”, Schimmack 2012 (excerpts)
“Bayesian data analysis”, Kruschke 2010 (excerpts)
“What Teachers Should Know about the Bootstrap: Resampling in the Undergraduate Statistics Curriculum”, Hesterberg 2014 (nice comprehensible discussion of various kinds of bootstraps and resampling which helps put together everything I’d learned piecemeal)
“The harm done by tests of significance”, Hauer 2004 (how p-values increase traffic fatalities)
“The Mind of a Con Man”: Stapel
Stein’s paradox
“Tiny Data, Approximate Bayesian Computation and the Unpaired Socks of Karl Broman” (demonstration of ABC)
“A Vast Graveyard of Undead Theories: Publication Bias and Psychological Science’s Aversion to the Null”
“Unreliable neuroscience? Why power matters: Small studies with low power undermine the reliability of science and new evidence suggests that low power is the norm in neuroscience”
Psychology/biology:
“Is Psychometric g a Myth?”
“Suppressing Intelligence Research: Hurting Those We Intend to Help”, Gottfredson 2005 (excerpts)
“Who Rises to the Top? Early Indicators”, Kell et al 2013 (excerpts; does IQ cease to matter past 130? No.)
“Life Paths and Accomplishments of Mathematically Precocious Males and Females Four Decades Later”, Lubinski et al 2014 (graphs)
“Annals of psychometry: IQs of eminent scientists”
“Studies Highlight [Futility] of Early Education”
“Don’t Know? Or Don’t Care?: Predicting Educational Attainment Using Survey Item Response Rates and Coding Speed Tests as Measures of Conscientiousness”, Hitt & Trivitt 2013 (excerpts)
“Political Diversity Will Improve Social Psychological Science”, Duarte et al 2014 (excerpts)
“Travels in the New Psychedelic Bazaar: The synthetic drugs being invented, refined, and produced today-and often shipped in from China-would have blown Timothy Leary’s mind. Who knows what they’re doing to the brains of users.”
Everything is heritable:
“The contribution of de novo coding mutations to autism spectrum disorder”, Iossifov et al 2014 (media: 1, 2; discussion; excerpts)
“Cloning Cows From Steaks (and Other Ways of Building Better Cattle)”
Politics/religion:
“Whither the Blank Slate? A Report on the Reception of Evolutionary Biological Ideas among Sociological Theorists”, Horowitz et al 2014 (media; excerpts)
“Transcript of secret meeting between Julian Assange and Google CEO Eric Schmidt”
“The Micro-sociology of Violent Confrontations”
“Aum Shinrikyo and a Panic About Manga and Anime”, Gardner 2008 (excerpts)
“A Few Bad Men: Why America doesn’t really have a terrorism problem”
“Bottom of the Barrel: Today’s terrorists aren’t “sophisticated.” They’re stupider than ever.”
Statistics/AI/meta-science:
“What’s to know about the credibility of empirical economics?”, Ioannidis & Doucouliagos 2013 (excerpts)
“The Ironic Effect of Significant Results on the Credibility of Multiple-Study Articles”, Schimmack 2012 (excerpts)
“Bayesian data analysis”, Kruschke 2010 (excerpts)
“What Teachers Should Know about the Bootstrap: Resampling in the Undergraduate Statistics Curriculum”, Hesterberg 2014 (nice comprehensible discussion of various kinds of bootstraps and resampling which helps put together everything I’d learned piecemeal)
“The harm done by tests of significance”, Hauer 2004 (how p-values increase traffic fatalities)
“The Mind of a Con Man”: Stapel
Stein’s paradox
“Tiny Data, Approximate Bayesian Computation and the Unpaired Socks of Karl Broman” (demonstration of ABC)
“A Vast Graveyard of Undead Theories: Publication Bias and Psychological Science’s Aversion to the Null”
“Unreliable neuroscience? Why power matters: Small studies with low power undermine the reliability of science and new evidence suggests that low power is the norm in neuroscience”
Psychology/biology:
“Is Psychometric g a Myth?”
“Suppressing Intelligence Research: Hurting Those We Intend to Help”, Gottfredson 2005 (excerpts)
“Who Rises to the Top? Early Indicators”, Kell et al 2013 (excerpts; does IQ cease to matter past 130? No.)
“Life Paths and Accomplishments of Mathematically Precocious Males and Females Four Decades Later”, Lubinski et al 2014 (graphs)
“Annals of psychometry: IQs of eminent scientists”
“Studies Highlight [Futility] of Early Education”
“Don’t Know? Or Don’t Care?: Predicting Educational Attainment Using Survey Item Response Rates and Coding Speed Tests as Measures of Conscientiousness”, Hitt & Trivitt 2013 (excerpts)
“Political Diversity Will Improve Social Psychological Science”, Duarte et al 2014 (excerpts)
“Travels in the New Psychedelic Bazaar: The synthetic drugs being invented, refined, and produced today-and often shipped in from China-would have blown Timothy Leary’s mind. Who knows what they’re doing to the brains of users.”