This is the website of Stanichor. I write, I guess, about psychometrics and rationalists, though occasionally about other things too. You can email me at stanichor [at] gmail [dot] com. You can also contact me via Twitter (formerly known as X), LessWrong, Substack, or Discord (iykyk).

My Favorites

• Evaluating My Movie Recommendation System
• Towards the Earring
• Mediation as a Test of a Good Construct
• What Is A Nerd? (A Psychometric Analysis of the NPAS)
• The Average Rationalist IQ is About 122

Rationalist Related

• How Autistic Are Rationalists?
• We Still Can't Measure Rationality
• I Guess I'm Not An EA?
• Rationalist(-Adjacent) Demographics
• The Average Rationalist IQ is About 122

Psychometrics (Theoretical)

• Resources for Understanding Psychometrics
• Mediation as a Test of a Good Construct
• Understanding Acquiescence Bias
• Use Factor Scores, Not Sum Scores

Psychometrics (Practical)

• Modeling the General Kink Factor
• A Psychometric Analysis of Tailcalled's Gender Themes Survey
• A Psychometric Analysis of Tailcalled's Gender Satisfaction Survey
• Schwartz Values and Social Desirability
• What Is A Nerd? (A Psychometric Analysis of the NPAS)
• Factors of Attraction Towards Women: A Replication
• The MFQ-2 is a Flawed Questionnaire
• Against the Empathizing-Systemizing Theory of Autism
• Factor Analysis of Kink Preferences

Media Analysis

• Evaluating My Movie Recommendation System
• Why Consume Recent Media?
• What makes a good anime?
• Building a Simple Recommendation System

Other

• Oblique Ways of Measuring Intelligence
• Factor Analyzing Karpathy's Sleep Trackers
• Game theory does not imply we get (or do) nice things
• Factor Analyses I Find Interesting
• Programming Language Use by Gender Identity
• Epistemic Aggregation Methods
• Galaxy-Brained Explanations
• One Level Higher
• Philosophical Naturalism is Rare
• Contra Alexander on Metis and Bodybuilders
• Accurate IQ Estimates By College Major