Review: Missing the Revolution: Darwinism for Social Scientists (Barkow ed.)

[Jerome_H._Barkow]_Missing_the_Revolution_Darwini(Bookos.org) In general, this was a short and interesting read. Made me want to read other material by Anne Campbell. The last chapter is skipable, just as Kanazawa said when…

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Paper: Characteristics and Problems of the Gifted neural propagation depth and flow motivation as a model of intelligence and creativity

Characteristics and Problems of the Gifted neural propagation depth and flow motivation as a model of intelligence and creativity I only read this paper because it was recommended to me…

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Relevance of education and intelligence for the political development of nations: Democracy, rule of law and political liberty (Rindermann 2008)

Relevance of education and intelligence for the political development of nations Democracy, rule of law and political liberty     Two relevant effects of education and cognitive ability on politics…

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Simple reaction times: decline since Galton, and consistenly favor men

Some time back I read this post http://charltonteaching.blogspot.dk/2012/02/convincing-objective-and-direct.html pointing out that simple reaction times have increased since the late 1800's when Galton first measured them. Since simple reaction times are…

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Ripping books from UMDL Text: Leta S. Hollingworth’s Gifted children, their nature and nurture

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/g/genpub/AGE2118.0001.001?view=toc Due to this book repeatedly coming up in conversation regarding the super smart people, it seems to be worth reading. It is really old, and should obviously be out…

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