Curt Doolittle

Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • TEACHERS AREN”T SKILLED THEY ARE TALENTED There is no functional difference betw

    TEACHERS AREN”T SKILLED THEY ARE TALENTED

    There is no functional difference between a teacher with three months of training and one with twenty years of experience. In fact, it appears that we are better off with teachers who have three months of training, because they bring more passion to an industry that like entertainment, is dependent more on emotional devotion than wisdom.

    We would be far better off Rotating retirees through the educational system than continuing the masquerade that teaching gradeschool students is a profession.

    Whether you like this or not is not something that I can compensate for. It is simply a fact of life. Making a protected career for the bottom 16% of high school graduates out of what should be a social service conducted by those people who have demonstrated success in other careers, is simply nonsensical.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-06 06:33:00 UTC

  • SORTING IN SOCIAL GROUPS Online dating sites are a gold mine for social science.

    http://www.temple.edu/ipa/events/documents/MalhotraPoliticalSortinginSocialRelationships.pdfPOLITICAL SORTING IN SOCIAL GROUPS

    Online dating sites are a gold mine for social science.

    (ht: Cowen )

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-04 08:36:00 UTC

  • THE MARKET FOR AFFECTION : RANDOM THOUGHTS Yes, ladies, you can manipulate us. Y

    THE MARKET FOR AFFECTION : RANDOM THOUGHTS

    Yes, ladies, you can manipulate us. Yes, we understand that you can manipulate us. Yes, we know when you are manipulating us. Yes, we pretend that we don’t know you are manipulating us. The fact is, we like it. It’s attention. And attention from women is almost always good (except nagging). It’s a mutually beneficial game if played well. Understand? Good. I’m glad we got that out of the way. Now lets get back to the game. OK?

    🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-04 04:09:00 UTC

  • MORAL SPATIAL REASONING I might have been wrong about something interesting. For

    MORAL SPATIAL REASONING

    I might have been wrong about something interesting.

    For years I have understood that Europeans have superior spatial reasoning especially in the perception of the locations of others in real time. Europeans are followed by east Asians.

    But I assumed that this was a product of military or hunting selection.

    It didn’t occur to me that it is the product of morality: understanding of the intentions of others, and that hunting and fighting superiority, particularly in Europe and Asia evolved as extensions of the moral instinct.

    So does it mean that our concept of time preference should be restated in moral terms?

    We know that time preference, impulsivity and morality are correlated with social class. And that intelligence is also.

    We know that Europeans and east Asians are the least impulsive people. Asians less impulsive than Europeans.

    We know that only east Asians and europeans were able to create advanced societies and that only Europeans were able to break familial bonds.

    But are these all simply effects of greater sensitivity to and priority given to, the detection of intentions for the purpose of seizing opportunities to cooperate : morality?

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-02 02:19:00 UTC

  • EFFECT IS JUST CHILDHOOD ADVANCEMENT. ADULTS IN THE AGGREGATE ARE STILL GETTING

    http://menghusblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/28/ability-differentials-between-nations-are-unlikely-to-disappear/FLYNN EFFECT IS JUST CHILDHOOD ADVANCEMENT. ADULTS IN THE AGGREGATE ARE STILL GETTING ‘DUMBER’ BECAUSE OF DIFFERENCES IN BREEDING RATES

    Source date (UTC): 2012-10-29 05:54:00 UTC

  • Freud Distracted Intellectual Progress As Much As Did Marx

    FREUD WAS A FOOL AND AS MUCH OF AN INTELLECTUAL DISASTER FOR MANKIND AS MARX [H]umans are driven by status signals. The purpose of status signals may in fact INCLUDE access to reproduction, but that is only one of the may uses of signals. Without signals we cannot know whom to imitate. Without those signals we literally cannot think. We cannot think without signals any more than we can perceive beyond our fingertips without numbers, counting and arithmetic. We cannot think without signals any more than we can think about the future in a division of knowledge and labor without the tools of time, money and prices. The human accounting system is status signals. Unlike the properties of the physical world, which we need numbers, measures, counting, arithmetic to sense, and unlike the economic world of our productive cooperation where we need money and prices to sense each other’s wants and needs, we need no tools to sense status signals. They are the only fine measurements we can grasp without abstract tools.

  • FREUD WAS A FOOL AND AS MUCH OF AN INTELLECTUAL DISASTER FOR MANKIND AS MARX Hum

    FREUD WAS A FOOL AND AS MUCH OF AN INTELLECTUAL DISASTER FOR MANKIND AS MARX

    Humans are driven by status signals. The purpose of status signals may in fact INCLUDE access to reproduction, but that is only one of the may uses of signals. Without signals we cannot know whom to imitate. Without those signals we literally cannot think. We cannot think without signals any more than we can perceive beyond our fingertips without numbers, counting and arithmetic. We cannot think without signals any more than we can think about the future in a division of knowledge and labor without the tools of time, money and prices.

    The human accounting system is status signals. Unlike the properties of the physical world, which we need numbers, measures, counting, arithmetic to sense, and unlike the economic world of our productive cooperation where we need money and prices to sense each other’s wants and needs, we need no tools to sense status signals. They are the only fine measurements we can grasp without abstract tools.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-10-24 06:27:00 UTC

  • TEN LIES ONLINE

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-hodge/online-dating-lies_b_1930053.htmlTOP TEN LIES ONLINE

    Source date (UTC): 2012-10-12 02:46:00 UTC

  • STORIES One of the best gifts that you can give to people is the gift of a story

    STORIES

    One of the best gifts that you can give to people is the gift of a story. With an interesting story, people can both obtain attention from others that they desire, and provide entertainment for others in a social circumstance.

    Sandro and I are trying to craft a story for monday. A gift for our friends in Bodrum. 🙂 I hope we are successful.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-09-29 19:53:00 UTC

  • PSYCHOLOGY Well, I”m glad we have enough empirical evidence now that we can stat

    http://righteousmind.com/largest-study-of-libertarian-psych/LIBERTARIAN PSYCHOLOGY

    Well, I”m glad we have enough empirical evidence now that we can state the obvious;

    1) Libertarians are the least emotive and most rational segment of the ideological triangle.

    2) Libertarians are the highest IQ segment of the ideological triangle.

    3) Libertarians really do put liberty first and foremost at all times.

    What Haidt doesn’t get to is this:

    4) Libertarians are the most economically literate segment of the ideological triangle.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-09-24 20:15:00 UTC