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There is a huge amount of internalized oppression among nerds. In spite of all the benefits that the internet and computers have brought to humanity, and in spite of all the benefi…

I disagree, the law does provide these exceptions but I (and presumably the author) don't find these exceptions to be comprehensive enough to render the unqualified statement of th…

I don't really see support for that in the article, but most of the details are in the individual studies. The study does say Kanazawa notes that intelligence correlates positively…

In my experience, intelligence is correlated with bad dress sense, lack of hygiene, awkward personalities and poor motor skills. I know a lot of professional mathematicians, and th…

I'm sure most people would not deny this mechanism exists. The distinction is whether one focuses on this mechanism (correct Bayesian inference) or the various biases and feedback …

you've just expressed a great counterpoint to https://xkcd.com/1357/ . Furthermore, it's not just a matter of ISPs. Because of its refusal to censor various kinds of content, sites…

Isn't the concept of an "information bubble" already inherently relativistic? sevenless was simply pointing out the relativism cuts both ways.

As someone with a PhD in economics, and a believer in the what the mainstream econ departments teach, I still found this article very reasonable. I hope no one will take this artic…

I have a PhD in economics, and your claims about monopolies and competition aren't accurate. Economic theory doesn't state that monopolies always arise, at least not under the circ…

On what basis do you say that meta-analysis is not credible? From my stats background, (but without any direct experience in meta-analysis) I would say that they could be problemat…

One thing that is glossed over slightly in these discussions is the distinction between collections of sound-meaning compound characters where the rebus is the same but the words a…

Yes, that is an equivalent phrase, but much less commonly used than 加油 and "gi' det gas".

I mean in English it isn't used as a generic encouragement, while in Mandarin and Danish it is.

Almost certainly. One fascinating aspect of language is that many metaphors that are baked into language appear in many languages. E.g. In English we can form the future tense with…

Proponents of diversity engage in non-Bayesian updating whereby if a non-diverse company/city/person does well, they update their prior that the system is rigged, but if a diverse …

The problem with the Situationists is that they have no political program. They refuse to describe how they would like the world to be, instead coming up with convoluted explanatio…

I'm not sure about that. I'm not saying this boy's parents pushed him into this path, but by virtue of their own education (mother has a PhD, not sure about the father) they would …

While I don't know if this is the right path for the kid, or if he really is a genius (from the article he seems very smart) your comment comes across as mean spirited. Do you not …

There is another source of animosity, which is by progressives whose ideology states that White middle class culture is qualitatively different to other cultures. While one might t…

I think that a "biological basis" means something different to you than to me. How exactly do these studies show that depression is different from being unhappy? Did they study the…

I don't have time to read every book out there, so when I look for answers to questions like this I look for sources that are authoritative, that is, sources that summarize the maj…

There seems to be a huge gap between what psychiatrists believe and how psychiatric knowledge is presented to the general public. For example, I'm not aware of any scientific evide…

Maybe I'm just a third level contrarian, but I don't think one can reject mainstream advice on, for example, saturated fat simply because the USDA changed their mind on cholesterol…

when I say "positive statement" I mean in the positive/normative sense.

It's natural for compassionate people to prefer to characterize addition as a disease, because it gives a powerful argument for treating people with addiction compassionately. But …