I’ve got a proud confession: I’m a pop music junkie. Drizzy Drake, Britney, Adele, Nicki, Ke$ha, you name it. I love it. But I’ve got to admit, after awhile it all seems to jumble together. If I listen to too much of it, I get sick of the repetitiveness; there’s only so many times I […]
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Tucker Max
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Is General Intelligence Compatible with Evolutionary Psychology?
Scott: So what do you make of general intelligence? John Tooby: [chuckles] To heck if I know! ***Exchange at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society*** Obviously, John Tooby, one of the founders of evolutionary psychology, was being a bit cheeky. But there was also a very large grain of truth […]
Black Women Are Not (Rated) Less Attractive! Our Independent Analysis of the Add Health Dataset
[This post was co-authored with Jelte Wicherts] In his well-read blog post, originally titled “Why Black Women Are Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women”, psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa from the London School of Economics (LSE) concluded that he had found that African American women were “objectively” less attractive than European American, Asian American, and Native American […]
Satoshi Kanazawa Does Not Speak for All of Evolutionary Psychology
Satoshi Kanazawa’s latest controversy regarding his article (removed from the PT site) “Why Are Black Women Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women?” (see Mikhail Lyubanksy’s excellent response “Beauty May Be In Eye of Beholder But Eyes See What Culture Socializes“) has sparked me to make a point I’ve wanted to make for a very long […]