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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"In almost all the great peasant nations, marriage for women is soon after puberty, in the late teens. This congrats strongly with the late age at marriage, twenty-five or later, found in parts of northwestern Europe from at least the 16th century"
The 1976 Soweto student uprising is mythologized as an early noble skirmish in the fight against Apartheid. But the commencing act of violence was a student stabbing a female teacher with a screwdriver because he didn't want to learn Afrikaans.
Much stoning of police and police vehicles. Much revolutionary not doing of homework.
The riots soon became an excuse for gangsters ("tsotsis") to loot businesses
Was the French Revolution a race war, a slaughter of Nordics by Alpines?
Madison Grant thought that stereoscopic vision evolved to allow accurate brachiation. Similar to @MarkChangizi's theory that it evolved to see through leaf clutter
The Yankee establishes the frontier, the Germanic develops it.