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r/cognitiveTesting•

It is surely not 1 because there is measurement error. According to this paper, for WAIS ωh=0.84, so if we assume that the g factor is the same as intelligence, that gives us a bound of sqrt(0.84)=0.92, which is not too shabby.

But is g identical to intelligence, as usually understood? If the correlation between g and intelligence is not 1, then this 0.92 is just an upper bound.

What do you think?

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r/askAGP•

I know how to use a statistical method called factor analysis, which basically takes a bunch of variables and helps uncover factors which explain the correlations between the variables. I want to use it to take a bunch of the shattered thoughts and impulses that are posted to places such as this subreddit, and organize them into some of the major patterns that might be insightful.

To do so, I need to create a survey with lots of questions on lots of areas. Here's my current draft for items to include, please come with suggestions:

Transition-related

  • Frequency of presenting in masculine vs feminine clothes in public
  • HRT use
  • Surgeries (maybe separately SRS, FFS, breast augmentatio
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r/askAGP•

Hi! You may know me from my blog, surveyanon, where I've performed a lot of research on AGP (e.g. meta-attraction) and gender identity (e.g. my comprehensive survey). I also have a side interest in personality research, but so far I have failed to find any links between AGP and personality. My latest project is a survey meant to reveal more about that. If you would like to help with that projec

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r/askphilosophy•

Sins like suicide, murder, lying, addiction, usury, humans (rather than God) judging humans, etc. all obviously interfere with consciousness, both on an individual level (e.g. death or dissociation) and on a collective level (creating problems around information sharing).

I guess one could argue that inanimate matter is sinless but unconscious, but I would dismiss that as the easy problem of consciousness (i.e. what sorts of internal mechanistic properties must conscious matter have?), or maybe dismiss it as life tending to spread to inanimate places and therefore inanimate matter won't be inaminate forever.

I see it as a kind of holistic/nonreductionistic view, so maybe it seems a bit bor

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r/slatestarcodex•

I've seen some qualitative social science studies suggest that criminals tend to have an ideology that glorifies or excuses crime, e.g. by saying that laws only serve the needs of the elites and crime is the only chance the criminals have for getting ahead in life.

I tried searching a bit for quantitative social science studies on this, but I couldn't find anything. In particular I am curious about:

  • Have any studies tried to construct a psychometric measure of criminal ideology?
  • If so, how predictive is it of crime?
  • And how heritable is it?
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r/LLMprompts•

Suppose you have some informative but unstructured text, e.g. an email or a request for an action or something. In that case, it might be nice if you could separate out the different facts in that text into a neat data structure, such as JSON.

It turns out that you can teach LLMs to accept formats in an abstract pattern language such as

{"type": "inspect"|"take"|"talk", "targets": [@string], "method": string?}

and then it will logically transform inputs such as "I take a closer look at the shelves and cabinets to see what objects they have." into appropriate data structures such as:

{"type": "inspect", "targets": ["shelves", "cabinets"], "method": "closer look"}

Prompt:

You
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