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Murray (in Human Accomplishment) claims that knowledge of a field and judgement of the quality of items in that field follow each other. That’s testable. What about this: – Get a community sample. – Divide into three groups. – Teach group one about music, teaching group two about paintings and teach group three about…
Continue ReadingFrom Reddit. – Two reasons. 1) Technological unemployment. This is going fast right now. Already a large part of the population is useless and can only leech on society economically. This percent is due to increase quickly soon when automated cars become mainstream which will shortly make most drivers workless. There are thousands of people…
Continue Readinghttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/282085.Human_Accomplishment http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=735E143F5E5C9A49FD1188DA457E8287&open=0 This book was very interesting much of the time, somewhat interesting some of the time, and dumb at some time. However, the first part was much larger than the other two, so i think its a great book. The chapters where Murray speculates beyond the data are worst ones IMO. –…
Continue Readinghttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/786753.Educability_And_Group_Differences http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=501f355b6e474bdc0b7f3130dc3bf9c0&open=0 Why read a book from 1973? 41 years old? Well, it was a good read indeed! It is interesting how much of the evidence for racial differences were in place already in 1973, and it has more or less only become stronger since then. Basically, the book is a shorter and less…
Continue ReadingThis book is fairly short and is mostly about sexual selection and sexual antagonism. While other EP lit. uses animal examples, this book is literally full of them. Lots of interesting comparisons with all kinds of birds, for instance. On the continuum of biology — psychology of EP lit., this one is definitely closer to…
Continue ReadingSeeing that countries vary wildly in how much they contribute to the EU, and vary somewhat in g in Europe, it seems worth checking if it there was a correlation. The EU reports every year how much every EU member contributed (positive or negative). The latest numbers are from 2012, which can be found here…
Continue ReadingCengage Learning 27500 Drake Road Farmington Hills, MI 48331 Tel: 800-877-4253 Fax 248-699-8074 www.cengage.com VIA E-MAIL(emil@emilkirkegaard.dk) Tuesday, February 11, 2014 RE: Unauthorized Use of Cengage Learning Material In reference to the following Cengage Learning product(s): An Introduction to Language 9th Edition by Victoria Fromkin Dear Sir: It has…
Continue ReadingThis book is a quick read and covers the area decently well. The major drawback is that it doesnt discuss deliberative democracy or liquid democracy. IMO this book is not as good as Caplans recent book on the same topic which i also read. Maybe cuz i read his first. http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=af2d8de3a8bc8a8e693a1be68a4bd3f3&open=0 many people conflate…
Continue ReadingIt has been shown that training effects and the FLR effect are not g-loaded. Spitz in his discussion of the many types of compensatory education that has been tried, mentions that they were often suspected of teaching to the test specifically. This shud show up as non g-loaded gains. Unfortunately, the data are probably lost…
Continue ReadingI had low expectations for this book. It was assigned for some humanities class im taking (Studium generale). However, the book is a quite decent introduction to the field. Happily surprised. http://libgen.org/book/index.php?md5=7d804c1413f8993654ecc933170a5141 – The first two statements are called the premisses of the inference, while the third statement is called the conclusion….
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