Curt Doolittle

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  • ALL MEASUREMENTS CONSIST OF TESTIMONY OF THE PERSONS RECORDING AND REPORTING THE

    ALL MEASUREMENTS CONSIST OF TESTIMONY OF THE PERSONS RECORDING AND REPORTING THE MEASUREMENT

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    —“All the data we collect is true, right? Nobody lies about their weight, or their age. No salespeople have ever exaggerated their figures. No manager ever covered their ass with selective reporting. No teacher has ever fudged some grades. No scientist has ever fabricated data. Surely, the data is just data. It exists. This is wrong. Data does not have some kind of independent existence. It is always asserted by some agent (a device, sensor, person, or process). But if you separate that data value from its provenance – if you treat it as a kind of truth, instead of as a story told by a particular device, then what do you do when you discover the calibration is off and it has been over-reporting the temperature? To divorce data from its provenance and behave like it is an existential /ontological entity, is a fundamental misclassification.”—

    Actually it’s just lying. A nasty common habit. By which we seek to avoid blame.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-23 09:20:00 UTC

  • LET’S CLARIFY WHAT THIS MEANS: SMARTER PEOPLE CARRY DUMBER PEOPLE. HIERARCHIES E

    LET’S CLARIFY WHAT THIS MEANS: SMARTER PEOPLE CARRY DUMBER PEOPLE. HIERARCHIES EVERYWHERE.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-23 09:13:00 UTC

  • “I don’t care how big all your all c–ks are. Women are women and you still need

    —“I don’t care how big all your all c–ks are. Women are women and you still need us at the end of the day. So you can be smart about it or suffer. That’s Natural Law. LOL. There I said it.”— Megan K. Usui

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-22 20:50:00 UTC

  • “The experiments instead showed that higher individual IQ enhances group perform

    —“The experiments instead showed that higher individual IQ enhances group performance such that individual IQ determined 100% of latent group-IQ. Implications for future work on group-based achievement are examined.”—

    it’s just iq. get over it. some people are more valuable than others. some less than others. its just reality

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-22 18:37:00 UTC

  • So wait. Mother’s instinct is bad? Intelligence and conscientiousness are key pr

    So wait. Mother’s instinct is bad?

    Intelligence and conscientiousness are key predictors of all important life outcomes, such as socioeconomic success, marital status, health and longevity. It is unclear, however, if and to what extent lay people appreciate these dimensions of individual differences. Here, 142 mothers of 0–12 month old infants were asked to select from each of the Big Five personality traits the facets that they most liked their child to have. Afterwards, mothers rank-ordered the facets they had selected and ‘intelligence’ from most to least important for their child to have. Less than 10% of mothers rated intelligence and the conscientiousness facet as most important. By contrast, 51% rated the extraversion facet as most important, followed by 20% of mothers who favoured the agreeableness facet. Our results suggest that mothers preferred extraversion over intelligence and conscientiousness, despite their strong, empirically demonstrated predictive validity for important life outcomes.

    Keywords

    Big Five; Conscientiousness; Extraversion; Intelligence; Parenting; Personality

    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886917304865

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-22 18:26:00 UTC

  • Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf): “Mothers want extraversion over conscientiousness or in

    https://t.co/rgkpJu0IN6Retweeted Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf):

    “Mothers want extraversion over conscientiousness or intelligence for their children.” https://t.co/rgkpJu0IN6 https://t.co/qcN1XMKeGI

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-22 18:24:00 UTC

  • Retweeted Geoffrey Miller (@primalpoly): Group performance isn’t determined by ‘

    Retweeted Geoffrey Miller (@primalpoly):

    Group performance isn’t determined by ‘diversity’ in the group, but about 80% simply by average IQ in the group.

    https://t.co/BXkV90SZri

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-22 18:23:00 UTC

  • By Al Freeman The NAP comes with a false assumption of reciprocity, and its adhe

    By Al Freeman

    The NAP comes with a false assumption of reciprocity, and its adherents are feverish to the point of cultism.

    It is like a grown up version of the child’s “golden rule”, and like that child’s version, will get you in trouble fast.

    The rule can never be: “Do unto others as you would have them do to you.”

    It has to be: “Do unto others as they have agreed to do to you, and in the absence of an agreement, all bets are off.”

    Or in the words of the great General Mattis: “Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.”

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-22 17:05:00 UTC

  • ENDING MISESIAN, ROTHBARDIAN, AND HOPPEIAN RATIONALISM PART 1 – THREE ADVANCED E

    ENDING MISESIAN, ROTHBARDIAN, AND HOPPEIAN RATIONALISM

    PART 1 – THREE ADVANCED EPISTEMOLOGY LINKS FOR ‘AUSTRIANS’

    —“Curt, Could you post the three advanced epistemology pieces you wrote to Jared Howe on your website?”—

    Done. Links Below.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-22 11:42:00 UTC

  • PRETTY SIMPLE DICHOTOMY: – ARISTOCRACY: PROPERTARIANISM – SOCIALISM: PARASITISM

    PRETTY SIMPLE DICHOTOMY:

    – ARISTOCRACY: PROPERTARIANISM

    – SOCIALISM: PARASITISM

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-22 10:48:00 UTC