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Rationally Speaking #65 - Philosophical Shock Tactics

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What Intelligence Tests Miss

Julian picks a book called what intelligence tests miss by a psychologist at u Toronto named Keith Stanovich who's one of the founders of the field of rationality or studying human rationality and how it falls short from perfect rationality. Massimo picks something called graphing the history of philosophy which is available on trunks and lamp posts as somebody did this really interesting exercise using essentially graph theory software that puts together that analyzes the links between different concepts  and in this case different thinkers. The data is based on Wikipedia entries and the analysis is actually fairly complicated although the software to do it is freely available after web so if you follow the instructions data by the authors you can reconstruct your own graph in the

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