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"Education" (h.s. diploma, b.a. degree, ma/phd, etc.) is one feature of the electorate and the elected. A given level of educational attainment means ...
June 11, 2018 at 14:02
It would appear that there is a reasonable amount of education in Congress. Donald Trump has a bachelors degree in economics from Wharton School of Bu...
June 10, 2018 at 23:24
Those dratted science types!
June 10, 2018 at 23:17
In a (specific, limited way) we don't know how we think; most of our thinking is carried out by the non-conscious mind. Is it linear? or non-linear? B...
June 10, 2018 at 20:58
Cephalopoda have tremendous camouflage capabilities which, alone, require a lot of brain. Given a lot of brain, it is perhaps unfortunate that they do...
June 10, 2018 at 19:09
Our visitors from VZ'X planet might have exactly the same intelligence as we have, but altogether lack a feature which is central to our minds -- emot...
June 10, 2018 at 18:54
In: Morality  — view comment
"Intrinsic morality" seems to be limited to some very general things like empathy. We seem to be wired to feel (approximately) what other people are f...
June 10, 2018 at 14:50
Yeah, well... what IS the secret of keeping people like Donald Trump out of office? I don't think he at all psychopathic; he seems to be quite narciss...
June 10, 2018 at 04:45
People very much liked listening to him. Radio was relatively new in 1932, and hadn't previously been employed for political purposes to any great ext...
June 10, 2018 at 04:37
ALL personalities (everybody) will display undesirable traits at times. I agree; people who are very psychopathic do not behave normally; they do not ...
June 10, 2018 at 03:47
Maybe the next logical step is determining whether there is any truth in the claims that such and such an actual leader is disabled by some quality. M...
June 10, 2018 at 01:23
What makes it possible to groom generals are formally established ranks and grades through which careerists can climb. Universities (collectively) hav...
June 10, 2018 at 01:09
I'm not an anti-natalist, even if the world is going to hell. Some people I used to hang around with painted themselves into a corner of high dudgeon,...
June 10, 2018 at 00:51
In: What now?  — view comment
Individuals have to be at least reasonably mentally intact to state here that they have a serious psychological condition for which medication will be...
June 09, 2018 at 04:56
Don't liquor stores deliver in Atlanta?
June 09, 2018 at 04:23
Of course it's legal -- how do you think terminal alcoholics get their cases of booze? Look for 1 hour delivery in your zip code. When you need a drin...
June 09, 2018 at 04:20
I've been searching all over the Catholic Internet for the answer to whether "admission of guilt under the influence" counts as a sincere confession, ...
June 09, 2018 at 04:15
Are there no liquor stores that deliver?
June 09, 2018 at 01:44
Through, not IN Scientific American. The 5 quick and dirty tips are clichés, indeed. Such 'tips' are effective for people who are already happy-minded...
June 09, 2018 at 00:28
You live in a time of "positive psychology" wherein healthy=happy, wherein negative=sick. The positivity of the times is shallow. People are expected ...
June 08, 2018 at 20:30
It's a reciprocal relationship... feeling thinking feeling thinking experience feeling memory thinking perception thinking feeling... Then "a network ...
June 08, 2018 at 15:37
Emotions (from whence comes preference) are the mainspring of the mind. It isn't that "we think with the limbic system" rather, some thoughts are plea...
June 08, 2018 at 05:41
In: What now?  — view comment
By "work" I don't mean formal, or even informal "work". I really mean a personal project that engages you. "Work" sucks -- that's why they have to pay...
June 07, 2018 at 21:10
In: What now?  — view comment
Hmmm, "maybe a little eccentric". Perhaps, yes, at least a little. Some of us do not have a problem with the word "crazy" -- just to give you a heads ...
June 07, 2018 at 18:17
People do use IQ for that purpose, true enough. Plus school performance crime rates unemployment drug use vocabulary clothing styles (only a moron wou...
June 07, 2018 at 16:26
So, I knew Clark Kent. Jorel? Who? I wouldn't have been able to say who played Superman if my life had depended on it, though I did see a Batman movie...
June 07, 2018 at 16:19
Most people are given paper and pencil IQ tests which are mostly achievement tests. That's the kind of test we all took when I was in school -- not th...
June 07, 2018 at 16:04
An aspiring young violinist from Kansas gets off the bus in New York City and asks the first passerby "How do I get to Carnegie Hall?" The New Yorker ...
June 07, 2018 at 15:18
It should be mentioned somewhere here that the 'best' IQ test, the Stanford Binet, is individually administered. It's not a paper and pencil test. The...
June 07, 2018 at 15:12
By 'mediocrity' do you mean 'average'? Most people are 'average'. But it isn't testing that condemns children to mediocrity, it's the aim of education...
June 07, 2018 at 07:09
I have been reading the diary of Victor Klemperer, a German (Jewish) professor; it covers about 13 years, up to 1945. He struggles to figure out "what...
June 07, 2018 at 06:56
see above.
June 07, 2018 at 05:19
This comment is the sort that can derail a discussion. White people's assumptions about the stupidity of black people were I'm place a long time befor...
June 07, 2018 at 05:18
Testing is not a useless racist exercise. IQ tests -- or any other kind of test -- are intended to distinguish between differing characteristics of in...
June 07, 2018 at 05:00
"Social Work" is not a once-size-fits-all degree. The are bachelor level social work degrees, masters level social work degrees, and masters degrees w...
June 07, 2018 at 04:15
The only reason I am arguing with you over this is that people who live in fear of getting horrible diseases from environmental contact (door knobs, m...
June 07, 2018 at 03:56
If the UK is anything like the USA, the "silent Hepatitis C epidemic" definitely IS brewing. Hep C has a very long incubation period--decades. Otherwi...
June 07, 2018 at 03:48
No. The "fooling, stupid, screwed up view of the world" belongs to people who think that they will be rich someday, when there is less than a snowball...
June 07, 2018 at 03:16
Noam Chomsky. Posty, I just don't think most people object that much to most government activities. The People and The Government are reasonably well ...
June 06, 2018 at 17:25
One change that occurred after 9/11/2001 was the deployment of the term "homeland" as in "Homeland Security". The US hand not previously employed such...
June 06, 2018 at 04:02
One of the things that stimulates paranoia and fear is erratic change and uncertainty. Americans, like people all over the world are more subject to u...
June 06, 2018 at 03:45
I like the guy, but Professor Chomsky is just about 90 years old. Maybe he isn't writing fresh, interesting analyses anymore. I mean, one can't keep p...
June 06, 2018 at 03:24
You can not use the Bible to justify slavery BECAUSE the Bible is not a foundational document for any state, with the possible exception of Israel -- ...
June 06, 2018 at 03:06
And just what other interpretation is there? Go right ahead and use the Bible to justify slavery, but tell us where in the Bible god commanded us to p...
June 05, 2018 at 21:31
On the other hand, the person you ran over probably regretted being born, anyway, so really -- justified homicide.
June 05, 2018 at 07:09
Your making the assumption that "casual sex" produces meaningless pleasure. You will hear it here first: There is no such thing as meaningless sex. Pe...
June 05, 2018 at 07:06
"There was a young guy who lived in a shoe. He fathered so many children he didn't know what to do. Evidently." It isn't as if our casual sexers have ...
June 05, 2018 at 03:50
Do you really believe that?
June 05, 2018 at 03:25
That's right, and rightly so. Someone walking down the street babbling a word salad is diagnosable (by the way, "raving madman" is not a diagnosis, th...
June 05, 2018 at 03:21