Last weekend of summer. I plan to have my reviews of The Invisible Gorilla and The Lost History of Christianity up very soon. I recommend both heartily! Next in the stack: Stanislas Dehaene’s Reading in the Brain. A question was asked about the focus on extremes when it came to perceptions of the genetic influence on an outcome. The table below has mean values, 1-21, 1 = 100% genes, 21 = 0%, so 11 = 50%.
| Obese white woman | Drunk Asian man | Saintly Hispanic woman | Athletic black man | |
| Liberal | 11.24 | 11.8 | 11.94 | 11.83 |
| Moderate | 12.12 | 12.2 | 12.41 | 12.02 |
| Conservative | 12.95 | 12.44 | 12.91 | 12.49 |
| No College | 12.42 | 11.76 | 12.03 | 11.78 |
| College | 13.26 | 12.9 | 13.23 | 12.79 |
| Not intelligent | 12.27 | 10.85 | 11.2 | 10.99 |
| Average | 13.08 | 11.91 | 12.3 | 11.95 |
| Intelligent | 13.52 | 13.01 | 13.04 | 12.93 |