Neuroscience: China's One-Child Policy Affects Personality
In 1979 China instituted the one-child policy, which limited every family to just one offspring in a controversial attempt to reduce the country’s burgeoning population. The strictly enforced law had the desired effects: in 2011 researchers estimated that the policy prevented 400 million births. In a new study in Science, researchers find that it has also caused China’s so-called little emperors to be more pessimistic, neurotic and selfish than their peers who have siblings.
Psychologist Xin Meng of the Australian National University in Canberra and her colleagues recruited 421 Chinese young adults born between 1975 and 1983 from around Beijing for a series of surveys and tests that evaluated a variety of psychological traits, such as trustworthiness and optimism. Almost all the participants born after 1979 were only children compared with about one fifth of those born before 1979. The study participants born after the policy went into effect were found to be both less trusting and less trustworthy, less inclined to take risks, less conscientious and optimistic, and less competitive than those born a few years earlier.
“Because of the one-child policy, parents are less likely to teach their child to be imaginative, trusting and unselfish,” Meng says. Without siblings, she notes, the need to share may not be emphasized, which could help explain these findings.
Only children in other parts of the world, however, do not show such striking differences from their peers. Toni Falbo, a social psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin, who was not involved in the study, suggests that larger social forces in China also probably contributed to these results. “There’s a lot of pressure being placed on [Chinese] parents to make their kid the best possible because they only had one,” Falbo says. These types of pressures could harm anyone, even if they had siblings, she says.
Whatever its cause, the personality profile of China’s little emperors may be troubling to a nation hoping to continue its ascent in economic prosperity. The traits marred by the one-child policy, the study authors point out, are exactly those needed in leaders and entrepreneurs.
Psycho Trynamic: 8 College Degrees that aren't worth the cost.
Found this article today, and I thought it was going to be just some personal vendetta against certain degrees, but I am actually impressed with the worth they put into it. They calculated the average cost of degrees, allowing 4 years to graduate (seperate calculations for public vs private schools), and then took the median cash compensation over the course of 30 years for jobs in those fields. They even accounted for inflation over the course of that 30 years. That’s pretty good for a one article topic.
So here is the list
8. Sociology
7. Fine Arts
6. Education
5. Religious Studies / Theology
4. Hospitality.Tourisim
3. Nutrition
2. Psychology
1. Communications
I’m not sure if any of these are really a surprise, but the big question is why?
A lot of liberals which coincidently tend to make up a good portion of these fields* beleive it is the rising cost of tuition and books.
A lot of other people think it is because these fields have no real societal value, and that’s why they can’t get jobs. I point out that this study has nothing to do with being able to get jobs, but these people are generally dicks anyways and don’t listen to reason.
What do I think? I think as far as degrees go, these are (at least a the 4 year level) some of the easiest degrees to obtain. That means they are over populated. If there is one thing I learned in economics, it’s that supply and demand effects everything. Don’t beleive me? Check out this graph I totally didn’t make up. ( No seriously its from the National Center for education Statistics : http://nces.ed.gov)Before I looked at this graph I was actually pretty surprised Business was not on that list, but then you have to take into consideration that CEO’s tend to be business majors, and they also tend to average 750k a year according to Salary.com. That’s enough to offset the rest.
Ignoring Business however, take a look at the most common degrees earned.
Social Sciences, Health, Psychology, Arts.. sound familiar?
My fix (If you are more concerned with the amount of money you are going to be making, which admittedly is not the most important thing in the world) is to choose a different major. Not because these ones have no value, but because they are over saturated in the community.
That, or education facilities need to raise the standards on who and how many they let into these programs a year.
*This isn’t a statistic, I just made it up. Call it Anecdotal evidence.
Original article Credit : Salary.com “8 College Degrees with the Worst Return on Investment” http://salary.com/8-college-degrees-with-the-worst-return-on-investment/
NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly 'wanted to instill fear' in Black and Latino men
The commissioner of the New York City police department views the controversial practice of stop, question and frisk as a means to instil fear in young African American and Latino men, a New York state senator testified in a federal court on Monday.
