Quote: /lit/ anon on female writers
OP: "I've been pondering. Why have so few significant female writers been produced (or auteurs for that matter)? Visual media is overflowing with female talent. However, behind the scenes where…
Peer-review again
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/03/no-comments-please-weve-made-it-through-peer-review/ http://www.genomesunzipped.org/2011/07/why-publish-science-in-peer-reviewed-journals.php http://breast-cancer-research.com/content/12/S4/S13
RE: THE ACCURACY OF INFERENCES ABOUT CRIMINALITY BASED ON FACIAL APPEARANCE
THE ACCURACY OF INFERENCES ABOUT CRIMINALITY But they didnt control for IQ which is strange. They even mention it that one can spot intelligent people: “As far as empirical findings…
What the author meant, what the teacher tnhinks the author meant…
In a discussion about this picture "Math student here. The majority of the math that they teach in high school is completely worthless to the average person. The curriculum here…
Quote from: Everyday Life as an Intelligence Test: Effects of Intelligence and Intelligence Context
gordon-1997-everyday-life-as-an-intelligence-test-effects-of-intelligence-and-intelligence-context (Thanks to this guy for making me aware of the paper) "Take, for example, complaints concerning a Year IV-6 Stanford-Binet item, which shows three pairs of sharply contrasting drawings…
Review of Jeffrey Dhywood’s World War-D
http://www.amazon.com/against-prohibitionism-roadmap-controlled-re-legalization/dp/0984690409/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1332698625&sr=8-1 http://www.world-war-d.com/ One can support the author by buying 'the book' from his site. This applies for the ebook version as well. Alternatively, one can just click here: World war-D Altho…
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…
Descartes joke
It seems to me that Descartes' book "Meditations on First Philosophy" should have been called "First Philosophy of Medications". He was clearly a multi-substance user. ;) Also, other lame puns…
Beneficial effects of expore to nature
“If taking up mindfulness meditation does not seem to be a likely course of action for you anytime soon, there is a simpler way for you to increase your atten-…
Recent paper about democracy and self-assessment/Dunning-Kruger
More mainstream article that mentioned the study: http://news.yahoo.com/people-arent-smart-enough-democracy-flourish-scientists-185601411.html The actual paper: A Mathematical Model of Democratic Elections Original Dunning-Kruger paper: unskilledandunaware "Abstract: Democratic election is the preferred method for determining…
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