... I think this reasoning leaves more questions than it answers. Why would ADHD females not have evolved similar mulitasking abilities if this was generally...
I forgot another thing that might be related. Research into reflex development in infants that later got diagnosed with autism or Asperger's syndrome show...
... Chiappe and MacDonald (2005; J. Gen. Psy. 132(1), pp. 5-40) discuss the assumption of extreme modularity and argue (in my opinion convincingly) that there...
Hi Joao! Hi all! Agree! But one absolute scale for men and another absolute scale for women. Because it's unscientific to compare things that cannot be ...
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roger.d.masters@...
Oct 1, 2006 12:25 pm
Leif: I see two reasons for our difference in judgment here. First, I view this gender difference as a difference in the mean of a normal statistical...
Can anyone out there recommend a good critique of "evolutionary psychology" (Cosmides & Tooby, et al.) from an evolutionary perspective? I'm looking for...
Lionel Tiger wrote (surprisingly) that <<it is surreal that persons supposedly studying behavior focus ceaselessly on numerical results of arbitrary schoolroom...
That is what we do with highest stage. Hierarchical complexity of tasks is on an absolute ordinal scale running from 1 to 14. People's performances are on an...
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roger.d.masters@...
Oct 1, 2006 9:11 pm
I recommend John Cassidy, "Mind Games: What neuroeconomics tells us about money and the brain," NEW YORKER (Sept. 18, 2006), pp. 30-37. As an outsider to...
There are other possible explanations. The mother's condition might have been such that the infant is born fearful. It might cling to the mother for no other...
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mknight@...
Oct 1, 2006 9:17 pm
The attached article on the Seven Deadly Sins of EP is very informative the basic arguement is that evolutionary psychology is a little e and a big P (as in...
3-D Brain Atlas To Help Unlock Mysteries Of Neurological Disorders The completion of the Allen Institute for Brain Science's inaugural project signals a...
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Andy Neher
andyneher@...
Oct 2, 2006 6:41 am
Hi Paul Okami (and others), Re. your inquiry, Paul, an article of mine that reviews evol. psych. (at least the Cosmides and Tooby variety) will appear in the...
Roger Masters ... Yes, so do I. I also view ADHD/autism as two normal distributions: One of Hs origin and another of Hn origin. Most of ADHD/autism falls on...
robertbiegler writes: "Chiappe and MacDonald (2005; J. Gen. Psy. 132(1), pp. 5-40) discuss the assumption of extreme modularity and argue (in my opinion ...
Dear All, There was a critique of evolutionary psychology by Dan Agin in Science Week http://scienceweek.com/editorials.htm#051203 which may be the kind of...
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mntgorilla@...
Oct 2, 2006 8:28 pm
One of the best, current critiques is a book by David J. Buller "Adapting Minds" (2005 MIT Press). ... From: kozure.okami@... To:...
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Irwin Silverman
isilv@...
Oct 2, 2006 8:29 pm
... The point missed in this thread is that EP cannot be defined in terms of modularity theory, kin selection, behavioral ecology, human ethology, or any other...
Kilian Garvey, Ph.D. A Neuropsychological Exploration of Creationist and Evolutionary Beliefs October 26th, 2006 6 p.m. University of New England, University...
By Kerry Grens ... NEWS Fire and Mello win Nobel Prize Researchers are honored for discovering the mechanism of RNA interference [Published 2nd October 2006...
Lionel is poetic. The male advantage in general mental ability is much more theoretically intriguing than he allows. To begin with, if it is true, and the...
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LIONEL tiger
lionel.tiger@...
Oct 3, 2006 2:41 am
In war, cooking, love, gardening, songs, science, etc. emphasis is key. It's the core of strategy. I agree of course that "G" may reveal elements of human...
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roger.d.masters@...
Oct 3, 2006 3:22 am
Phil: Even if I agreed with you that the use of IQ tests as a predictive device has been successful in bureaucratic organizations relying on written verbal...
I find it interesting to read the opinions of people like William Dickens and James Flynn on these topics as a counterbalance to the opinions of JP Rushton. ...
Harie Heyligen may have spoken to soon in saying people like William Dickens and James Flynn counterbalance my own data....
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LIONEL tiger
lionel.tiger@...
Oct 3, 2006 1:31 pm
The sex difference in test results properly conducted will obviously reflect real sex differences between males and females in a range of behavioral sets....
At 09:03 PM 10/2/2006, you wrote: Phil: Even if I agreed with you that the use of IQ tests as a predictive device has been successful in bureaucratic...
Sure, all groups don't need to have the exact same means in general mental ability. Who said that? I'm only saying that I doubt the claims of those who pretend...
