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[philmophlegm]

Seven Fantasy / SF Epics That Can Inform You About The Real-World Political Scene

The Jewish Chronicle gets hold of the report into Labour anti-semitism that the Corbynistas tried to bury

Headline of the Month (1)

Getting onto Stanford's MBA course. (I’m not involved in admissions, but I can’t imagine that any of my MBA students had to do anything like this.)

The Complete Conceptual History of the Millennium Falcon (including the influence of Space 1999)

A cube in a cube in a cube. Metalwork was easily my worst subject at school. This guy, not so much.

A weird (or perhaps not) correlation between maths and religion.

World rankings of country by average IQ.

How the West can win the new Cold War

Brexit - a story in maps (thanks parrotknight)

A really comprehensive fake name generator.

Comments

[prester-scott.livejournal.com]

Re: the religious math quiz.

I got the correct (analytical) answers and I am quite religious, so I break the model.

I think the conclusion assumes too much. At best, it shows a correlation between education in mathematics/analysis and Western atheist beliefs. There are any number of possible explanations for it besides their psychobabble about intuition (which I frankly don't believe is not a tongue-in-cheek way of saying that believers are stupid).

ETA: I would also expect results to vary based on the religion, and on the place of that religion within the culture of the respondent.

[daniel-saunders.livejournal.com]

I also got the correct answers (although I worked the first one out with trial and error, having spotted the trap answer, rather than algebra) and am very religious. Although I've heard it suggested that Orthodox Judaism (that would be my religion) encourages logical, analytical thought through its emphasis on study of Talmudic logical reasoning as a key part of religous practice.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Which I suppose supports prester_scott's point about results varying based on the religion.