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by thras 17y ago
These books come out every so often. 5 years ago "emotional intelligence" sold copy. IQ has a heritability coefficient of between .5 and .8. The rest seems to be non-shared environment. IQ is a very good predictor of academic success and
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Earl Grey.
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Human beings are still evolving. Much or most of what's been changing in recent evolutionary history have to do with brain development. When you examine things like the HapMap, you find that the gene distribution of these changes is differe
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There are a million critiques, many of which I've read. Some are better than others. By far the most ill-informed is The Mismeasure of Man . It's the worst of the bunch, written by an idiot. If you want a intelligent critique, I can point
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It's a selection effect. Only a select population comes to America for college. Tellingly, the average population there doesn't do very well at all at home. And over here, they only do well comparatively. Compare them to say, Eastern Europe
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You've seen precious little research? I assume you've actually looked? Read things like The Bell Curve, etc.?
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Biological explanations, while non-PC, do a rather good job of explaining the available evidence.
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Sometimes, though rarely, government regulation helps the entrepreneur more than it helps the entrenched players.
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This Week's Finds in Math. Physics (scroll down for colliding planets)(math.ucr.edu)
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Could the C++ standard have fixed this? Sure – the C++ standard goes into great detail about when iterators and references into strings are invalidated, and all it would have taken would be to add the copy constructor and operator=() to th
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Teacher certification is vitally important: it props up teacher wages. Oh, did anyone think it had another purpose? Education is a funny field. When you test the IQ of people by university subject, you generally find that the hard sciences
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Hawks has a great blog at http://johnhawks.net/ And Cochran and Harpending, the "Utah colleagues" mentioned in the article, have already written a book about this accelerated human evolution: http://www.amazon.com/000-Year-Explosion-Civi
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The scientific management of society has a checkered history.
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It's easy to make that pronouncement from a nice white-bread neighborhood in the suburbs. But try living among the underclass for a little while. They need a hell of a lot more authority in their lives than you do. Right now, Britain is man
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"I happen to believe that not having a kernel debugger forces people to think about their problem on a different level than with a debugger. I think that without a debugger, you don't get into that mindset where you know how it behaves, an
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Re-read it, he says that you only discover the inefficiency 2 years in. Yes, I'm sure that he's for perfect abstraction, as is everybody else. But he seems to be arguing against real-world abstraction which is what we've got. All abstract
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"It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it" Indeed. It often boils down to the quality of the programmer rather than the quality of the language. Community is everything. "Quite frankly, even if th
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I don't know why Cygwin and Windows Powershell cripple themselves with their lousy default shells. Neither project appears to have even minimal marketing expertise. More understandable for Cygwin, I suppose.
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What about Lipodystrophy?
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Schopenhauer would agree with you. He says that women are so good with children because they are so childlike themselves.
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What an awful article. The salient fact about the obesity epidemic is that it has more than tripled in frequency (in America) since the 1970s. It can't be genetics. It's unlikely to be gluttony.
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Whenever a politician apologizes to his voters for the actions of individuals long dead towards other individuals long dead, I somehow fail to be impressed. I suppose it is sort of interesting in a National Geographic, watch the natives wit
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I don't see how that's clear at all. And which of those three do you work at, btw?
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I wouldn't worry. When the debt hits 100 trillion, we'll probably be lopping zeros off the currency Zimbabwe-style.
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Yes, it is fairly pointless. However, they do mean something exact. You quantify the "within-group" variation not with standard deviations, but by measuring all individuals in a group and finding the endpoints. So you find the tallest white
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But I can guarantee you that those differences are, like differences associated with skin color, far less than the differences between individuals in the same group. I always chuckle when people trot that one out. Did you know it's equall
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That's the way we are. Let me quote Fred: http://fredoneverything.net/HeadSpaces.shtml It would be fascinating to get Zogby to run a poll which would ask the following questions: What does a camshaft do? What is a vertical flyback interv
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Generally not a problem if you don't use much multi-inheritance. Making your objects exception-safe will have lots of benefits -- and it's exceptions that are far more likely to be causing leaks in your code than destructor-order issues. Yo
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I've written low-level C++ calling functions from Fortran and doing all sorts of magic to do out-of-core matrix calculations. I've written high-level C++. Generic code with all my objects cleaning up after themselves. So my experience is th
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It was the author of the article that was doing it.

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