State senator Eric Adams, who retired from the NYPD after rising to the rank of captain during a 22-year career, said commissioner Ray Kelly described his views on stop and frisk during a July 2010 meeting in the office of then-governor David Patterson.
Adams had traveled to Albany for a meeting on 10 July 2010 with the governor to give his support for a bill that would prohibit the NYPD from maintaining a database that would include the personal information of individuals stopped by the police but released without a charge or summons. In discussing the bill, which ultimately passed, Adams said he raised the issue of police stops disproportionately targeting young African American and Latino men.
“[Kelly] stated that he targeted and focused on that group because he wanted to instil fear in them that every time that they left their homes they could be targeted by police,” Adams testified.
“How else would we get rid of guns,” Adams said Kelly asked him.
Adams told the court he was stunned by the commissioner’s claim and immediately expressed his concerns. “I was amazed,” Adams testified. “I told him that was illegal.”
According to Adams, also at the meeting were a former New York City council member, Hakeem Jeffries, who is now a US congressman, and another New York state senator, Martin J Golden. Adams said he was “shocked” the commissioner would describe an effort to instill fear among African American and Latino youth in the company of three elected African American politicians – referring to himself, Jeffries and Golden.
Adams’s testimony marked the latest in a series of explosive allegations leveled against the NYPD in an ongoing trial targeting the department’s stop-and-frisk practices. In earlier hearings, two serving NYPD officers testified that the department maintains a rigid quota system to ensure officers make a certain number of stops, arrests and summons. Both men secretly recorded roll-call meetings and conversations with supervisors which purport to show the existence of such a system.
Under the joint tenure of Kelly and mayor Michael Bloomberg, the NYPD has stopped and, in some cases searched, approximately 4.4 million people, most of them Latino or African American.
By law, police officers are empowered to stop individuals on the street if they have reasonable suspicion that an individual is preparing to, is in the process of, or has just committed a crime.
According to Adams, under these conditions, stop and frisk is a “great tool” for suppressing and responding to crime. He added, however, that “nowhere” in the law is an officer empowered to “use the tool to instil fear. Nowhere”.
Heidi Grossman, an attorney for the city, challenged Adams on the facts of his meeting with Kelly, noting the state senator had not provided notes on the conversation, despite a subpoena. Adams said his email inbox contained some 10,000 messages and that his search for notes concerning the meeting was ongoing.
“I don’t think anyone in their right mind would believe the police commissioner would say the police department is targeting, just for targeting, blacks and Hispanics,” Grossman said.
She added that commissioner Kelly has denied telling Adams that stop and frisk is intended to instil fear in minority populations.
David Floyd is the lead plaintiff in the class-action lawsuit against the city of New York over its stop-and-frisk practices. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/ReutersIn October 2011, Adams signed an affidavit in support of class action certification for the Floyd suit. Grossman confirmed that Adams met with attorneys filing the suit before he signed the affidavit and suggested it was drafted by the the plaintiffs’ attorneys. Adams said he was unaware of how the affidavit came into being and said it may have been drafted by one of his staffers. Grossman pointed out that the document uses the phrase “instil the belief”, with respect to Kelly’s comments to Adams, rather than “instil fear”.
The same month, Adams also described the meeting with Kelly to the Guardian. At the time, Adams said the commissioner told him the aim of the practice was to “instil in every young man from those communities [black and Hispanic] that any time they leave their house they can be searched by the police.”
Asked whether Adams’ October 2011 comments had given an accurate account of Kelly’s remarks NYPD spokesman Paul Browne told the Guardian at the time: “commissioner Kelly said he wants gunmen to be deterred from carrying weapons on them in the streets, particularly in those communities most victimised by gun violence.”
In court on Monday, Grossman attempted to read from an affidavit signed by Kelly in 2011 in which Kelly apparently rejected Adams’ claims, but judge Scheindlin shut the effort down, stating that the commissioner would not be able to provide testimony through “backdoor” means. “If he’d like to come here, he’s welcome in this courtroom,” Scheindlin said. “If he’s not going to be here we’re not going to have his statement.”
