The Social Pathologist

One of the things about cognitive misers not only do they "think" in terms of heuristics but also interpret data through them as ...

Back to regular programming. One of the concepts I've been trying to get across to my readership over the last few posts is that of th...

Now for something a bit different. I suppose the latest advances in molecular biology and genetics are not really subject of interest t...

As mentioned in previous posts, the cognitive miser operates on intuition and feeling. Their opinions on matters can be considered as more a...

Unlike most critics of IQ testing, I believe in their validity. Where I differ from most of the supporting crowd is that I recognise that th...

Jason Richwine recently put up a rather good post over at Politico.  Why can't we talk about IQ should really be titled Why cant we t...

As mentioned in our previous post, most people tend to be Cognitive Misers. i.e. System 1 thinkers. It's important to point out, how...

Gasset wasn't the first to notice the phenomenon of mass-man. Marx recognised his type in the lumpen-proletariat and Mencken saw his...

What fundamentally weakens Gasset's book is Gasset's own philosophical system; which, despite his accurate analysis of the problem...

Gasset's book loses steam after about mid-point and the devotes the rest of this book to the subject of the state, the cultural leadersh...

Whenever I propose to limit the franchise to a competent minority,  people immediately assume that I wish to restrict the vote to what are...

For Gasset, the decline in European Civilisation is attributed to the rise in the influence of a new type of man in history: mass-man.  A...