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"It may be a consequence of deliberate efforts to close ethnic achievement gaps and declining religiosity, along with a disregard for the fortunes of lower-class Whites."
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On my list, The Wire is the peak of prestige television. Breaking Bad would have been better as a three-hour film. Not so The Wire. It is as expansive as a great novel and fully justifies its running time--at least for four seasons.
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Across ethnic groups in England, average IQ is only moderately associated with GCSE performance but is strongly associated with A-Level performance.
"In this article, I present some additional evidence that the GCSE results do not refute hereditarianism. I also outline a theory that attempts to explain all the data." aporiamagazine.com/p/do-gcse…
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"In this article, I present some additional evidence that the GCSE results do not refute hereditarianism. I also outline a theory that attempts to explain all the data." aporiamagazine.com/p/do-gcse…
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Evolutionary psychology begins with a simple idea which many people find intolerable because it undermines their political, moral, or religious views about the world.
"Evolutionary psychology begins with a simple idea: The human mind is part of the natural world and, like the rest of the body, was shaped by evolution."
Top 18 Quotes about Evolutionary Psychology
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"The most straightforward fact about my relationship to Christianity is that I do not, and indeed cannot, believe in its God."
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"The reception to EthnoGuessr has been tremendous. In the first 12 hours after releasing the game there were over 100,000 hits". aporiamagazine.com/p/introdu…
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1. Eastwood's Unforgiven has a sophisticated structure, which one might call the anti-romance. In the normal romance, something is off about the world and a hero is called to a journey. He eventually accepts, builds his skills, and reorders the world. Think Star Wars.
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5. The anti-romance has an interesting double meaning. We know that if Munny becomes the killer, it's his doom. But we also kind of want it. When Munny finally decides to take revenge, we're like hell yeah but also oh no. Compare to Wick, where we're just like hell yeah!
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The ultimate issue is this: Schools will never be the same because the students and teachers have different traits and talents. A parent who can *should* send her kids to the best school possible.
I notice none of Nikole Hannah-Jones' critics try to answer to the basic question she wrestled with, which is: Why should my daughter get to go to a better school than other people's kids just because I work for the New York Times?
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One can ask the same question about any number of things, including "Why should Lebron James be in the NBA just because he's better than I am at basketball." Life is not fair.
We should build a decent, just society, then accept unequal outcomes. We can support public schooling, but we should all accept that schools will be different. That's inevitable. Throw the problem kids out. Focus on the ones who work hard. And that's the best we can hope for.
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Zodiac may be one of the most successful films in the category of what one might call the epistemic nightmare genre. The horror, here, is that one cannot understand the world. Some important question or puzzle remains unanswered. The hero tries to solve it--but usually fails.
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As utilitarianism is in the spotlight at the moment, it seems like a good time to point out that much of what passes for "scholarship" on the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) of behavioural genetics implicitly takes utilitarianism for granted, even though this is a philosophically controversial ethical framework (that competes with deontological ethics, virtue ethics, etc). This is why they believe they can appoint committees of experts who can decide which research should be allowed based on its "net indirect social costs/benefits" to society on a case by case basis. They honestly believe they can calculate (or intuit!) these costs and benefits, and decide which topics are too "socially harmful" for scientists to investigate and which subjects humanity should be kept in the dark about. This is morally bankrupt, thoroughly illiberal, and a betrayal of the Enlightenment principles on which the modern scientific enterprise was founded.
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Part of Ebert's gift was that he made criticism look effortless. Unlike some elevated film critics, he wrote for a mass audience. Thus, he might give The Karate Kid four stars. But when you listen to his commentaries, you realize how sophisticated and knowledgable he really was.
Ebert is a good critic for someone just getting into movies. Once you develop some taste and knowledge, he should be left behind.
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