The Four Laws of Behavior Genetics and Why They Matter: Part 1 of my new five-part series. stevestewartwilliams.com/p/the-first-la…

Children who are better in delaying gratification more likely to do well academically and have fewer behavioural problems.

“While girls generally made future-oriented choices at age four, boys started to delay gratification later at age five.” news.nus.edu.sg/children-delay…

“The most important outcomes of the nature-nurture debate are captured in the Four Laws of Behavior Genetics: four well-supported generalizations that have emerged from more than half-a-century of research in this fascinating field.” stevestewartwilliams.com/p/the-first-la…

Recording with the great Steve Stewart-Williams today 🚀

Yes, the value of science, the value of education -- cumulative impacts.

People in poorer countries tend to have more kids than they’d choose; people in wealthier ones tend to have fewer kids than they’d choose.

“The most important outcomes of the nature-nurture debate are captured in the Four Laws of Behavior Genetics: four well-supported generalizations that have emerged from more than half-a-century of research in this fascinating field.” stevestewartwilliams.com/p/the-first-la…

.Steve Stewart-Williams on when Charles Darwin invented sliced bread.

'By learning about science and getting a good education, we become as knowledgeable as a person who spent thousands, or hundreds of thousands, or even millions of years thinking and exploring the world.' stevestewartwilliams.com/p/how-culture-…

“We stand on the shoulders of giants”!

People in poorer countries tend to have more kids than they’d choose; people in wealthier ones tend to have fewer kids than they’d choose.

How culture makes us smarter.

'By learning about science and getting a good education, we become as knowledgeable as a person who spent thousands, or hundreds of thousands, or even millions of years thinking and exploring the world.' stevestewartwilliams.com/p/how-culture-…

Illusions of knowledge due to mere repetition doi.org/10.1016/j.cogn…

Bilimin en heyecan verici tartışmalarından olan davranışsal genetikteki gen mi çevre mi sorusuna önerilen dört net yanıt📌

i. Tüm psikolojik özellikler belirli ölçülerde kalıtılabilirdir (%30’lardan %90’a kadar değişen oranlarda)..

ii. Aynı ailede yetişmenin etki büyüklüğü,

“Across studies, we found that explaining politically contentious topics resulted in more open-minded thinking.” doi.org/10.1016/j.cogn…

Bureaucracy is a ratchet. Whether from external or internal sources, if there are people whose job it is to insert process or oversight, this will continue to increase unless you actively audit to evaluate the impact on outcomes and work to reduce/replace

For decades, smart people have been quietly turning your life into a series of games. They've been doing this because the easiest way to make you do what they want is to make it fun.

So how do we play, without getting played?

My new essay.
gurwinder.blog/p/why-everythi…

“Behavior geneticists have made considerable headway in solving the ancient nature-nurture riddle. Indeed, at the turn of the century, the behavior geneticist Eric Turkheimer announced that ‘The nature-nurture debate is over.’” stevestewartwilliams.com/p/the-first-la…

'Perhaps the fairest summary of the situation is that most of our cultural achievements come not from super-bright freaks, but from cumulative culture, aided and abetted by some reasonably bright semi-freaks. In this way, our culture becomes smarter than we are.'