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Post-Brexit reactions
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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...
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Was the Referendum an Eton Mess?
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Was the Referendum an Eton Mess?

      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...
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Brexit predictions

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

  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...
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China getting duller, perhaps

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

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...
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Explaining murder
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Explaining murder

  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...
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Postcodes and schizophrenia

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

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

  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...
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Some characteristics of eminent persons

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

  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...
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  • Post-Brexit abreactions
      I had intended to do a few posts on post-Brexit reactions, but now I realise it should be abreactions . Large quantities of stupefying su...
  • The intelligence factory
        For reasons of neighbourhood activism, I get lots of mail from nightclubs. They affect a keen interest in my well-being, and assure m...
  • The heartbeat of crime
    My eye was caught by a paper, summarised in the BPS Research Digest of 17th March, on the relationship between low resting heart rate and cr...
  • More diversity illusions
      It is unkind to mock the afflicted, but reasonable to ask them not to sneeze in our faces. The Equality and Human Rights Commission in ...
  • Boost your IQ (hard matrices problems only)
    Here is an intriguing finding, from a team I last saw in a very agreeable restaurant in Graz. They have found a way of boosting performance ...
  • Detecting schizophrenia myths
      The British Psychological Society publishes a Research Digest, and the latest one lists: 10 of The Most Widely Believed Myths in Psychol...
  • Visualising sex differences, Emil and Tufte
          Edward R. Tufte’s “The Visual Display of Quantitative Information” is a well-known delight which, once read, will make you see inf...
  • What makes problems difficult?
      Psychologists have been better at measuring intelligence than explaining how they do so. “The indifference of the indicator” is all very ...
  • Genes and education
      I have always thought it unseemly to spring psychological tests on my readers, but here is one of my standard annual test items: I manage...
  • Philosophical Printers: a study in complexity
        I make a habit of confessing my cognitive errors, as a warning to others, an illustration of my inevitable limitations, and the bette...

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      • Was the Referendum an Eton Mess?
      • Brexit predictions
      • Brexit
      • China getting duller, perhaps
      • Intimate violence
      • Explaining murder
      • Postcodes and schizophrenia
      • Why did they do it?
      • Voting as an IQ test
      • Some characteristics of eminent persons
      • The comparative advantage of eminence
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