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“If people institute wrong institutions, wrong institutions do not just produce wrong people, but wrong people who understand and accept mediocrity as an institution”
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“statistical thinking is merely an artifact of human ignorance. we need to use statistics nature does not.”
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“More intelligent people appear to reason better only when you tell them in advance what good thinking is!”
― What Intelligence Tests Miss
― What Intelligence Tests Miss
“Substantial empirical evidence indicates that individual differences in thinking dispositions and intelligence are far from perfectly correlated. Many different studies involving thousands of subjects have indicated that measures of intelligence display only moderate to weak correlations (usually less than .30) with some
thinking dispositions (for example, actively open-minded thinking, need for cognition) and near zero correlations with others (such as conscientiousness, curiosity, diligence).”
― What Intelligence Tests Miss
thinking dispositions (for example, actively open-minded thinking, need for cognition) and near zero correlations with others (such as conscientiousness, curiosity, diligence).”
― What Intelligence Tests Miss
“if there is listening through a “listener,” then we are not listening.”
― On Dialogue (Routledge Classics)
― On Dialogue (Routledge Classics)
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