{"id":22123,"date":"2010-08-11T09:47:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T17:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=5545"},"modified":"2010-08-11T09:47:14","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T17:47:14","slug":"daily-data-dump-%e2%80%93-wednesday-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/11\/daily-data-dump-%e2%80%93-wednesday-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Data Dump \u2013 Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/2010\/08\/elite-isolation\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;%23038;utm_campaign=Feed:+matthewyglesias+(Matthew+Yglesias)\">Elite Isolation<\/a>. This is a specific instance of a general problem. The rulers as a rule are not sampled randomly from the population. Operationally democracy often seems to turn into competitions between rival elites who are making the &#8220;best offer&#8221; to segments of the electorate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2262309\/pagenum\/all\/#p2\">Children and Stress<\/a>. The article connects childhood stress with later life outcomes. In a novel turn the authors attempt to explore the possible biophysical processes which might lead to such a correlation. But the major problem for me is that it doesn&#8217;t give weight to the fact that the genetic correlation between parent and child will are probably accounts for much of the association between abuse and abuser.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-5545\"><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosbiology.org\/article\/info%3Adoi\/10.1371\/journal.pbio.1000452?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;%23038;utm_campaign=Feed:+plosbiology\/NewArticles+(PLoS+Biology:+New+Articles)\">A Dog&#8217;s Eye View of Morphological Diversity<\/a>. PLoS commissioned an particle on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2010\/08\/the-dogs-world-of-large-effect-qtls\/\">paper<\/a> I reviewed as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciblogs.co.nz\/skepticon\/2010\/08\/10\/delayed-gratification-success\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;%23038;utm_campaign=Feed:+ResearchBloggingSocialScienceEnglish+(Research+Blogging+-+English+-+Social+Science)\">Delayed Gratification = Success?<\/a>. Perhaps. I am generally skeptical of the idea that the less intelligent can become more intelligent, but, it seems to me plausible that the impulsive can develop habits to dampen their tendencies.<\/p>\n<p>From now on #5 every day will be something from Google public <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/publicdata\/home\">data explorer<\/a>. Here are GDP per capita for selected Latin American nations + China since 1980.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=' float: left; padding: 4px; margin: 0 7px 2px 0;'  src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2010\/08\/latingdpppp.png\" alt=\"latingdpppp\" title=\"latingdpppp\" width=\"600\" height=\"272\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5546\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elite Isolation. This is a specific instance of a general problem. The rulers as a rule are not sampled randomly from the population. Operationally democracy often seems to turn into competitions between rival elites who are making the &#8220;best offer&#8221; to segments of the electorate.<br \/>\nChildren and Stress. The article connects childhood stress with later life [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,246],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-daily-data-dump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22123"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22552,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22123\/revisions\/22552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}