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There is a big difference between the two. Satoshi Kanazawa is pure huckster. He'll invent any controversial hypothesis and do some feeble token of "research" to pad the pages. Hoppe is not saying anything hitherto unheard of. I don't buy his exact explanation, but one could take as example the fact that jews in the US have far higher
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[quote]I think gender roles are almost entirely the product of nurture, but by "nurture" I'm talking about millennia of enforced cultural norms. From my own research, I've concluded that humans in their "natural" state are essentially the same as bonobos when it comes to sexual behavior (at least).[/quote] My conclusion is
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It's mostly about money, is it not? You can probably put #20 on the end of any list and people will slide toward it. Research costs money and researchers don't work for free.
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[quote]Then to teach your kids about taxation and wealth redistribution randomly take stuff away from them and give it to the kid down the street. Punish them for harshly for minor transgressions and when they object tell them that ignorance is not an excuse and if they don't like it they can move to Detroit.[/quote] On a serious note, trying to
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I started learning java last summer. I've been working on my own commercial political-economic game in java+lwjgl (opengl wrapper). Nearly everything is somehow more or less derived from existing works. What it comes down to it seems is how much attention it attracts and how much stupidity lawyers can think up to spew in court to make it seem like
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Also about attractiveness ratings: when you rate images you are normalizing the data from your previous experience to determine how to allocate ratings to the images in the test set. The "raw data" is already normalized in any such test. The variation between different test groups is a product of that haphazard process as much as anything
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What Clayton said about male vs female attractiveness being objective is meaningless. We have subjective value theory because values are not intrinsic properties of objects. Beauty is not a physical property of a viewed object any more than it is a property of the viewer. A belief is generally considered objective when it is held by everyone. What we
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[quote]Also, these aren't "randomly" selected people. I'll let you think about that one.[/quote] There's nothing to think about. Universal conscription is random except for selecting males over 18. Therefore, any claim that Japanese soldiers were an outlier is ipso facto a claim that Japanese people in general are an outlier. Anyone
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[quote]In my opinion, the japanese soldier was brutal and a scumbag devoid of honor and nobility, their Bushido notwithstanding.[/quote] That is just plain gullible. Any notion that a randomly selected group of people, such as a regular army, is significantly abnormal is bogus. It's like saying that everyone with red hair in 1981 was a mad killer
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At least one study found that the most attractive age for females faces is 17. E phebophilia is the norm and it's closer to 100% than 7% that fit into that category