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If your claim is that the book you have recommended ... is the last word on the subject That would be an audacious claim, considering the book is rather old and only 200 pages. I r…

I have not read Stanovich's book but it does not appear to be an appropriate introduction to the subject of intelligence. I suspect you recommend these "newer and better" books bec…

There is a lot of data on this question, and it flatly contradicts Asimov's claims. IQ scores correlate not only with academic performance but also with job performance as well as …

The combination of IQ and "chutzpah" is the essence of the entrepreneurial personality. If Jews are (for whatever reason) disposed to be high on these traits, it's certainly a suff…

A related theory (PDF): http://homepage.mac.com/harpend/.Public/AshkenaziIQ.jbiosocs...

It's pretty simple. People who think in personal, emotional terms tend to explain the world that way, while people who think more logically/mechanically explain the world that way.…

Dawkins is a classic yellowist ( http://paulgraham.com/say.html ). Megawatts of brain power spent on arguing with idiots.

Ritalin. Only thing that's ever worked for me.

No one has proved that technology won't one day make everyone grow to 6 feet and live 200 years. In fact that could quite plausibly happen. But you'd still be a fool to count on it…

Course catalogs tell you nothing. They're stuffed with appealing descriptions of courses which may or may not end up on the schedule, and when they do, may or may not resemble the …

If you want to learn, then going to a Respected Research University is a waste of time and money. The quality of teaching at such places is often pathetically bad. Prestige comes f…

Zero is not defined to be even. A number is even if it's twice some integer. Zero is twice an integer (namely 0), so it's even. If you try to bring personal intuition into mathemat…

Haskell does well in benchmarks but this hides the fact that its performance is very unpredictable. Try it and you'll see what I mean. Also, Common Lisp does well in benchmarks but…

http://www.springerlink.com/content/6dydh0fawxuuhg1r/ The African American adolescents had a lower birth weight, a lower verbal IQ, and a higher number of sexual partners than did …

Body size varies more within dog breeds than between them I have never understood what this means. "Within-group" variation can be quantified as standard deviation (among other met…

True, but in this case, the template serves a different purpose from the macro. It's there to make zap polymorphic, and would be unnecessary in a dynamic or type-inferred language.…

C++ version: template void zap (T (*f)(T x), T &x) { x = f(x); } Example: int square (int x) { return x*x; } int foo[5] = {1,2,3,4,5}; zap (square, foo[3]); // foo is now {1,2,3,16…

behaving in ways that maximise achievment of your goal(s) But that's exactly what IQ tests measure, at least in the context of academic and job performance. IQ tests are used becau…

So how is rationality defined and how is it measured? Does it correlate with any important life outcomes such as income, academic performance or law-abidingness? He says that irrat…

Are you related to this Stanovich guy, or do you just like repeating yourself? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=536558 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=565842 http://news.yco…

Our culture does something to screw most of them up If that's true, there ought to be some culture that doesn't have this problem. Can you name one?