Tuesday, 30 July 2013

The (annoying) arrogance of creativity

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* Creativity is a trait: a personality trait. Therefore, although its overall level and expression can be modulated by self-training and...
Monday, 29 July 2013

What of the Mute Inglorious Miltons? - unacknowledged creativity

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* Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway...
Sunday, 28 July 2013

Implications of the group selection of genius?

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* Suppose that genius benefits group fitness rather than individual fitness, as seems likely to be the case - then this is a precarious si...
Thursday, 25 July 2013

The Head Girl Syndrome - the opposite of creative genius

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* The ideal Head Girl is an all-rounder: performs extremely well in all school subjects and has a very high Grade Point Average. She is ex...

Creative genius probably requires lop-sided cogntive abilities (NOT all round high intelligence)

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* Given that the concept of 'g' or general intelligence breaks down at higher levels of cognitive ability - it is plausible that t...
Friday, 19 July 2013

Dishonesty reduces applied intelligence: re-wires the brain

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* Surveying the modern intellectual scene, the world of public discourse among the educational elites, I conclude that dishonesty does not...

Is intelligence also personality?

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* In contrast to yesterday's posting, which attempts to differentiate qualitatively between intelligence and personality - with person...
Thursday, 18 July 2013

What is "personality"?

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* This is a tricky question - and one to which I do not have a settled answer.  But in the classic research programme into interpersonal...
Monday, 1 July 2013

What does dog intelligence tell us about possible causes of the decline of human intelligence?

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* The causes of the significant decline in intelligence in the past 150 or so years include 1. Differential reproduction such that the l...
Monday, 24 June 2013

Eysenck's personality trait of Psychoticism as the primary underlying disposition, underpinning most other traits

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* Background:  http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/creativity-and-eysencks-psychoticism.html http://iqpersonalitygenius.b...
Tuesday, 28 May 2013

Approx 1 SD decline in general intelligence since 1889 confirmed in a near-perfectly-matched sample from 1989

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* Michael A. Woodley, Jan te Nijenhuis & Raegan Murphy have followed up their long-term analysis of reaction times as evidence of a ...
Saturday, 25 May 2013

Is the claim of one standard deviation decline in intelligence since Victorian times an extraordinary claim, implying the need for extraordinary evidence?

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* The phrase and practice of "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" is one of those superficially-plausible sta...