Steve Stewart-Williams

@SteveStuWill

Psychology, evolution, nature/nurture, sex differences, etc. My second book, The Ape That Understood the Universe, hit the shelves in 2018...

United Kingdom
Joined April 2009

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  1. 12 Sep 2018

    My new book, THE APE THAT UNDERSTOOD THE UNIVERSE, is officially out! You can read the first chapter here: ...and here's a sample of early reactions to the book... 👇

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  2. 2 hours ago

    Bird's wings in sync with a camera's frame rate

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  4. Jan 3

    Whoa. "Our estimates imply that aversion to having the wife earn more than the husband explains 29 percent of the decline in marriage rates over the last thirty years."

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  7. New from me at : What was really going on in that misreported University of Missouri story where officials supposedly said it's sexual misconduct to ask a shorter person out? Not quite PC gone wild, but an indication of real problems.

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  8. Jan 3

    People are falling off buildings in search of the perfect Instagram shot

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  9. Jan 3

    "Countries with the highest levels of human development are closest to gender parity, albeit typically with a slight advantage for women."

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  10. Jan 3

    "We found that low levels of human development are typically associated with disadvantages for girls and women, while medium and high levels of development are typically associated with disadvantages for boys and men."

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  14. Jan 3

    The tendency to favour kin over non-kin represents an extremely deep trend in the living world, found not only in animals but even in plants. via See also , Ch 5

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  15. Jan 3

    When survival of the fittest is replaced by reproduction of the sexiest.

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  16. Jan 2

    Shoebill strides imperiously through the vegetation at Mabamba Wetlands, Uganda while an Intermediate Egret adds a sense of scale. Can’t wait to look for this impressive bird again next week!

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  17. Jan 3

    In every frame of this animation the data has the same mean and correlation. They are metamers. Here's what that means and how to create them with . Blog Post: Thread: 👇

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  18. Jan 3

    "Countries with the highest levels of human development are closest to gender parity, albeit typically with a slight advantage for women."

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  19. Jan 3

    "We found that low levels of human development are typically associated with disadvantages for girls and women, while medium and high levels of development are typically associated with disadvantages for boys and men."

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  20. Jan 3

    Nassim Taleb has been criticizing IQ tests lately. In this nice short blog, shows that everything Taleb claims is either incoherent, or factually wrong, or pointlessly ad hominem, or already addressed by psychometricians decades ago.

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  21. Jan 3

    The IQ threshold hypothesis - the idea that, after IQ 120, additional IQ points don't translate into higher achievement - is false. Even among the top 1% (roughly IQ 137+), higher IQ predicts greater achievement.

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