Steve Stewart-Williams Reduce the use of SMART goals by 75% by the next 2 months

Sex differences in basic vocational interests

<0: Men more interested on average
>0: Women more interested on average

U.S. data; N = 1,283,110

stevestewartwilliams.com/p/graph-of-the…

“The popularity of SMART goals is understandable – they seem simple, memorable and easy to use. But there’s a major catch – the research literature suggests that, in many contexts, they simply don’t work very well: in fact, they can even be detrimental.” psyche.co/ideas/so-calle…

'If people get the impression that universities and other science-producing institutions effectively forbid certain ideas, they'll understandably stop trusting the ideas coming out of those institutions.' stevestewartwilliams.substack.com/p/scientists-c…

Should we force all these to zero?

Should we try?

Just some of them?

Or do we recognize people are different and let them choose?

Kaitlyn White and I collaborated on a rebuttal to münecat’s video “debunking” evolutionary psychology.

Hopefully this helps set the record straight!

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The 2nd Law of Behavior Genetics: The effect of being raised in the same family is smaller than the effect of genes.

Representative Evidence: Identical twins reared together are little or no more similar than identical twins reared apart. stevestewartwilliams.com/p/the-second-l…

De Evolutionaire Rol Van Cultuur In Gender Gelijkheid – Steve Stewart-Williams ift.tt/TV7vzh4

“The finding that 60% of women view CSJA [critical social justice attitude] propositions positively, and 85% of men reject CSJA propositions, was an interesting result to see.” centreformalepsychology.com/male-psycholog…

Sex differences in basic vocational interests

<0: Men more interested on average
>0: Women more interested on average

U.S. data; N = 1,283,110

stevestewartwilliams.com/p/graph-of-the…

“The popularity of SMART goals is understandable – they seem simple, memorable and easy to use. But there’s a major catch – the research literature suggests that, in many contexts, they simply don’t work very well: in fact, they can even be detrimental.” psyche.co/ideas/so-calle…

“We’re biological mechanisms designed to pass on our genes, but which fritter away our time playing games and weaving a web of fantasy around ourselves.” — Steve Stewart-Williams

'If people get the impression that universities and other science-producing institutions effectively forbid certain ideas, they'll understandably stop trusting the ideas coming out of those institutions.' stevestewartwilliams.substack.com/p/scientists-c…

“The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.”
-John Stuart Mill

More Mill quotes here: stevestewartwilliams.com/p/top-10-john-…

“The heritability of IQ increases with age. At the same time, the effect of the shared family environment tapers off. In childhood, more than a third of the variance in IQ is attributable to the shared environment. By adulthood, however, very little is.” stevestewartwilliams.com/p/the-second-l…

The corrupting of science

“Recent surveys suggest that many academics support censuring or censoring controversial research, and that support is stronger among younger scholars”

“Not only does the family home matter less than genes, but for some traits, it doesn’t seem to matter at all.

“This is a deeply counterintuitive conclusion - and one that poses a serious challenge to some of the most famous theories in psychology.” stevestewartwilliams.com/p/the-second-l…

“The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.”
-John Stuart Mill

More Mill quotes here: stevestewartwilliams.com/p/top-10-john-…