Steve Stewart-Williams

@SteveStuWill

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

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    IQ predicts all things good. Interventions to boost IQ could greatly enhance human wellbeing. Flipside of the same coin: IQ-phobia could do real harm, by stalling the development of IQ-boosting interventions.

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    Handy overview of some of the main areas of psychology, by

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    An all-time classic from the

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    Natural Selection in Modern Humans (UK; N ≈ 500,000) Traits currently favoured by selection: Younger age at first birth in ♀️; higher BMI in ♂️ Traits being selected against: Intelligence; educational achievement (!) Figure:

  6. ১৬ জুলাই

    New webpage for my forthcoming book, The Ape That Understood the Universe: The release date for the UK and Europe is September 13. You can read an excerpt here:

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    A case of reverse publication bias: Psychologists are less likely to publish studies that find a male advantage in spatial ability. "Bias does not always work in favor of a large effect." -Jakob Pietschnig HT

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    Anyone who argues that sex differences are entirely learned has lot of explaining to do... From my 2013 Psych Inquiry paper with

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    Which came first, the chicken or the egg? At last, the definitive answer to this age-old question…

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    Interesting: Study finds discrimination in favour of men in female-dominated subjects, but in favour of women in male-dominated subjects (N = 100,000) Clever method

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    Just as selection shapes termites, beavers, and spiders, so too it shapes termites' mounds, beavers' dams, and spiders' webs. Just as you could selectively breed these animals for any given trait, so too you could selectively breed their mounds, their dams, and their webs.

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  14. ১২ জুলাই

    "On average, men are more X than women." What this doesn't mean: Men are usually X, women usually not (left). What it does mean: Some men are high in X; some are low; most are in between. Ditto women. But the average - the central tendency - is somewhat higher for men (right).

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    The fact that hundreds of millions of people have been spared the agony of losing a child - or of dying themselves as children - is surely the greatest humanitarian achievement of our species.

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    One of my favourite studies of the last few years: Universal IQ screening boosts numbers of poor and minority students in gifted education Figure:

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    Education-linked gene variants predict life success, even controlling for parental SES "Parents' genetics influence the environments that give children their start in life, while children's own genetics influence their social mobility across adult life."

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    WARNING: Studying the social sciences may impair your understanding of the world

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    How people in science see each other

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