{"id":26957,"date":"2010-09-17T23:41:28","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T07:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=6573"},"modified":"2010-09-19T14:41:24","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T22:41:24","slug":"open-thread-%e2%80%93-september-18th-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/17\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-september-18th-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread \u2013 September 18th, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last weekend of summer. I plan to have my reviews of The Invisible Gorilla<\/a> and The Lost History of Christianity<\/a> up very soon. I recommend both heartily! Next in the stack: Stanislas Dehaene’s Reading in the Brain<\/a>. A question was asked about the focus on extremes when it came to perceptions of the genetic influence on an outcome<\/a>. The table below has mean values, 1-21, 1 = 100% genes, 21 = 0%, so 11 = 50%.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/col>\n<\/col>\n<\/col>\n<\/col>\n<\/col>\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\n<\/strong><\/td>\n		Obese white woman<\/strong><\/td>\nDrunk Asian man<\/strong><\/td>\nSaintly Hispanic woman<\/strong><\/td>\nAthletic black man<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Liberal<\/strong><\/td>\n11.24<\/td>\n11.8<\/td>\n11.94<\/td>\n11.83<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Moderate<\/strong><\/td>\n12.12<\/td>\n12.2<\/td>\n12.41<\/td>\n12.02<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Conservative<\/strong><\/td>\n12.95<\/td>\n12.44<\/td>\n12.91<\/td>\n12.49<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
No College<\/strong><\/td>\n12.42<\/td>\n11.76<\/td>\n12.03<\/td>\n11.78<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
College<\/strong><\/td>\n13.26<\/td>\n12.9<\/td>\n13.23<\/td>\n12.79<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Not intelligent<\/strong><\/td>\n12.27<\/td>\n10.85<\/td>\n11.2<\/td>\n10.99<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Average<\/strong><\/td>\n13.08<\/td>\n11.91<\/td>\n12.3<\/td>\n11.95<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Intelligent<\/strong><\/td>\n13.52<\/td>\n13.01<\/td>\n13.04<\/td>\n12.93<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last weekend of summer. I plan to have my reviews of The Invisible Gorilla and The Lost History of Christianity up very soon. I recommend both heartily! Next in the stack: Stanislas Dehaene’s Reading in the Brain. A question was asked about the focus on extremes when it came to perceptions of the genetic influence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-open-thread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26957","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=26957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27110,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26957\/revisions\/27110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}