Kelly said in a statement later that he “categorically and totally” denied making the remarks attributed to him by Adams. “It’s interesting that apparently only Mr Adams heard this statement though other people were present. And, it just defies logic … it’s ludicrous.”
Adams’s Brooklyn district contains some of the most heavily policed areas in New York City, including Brownsville, which in 2011 reported the second highest number of stops in the city. The neighborhood also has some of the highest crime rates in the city. Adams told reporters outside court that young people simply trying to survive in his district frequently find themselves trying to avoid both crime and police harassment.
“They feel trapped,” Adams said. He described a meeting in his office approximately a year and a half ago when seven high school football players came in to describe police stops they had experienced.
“Two of them began to cry,” Adams said, adding that the boys told him about “police touching their privates.”
“Cops don’t want to do this,” he said. “Cops are so frustrated they are wearing wires to roll call.”
Adams said he is at times frustrated with his own ability to convey the seriousness of conditions in his district to residents in New York’s more affluent neighborhoods. “It pains me,” he said. “New Yorkers don’t really know how bad it is for young people.”
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2007 FOX News Special Report Links Multiple School Shootings To Pharmaceutical Drugs
Maybe it’s time we finally start taking on Big Pharma and all their brain altering drugs they are pushing on us.
Watch the video on the link.
This 2007 FOX News Special Report links multiple school shootings to pharmaceutical drugs. To this date no conclusive evidence has been provided as to whether Adam Lanza (the Sandy Hook shooter) was taking pharmaceutical medications. What we do know is the mainstream media doesn’t talk about the possibility and did not push for an answer to this extremely important question.
If so many massacres have been linked to pharmaceutical drugs why aren’t the media and our politicians talking about banning pharmaceuticals instead of banning guns?
Bullying Makes Middle Schoolers Cool
Anti-bullying campaigns might be tough to enforce in middle schools, because nasty behavior, whether it’s picking fights or spreading ugly rumors, seems to boost kids’ popularity, new research shows.
A group of psychologists studied nearly 2,000 students at 11 middle schools in Los Angeles. They conducted surveys in the spring of seventh grade and the fall and spring of eighth grade; participants named their peers who were considered the “coolest,” as well as those who “start fights or push other kids around,” and those who “spread nasty rumors about other kids.”
Often, the students who ranked coolest at one point were named among the most aggressive during the next survey, the researchers said. Conversely, the ones thought to be most aggressive went on to rank among the most popular.
photo via flickr:CC | Daniele Zanni
Liberty Movements Information: You Are Not Alone
New Hampshire, USA: Free State Project
The Free State Project is an agreement among 20,000 pro-liberty activists to move to New Hampshire, where they will exert the fullest practical effort toward the creation of a society in which the maximum role of government is the protection of life, liberty, and property. The success of the Project would likely entail reductions in taxation and regulation, reforms at all levels of government, to expand individual rights and free markets, and a restoration of constitutional federalism, demonstrating the benefits of liberty to the rest of the nation and the world.
LINK: http://freestateproject.org/
Asheville, North Carolina, USA: The Blue Ridge Liberty Project
established with two goals in mind:
- To create an environment where people from all walks of life, united by their love of liberty, can live free.
- To spread the message of liberty both locally and abroad
The area surrounding and including Asheville was chosen with great deliberation for the Blue Ridge Liberty Project. We wanted to find an area which catered to a wide range of demographics and interests, and whose culture and community would be receptive to our cause.
LINK: http://blueridgelibertyproject.com
Campus Liberty Alliance
Campus Liberty Alliance (CLA) provides a vehicle for young people to become leaders not only on their campuses but also in their communities. CLA has been a leader in the fight to restore the ideals that inspired the American Revolution. The mission of Campus Liberty Alliance is to educate our country’s future young leaders on faith, family, free enterprise and a free society, and to activate, equip and send them into the marketplace of ideas to recapture and proclaim the virtues of liberty.
