Military intelligence and racial discrimination
By now, you've probably heard that the US military, and many other militaries around the world, has some kind of intelligence test that they use for admission. The US even…
New study on the effect of university education on political views in the UK
Someone sent me this new study that I hadn't included in my review from back in January: Scott, R. (2022). Does university make you more liberal? Estimating the within-individual effects…
Review: Unlearning Liberty (Greg Lukianoff)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13587028-unlearning-liberty http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=21a52e674d9a13997e55b8a12581f4a4 I just have to blog about this book. Normally when i review books i have a number of quotes from it. Not this one. It is not becus…
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…
So… your university wants to close some (humanities) department?
Well, one university did and someone wrote a nice open letter to the president of it. It's worth reading. Bonus points if you can spot the etymological fallacy in it.…