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…

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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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Are compensatory education IQ gains g-loaded? No one knows, because the data are probably lost

It has been shown that training effects and the FLR effect are not g-loaded. Spitz in his discussion of the many types of compensatory education that has been tried, mentions…

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Prediction: Good dating sites of the future will use genomic data to select partners with matching MHC

Prediction: Good dating sites of the future will use genomic data to select partners with matching MHC. The idea is obvious. Genomic sequencing prices will fall. People will have copies…

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Semantic discussions of intelligence and the (un)importance of the study of race and g: A comment on Hunt and Jaeggi (2013)

I submitted this paper to the new open access Journal of Intelligence. But apparently, the first issue is invite only, so they won't accept my paper. At least it is…

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Translation of summary of danish prostitution study (Sundhed, sygelighed og trivsel blandt klinikprostituerede)

The report is in danish, but english speaking people might wanna know about the contents. See also: http://www.voxliberalis.dk/rasmus-horn-langhoff-angriber-den-frie-forskning/ http://politiken.dk/indland/ECE2184400/ny-undersoegelse-klinikprostituerede-foeler-sig-mindre-stressede-end-danske-kvinder/ The report is here: http://si-folkesundhed.dk/upload/prostitutionsrapport.pdf Below is my translation of the…

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