Luke, See http://www.pnas.org/content/91/11/5033.full.pdf

Peter: Princeton is lower because it does not have a law school. If you restricted attention to just undergraduate degrees, I bet that you would see the usual H-Y-P.

What mistakes, in your opinion, does Miller make?

Humans have evolved beyond the need for religion - perhaps our distant cave-man ancestors needed to make up some kind of creation myth to sleep at night, but it's time to let it go...

I don't understand this post. You are linking to a 2004 paper. Was that the intention or did you mean to link to something recently published?

I'm surprised at the categories and the apparent amount of rationalization going on here (though one should never be surprised at the latter). I would have said that, outside of appeal to religious rules, most people (including myself) are evidently guided mainly by their feelings / personal scruples on the question (i.e. conscience) which in turn I would say comes, like our other characteristics, from our nature & nurture (though some might say it was put in us by a deity). Maybe people call that "common sense"? I would have liked to have seen how many would pick "conscience" or "feelings" if it were given as a category.

Thanks for the links. I think that this Jones' article: 
 
http://mason.gmu.edu/~gjonesb/JonesSchneIQ 
 
is most likely to be the winner. It is tough to ask someone to add "Farewell to Alms" (an entire book) to a syllabus for a course about Africa.

That may be true, but what would be the best article(s) to recommend? I am trying to be constructive but I don't know this literature at all.

Tod, wouldn't we expect low heritability if what you are saying is true?

You automatically assume that so-called schizophrenia is a "disease". Is it a disease like diabetes or Alzheimers? Or like homosexuality is (oops, sorry, was) a disease? LOL. It's just weird behaviour, different cultures dealt with it in various ways, our one happens to medicalise it and pretend to "treat" it.

As a polyglot, translating poetry and fiction are the most difficult works to translate. It also depends on which way you are translating - into or from your native language. Translating into your native language is much easier, as you understand the nuances and idioms of the language.

Consider this----imagine you are the dictator in such an ultimatum game. If you had a strong belief that the other player was of the sort that wouldn't tolerate being cheated (i.e., being offered substantially less than 50%), and would in fact reject any such offer out of hand (i.e., irrationally), would you make such an offer? 
You wouldn't, if you believed that about the other player, if you were close to rational yourself. What has happened here is that through strategic irrationality, the other player has effectively taken the initiative in the game from you. Being irrational isn't always a bad thing, and being Perceived to be irrational on some things is a VERY good thing (you get offers >40% or so in such ultimatum games). Do economists understand poker?

Perhaps, since most of the readers of this site are interested in biology, they should also take an interest in physics, which explains the reason why world class gymnasts are short - it takes less energy to move/rotate a shorter body than a tall one.

I guess this explains why drive through ATM's have braille as well as printed digits on their keypads.

some men just need killin'

I prefer the Latin version. I'm old school like that:

Et in unum Dominum Iesum Christum, Filium Dei unigenitum, et ex Patre natum ante omnia saecula.

Deum de Deo, Lumen de Lumine, Deum verum de Deo vero, genitum non factum, consubstantialem Patri; per quem omnia facta sunt.

Qui propter nos homines et propter nostram salutem descendit de caelis. Et incarnatus est de Spiritu Sancto ex Maria Virgine, et homo factus est.

Crucifixus etiam pro nobis sub Pontio Pilato, passus et sepultus est, et resurrexit tertia die, secundum Scripturas, et ascendit in caelum, sedet ad dexteram Patris. Et iterum venturus est cum gloria, iudicare vivos et mortuos, cuius regni non erit finis.

Et in Spiritum Sanctum, Dominum et vivificantem, qui ex Patre [Filioque] procedit. Qui cum Patre et Filio simul adoratur et conglorificatur: qui locutus est per prophetas. Et unam, sanctam, catholicam et apostolicam Ecclesiam. Confiteor unum baptisma in remissionem peccatorum. Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum, et vitam venturi saeculi. Amen.

I dated a blonde Turkish woman. They exist. (her brunette Turkish roommate was hotter, alas, I never executed the "roommate swap" dating maneuver). Neither were very devout Muslims, but that is the usual divide between the city Turks and the redneck Turks.

I think Europe will mostly halt immigration from North Africa soon enough. They're already starting to preferentially import Eastern Europeans and Latin Americans. I'm more worried about the coming vacuum of power/population in Russia and Siberia/Central Asia.

David

I agree with David. I've seen a similar analysis if I remember right, in the Economist--that birth rates seem dire now, but will even out as the women in their 30's have their "heir and a spare."

David

Like I wrote (but it didnt' seem to have posted) Outsourcing Biotech will go to India very soon.

Like my good ole labmate....winner of the NSF MINORITY Grad student fellowship. Blonde hair, blue eyes.....half Columbian, therefore Latino. Daddy's the VP of Japanese operations for Citibank, and he's never had to pay for a car or his rent in his life.

I wish I were as disadvantaged and discriminated against.

Yeah, I don't blame him. He's just my constant whipping boy for why minority set-asides are bullshit.

If only I didn't have some weird value system that refused to take advantage of this. (of course, I always wondered what would happen if I showed up at "minority" student events, as pale as I am--would anyone call me on it?)

Oh well. Thanks to jody for pointing out "research" I need to do on the year's Playboys. I'll, um, get right on that.

David

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