OK. My Klout ranking is back to normal after the May-June focus on the business. I can slow down the posts again, and get back to what I’m paid for rather than what I pay for.
Wait. I pay myself at work too…. (sigh) I can’t win. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2013-07-18 10:40:00 UTC
VIRGINITY AND IQ
(For Fun)
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10882-005-3686-3
Source date (UTC): 2013-07-18 07:16:00 UTC
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289613000810?np=yGENETIC SUPERIORITY EVERYWHERE: 80% NATURE 20% NURTURE
It’s so slow it’s like water torture, but each day we chip away at the progressive fantasy of the blank slate.
(Now, if I’d just gotten the TALL genes, instead of the Breton genes… lol)
MORE ON IQ:
1) More than half of the difference between expert and normal readers is genetic.
2) Expert readers show the same genetic effects as normal readers.
3) Less than a fifth of the expert-normal difference is due to shared environment.
4) Passive models of training regimes imposed on children address ‘what could be’.
5) Active models of selected environments will foster the acquisition of expertise.
Abstract
Rather than investigating the extent to which training can improve performance under experimental conditions (‘what could be’), we ask about the origins of expertise as it exists in the world (‘what is’). We used the twin method to investigate the genetic and environmental origins of exceptional performance in reading, a skill that is a major focus of educational training in the early school years. Selecting reading experts as the top 5% from a sample of 10,000 12-year-old twins assessed on a battery of reading tests, three findings stand out. First, we found that genetic factors account for more than half of the difference in performance between expert and normal readers. Second, our results suggest that reading expertise is the quantitative extreme of the same genetic and environmental factors that affect reading performance for normal readers. Third, growing up in the same family and attending the same schools account for less than a fifth of the difference between expert and normal readers. We discuss implications and interpretations (‘what is inherited is DNA sequence variation’; ‘the abnormal is normal’). Finally, although there is no necessary relationship between ‘what is’ and ‘what could be’, the most far-reaching issues about the acquisition of expertise lie at the interface between them (‘the nature of nurture: from a passive model of imposed environments to an active model of shaped experience’).
Source date (UTC): 2013-07-17 10:24:00 UTC
http://www.inequality.is/PARETO RULES
Source date (UTC): 2013-07-17 01:27:00 UTC
RUSSIAN CRYPTOGRAPHY … AND VODKA
Kirill is drinking beer. And explaining why he doesn’t drink vodka. Because he cant ever remember what happens afterward.
I don’t drink vodka either. It erases all memory. Even the memory of trying to hug everyone. 🙂 Scotch is safer. At least I remember who I hugged. 😉
And during this conversation he explained to me the russian anti cryptographic algorithm thats favored here. It has a flawless record of cracking passwords.
Its called “Thermorectal cryptography”.
I’m such an idiot that i didn’t get it. But I don’t doubt its success record.
Sigh.
Source date (UTC): 2013-07-16 15:50:00 UTC
http://lb-stage.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/07/chinas-marriage-market?fsrc=rssHYPERGAMY AND OTHER TRAITS
We rarely are this honest about ourselves. And fail to grasp the role of property rights in reproduction. We were right, they copied us.
The other asian difference thats interesting is their concept of harmony vs our concept of equality. They are right. We used to be like them.
Their use of verbs and ours of nouns. Looks like science favors particularists and we are right.
Their use of lies, deception, and delay, and our use of truth and conflict to resolve problems quickly. We are right because of the external consequences if deception.
They have no illusion about the nature of man. We have confused the ideal that we aspire to with the factual nature of man. Both of us have failed in this respect.
Source date (UTC): 2013-07-16 03:17:00 UTC
BRAVADO
Funny. Lots of posturing males in the States. Depends on class and area. Seattle always seemed so civilized to me compared to the rather barbaric east coast. But then, it never had the race and culture integration problems we did in the eastern cities.
Russian and Ukrainian men are really interesting. Not a lot of time for posturing. Low barrier to ‘punching in the face’. Happens absurdly fast. First hint of threat. None of this holding and wrestling and resisting thing. Just knuckles and jaws. Lots of knockouts. No beating while he’s down.
(I live above a pub.)
Very polite society really.
I love the men here. Life has such ‘clarity’. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2013-07-14 20:02:00 UTC
STUDYING
OK…. Gotta go learn the rest of “Nothing Else Matters” and work on “Still Lovin’ You” cause my Nirvana repertoire is too small, and I blow my voice after two songs.
Crowd pleasers are:
– Heart Shaped Box,
– Smells Like Team Spirit – always works. Guaranteed.
– Turn the Page – gets me standing O’s when I kick in the blues but it’s not popular enough.
– Sweet Dreams (Manson)
Gut Courses:
– Hallelujah for late night.
– Various REM (Stipe doesn’t sing, he sort of talks texturally on key.)
I can’t do Aerosmith any more, or most Scorpions, because I’ve lost my high range – totally flat up there at any volume at all. Sad. Tool songs are too long. No one knows Breaking Benjamin and they’re brutal on the voice box. I’d have to work on my breathing a lot to do nickelback.
Sigh.. A man’s work is never done… 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2013-07-13 12:37:00 UTC
CORRECT PALEO DIET EPISTEMOLOGY
It isn’t that our bodies haven’t evolved very quickly under agrarianism.
Paleo is a rule of thumb for avoiding complex fats and sugars.
Criticism of paleo on evolutionary grounds is as absurd as defending it in evolutionary grounds.
Net is that if you eat Paleo you are just eating fewer things that are bad for you.
Misapplication if the logic of evolution both in support and criticism is particularly ironic for some reason or another. 😉
Its amazing so few of us still think the world is flat. :/
Its hopeless really. The enlightenment was at best a marginal improvement.
Sigh.
Source date (UTC): 2013-07-13 08:44:00 UTC
http://www.criticalrationalism.net/2013/07/13/the-meta-problem-of-induction/INDUCTION DISTILLED
Source date (UTC): 2013-07-13 06:35:00 UTC