Doug Hanlon
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Doug Hanlon and
TheEncogitationer are now friends 11 months ago
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Doug Hanlon replied to the topic Advertising-A Hidden Fee in the forum Small Talk 2 years, 5 months ago
Ad can be extremely annoying. And only a fool expects them to be always truthful — although they’re usually smart enough not to state outright lies, but simply to suggest things: buy this car and you too – you overweight pallid dull-as-dishwasher schlumpf — will have a pretty girl riding next to you.
But … there is no alternative, or r…[Read more]
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Doug Hanlon posted a new activity comment 2 years, 5 months ago
Yes, I like Jonathan Haidt very much.And I agree that the word ‘intelligence’ is way too broad.
There is the ‘intelligence’ measured by IQ tests, so-called ‘G’, which… -
Doug Hanlon posted a new activity comment 2 years, 5 months ago
I haven’t paraphrased it. It’s an exact quote, although I have left out the two tribal/racial groups the author is comparing.
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Doug Hanlon posted an update in the group
Sunday School 2 years, 5 months ago
First, a warning: if anyone taking part in this thread works in, or may in the future work in, any school or university, any government job, or for any company of any size … then, do NOT express any other opinion besides one of these: ‘IQ is just what IQ tests measure … it has no relevance to anything else’ OR “group differences in IQ are a…[Read more]
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Doug would you like to cite the actual book so we can comment on something other than your paraphrasing of a text please?
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I haven’t paraphrased it. It’s an exact quote, although I have left out the two tribal/racial groups the author is comparing.
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It sounds to me like bad science, because intelligence is very multi-dimensional. Was the writer comparing one race (e.g., Arabs) with another (e.g., Chinese)? Jonathan Haidt compares the morality of liberals and conservatives, in a very multi-dimensional way.
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Yes, I like Jonathan Haidt very much.
And I agree that the word ‘intelligence’ is way too broad.
There is the ‘intelligence’ measured by IQ tests, so-called ‘G’, which…
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Doug Hanlon replied to the topic
Sunday School August 28th 2022 in the forum Sunday School 2 years, 5 months ago
It’s pointless to argue this issue in the abstract, since everyone can mouth generalities that all decent people would agree with.
So let’s take a concrete example: suppose someone does some research that indicates that one tribal group is more intelligent than another, for genetic reasons. Or suppose this person just expresses this as his…[Read more]
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Doug Hanlon replied to the topic
Sunday School August 28th 2022 in the forum Sunday School 2 years, 5 months ago
As the West declines, we will see the disease of ‘wokeness’ invade previously ‘neutral’ areas. In most cases, since most of our intelligentsia is ‘woke’, we’ll see ‘woke’ political criteria push aside the previous rules which governed things like what articles get published in scientific journals.
Researchers will adjust what they write in order…[Read more]
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Doug Hanlon posted a new activity comment 2 years, 5 months ago
Just found Hanta Yo on UK Amazon, a used copy for a reasonable price. (New, it’s a couple of hundred dollars!) -
Doug Hanlon posted a new activity comment 2 years, 5 months ago
Thanks! I have not read it, nor even heard of it. I’m tolerably ignorant about the history of American Indians, even though I’m a great-great-grandson of Mosholatubee,… -
Doug Hanlon started the topic Greetings from an Unusual Atheist in the forum Introductions 2 years, 5 months ago
Greetings to all my fellow atheists here, and my best wishes [ie secular prayers] for you in your personal lives, in these turbulent times, facing an uncertain and possibly danger-filled future.
I grew up in Houston in the 1950s, surrounded by (notional) believers, forced to say the Lord’s Prayer every morning at school for the 12 years of my…[Read more]
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Doug Hanlon replied to the topic FIRE is on Fire in Anti-Abortion South Carolina! in the forum Small Talk 2 years, 5 months ago
I think Autumn has hit the nail on the head. In THIS instance, the anti-abortionists are not, technically, violating the principle of free speech. From their point of view, prohibiting the provision of information about how to have an abortion would be like prohibiting posting where Salman Rushdie is hiding, or providing information on how to m…[Read more]
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Doug Hanlon posted an update in the group
History 2 years, 5 months ago
I’m looking for advice here.
I would like to read a few books on the following subjects:
(1) American Indians, both their history and their present situation.
(2) The Austro-Hungarian Empire.I can do the usual web searches, and I have access to JSTORE, but I have found that literate people can often offer advice on titles and sources (web…[Read more]
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Have you read “Hanta Yo”? It’s like “Roots” for Native Americans.
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Thanks! I have not read it, nor even heard of it. I’m tolerably ignorant about the history of American Indians, even though I’m a great-great-grandson of Mosholatubee,…
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Just found Hanta Yo on UK Amazon, a used copy for a reasonable price. (New, it’s a couple of hundred dollars!)
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