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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 ... 14mo ago

One factor that hold

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... 14mo ago

This is an important

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.... 14mo ago

The clear contrast h

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... 14mo ago

To be fair to Russo,