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…

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Review: Missing the Revolution: Darwinism for Social Scientists (Barkow ed.)

[Jerome_H._Barkow]_Missing_the_Revolution_Darwini(Bookos.org) In general, this was a short and interesting read. Made me want to read other material by Anne Campbell. The last chapter is skipable, just as Kanazawa said when…

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Relevance of education and intelligence for the political development of nations: Democracy, rule of law and political liberty (Rindermann 2008)

Relevance of education and intelligence for the political development of nations Democracy, rule of law and political liberty     Two relevant effects of education and cognitive ability on politics…

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More reading material about race and intelligence/IQ/g

I hit open a wealth of good reading material: http://www.aei.org/article/society-and-culture/religion/the-inequality-taboo/ For those who consider it important to know what percentage of the IQ difference is genetic, a methodology that would…

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Reading material on cognitive epidemiology

I recently got interested in a new field https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_epidemiology Cognitive epidemiology is a field of research that examines the associations between intelligence test scores (IQ scores or extracted g-factors) and…

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