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@JamesPsychol

Psychologist, commentator, daydreamer

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Joined August 2009
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  1. 29 minutes ago

    If you want to combat racism and sexism you need the benchmark of open discussion of racial and sexual differences.

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  2. 46 minutes ago

    The main function of a university is discovery.

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    6 hours ago

    Experimental evolutionary psychology: Scientists selectively breed fruit flies to learn some things more easily than others

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  4. 1 hour ago

    An unpopular idea may be traduced, misrepresented and suppressed and yet be wrong.

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  5. 1 hour ago

    We should examine the ideas we cherish with as much ferocity as those we find repellent.

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  6. Jan 12

    Here is an old post, addressing an old and perennial argument, that groups cannot differ because they share so much genetic variance.

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    Jan 6

    Here is an elegy for doomed Christmas trees. :-(

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    Jan 3

    Design and compare learning algorithms with the DeepMind Control Suite: open-source tasks and standard benchmarks for physics-based control problems

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    Jan 5

    Francis Galton and Karl Pearson.

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    Jan 3

    Glorious Bastards

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    Jan 3

    Toby Young ideal man for universities regulator, says Boris Johnson

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    Jan 2

    The “global market” argument for high pay almost always turns out to be nonsense - whatever the sector.

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    Jan 1

    Bollocks. He’s five foot six.

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    Jan 1

    I’ve worked at Harvard and Cambridge, am a visiting fellow of the University of Buckingham, a Fulbright Commisssioner and, as the co-founder of four free schools and director of , have some experience of innovation in the public education sector.

    There can only be one reason for appointing to the board of the new Universities Regulator, and that is to promote Tory party policy on universities. He is otherwise wholly unqualified for the job.
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    Jan 1

    Women score higher than men on empathizing; men score higher on systemizing. Humanities majors score higher than science majors on empathizing; science majors score higher on systemizing. Source:

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    Jan 2

    Thanks Philip. I’ve been making the same argument. Disappointing how many members of the academic profession think universities should be regulated by just those who run them already.

    Most systems should not be regulated by those wholly immersed in them - we need hybrid regulators who are half in and half out of the sector - otherwise the self-interested status quo prevails - hence I think appointing is a good thing
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    Jan 2

    This is shocking. Time to charge a little for missed appointments (or all appointments?).

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    Jan 2

    Happy New Year from all of us at Perri Ashby. We're closed this week but will be open on Monday, Wednesday and Friday next week.

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    Jan 2

    In defence of Toby Young

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    Jan 1

    "7 procedures that have widely been shown to be ineffective. … In the 2-to-3-year period leading up to 2013, only 2 of the 7 practices targeted for reduction showed any decrease at all in the US. And the declines were tiny."

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