I want to start my first post by thanking Kino for actually getting this thing started. We’d been discussing it off-and-on for a while now, in vague terms, but several weeks ago she actually started one and asked me to join her. I’m a little late to the actually joining her part–having taken forever to…
Spearman’s g and what cross-culture tells us
Saw this today. There exist many similar studies. They seem to say a lot. They seem to say nothing. I’ll comment on some moving parts below. Spearman’s g Found in 31 Non-Western Nations: Strong Evidence That g Is a Universal Phenomenon Abstract Spearman’s g is the name for the shared variance across a set of…
Writing a climate survey
I am currently in the process of putting together a climate survey to assess departmental climate. As a result, I’ve been looking at some existing surveys that other departments have done and, no offense, but most of them are terrible. It’s occurred to me that, of course, questionnaire construction is extremely difficult in all sorts…