Monday, 30 June 2014

What proportion of offspring survived in historical times? - with reference to mutation accumulation

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* The paper referenced here:     Yann Leseque et al. A Resolution of the Mutation Load Paradox in Humans. Genetics 2012; 191: 1321-1330 ...

Population expanision in England with respect to mutation accumulation

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* When the Black Death (c 1380) halved the population of England, the deaths were disproportionately among the poorest (i.e. apparently ...

A comment on the personality trait of Openness (and Personality in general)

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* Personality is supposed to be independent of intelligence - Personality is a separate explanatory variable which can be seen after Intel...
Thursday, 26 June 2014

The genius as a 'medium': channeling external influences

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* (What follows goes outwith science.) Pretty much all the geniuses I have heard of and who have expressed an opinion seem to say (in on...
Tuesday, 24 June 2014

The Lop-sided genius - mutations, channelling K, and group selection

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* The idea of Life History (LH) is that organisms tend to have a default 'r' strategy of fast growth and sexual maturation leading...
Wednesday, 18 June 2014

Learning to Parrot - modern intelligence as a "Chinese Room" thought experiment

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* Suppose that I'm locked in a room and given a large batch of Chinese writing...[but] to me, Chinese writing is just so many meaningl...
Tuesday, 17 June 2014

So, you think you are in favour of eugenics? Do you know the implications?

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* Current information on the rate of mutation and the fraction of sites in the genome that are subject to selection suggests that each hum...
Monday, 16 June 2014

Could the Flynn effect be an invalid artefact? Yes - if IQ tests are no better than any other type of exam at tracking long-term changes in cognitive ability

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* Supposing we just accept that IQ tests are no better at measuring long term change in abilities than any other type of examination? Th...
Friday, 13 June 2014

Possible Dysgenic Trends in Simple Visual Reaction Time Performance in the Scottish Twenty-07 Cohort

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* Michael A. Woodley, Guy Madison, Bruce G. Charlton. Possible Dysgenic Trends in Simple Visual Reaction Time Performance in the Scottish ...
Thursday, 5 June 2014

The inevitability of significant dysgenic change - the impossibility (both practical and moral) of a planned eugenic solution

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* http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/realistically-accepting-consequences-of.html *
Thursday, 29 May 2014

The year I lost eidetic memory was the year I became creative

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* I was always very good at exams - the best in my non-selective school - heavily reliant on a strong eidetic/ literal/ photographic memor...
Wednesday, 28 May 2014

Maybe very high intelligence IS (nearly-) always creative - although high IQ test scores are not

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* I have been thinking lately that it seems possible that very high intelligence is always (or almost always) creative - despite that peop...
Monday, 19 May 2014

A challenge to those who disagree that sRT speed and/or general intelligence has declined a lot over the past 150 years

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* Replicate Galton's sRT 183 ms group. During 1884-93 Francis Galton found about 2,500 men with a median simple Reaction Time (sRT...
Sunday, 18 May 2014

Is there really such a thing as 'low hanging fruit'?

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* It was only after I started getting interested in intelligence research about seven years ago that I heard the phrase 'low hanging f...
Saturday, 17 May 2014

Mutation accumulation as the major cause of declining intelligence - WD Hamilton

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* I have come across a useful round-up the idea of mutation accumulation as the most likely significant mechanism for rapid decline in hum...
Friday, 16 May 2014

What do simple reaction time measurements mean to intelligence research?

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* Simple reaction time measures a very simple situation - how quickly somebody can respond by pressing a button (or equivalent) to a sudde...
Thursday, 15 May 2014

The basic, biological, selectional Human Condition

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* http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/what-is-human-condition-through-most-of.html *
Tuesday, 13 May 2014

The apparently *sudden* disappearance of English geniuses from the 1960s

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* http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/how-could-english-genius-apparently.html *
Monday, 12 May 2014

"All" modern geniuses will probably be oddballs

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* Due to the 150-200 year decline in general intelligence, there are not many potential geniuses born nowadays (not many in total, and onl...
Thursday, 8 May 2014

The evolution of genius. The necessity is for the production of enough geniuses, and a society which values products of genius

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* I had a valuable conversation with Michael A Woodley yesterday, in which he gave me a new and very significant insight into the nature o...
Wednesday, 7 May 2014

Cognitive Neurointelligence - an agenda for case-based clinical research into intelligence

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* Following from: http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/the-need-for-case-studies-in.html If it is agreed that intelligenc...
Monday, 5 May 2014

The need for individual case studies in intelligence research

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* Intelligence research grew as the study of comparatively-tested groups - and indeed the IQ measure is comparative, since it describes re...
Thursday, 1 May 2014

Understanding dreaming sleep, the awake state and deep sleep from an Einsteinian perspective - different relative speeds of time

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* The three consciousness states of Dreaming Sleep, Awake and Deep Sleep can be understood by analogy with Einstein's theory of Genera...

Some implications of men cognitively-maturing more slowly than women - men reaching maximum intelligence at an older chronological age than women

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* It is general regarded as a solid fact that women reach full maturity earlier than men, and this almost certainly applies to brains - an...