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It was more profitable back then.

Quite a cursory "review". I'd recommend 1) updating the meta-analysis of therapeutic RCTs with modern ones, as they're progressively more common 2) Reading more on "folk wisdom" re…

But it was tested time and time again. How vain do you think musicians are? Or rather, do you believe that the idea of early musical education didn't occur to anyone except Mozart'…

Starting an individual business is (normally) not an attempt to improve matters at the system level, unless by matters you mean the ratio of happy/unhappy workers and not the stuct…

You're going too far generalizing from your experience. They can imagine just fine, as their cognition is unimpaired. But humans are learning and planning largely on emotional basi…

The hell do you even know about typical psychopaths?

I have a similar hypothesis (which I don't believe, but still). Suppose there are no psychopaths. As is well known, people's choices of leaders are heavily influenced by biological…

This is of course only my conjecture, seeing as they are undetected unless caught red-handed on some officially recognized crime. However, consider this: violent psychopaths don't …

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Attempts to humanize psychopaths disgust me. As do their clever attempts to derail the talk of their danger by bringing up serial killers. I don't care about serial killers. They'r…

You could combine these ideas, though, and have only a few cars that pull weights up/down the hill, with a crane to load it off. I'm not sure but it could probably allow for a far …

Another factor is initial variance. Russian foxes experiment uses some hundreds of animals, perhaps. Suppose we operate on the scale of millions of specimens, a significant portion…

> Presumably illegal substances are illegal in part based on risk The key word here is "presumably".

You're being petty, rude and irrational. I expect there to be more issues than biotinidase deficiency with you. Do you have any data about the prevalence of this disease? Quick sea…

Equivocation of ad placement and hacking is a disingenious tactic, especially here.

While this is fascinating, I wonder if we could produce the scaffolding itself de novo , and if not, then why? It's not a living thing, just a porous biocompatible structure. At wo…

> If a technology that was much better at doing taxes came along, that would be a more comparable situation. There's no need for it, technology already is good enough. https://www.…

> I think if Luddites really did understand technology, they would have realized that they can't stop it by destroying things, and they can't stop it by attempting to ban it either…

Relevant: https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2018/01/18/why-the-... > There is a widespread belief in contemporary computer dominated societies, that regular people are not a…

While I appreciate your even-handed and careful defense of the point I was making, it's probably necessary to note that I didn't consider the merits of adoption at all. I have no i…

> those are very different concepts They are overlapping. Moreover, "parents on the margin of incarceration" are an extremely significant group of parents for whom the discussion o…

There's no reason to assume that they work to begin with; pretty much nothing ever does in education. But you can examine the failure of Head Start and the general trends in educat…

For what it's worth, children from at-risk families achieve better education when the father ends up incarcerated. So we can absolutely make a case for "ripping families apart" and…

Anecdotal experiences are near worthless when discussing policies, though. Feel insulted all you like; statistically speaking, these resources are wasted. Chances are you'd be equa…