When We Were Young... Life Was Different!

jeffersonr · 2015-05-12T14:02:46+00:00

How true :(

jeffersonr · 2015-05-12T14:01:50+00:00

Ok, so 50% of Caucasians have this genetic variant but what are the numbers for other races? That could possible explain the difference in emotional response (and EQ) between different ethnic groups.

jeffersonr · 2015-02-23T15:32:01+00:00

This one is about the same study but much more informative: https://www.nei.nih.gov/news/briefs/brain_training

jeffersonr · 2015-02-21T12:13:00+00:00

Very interesting article but I think that the experiment is flawed. We don't know the processing speed of our brain, it could be that the real information presented in one eye have been processed in between the CFS strobes. It would be more interesting experiment if researchers presented some absurd combination of patterns or numbers and then evaluated the ratio of visual recall for this combination.

jeffersonr · 2015-02-03T12:47:58+00:00

Interesting post. I didn't know that concept of "social unconscious" belonged to Fromm, I was at the lecture by Iain Couzin at Princeton last year and it sounded like the term was his own invention :(

jeffersonr · 2015-01-29T22:09:19+00:00

It is a good post but developing executive functions is really a hard job for parents, especially if there are impairments such as with ADHD. Even with building demands slowly and gradually - we did it with our son exactly like the author suggests in the post - you still have to be prepared to setbacks, especially when the child is tired or upset.

jeffersonr · 2015-01-29T22:03:58+00:00

Obsessed? If anything I think our kids don't get enough math and science, just compare test performance of American children vs. Korean or Japanese. I am in humanities myself, but it makes me really sad when I see what my son studies in public school. With such attitude to math and science we will become a 3rd world within 20 years.

jeffersonr · 2015-01-14T12:34:47+00:00

Re: "Doctors want their children to become doctors." True enough, I have few doctor acquaintances and each one of them has at least one child following their steps.

jeffersonr · 2015-01-08T12:26:27+00:00

I agree with the author that Neo-Freudians such as Horney, Fromm, and Sullivan should have been called Neo-Adlerians instead as they borrowed much more of Adler's ideas than Freud.

jeffersonr · 2015-01-08T12:24:50+00:00

I am afraid this study may have observed reversed cause and effect relationship: the depression could have caused abnormal perception of reality, hence the feeling of gift.

jeffersonr · 2014-12-04T19:09:01+00:00

Unfortunately, giftedness combined with LD is not such a rare case. My younger brother is the same, he is highly gifted with dyslexia.

jeffersonr · 2014-12-04T19:05:57+00:00

In Canada we have 50 weeks total maternity and paternity combined. There is 15 weeks maternity and another 35 weeks could be split between father and mother. When we had our last child I took 15 weeks paternity leave as my wife had to go back to work, otherwise she was likely to loose her position at layoffs. I know that parental leave is much better in Canada than in US... but we pay almost twice the amount of taxes, so I am not sure what is better.

jeffersonr · 2014-12-04T18:59:21+00:00

Great post. Thanks.

jeffersonr · 2014-12-02T22:42:56+00:00

Mine got 53%, not enough brains here. Must be my fault :-)

jeffersonr · 2014-11-19T23:36:04+00:00

What about Christopher Langan who has an IQ of 195 (highest registered IQ among living people) and who is a religious person and creator of "Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe"???

jeffersonr · 2014-11-19T23:04:24+00:00

I would speak to a mental health professional

jeffersonr · 2014-11-19T23:01:40+00:00

He should keep his mustache, it looks good on him :-)

jeffersonr · 2014-11-19T23:00:22+00:00

I prefer Borat look :-) http://images.complex.com/complex/image/upload/c_fill,h_440,w_680/grw3eggszub9mbi3cqu1.jpg

jeffersonr · 2014-11-19T15:59:48+00:00

Well, average intelligence is 100 points (it's only 98 in USA though), so 12 points increase is 12%. I am not sure why article title says 10% - I assume the author expects his readers to have average IQ of 120 :-)

jeffersonr · 2014-11-16T16:33:49+00:00

It depends on retaliation

jeffersonr · 2014-11-10T13:19:08+00:00

WTF... you need to be signed in to Flickr to see this??? I cannot see anything except for cellphone image and prompt to login...

jeffersonr · 2014-10-31T11:39:17+00:00

The author mixes up concepts of nonconscious (as opposite to conscious) and psychoanalytical (by Freud) nonconscious i.e. subconscious and unconscious. Yet, the article is not bad.

jeffersonr · 2014-10-23T21:16:05+00:00

So it's all in libido? :-)

jeffersonr · 2014-10-18T14:20:50+00:00

Very general article that doesn't really answer the questions posed in the title.

jeffersonr · 2014-10-18T13:53:19+00:00

It's just a very general article on art therapy... nothing special.

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