‘Scientific thinking’ as a barrier to diversity in science
A couple months ago my friend Kenny Gibbs wrote a great post about diversity and science for Scientific American. I want to reflect on this sentence (emphasis...
Tag: Intelligence
Why I use sports analogies
I’m sure many of you wonder why, as cliché and trite as they often are, I harp on sports analogies. It’s not just because I’m uncreative (alth...
Have you heard of Wilt Chamberlain?
[My thoughts in essay form. Long-time readers will find it familiar. Feel free to share.] Tonight’s debate on creationism between Ken Ham and Bill Nye will end—...
Intelligence, cont.
Victor’s brilliant comment deserves a call-out: The same can be said about class work and research. Even on the same topic or in the same academic area, s...
Is belief in evolution a good predictive tool?
[Warning – a long post that uses yet another tendentious sports analogy. Read at your peril.–PK] A reader questions both creationists ability to do ...
The Wilt Chamberlain analogy for human intelligence
Wilt Chamberlain is one of the most dominant players in the history of basketball, if not team sports. He is the only player to score 100 points in a single gam...
People are scary, part II
Victor helpfully critiqued my goal to develop a model of human intelligence: Of course my question would be what’s the point of creating such a conceptual model...
Models of human intelligence
I want to revisit this Alex Knapp quote yet again: if [politicians] hold ideas about the world around us that are fundamentally at odds with scientific evidence...