[Day 1]
whilst I've been learning Chinese, I haven't actually pursued any formal certs... covered all of HSK1 material today
need to finish off words applied in sentences, then HSK2 tmoz
#studytwt #Chinese #student #dailychinese #learningchinese
Vocsolo retweeted
"racist blogger"
When numerous repliers objected to this characterization of Nathan Cofnas, @DanNeidle's response was to argue that because @NathanCofnas believes that the average white person in the US has higher measured intelligence than the average black person, he is by definition, a racist. Neidle (who has 194,000 followers) then blocked these repliers.
If this view makes someone a racist, here are some other people who are racist:
(1) All the experts on the (left-leaning) American Psychological Association's panel which issued a report summarizing the scientific information on group IQ differences, in response to The Bell Curve. (The panel officially affirmed a 1 SD gap between US whites and blacks.)
(2) Every known author of every psychology textbook on human intelligence which covers racial IQ averages.
(3) All behavioral geneticists (including anti-hereditarian leftwing ones like Turkheimer, Harden, Nisbett, and Flynn) who have published research in scientific journals since the 70s.
No informed person disputes an IQ gap between blacks and whites in the US. There is some dispute as to its size (estimates range from 9 to 16 points but generally settle at 12-15 points), and of course a lot of dispute as to its cause(s), but only the ideologically captured or ignorant argue it doesn't exist.
And only the most stridently uniformed would block people for simply pointing out a scientifically-established finding.
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Vocsolo retweeted
Being biologically female means having a body that is observably organised to produce large gametes (eggs), as opposed to a body organised to produce small gametes (sperm). A woman is female whether her eggs have been fertilised or not. A man can never be female.
Living in a foreign country elevates your ability to solve problems
You have no choice but to solve em
Vocsolo retweeted
Interesting fact:
There are more Mongolians in Chinese Inner Mongolia than in Mongolia itself.
ALT Historically part of the Mongol Empire, Inner Mongolia became a part of China after the Qing dynasty, whereas Mongolia declared independence in the early 20th century. Populations are estimated.
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the brain < 3 years old are like sponges, soft and hyper plastic
we know that kids exposed to tonal languages are more likely to develop perfect pitch
learning an instrument increases neural density too
if a child learns 8 languages and the difference in complexity between those languages are far, they're likely to develop highly sophisticated highway of white matter that allows different parts of the brain to talk to each really quickly
in practice, you probably just need english, chinese, and an instrument
