Tag: science
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The differences between pseudosciences and evolutionary psychology
Some people claim evolutionary psychology is a pseudoscience just like any other. No hard evidence, no core observations, no skeletons we could match with others and no DNA analysis that would tell us more about our prehistoric behavior that actually exists to these days. But putting it on the same level with astrology, creationism, homeopathy,…
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Free will and the wealth of the nations
I am not an Adam Smith and this article about free will and the wealth of nations is definitely not a sequel to his genius book. However, the article plays with the notion that nearly all people believe in free will. However there are major disparities between individual nations and their subsequent wealth. So where…
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Dear parents, don’t push your children, push the educational system
People, especially pushy caring parents (especially South Korean or Ashkenazi Jewish), are doing things upside down. They should push their children to excel in the formal educational system (but not to the detriment of their psychological state), however, the current educational system is a useful maid of the super-rich that control the politicians and it…
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Opinion polls. How people want to be regarded as more stupid than they are
In my culture, people look at top managers as professionals who do best in what they do. Needless to say, the eventual managers change, and are rewarded differently, but in the opinions of the common people, it doesn’t matter. So one business magazine had been asking them various questions about various topics. And the results…
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New York City, the best mating place and our prehistoric instincts. Why is it different nowadays?
The world’s most populous cities hold a special place in the hearts of people. Traveling and immigration to other places are our evolutionary adaptations how to spread our selfish genes. When people live at their original places, they find a lack of mating partners, resources, reciprocal altruism, status potential, forming alliances and security (large groups…
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Why even a modern conservative cannot be a freethinker?
I post this article both on my blog and Freethinkers International. And I am sure my own blog more than aware readers have their opinion already formed. Yet, the ongoing debate on Freethinkers International has provoked me to write this piece. We live in megacities, use electricity, have microchips, atomic bombs, high-speed trains, however, we…
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Do IQ tests actually measure IQ? Who nearly murdered Wechsler? And are they too politically correct? Pinker vs. Spelke “feud”
There is no doubt that the discovery of the g factor was a really significant effort. No matter what the g factor (the product of it is IQ) is, it’s so important that it strongly correlates with formal education achievement, job prestige, job performance, morbidity and mortality. It is something extremely important but it is…
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Are high-IQ people on the low socioeconomic ladder not so intelligent?
I am the last one to deny that the g factor is one of the most important concepts in humanities. However, some psychometrists were so enthusiastic when the median of cognitively less and more demanding professions and their subsequent correlation with the g factor showed that there are minimum requirements for different occupations (Schmidt, Hunter…
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Sexual intelligence, gaming intelligence? Theory of multiple intelligences and its criticism. A huge embarrassment for the scholar who developed it
The concept of the g factor (IQ) is the very ability to solve very general problems. It strongly correlates with socioeconomic outcomes such as job, educational attainment, but also morbidity and morality. It strongly correlates with talents, creativity and memory abilities. When you can put only two things in your head simultaneously you won’t be…
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Why is impossible for a lot of people to leave their faith?
The truth that all religions are false is nearly (I always want to leave a certain piece of probability; unlike the vast majority of believers) indisputable. Just for starter: evolution (including that religion is a product of it), karma, soul, prayer, creation, Gods, cycle of life, death, and rebirth, or a single, finite earthly life…