What’s new for STATISTICS FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, 2nd edition

Today, I submitted the manuscript for the second edition of my statistic textbook, Statistics for the Social Sciences: A General Linear Model Approach. This book has been a labor of love, and it has been a great pleasure to revisit the text and make revisions. The first edition has been well received, with the comments…

Initial thoughts on Charles Murray’s HUMAN DIVERSITY: THE BIOLOGY OF GENDER, RACE, AND CLASS

Today, Charles Murray’s latest book, Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class was released. I won’t write a full review of the book here because there is a possibility that I will be writing one for a scholarly journal. [Update: The American Journal of Psychology published my review of the book almost a…

Zenderland’s biography of Henry Goddard

I just finished reading Leila Zenderland’s (1998) biography of Henry H. Goddard, a pioneering psychologist in intelligence testing. It is the best biography of any of the early psychologists involved with the development of intelligence testing. Henry Herbert Goddard was a psychologist who, in the early 20th century, was America’s foremost expert on the identification…

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