... From: "bowmanthebard" <bowman@...> To: <evolutionary-psychology@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 4:48 AM Subject: [evol-psych]...
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Robert Karl Stonjek
r_karl_s
Sep 29, 2006 10:58 pm
Binge-drinking Teenagers At Greater Risk Of Violence Teenagers who drink alcohol are at higher risk of becoming victims of violence, a Cardiff University study...
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DWLeake@...
Sep 30, 2006 2:22 am
Just wondering..... Have any of these studies broken out their findings in relation to the famous distribution tails -- more males at both the high and low...
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Jay R. Feierman
jrfeier
Sep 30, 2006 2:26 am
Go to Original Discrimination Against the Female Brain By Caryl Rivers AlterNet.org Thursday 28 September 2006 ...
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H.M. Hubey
hubeyh
Sep 30, 2006 3:13 am
... This is downright silly. Tones and colors are simple stimuli. Speech recognition and comprehension are unbelievably complex. It is simply a problem of the...
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H.M. Hubey
hubeyh
Sep 30, 2006 3:13 am
... I think, Castillejo ("Knowing Woman" Putnam, 1973) would agree. She uses the terms "diffuse awareness" (for females) and "focused consciousness" (for...
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Jay R. Feierman
jrfeier
Sep 30, 2006 8:35 am
Robert, In regard to your comments on gathering/hunting's relationship to IQ, I suspect that the perceptual proclivity which underlies gathering is the...
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Nils K. Oeijord
nkotn2000
Sep 30, 2006 8:38 am
Hi all! The IQ test(s) are artificially constructed to give the same test results for men and women on average. But such a construction is very difficult to...
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Michael Lamport Commons
michaellampo...
Sep 30, 2006 11:44 pm
Jay Feierman: My own take on this issue is that intelligence has to be defined in a way that it is applicable to more species than humans. I have such a...
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roger.d.masters@...
Sep 30, 2006 11:45 pm
The point made by Nils is very important. It's also the case, however, that there seem to be other perceptual/cognitive differences inflluenced by genetics...
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LIONEL tiger
lionel.tiger@...
Sep 30, 2006 11:47 pm
I have argued for at least 20 years that IQ tests are especially unreliable about sex because questions which yield significant different male/female results...
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vquest95@...
vquest95
Sep 30, 2006 11:48 pm
I find that this very true from personal experience. While I am watching TV, I can play solitaire, or I can do some computer art. (I have to do something...
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Paul Okami
kozureokami2002
Sep 30, 2006 11:48 pm
Can anyone out there recommend a good critique of "evolutionary psychology" (Cosmides & Tooby, et al.) from an evolutionary perspective? I'm looking for...
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vquest95@...
vquest95
Sep 30, 2006 11:50 pm
Why can't researches who do studies like this understand that correlation is not necessarily causation. Based on what was reported, an equally valid ...
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roger.d.masters@...
Oct 1, 2006 12:05 am
Hubey's two postings -- on multitasking and gender differences in intelligence - are both VERY IMPORTANT. However, they are probably about the SAME...
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Jay R. Feierman
jrfeier
Oct 1, 2006 12:12 am
Michael Lamport Commons: A science of comparative cognition ultimately needs a measurement theory, allowing the comparison of performance in different species...
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Jay R. Feierman
jrfeier
Oct 1, 2006 12:52 am
(1) Jay Feierman: My own take on this issue is that intelligence has to be defined in a way that it is applicable to more species than humans. (2) Michael...
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Michael Lamport Commons
michaellampo...
Oct 1, 2006 12:53 am
[Moderator's Note: The paper can be found at the group's 'Files' page - Name=G_Paper.rtf Description=Measuring an Approximate g in Animals and People Go to the...
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Jay R. Feierman
jrfeier
Oct 1, 2006 12:59 am
Roger Masters: To put it bluntly, "standardized testing" has had many benefits, but as currently conceived it is a bureaucratic convenience that can have...
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Patton, John
pattonjq
Oct 1, 2006 1:01 am
DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Evolutionary Psychology Tenure Track The Department of Psychology at California State...
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Michael Lamport Commons
michaellampo...
Oct 1, 2006 1:16 am
Read the paper. I get around that problem by defining the higher stage of development in any domain. That means each species gets its best performance....
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Robert Karl Stonjek
r_karl_s
Oct 1, 2006 2:19 am
Dave Alexander: I find that this very true from personal experience. While I am watching TV, I can play solitaire, or I can do some computer art. (I have to...
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Robert Karl Stonjek
r_karl_s
Oct 1, 2006 2:21 am
Study Identifies Part Of Brain Responsible For Tone Deafness A new study has discovered that the brains of people suffering from tone-deafness are in fact...
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H.M. Hubey
hubeyh
Oct 1, 2006 2:22 am
Let's see if what you are saying is what I write. ... Symbolic computation (e.g, integers) were probably discovered by chance by humans. Yet it took the...
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bowmanthebard
Oct 1, 2006 2:34 am
... You're quite right, but as you know I was using an ideal, simplified example to illustrate the idea of expected value. (In reality, numbers cannot be...
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Robert Karl Stonjek
r_karl_s
Oct 1, 2006 2:35 am
Within a mouse click. Researchers can view the expression of a specific gene in the brain--such as etv1, shown above--by typing the gene's name into the brain...
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Mike Tintner
andarot
Oct 1, 2006 3:21 am
If I have understood this report correctly, Aziz-Zadeh's research is of enormous importance, and a giant first step. However to describe it as establishing a...
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Michael Lamport Commons
michaellampo...
Oct 1, 2006 3:22 am
Read the paper. I get around that problem by defining the highest stage of development in any domain. (HS). Stage of development is simply measured by the...
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Jay R. Feierman
jrfeier
Oct 1, 2006 4:45 am
Michael, I printed your paper out and read it, although I must admit the first time I stopped at the first sentence in the abstract! A lot of original thought...
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Joao Sousa
j_dinis_sousa
Oct 1, 2006 5:19 am
Folks: Why not to work with only absolute scales of cognitive performance, without ANY normalization to age groups, sex, populations, and so on? After all, ...
