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Yes, behavioral genetics is the climate science of the left. If there are PhDs and university departments studying it, I'm not gonna be someone who sticks there head in the sand for the sake of their flavor of political identity.
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> Someone rich spending a lot of money to obtain tutoring doesn't necessarily make their score higher, and there's also diminishing returns. Someone poor who do not afford private tutoring can also receive good score due to their natural talent and/or hard work in self-teaching/practicing. If these are outliers it isn't really meritocratic. If there 100 desired spots that are allocated by the exam, and 1000 students,…
In the US at least most schools take into account both test scores and social economic factors.
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Don’t wealthier families hire tutors to prepare their children? That’s what happens in the US with the SAT/ACT. I think you’d need free, universal SAT tutoring available to everyone in order to be more meritocratic.
> Don’t wealthier families hire tutors to prepare their children? Effect of tutoring is greatly overstated.
The most interesting results is that the title is true only for females - for males the beauty premium persisted!
Male beauty is so powerful it can be transmitted over TCP/IP?
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Looking at all the horrible and macabre weapons of warfare, destruction, and death that humans have created, I find it hard to believe those instruments were imagined, engineered, and developed by unintelligent individuals.
They weren't. Intelligent people can be anti-social too, and usually with terrifying large scale outcomes. But thankfully, most crime in the aggregate is done by unintelligent people.
> most crime in the aggregate is done by unintelligent people.
That is a tough one. For I believe there is more to reality than what data can currently capture. While I do agree that most violent crime is carried out by unintelligent people, there is an untold amount of crimes being committed by individuals that are average to beyond intelligent. So, I would argue the unintelligent ones get caught more frequently and that skews the perception that they commit more crime.
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If you are unable to provide a specific source for your claim, you probably made it up.
If you don't know the people doing work in this field today, and instead are just Googling "heritability of IQ numbers" (which would explain the Wilson Effect paper you kind of inexplicably posted) you can find previous threads that I've discussed this in using the search bar below. Either way, "you probably just made this up" is not OK on HN.
I'd trust social scientists less today than 20 years ago due to the effect of social media on them. Social media creates much stronger social pressure on people to conform, and that isn't a good thing for science.
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> Before I felt mostly invisible but since then got approached in bars all the time, which rarely happened before. Physical attractiveness is extremely relevant in the context of cold approaches in a dating environment. I won’t disagree with you there. However getting approached at bars is very different than working with someone in an office setting or having your papers graded in a university setting.
Its pretty much all that matters when we reduced dating to a profile pic and a swipe. You don't get to show off confidence or hobbies or way of life 99% of the time. Just a few seconds and a picture. The rest comes later. >getting approached at bars is very different than working with someone in an office setting or having your papers graded in a university setting. I wonder if thats changed, too. School is probably…
You can also list your job, that matters a lot more than your profile picture if you are a man, doctors easily get dates etc.
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If you don't know the people doing work in this field today, and instead are just Googling "heritability of IQ numbers" (which would explain the Wilson Effect paper you kind of inexplicably posted) you can find previous threads that I've discussed this in using the search bar below. Either way, "you probably just made this up" is not OK on HN.
Do you have any argument as to why what a social scientist says today is more valid than what one said 20 years ago? I'd trust social scientists less today than 20 years ago due to the effect of social media on them. Social media creates much stronger social pressure on people to conform, and that isn't a good thing for science.
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>After a breakup I started being more active again... Was it the changes or the breakup itself? Most men don't get "good" at dating until they become a certain amount of jaded. Hence the stereotypical freshly divorced man mopping the floor with the dating pool. The changes sure wouldn't have hurt, but still.
Is there a stereotype about newly divorced men being really good at dating? If anything I thought it was the opposite.
> If anything I thought it was the opposite.
Think of it in another context, who do you think have an easier time getting a job, a guy with 10 years of experience that currently doesn't have a job or a guy that never had a job? It is possible the guy with 10 years of experience got fired for a good reason, but on average most people want the guy with experience.
Men don't evaluate women for the same things, so it can be a bit hard to understand, but it makes perfect sense once you understand it. Rather it is weird that men don't value women with experience the way women do with men.
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Without learning the material? Unlikely. Without understanding the material? More likely. Feynman made such an observation while in Brazil: https://enlightenedidiot.net/random/feynman-on-brazilian-edu...
Ok that’s a very good criticism. My take away is the assessment method must force the student to actually apply understanding and application of the material, and not simply look y regurgitate it.
What you are describing, or the lack thereof, is how the majority of my public education in a Southern US state felt. Ironically, my county had the highest test scores in the state too. Then again, perhaps that isn't ironic after all...