We hold as a cardinal principle that our system of government, a constitutional republic, is the finest ever developed by man. We endeavor to support traditional moral values and believe the family is the basic and the most vital unit of our society. We believe the free-market system and private enterprise afford the widest opportunity and highest standard of living for all. We believe in the dignity of the individual. Campus Liberty Alliance welcomes and enjoys the participation of members from every walk of life and all ethnic, racial, and religious backgrounds. Our common bond is a love for our heritage of liberty and a rejection of totalitarianism in any of its forms.
We believe that the rights of the individual are bestowed by his Creator - not granted by governments. That the government’s role is merely a guardian of rights. While we strive to limit government power, we also promote individual responsibility. We stand for patriotism based on principle, not pragmatism, personalities, or partisan politics. As the youth affiliate of The John Birch Society we are in accordance with their mission to bring about less government, more responsibility and - with God’s help - a better world by providing leadership, education, and organized volunteer action in accordance with moral and Constitutional principles.LINK: http://www.campuslibertyalliance.com
LINK: https://www.facebook.com/CampusLibertyAlliance
Liberty Alliance Cincinnati
Our mission is to educate citizens on the founding principles of our country and to elect candidates at all levels who believe in constitutionally limited government, individual liberty and personal responsibility.
Key Objectives: Induce politicians to support our principles, Elect new leaders who believe in our principles, Educate the public on what’s at stake
2011-2012 Objectives, Political Change and Main Focus: Defeat President Obama and Sherrod Brown in 2012 along with policy changes.
Action items: Expand Liberty Alliance Cincinnati – advertise and recruit in Indian Hill and surrounding areas (particularly Mariemont and Terrace Park). Build Liberty Alliance precinct teams for 2012 door-to-door effort; provide precinct organizing resources to other local Tea Party groups so they can benefit from our knowledge and experience. Encourage Liberty Alliance members to work as inside poll workers in Democrat-dominated precincts in Hamilton County.LINK: http://www.libertyalliancecincinnati.org
Flagstaff, Arizona, USA: Flagstaff Liberty Alliance
Flagstaff Liberty Alliance is a non-partisan organization dedicated to bringing liberty groups and like minded individuals together in the Flagstaff area. We focus a great deal of energy on activism, educating the public, government watch and community outreach. We are always finding new ways to get our message out.
We will work with any organization or group who will stand up for liberty. We may not agree on every issue but we must find common ground and work together whenever we can.
Our Mission Statement: Strengthening community values of liberty and self sustainability through the promotion of Constitutional foundations in government.
Our Core Values: Adherence To The Constitution, Individual Freedom, Personal Responsibility, Protecting Civil Liberties, National Sovereignty, A Constitutional Approach To National Defense, True Free Market Principles.LINK: http://flagstafflibertyalliance.com/
LINK: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Flagstaff-Liberty-Alliance/144623165570732?ref=stream
Arizona, USA: Arizona Libertarian Party
The AZ Libertarian Party is the third largest political party in the United States. Millions of Americans have voted for Libertarian Party candidates in past elections throughout the country, despite the fact that many state governments place every imaginable roadblock in our path in order to keep our candidates off the ballot and deprive voters of a real choice.
AZ Libertarians believe the answer to America’s political problems is the same commitment to freedom that earned America its greatness: A free-market economy and the abundance and prosperity it brings; A dedication to civil liberties and personal freedom that marks this country above all others; A foreign policy of non-intervention, peace, and free trade as prescribed by America’s founders.
What began with a small group of activists in Colorado has become America’s third largest political party. We are proud of our heritage and the progress we have made since 1971. And the best is yet to come!
