I am a saver, but I do not know exactly why. For a rainy day perhaps, but rainy days are plentiful and cheap: I stay in and read something. ...
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Vita brevis, intelligentia longa
Yesterday, at a lakeside party, Bob told me about the evening he drove up to an isolated beachside hotel in Guatemala, some four decades ago...
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The Famous Four
Intelligence research may seem a lonely career choice. The public understanding of intelligence has fallen so far that all and sundry hav...
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3rd London Conference on Intelligence 13-15 May 2016
Would you be interested in attending the London Conference on Intelligence, to be held over the long weekend of 13-15 May? Speakers will i...
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Hive Minds ?
I am very glad that Garrett Jones has written “Hive Mind: How your nation’s IQ matters so much more than your own”. http://www.amazon.co...
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Stuart Ritchie reviews "Hive Mind"
Stuart Ritchie (of “Intelligence: All that Matters”) http://www.amazon.ca/Intelligence-That-Matters-Stuart-Ritchie-ebook/dp/B00RTY0LPO/ref=s...
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Democracy devours her children
In the 1930s an Argentine friend of mine was advised by his father to learn English “because English is the language of the future, but sta...
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Adam Perkins corrects Jonathan Portes
CORRECTION: The ONS weblink from 6th October 2015 which Mr Portes claimed was Dr Perkins’s data source for the numbers of children in wor...
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Jonathan Portes replies to Adam Perkins
Adam Perkins has now admitted that his claim "the higher the proportion of unemployed adults in a household, the greater the number ...
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Reply to Jonathan Portes by Adam Perkins
In November 2015 Palgrave Macmillan published my book ‘The Welfare Trait: how state benefits affect personality’. In it I propose an overa...
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Workless households and family size
In reply to Adam Perkin’s “The Welfare Trait” Jonathan Portes of National Institute of Economic and Social Research has made the following...
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The Welfare Trait
I am impressed that people continue writing books, an enterprise which is heroic and very possibly futile: everything moves at such a fas...
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Hard Landing
To us, as to him, it has to happen somewhere, So the proud sea-bird rested his yellow beak On the lapping shore of a tourist beach, Le...
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What makes brains brainy?
I have dawdled over this publication, which came out in November. Sometimes a tab remains open but leaves me suffused in lethargy, and only ...
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Intelligence genetics: Motorways
It is a curious twist of fate that just as the M3 motorway out of London to the South West is being converted from its formerly perfectl...
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