East Asian ability tilt and ideographic written language

https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1392623731835506691 I have not, but Lynn has noted that East Asians have a relative advantage in visual-spatial ability, and that's their written language, possibly some gene-culture co-evolution. One study shows…

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Digital Phenotyping and Mobile Sensing by Harald Baumeister, Christian Montag (2019, book review)

Baumeister, H., & Montag, C. (Eds.). (2019). Digital Phenotyping and Mobile Sensing: New Developments in Psychoinformatics. Springer Nature. This book offers a snapshot of cutting-edge applications of mobile sensing for…

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Review: Writing Systems: An Introduction to Their Linguistic Analysis

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16641082-writing-systems http://libgen.org/search.php?req=coulmas+writing&open=0&view=simple&phrase=1&column=def I read this book as part of background reading for my bachelor (which im writing here) after seeing it referred to in a few other books. As a…

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