LINK: http://www.azlp.org/
Harrisburg, PA, USA: Harrisburg Liberty Alliance (WIth MEETUP and BLOG TALK RADIO)
A non-partisan, we do not endorse candidates, and we make no profit. The mission of Harrisburg Liberty Alliance is to promote and defend the great American principles of individual liberty, constitutional government, sound money, free markets, and a non-interventionist foreign policy, by means of educational and political activity. We also encourage every citizen to become active participants in their own self-governance
LINK: http://www.harrisburglibertyalliance.com/
LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/harrisburg-liberty-alliance
LINK: http://www.meetup.com/Harrisburg-Liberty-Alliance/
LINK: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Harrisb#!/pages/Harrisburg-Liberty-Alliance/134072509963670?v=wall&ref=ts
That’s a good idiot, Support suicide nets so you feel ‘green’.
Education Part 1
Ego and pride is what lead me to school and got me into debt. My ego is what created this debt ridden hell I am in now. Stupid lies I believed from society. Stroking my ego and pride. Making me believe I would be a success, even tho I had no track record of any type of success before college, and still don’t. Once a loser always a loser. Organized education is not worth the to short lived personality boost.
Obama’s on Tumblr.. this can only mean that he’s going to:
- Incessantly link his actions with his myers-briggs personality type
- Claim “I’m not like other presidents”
- Identify as a cisgendered pansexual
- Give up trying to pass legislation and just reblog posts that support the cause
- Confess his love of cats & nutella
- Start wearing Supreme.
- Tag his photos “swag”
- Get a new asshole ripped by the leftists pretty much on the daily basis.
- Claim he is cool like other kids.
- He talks smack about beating you at Packman.
- Pose naked for the entire web.
- Pissing contest on who’s smart phone is better.
Song: Paper Dream. From Saturday’s Warrior.
As a artist I connect to this song. A must inspirational song for any artist.
Lyrics:
I take some paper on my hand,
And with a pencil draw a man
The dream of what I’d really, really like to be.
A man with courage in his brow,
Who;’s licked his doubts and fears somehow,
A warrior of great nobility.
But who am I? Just a wandering kid.
A cipher on the wall, not even brave at all!
And where’s my dream like his that I would fight for?
And where’s my cuase like his that I would die for?
And in his eyes he’s not a afraid
Because you see he’s got it made
The dream of what I’d really, really like to be.
A brave and noble, fiery youth.
Who’s not afraid to die for truth.
Who’s tall and straight, but best of all he’s free!
But who am I? Such a fool as I am.
A cipher on the wall, not even brave at all!
And where’s my dream like his that I would fight for?
And where’s my cuase like his that I would die for?
But still the paper’s ion my hand
And every day I sketch that man
Who knows the truth and what life’s all about!
My conscience says I should be him
I guess I could at least begin
But chances are I’d probably strike out.
Title:
UNGRIP (Full Length Movie).
Source:
From the creators of Esoteric Agenda (www.esotericagenda.net) and Kymatica (www.talismanicidols.org), UNGRIP penetrates the illusions and delusions of the legal system with direct relation to the psychology of humanity.
Inspired by the story of rob in the pagé family, as well as clips of Bruce Lipton, PHD and Ben: Stewart.
Talismanic Idols Productions (www.talismanicidols.org)
Hanged Man Project (www.hangedmanproject.com)
Conscious Self Governance (www.consciousselfgovernance.ca)
‘School Is A Prison!’ - Dr Peter Gray Interviewed on Freedomain Radio
Uploaded by stefbot on Aug 23, 2011
Podcast: http://www.fdrurl.com/FDR1982
Peter Gray is a research professor of psychology at Boston College. He has conducted and published research in comparative, evolutionary, developmental, and educational psychology; published articles on innovative teaching methods and alternative approaches to education; and is author of Psychology (Worth Publishers), an introductory college textbook now in its 6th edition. He did his undergraduate study at Columbia University and earned a Ph.D. in biological sciences at Rockefeller University. His current research and writing focuses primarily on children’s natural ways of learning and the life-long value of play. His own play includes not only his research and writing, but also long distance bicycling, kayaking, back-woods skiing, and vegetable gardening.
Peter’s blog: http://www.fdrurl.com/gray
