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So you are proposing that chemicals cause aggresion in rats, and aggression in humans, but for a different reason? Seems unlikely to me. Double blind experiments do show causation …

>Empirical observations show that chemicals have some correlation with emotions, which does not imply that either causes the other. Timing and randomization shows that chemicals ar…

Ideas could cause aggression, certainly. Lots of things can. However, we DO know chemicals can in humans. Pot and ecs reduce aggression, while meth increase it. I don't know if par…

>I, and a majority of my friends, are in favor of the war. I'm not opposed to it either (1). I guess I'm assuming you live on the coast; if you do, it's very surprising if you know…

No offense, but I'm 99% convinced you've never had a girlfriend. Here is a blog that has links to lots of quantitative evidence. http://www.overcomingbias.com/ For more anecdotal e…

The best explanation I've seen for the disparities within science is reasoning/mathematical ability. String theory ( ) requires the most (all difficult math), experimental condense…

>...So, for example, suppose culture contains a trigger which causes parents to be more discouraging of one type of children's book than another, for girls. ... I could consider su…

>It's easy to make up and describe a cultural factor that would explain the data. For example, the previous shift was about how adult women were treated in public -- open discrimin…

>So I don't know specifically why it is that parents, and others, discourage girls from business and technical areas in particular. Not only technical areas, but also particular te…

> And in particular, it is more repressive of females, and cripples their ability to think more, especially in business and technical areas. Why business and technical areas in par…

It's not clear cut, mainly due to a lack of useful data. I don't know much about the labor market in the UK (your link only discusses employment/unemployment in 2007, not the effec…

>But, as far as I know, there are none in the city limits of Chicago and New York. This isn't because wealthy people don't want to shop there. In both NY and Chicago, unions and th…

>Before replying, please make extra sure that your argument works for women, but not children. That's a very good point, one that I've made in the past. If you try it with a slight…

>The rate of suicide is high among Grad/PhD students because they have to "think outside the box" every single day. They have to find a "breakthrough". That's really not true, thou…

One important fact you miss (and the author missed also). All US bonds are dollar denominated assets. The dollar was hugely overvalued (and still is, but less), as a direct result …

I'm hostile to colleges (and recruiters), though I don't think I count as anti-intellectual (my job is basic research). My reason for opposing colleges (and recruiters) is simple: …

It's true that we were the world leader once upon a time. From the 20's to the early 40's, we had a major competitive advantage: our factories didn't explode much, whereas European…

What companies get is a good chunk of the infrastructure is funded by the public. Most labs get big chunks of money from the government, which funds basic research. As a result of …

There are certainly no problems with supervised recounts. Look how well they go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_gubernatorial_electi... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United…

I agree with you, to a point. But lets not ignore the drawbacks of paper voting: a bunch of old ladies counting paper ballots can have error rates approaching 1%. Better electronic…

You might try looking for controversy. I've thought about this more for reddit/slashdot comments than for polls, but here are my ideas: For comments on a point based site (such as …

For 4, try Calculus on manifolds, then Differential Geometry (both by Michael Spivak).

Some of the many worlds variants make sense. I prefer bohmian mechanics (I can reason about it better), but I have no objection to MW. Ultimately I don't care one way or the other:…

>Universes do not split like that. That would mean many universes were being created from nothing every instant. What actually happens is there are already infinitely many "univers…