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27 February 2010 ~ Comments Off

Are Smarter People More Liberal?

Ah, yes, another article proclaiming that smart people are liberal. Elizabeth Landau of CNN reports on a soon-to-be-published article by evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa that claims higher IQ is associated liberal politics and religion, as well as “sexual exclusivity” (a.k.a. monogamy).
I haven’t seen the article (it’s not available yet), but there are a couple [...]

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25 February 2010 ~ 2 Comments

On Citing Wikipedia

Let’s be clear: You should never, ever cite Wikipedia in an article or book, unless you writing about Wikipedia itself. But it drives me crazy when people hear the word “Wikipedia” and immediately respond, “Wikipedia? Give me a break. It’s so unreliable.”
There is nothing wrong with using Wikipedia to get a quick sense of [...]

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03 February 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Making the Switch

Chip and Dan Heath, the brothers behind the great book Made to Stick, have a new book coming out next month — Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard. The topic excited me, because my work with the Emerging Scholars Network tries to change an entrenched academic system I was lucky enough to [...]

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