Test prepping discussion
From reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/Khan/comments/1znhcx/khan_academy_gets_rare_partnership_to_close/ Me: Test prepping does not work very well, so it's a minor issue. SAT and ACT tests are mainly tests of g and one cannot train g.…
The quest for the perfect journal to publish in: The case of psychometrics, differential psychology
So you've just finished your hopefully good paper. Now comes the question. Where to send it to? Actually, normally you would start by looking at journals to send to before…
“Why is humankind doomed without eugenics?” #2
From reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/genetics/comments/1z1tli/design_your_own_baby_a_genetic_ethics_dilemma/cfqrlol Zorander22 writes: 1) I would wager a guess that most people are capable of far more than they're current employment situations might indicate. The idea that machines…
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: -…
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.…
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…
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