Archive for Juni 2016

Post-Brexit reactions

When something goes against expectation adjustment takes longer. Here are some post-Brexit themes, as reported to me by friends. One rea...

Carlyle had no doubt that great men changed history. His house is open to the public, who can wander round the great man’s abode a...

One interesting feature of the Brexit (Leave) campaign was the role of experts. Expert opinion was almost uniformly in favour of Remain. ...

I don’t do policy, but coming back from the swimming pool early in the morning a van plastered with Vote Leave stickers caught my eye, an...

Without knowing much about it, I assumed that China was bright and getting brighter, if only because bright and wealthy Chinese found a w...

My first contact with the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia, was when I heard of a researcher there who had attempted to correc...

At first the news was very confused, just that a woman Member of Parliament had been shot and stabbed by a lone man. The cab driver had a...

The geography of illness has never entirely convinced me, because people move about. So, finding an excess of some disorders in sunny coa...

In the 1970s the British Psychological Society, after much soul searching, decided that it would engage with the Fourth Estate, a term at...

This morning I voted by post in the Referendum election. At least, that was my intention. Instead, I may have sent myself a stamped addre...

Although it is my fond hope that “Psychological Comments” is becoming widely known, at least in the highly discerning circles inhabited b...

No sooner do I post a little meditation on the sex ratio of superior minds, taking the metric up to the absurdly high levels of IQ 155, t...