Monday, 6 August 2012

Clever Sillies, Dull Scientists and Bureaucratic takeover

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* http://medicalhypotheses.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/clever-sillies-why-high-iq-lack-common.html http://medicalhypotheses.blogspot.co.uk/20...

My quantitative studies of revolutionary science

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* http://medicalhypotheses.blogspot.co.uk/2007/07/nobel-prize-trends-19472006.html http://medicalhypotheses.blogspot.co.uk/2007/07/nflt-...

To sleep, to dream...

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Friday, 31 December 2010 * I have never been satisfied with the usual cultural and scientific views on sleeping and dreaming. These see ...

Essential reading for IQ scholars: Grady M Towers essay The Outsiders

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Monday, 18 June 2012 I sometimes wonder how many of those interested in IQ have read this brilliant and important essay on the pr...

Is scientific progress a result of genius, elite, or mass effect?

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Friday, 9 July 2010 Scientific progress is talked about in three main ways, depending on the numbers/ proportion of the population involved ...

Creative genius in Tolkien - the pride of Feanor

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Wednesday, 2 February 2011 * Being himself a creative genius of a high order, Tolkien felt a temptation of pride which was perhaps greater...

The sub-genius one percent of creative intellectuals

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Tuesday, 10 July 2012 * I made the order-of-magnitude estimate that England used to have about 1: 10,000 potenital geniuses (and about a t...

Why is genius so rare?

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Thursday, 14 June 2012 * If you are interested in creative genius, I would recommend two books: Genius by HJ Eysenck, 1995 Human Accom...

The invisibility of genius

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Sunday, 1 July 2012 * The reason for my interest in genius is that modern (post-industrial revolution) society depended (past tense) on cr...

The potential-genius is intrinsically psychologically unbalanced

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  * Monday, 30 July 2012 * Most potential geniuses do not become 'recognized' geniuses - in fact, nowadays approximately none of ...

Why are scientists so dull?

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* Friday, 7 November 2008 Bruce G Charlton Oxford Magazine - 2008; 281: 7-8. The short answer is: because the selection and training pr...

The high IQ 'sweet spots'

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* Monday, 23 July 2012 * Human societies with very high mortality during childhood an early adulthood over many generations will be (rela...

Social class IQ differences and university access

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* Thursday, 22 May 2008 Social class differences in IQ: implications for the government’s ‘fair access’ political agenda A feature for the...

PC is the cause of the elite education bubble

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Thursday, 14 April 2011   * Why are the most selective schools and universities so highly valued? After all, if you control for intellig...