Review of Psychology Applied to Modern Life: ADJUSTMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY

http://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Applied-Modern-Life-Adjustment/dp/1111186634/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1332697052&sr=8-1 I heard of the book from LessWrong. I was reading the series about the science of winning at life by Lukeprog and he recommended this book if one had…

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Vocab size of non-native english speakers by country

http://testyourvocab.com/blog/2011-09-10-Results-by-country.php Somewhat surprising Denmark and Norway (difference perhaps not statistically significant) are at the top. I was expecting to see France because most english words have french or latin (both…

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Proposed method for estimating how much a person has read using an electronic library

Introduction Many studies show that self-assessment is hard and often biased in a positive direction, i.e., people tend to overestimate themselves. Therefore, if one wants a correct self-assessment one needs…

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IQ (verbal and math) per university disiplin

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/01/classicists-are-smart Not surpriesed to see fysisists as the smartest. Sumwot surpriesed to see filosofy students do soe wel. Espeshaly skoring hier verbal skors than linguists. Not surpriesed to see edukaeshon…

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