Are Trump Voters Irrational?
The value of winning a kayaking trip in a raffle is measured in its consumption utility, not its monetary value.
Keith E. Stanovich
· 26 min read
The German Election — A Conservative Analysis
Germany is a country which takes politics seriously. Chancellor Angela Merkel is an academic herself.
Sumantra Maitra
· 6 min read
A Defence of Private Tuition
“Private tuition can be harmful to the long-term academic prospects of children, a leading London headteacher warned today.”
Emma C Williams
· 6 min read
Today's Teens Aren't in a Hurry to Grow Up
To figure out what’s really going on, it’s worth taking a broader look at today’s teens – a generation of kids I call “iGen” – and the environment they’re living in.
Jean Twenge
· 5 min read
A Pragmatic Case for Understanding Neurodiversity
If you’re easily offended, it’s hard to understand the world.
Shanu Athiparambath
· 8 min read
Smearing Free Thought in Silicon Valley
Damore stresses that these are differences at a statistical level between large populations and that we should not assume that they are descriptive of any particular individual.
Gideon Scopes
· 8 min read
Best of the Web — September 24, 2017
Science / Tech Neanderthal boy’s skull reveals they grew like modern boys Agence France Presse, The Guardian A journey through schizophrenia, from researcher, to patient and back Usha Lee McFarling, Stat News Uber, reviving old tactic, is backed by more than 500,000 in London row Paresh Dave, William Schomberg,
Quillette
· 1 min read
Can Comedians Be Irritating?
Comedians poke fun at the absurd, unreasonable aspects of our thought, our behaviour and our societies so it is tempting to assume that they are rational themselves.
Ben Sixsmith
· 5 min read
Rage, Selective Outrage
Sometimes people use it to mean pretend outrage, in which people cry “crocodile tears” over things that don’t really upset them.
Spencer Case
· 7 min read
Is Sex a Dirty Word?
Within the lens of Western culture, it is sex and not money that is the primary root of all evil.
Craig Bielert and David C Geary
· 21 min read
The Kurds Need a Street — The Classical Liberal Case for Kurdistan
Western leaders and policymakers who bemoan the referendum can, if they choose, flatter themselves as “realists.”
Jonah Cohen
· 6 min read
Best of the Web — September 17, 2017
Science How Congress Ignored Science and Fueled Antibiotic Resistance Maryn McKenna Wired My IRB Nightmare SlateStarCodex The Neuroscience of Intelligence: Dr Richard Haier Jordan B Peterson, YouTube Nuclear the ‘only option’ to replace coal and gas: Michael Shellenberger Graham Lloyd, The Australian The Gender Gap in STEM is NOT What
Quillette
· 1 min read
The Brain's Trust — Intersectionality, Nadia Chan, and Munroe Bergdorf
These might be two separate and superficially different incidents, but they are qualitatively very similar and underline the same cultural tensions that lead to these scenarios.
Sumantra Maitra
· 5 min read
Dodging the Hard Question of Economic Mobility
There is good reason for the controversy. Early in the book, Reeves lays out the inconvenient truth:
Ben Wilterdink
· 12 min read
The Internet's Infrastructure Is the New Battleground for Free Speech
This robustness does still exist, but only at a fairly low level, where raw packets of data are routed between numerical addresses.
Matthew Mott
· 4 min read