There are many types of personality, but only one type of intelligence
What would it be like to live in a world reversed: a single personality, but many intelligences?
I still see modish pieces about "fluid" vs "crystallized" intelligence. Apparently fluid intelligence is just g in disguise, and crystallized is just picked up by culture loaded tests?
Carl Friedrich Gout?
Like so much suppressed folk knowledge, "Nerdy Four Eyes" is accurate:
Head size appears causally related to intelligence, but the link between height and intelligence probably just reflects assortative mating; both traits are highly sought in mates
Intelligence appears to cause happiness, and much more so than socioeconomic status does
Yet we spend trillions on demonstrably useless "anti poverty" programs. If we eliminated taxes, more parents could afford embryo selection for smarter kids.
Libet's experimental "disproofs" of free will are open to all kinds of criticism, but this experiment from Jensen seems more watertight:
One of the findings that surprised me most from the field of intelligence research is that reaction times are a good reflection of cognitive ability.
And it's hard to see how culture could affect reaction times. It suggests IQ differences reflect neurological differences.
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A sample of white Rhodesians in the 1960s suggested a mean IQ of 108. From personal experience in that part of the world, I find this believable. South Africans laugh when I tell them that Saffas are the most impressive whites I've met anywhere.
The first thing you notice in English southern Africa is the physical robustness of the whites. The second thing you notice is the entrepreneurial spirit. In Rhodesia, maybe it was selection from among competent and bellicose Scots.
Pakistanis are not weird, Europeans are weird. Australian aboriginals ritually gang rape prepubescent girls, 30% of Africans in convenience surveys *admit* to having raped, Amerindians set records for child pregnancies, Gazan civilians came through the fences to join the raping
Bus just disgorged 50 "inner city" youth onto quiet exurb playground, 17yos now brachiating over play equipment, yuppie parents scattering with toddlers like leaves before a sudden wind
This is the noise from 110 yards away
We are waiting for 20-something scholar to finish using the swing as some sort of surfboard
Reading about Ram Air Turbines after the Air India 171 crash and came across this puzzling picture of Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303. How is the aircraft airborne after "both engines and generators failed due to a belly landing"?
Ok, they landed without landing gear, skidded for 18 seconds, and decided to take off again for a go around. How does that happen?
The aircraft was twice as high as it should have been for its approach, the pilots were making decisions without talking to each other, and in a weird show of braggadocio the Captain decided to "surprise" ATC by continuing to land rather than go around