As I've said before I think many psychologists too often make universalist claims without taking time to evaluate the ethnohistorical evidence, but this seems like the opposite sort of error of substantially over-extrapolating from ethnographic tidbits taken out proper context.

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Hard pass on this

If America had 1 percentage point lower growth per quarter since 1980, it would be about as poor as Mexico is today. Growth is the most precious quantity in the world and without it most of us simply wouldn't exist.

Aaron Lukaszewski Yep. Also, once environmental biases are eliminated (left), heritability of many traits is markedly less than seen in twin studies (right). From nature.com/articles/s4158…

“My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.” Charles Darwin

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Personality variations: Adaptations or by-product?

Politics, principles, & morality aside: Vladimir Putin is hilarious — an underrated comic

Cool to see these together in one chart. Missing is unscrewing lid to get reward, like seen here: youtube.com/watch?v=v47qQb… I expect even more examples could be added.

The electoral college system is not insane & the one-sentence answer to why we have it is straightforward: To prevent regional hegemony.

Indeed.

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As someone in the 99th percentile for Neanderthal-derived DNA, allergies, & a (wonderful) daughter with autism, the past decade of research on the genetic Neanderthal legacy has been informative 🙏🏻

In 2007, the UK had higher GDP per capita ($50K) than the US ($48K). Now (2022) ours is $76K and theirs is $46K! (Source: World Bank) Their economy has actually shrunk on a per-head basis. And stuff like this is going to make the gap bigger: marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

Same‑sex competition and sexual conflict expressed through witchcraft accusations nature.com/articles/s4159…