The Bell Curve: Chapter 5 (Poverty)
Does IQ play a role in Poverty?
- Cognitive classes
- Poverty trendlines
- IQ and SES's effect on poverty in high school and college graduates
- Mother's IQ and SES and there implications for a child entering poverty
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The Bell Curve: Chapter 4 (Steeper Ladders, Narrower Gates)
-Real wage growth
-Emphasis on IQ/education in hiring
-Cognitive partitioning via workplace
-Cognitive partitioning via residence
-Marriage and IQ
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Does IQ Really Predict Job Performance?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4557354/pdf/hads-19-153.pdf
Getting a different perspective on the predictability of an IQ test for job success
-Disadvantages to Meta-Analyses
-Sampling errors
-Measurement errors
-Restriction of range
-Studies by Hunter too old?
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The Bell Curve: Chapter 2 (Cognitive Partitioning by Occupation)
-Jobs and intelligence
-The growth of high IQ professions
-Cognitive screens in the executive suite
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The Bell Curve: Chapter 3 (The Economic Pressure to Partition: Part 2)
-Validity of AFQT for military training
-Test for specific skills or test for g?
-Convergence of IQs
-Test scores compared to other methods for predicting job success
-Dollar value for cognitive ability
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The Bell Curve: Chapter 3 (The Economic Pressure to Partition: Part 1)
-Comments from President of Harvard on test scores and success
-Exceptions and correlations
-Restriction of range
-Individual studies and meta-analysis
-Job performance and IQ
-Validty of GATB for different jobs
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The Bell Curve: Chapter 1 (Pages 29-50)
-Harvard in 1952 and 1960
-Top IQ youths start going to college
-Continued IQ stratification once in college
-Elite colleges get more elite
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The Bell Curve: Introduction (Pages 1-24)
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-Darwin to Galton to Spearman
-g
-Testing and Correlation
-The factions of intelligence
-The six conclusions regarding tests of cognitive ability
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The Alchemist: Part 7 (Pages 130-150)
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-The Emerald Tablet
-Listen to your heart
-Soul of the world tests everything
-If you talk about your treasures, seldom are you believed
-Imprisoned at the military camp
-The Alchemist's Wager
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The Alchemist: Part 8 (Pages 151-171)
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-Talking to the Sun
-The hand that wrote it all
-Lead into Gold
-The True Treasure Location
-"I'm coming Fatima"
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The Alchemist: Part 6 (Pages 110-130)
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-The battle at the oasis
-Santiago confronted by The Alchemist
-Saying good bye to Fatima
-Santiago is offered a counselor job
-The cobra in the desert
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The Bell Curve Prelude
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We are back!
Where I have been, and a preview on the next book
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The Alchemist: Part 5 (Pages 90-110)
-Finally in The Oasis
-Santiago falls in love with Fatima
-The Englishman meets The Alchemist
-The two hawks and Santiago's Vision
-Santiago goes to the Tribal Chieftains
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The Alchemist: Part 4 (Pages 70-90)
- The Englishman and his books
- The Camel Driver
- Traveling across the desert
- The Oasis
- Universal Language
- Master Work
-Soul of the World
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The Alchemist: Part 3 (Pages 53-70)
-The Crystal Merchant increases his business
-Santiago leaves the Merchant's Business
-The Englishman
-Santiago's decision between buying more sheep or going to the pyramids
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The Alchemist: Part 2 (Pages 27-50)
Discussing the last half of Part One:
-The Newcomer
-The Bar Owner
-Following The Omens
-The Oil in The Spoon
-The Crystal Merchant
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The Alchemist: Part 1 (Pages 1-27)
Discussing pages 1-27 of The Alchemist
-Santiago and his Dream
-The King of Salem
-The Gypsy Dream Interpreter
-Santiago's Family
-The Merchant's Daughter
-The Greatest Lie
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Man's Search For Meaning: Part 7 (Postscript)
Discussing the Postscript
-A case for a tragic optimism
-Afterword
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Man's Search For Meaning: Part 6(Pages 118-134)
Talking about Pages 118-134
-Super Meaning
-Paradoxical Intention
-Transitoriness
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Man's Search For Meaning Discussion (Pages 97-117)
Discussing the challenge questions from the last reading
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Man's Search For Meaning: Part 5(Pages 97-117)
Do you think there is an over focus on psychoanalysis today?
Why do you think the results of the survey between Europeans and Americans is the way it is? If we did the same survey today, would it be different?
What is the difference between self actualization and self transcendence?
What's the difference between psychological and noological?
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Man's Search For Meaning Discussion (Pages 71-93)
reviewing the discussion questions from 71-93
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Man's Search For Meaning: Part 4(Pages 71-93)
What do you think is the meaning of sub specie aeternitatis?
p. 73
What do you think Viktor meant by not expecting things from life, but rather what life expected from you?
What does depersonalization mean?
p. 88
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Man's Search For Meaning Discussion (Pages 51-70)
reviewing the discussion questions from pages 51-70
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Man's Search For Meaning: Part 3(Pages 51-70)
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What does the quote from Doestovski about "not being worthy of my sufferings" mean?
Explain the dichotomy between the End of Uncertainty and an Uncertainty of End
What did Viktor mean by time being deformed?
What do you think the Death of Teheran story means?
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