Children aren't born smart. They're made smart by conversation

Post by david927 » Fri, Oct 04, 2013, 5:15 PM UTC

thaumasiotes wrote: post #290

david927 wrote: post #283

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Thanks for taking the time to write that! You presented your ideas extremely well. (And I love this kind of debate.) So I'll accept both premises. And for premise 1, let's imagine the system we use to quantify beauty measures pronouncement of cheekbones and thickness of lips, etc. Premise 2 remains untouched. Here's the problem: Angelina Jolie would score well, but so would Jocelyn Wildenstein (Google image search th…

You asked for the definition. That is the definition. Calling it a "debate" is the kind of thing that leads Kudzu_Bob to assume that questions are asked in bad faith. Whether you're happy with it is a separate question, which you can investigate yourself; there's an extensive literature on the various life consequences of high measured IQ.

eppur si muove

Post by Volpe » Sun, Oct 06, 2013, 12:43 PM UTC

lutusp wrote: post #156

DanBC wrote: post #137

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lutusp has strong anti-psychology sentiments. Conversations about it tend to be, uh, unproductive. EDIT: It's a shame, because a lot of what he says about psychology and the flaws in the science is useful and interesting. Psychology has a lousy history of weak science. And any modern researcher could be making mistakes while striving for good science. So it's nice to hear from someone who does understand the importan…

> lutusp has strong anti-psychology sentiments. Conversations about it tend to be, uh, unproductive. You know, you could address the topic, not the participants. To fail at this is the very definition of counterproductive. > Psychology has a lousy history of weak science. Yep. People have asked me why I focus on psychology, since all fields have embarrassing episodes in which the principles of science are ignored. Th…

Show me that the majority of psychology (and sociology) papers published in reputable journals are unscientific, then publish that in a reputable journal (then just post the link to that article as a response to this comment). As that is what you are claiming. Anything less and you are being hypocritical.

You are making a very big claim, so go and do the work to back it up.

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