Murray’s aestethic realism
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: -…
“Why is humankind doomed without eugenics?”
From 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.…
Human Accomplishment (Charles Murray)
https://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…
Educability and group differences (Arthur Jensen, 1973)
https://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…
The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People (David P. Barash, Judith Eve Lipton)
This 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…
Net contributions in the EU, g and the former east block
Seeing 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.…
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Review: Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government Is Smarter (Ilya Somin)
This 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…
Are compensatory education IQ gains g-loaded? No one knows, because the data are probably lost
It 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…
Review: Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction
I 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…