The typical social science theory
Perhaps the easiest way to convince yourself is by scanning the literature of soft psychology over the last 30 years and noticing what happens to theories. Most of them suffer…
Theory of mind and reasoning complexity (paper for some linguistics class)
The assignment was: Any aspect? :D I just wrote stuff about formal logic. So no more research was needed. Lucky. SMU paper 1
Review: Making sense of heritability
Download: http://www.libgen.net/search.php?search_type=magic&search_text=making+sense+of+heritability&submit=Dig+for This is a GREAT book, which goes down to the basics about heritability and the various claims people have made against it. Highly recommended. Best book of…
Review: Taking sex differences seriously (Steven E. Rhoads)
http://bookos.org/s/?q=taking+sex+differences&t=0 This shortish book contains a wealth of information and 100s of citations. Unfortunately, the author has not kept a high standard of citing things, nor does he make it…
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…
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