Psychology Today
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Psychology Today is a recurring publication in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between February 18, 2021 and September 12, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Science writers and Psychology Today columnists vomit out a steady stream of bizarre attempts to deny the statistical validity of IQ”; “https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/dating-decisions/201412/the-real-reason-we-date-people-we-shouldnt”; “quoted in a great Psychology Today article”. It most often appears alongside Harvard, Twitter, A Change of Heart.
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- Category: Publications
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: February 18, 2021
- Last seen: September 12, 2025
Appears In
- Book Review: The Cult Of Smart
- Highlights From The Comments On Dating Preferences
- Your Review: The Synaptic Plasticity and Memory Hypothesis
Related Pages
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- Harvard (2 shared issues)
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- Twitter (2 shared issues)
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- A Change of Heart (1 shared issues)
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- Abraham (1 shared issues)
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- Adams (1 shared issues)
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- Adams and Garrison (1 shared issues)
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- Agnostic Democrat (1 shared issues)
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- Alexander Forbes (1 shared issues)
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- America (1 shared issues)
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- American education (1 shared issues)
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- ANNs (1 shared issues)
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- Aplysia (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Some parents wouldn't feel up to teaching their kids, or would prove incompetent at it, and I would support letting those parents send their kids to school if they wanted (maybe all kids have to pass a basic proficiency test at some age, and go to school if they fail). I would want society to experiment with how short school could be and still have students learn what they needed to know, as opposed to our current strategy of experimenting with how long school can be and still have students stay sane. Did you know that when a superintendent experimented with teaching no math at all before Grade 7, by 8th grade those students knew exactly as much math as kids who had learned math their whole lives? Sure, cut out the provably-useless three hours a day of homework, but I don't think we've even begun to explore how short and efficient school can be. Obviously I would want this system to be entirely made of charter schools, so that children and parents can check which ones aren't abusive and prefentially go to those.
Inline links: when a superintendent experimented
But the opposite is true of high-IQ. Society obsessively denies that IQ can possibly matter. Admit to being a member of Mensa, and you'll get a fusillade of "IQ is just a number!" and "people who care about their IQ are just overcompensating for never succeeding at anything real!" and "IQ doesn't matter, what about emotional IQ or grit or whatever else, huh? Bet you didn't think of that!" Science writers and Psychology Today columnists vomit out a steady stream of bizarre attempts to deny the statistical validity of IQ.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/dating-decisions/201412/the-real-reason-we-date-people-we-shouldnt
Claire Sylvia wrote a whole memoir, playfully called A Change of Heart, about the changes she experienced. Here’s a dream she wrote about, as quoted in a great Psychology Today article:
Inline links: Psychology Today