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Emil O. W. Kirkegaard's avatar

If you want more on the history of academic drama, this one is decent: Defenders of the Truth: The Sociobiology Debate.

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Joseph Bronski's avatar

I read it in 2023, it was good

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Chris Coffman's avatar

I’ll gladly volunteer to be a Beta tester for your Anki plug-in! And Happy New Year!

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Randy Tripp's avatar

Might seem off topic but will you make a response to this video on collapsing demographics https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Xhx4BH-qA&pp=ygUYbXkgcmVzcG9uc2UgVG9tIE5pY2hvbGFz

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Eraldo Coil's avatar

How many hours would you estimate it took to get to b2 ?

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Joseph Bronski's avatar

<180 because not more than 30 minutes per day. It's just too boring especially at beginning levels

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Eraldo Coil's avatar

Nice, this is fairly consistent with research that shows 140 IQ people learn around twice as fast on average (with respect to material that is not conceptually difficult for the 100 IQ person, of course)

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Migrainesque's avatar

I wonder if you include an advantageous tools (such as anki) that high IQ person would use in this estimation.

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Eraldo Coil's avatar

Not directly, although I suspect that it plays a small part in why highly intelligent people learn faster.

From personal experience (so take it with a grain of salt) highly intelligent people tend to automatically tackle learning in a more efficient way.

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