Tag: Steven Pinker
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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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The ordeal of being a Czech native speaker
Imagine being an English language native speaker. You can use your language wherever you are. You can reach out to a 1 billion audience without learning a foreign language. All the difficult and bookish words create your rich vocabulary (I used to be on the path to having a rich English vocabulary but the illnesses…
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The billion-dollar book
Imagine if the government made a billion-dollar offer to write book which ideas would enhance humanity to really high degree. No, such a thing won’t happen. The smartest people go to the banking, business, engineering or (talking about the West) science. So there are few books with great ideas. Notably, Steven Pinker writes great books…
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Suicide – 95 % of them are completely senseless
I know what I am talking about. I used to choose bridges from which to jump. But since I wasn’t sure whether it was the right decision, I asked super-smart people like Steven Pinker, Peter Kinderman or John Read. Yes, I am battling mental illnesses, and since you have had an awful divorce, you are…