Review: Merchants of Doubt (Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway)
I hadnt planned on reading this book, just saw a random comment about it on a discussion board. I figured i might as well read it since i found a…
Review: Who Stole Feminism? (Christina Sommers)
Downloaded from here: http://bookos.org/book/943755/f24cb0 http://bookos.org/book/693807/58eb83 - I came across Sommers years ago when i read her interview here: http://www.menweb.org/paglsomm.htm It had this bit: MS. PAGLIA: Well,…
Women in prisons in percent
I stumbled across some Men Right's Activist websites, which i had not payed particularly attention to before, and found something that sounded dubious: There are roughly 5100 men in Swedish…
Review: The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
[Bryan_Caplan]_The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter_Why(Bookos.org) This is very interesting book. Most interesting I've read in a while. - If neither way of verifying the existence of preferences over beliefs appeals to…
Review: The Nurture Assumption (Judith Harris)
This book turned out to be not what i had expected, but still interesting. Not sure why it got all the bad press. It's behavior realistic but focuses on the…
Intelligence/IQ/GRE by academic field
Data are based on GRE averages. Data from here: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/01/classicists-are-smart/ I have sorted them for Average-SDU, i.e. estimated g (intelligence). As a funny note, top 10 includes 5 different physics…
Review: Helmuth Nyborg ed., The scientific study of general intelligence
[Helmuth_Nyborg]_The_Scientific_Study_of_General_I(Bookos.org) From Introduction It has been said: If you have no enemies, you have no point of view. Art has many enemies, and I will describe some of the more…
How misinformed are people about psychometrics?
Data from here: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54218.The_Mismeasure_of_Man No one informed about this subject can give this book more than 2, and it really should only get 1's for this pathetic performance, even if…
A Galton quote of interest
General impressions are never to be trusted. Unfortunately when they are of long standing they become fixed rules of life and assume a prescriptive right not to be questioned. Consequently…
Ebook: The Scientific Study of General Intelligence: Tribute to Arthur Jensen (Helmuth Nyborg)
Nyborg, Helmuth, ed. The Scientific Study of General Intelligence: Tribute to Arthur Jensen. Access Online via Elsevier, 2003. [Helmuth_Nyborg]_The_Scientific_Study_of_General_I(Bookos.org) And this paper I thought was a book chapter from the…
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