posts by anon 0x1e3

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in thread "Heredity and Character":

One factor that holds back psychometrics is that it's hard to quantify many of things we care about. After IQ, the next best validated factors may be the Big 5 factors of personality. They're not worthless, but they don't tell us everything one would want ... 13mo ago 6 6

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This is an important point that I've emphasized in other threads. One can be a strong hereditarian (believing that key attributes have high heritability, maybe 0.7) AND still believe that culture matters enormously. It's only when you hold culture mostly c... 13mo ago 5 5

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The clear contrast here is with the Hellenistic (not classical) Greeks, who had tremendous scientific and mathematical advances, up to an early version of calculus. ... 13mo ago 6 6

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To be fair to Russo, the accent on wealth extraction was my gloss. I don't recall the extent to which Russo emphasizes that, though he definitely contrasts the Roman's strongly practical and less speculative orientation to that of the Hellenistic Greeks. H... 13mo ago 2 2

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