"One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands." - Francis Galton

According to Cronbach, L. J. Essentials of Psychological Testing. New York: Harper, 1949 & Hilgard, E. R Introduction to psycliology. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1953. Without taking into account the Flynn effect, its reverse or the field, 120 is the minimum IQ for a top uni.

Fundamentalism test: every time you're encountering a new article or essay on mainstream media & suspect its objectivity, try replacing words such as: "experts", "the president" or "science" with "god", "the clergy" or "the bible" & see how it affects the meaning of the message.

According to Bond, C.F., Robinson, M. The evolution of deception. J Nonverbal Behav 12, 295–307 (1988). The strongest psychological family similarity was the tendency to lie, you can run from your parents, but you can't hide from their genetics, including trying to lie about it.

True kindness emerges when one can choose an alternative path without fear of societal repercussions, yet still opts for benevolence.

The dynamic process of self-overcoming through the adaptive enhancements of one's potential, the affirmation of life with all its vicissitudes & the cultivation of internal virtues that enable one to interact harmoniously with the flux of existence.

The cities with the highest & lowest fertility rates in Israel (as of 2021). Birth Gauge Source: cbs.gov.il/he/publication…

"Hypothesis 1, g predicts firearms proficiency, was supported in all four datasets. It is a notable finding that g predicted a criterion that is entirely objective and does not involve the use of tests or ratings." sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

All of those credentials are essentially hard to fake (ideally) signals for different Personality traits & cognitive abilities that are vital for a competent & reliable judge, seeing their IQ & SAT scores, combined with their Big Five breakdown would be much more informative.

International Math Olympiad 2023 - Top 20 countries

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A new study introduces a multi-strategy eye-tracking model (MEM) to the Raven's APM. Merging eye-tracking with psychometrics, MEM reveals how intelligence correlates with problem solving methods, offering a more comprehensive conception of cognition. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The limbic system is the prompt engineer of the prefrontal cortex.

So essentially, cognitive biases are mental shortcuts to solve recurrent problems efficiently (which is why they're predictable & occur systematically), & their foundational goals are: self-preservation, social standing & risk aversion.

Virtual communities have emerged as substitutes for traditional communities, but while group self-policing (banning or downvoting those who violate the guidelines or unwritten rules) stayed, the satisfaction declined substantially, as for privacy, surveillance is the norm online

It happens due to genetic predispositions making the follicles sensitive to androgens (eunuchs don't bald), interestingly, it provides an example of the connection people make between aesthetics & health, the signal isn't always reliable, but we still perceive it as such.

The 10 Israeli localities with populations exceeding 10,000 that recorded the highest & lowest Total Fertility Rates in 2024. Birth Gauge Source: cbs.gov.il/he/publication…