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	Education Forum on Teaching Thinking Skills Report: page 11
		Cognitive Acceleration through Science Education (CASE), although set within the context of science, is a structured programme rather than an infused method.
		The cognitive processing view of intelligence is, as LaFrancois (1999) suggests, a little like a box of tools that we use to play the game of cognition: we may not all have the same tools in our kit, but we can certainly improve how we use them.
		Collectively, these present, as Resnick (1987) argues, 'a new challenge to develop educational programmes that assume that all individuals, not just an elite, can become competent thinkers' (p.7) because these competencies are now required of all.
	www.scotland.gov.uk /library3/education/ftts-11.asp

	elite - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Phrases that include elite: power elite, alpha elite, beretta 92g elite i, beretta 98g elite ii, cognitive elite, more...
		Words similar to elite: cream, elect, aristocracy, choice, establishment, exclusive, finest, gentry, oligarchy, select, uppercrust, upscale, more...
		Elite (f), elite, elite (de), élite, élite : AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=elite (239 words)

	elite - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Phrases that include elite: power elite, alpha elite, beretta 92g elite i, beretta 98g elite ii, cognitive elite, more...
		Words similar to elite: cream, elect, aristocracy, choice, establishment, exclusive, finest, gentry, oligarchy, select, uppercrust, upscale, more...
		elite : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=elite&loc=wotd (255 words)

	Human Intelligence: The Bell Curve
		These trends are: 1) An increasingly isolated cognitive elite, 2) A merging of the cognitive elite with the affluent, and 3) A deteriorating quality of life for people at the bottom end of the cognitive ability distribution.
		The authors see the continued polarization of society with the underclass anchored at the bottom, and the cognitive elite anchored at the top, restructuring the rules of society so that it becomes harder and harder for them to lose.
		The controversy surrounding these topics, and the incredibly complex nature of the comparisons being made is acknowledged by the authors from the outset; the reader is cautioned to "read carefully".
	www.indiana.edu /~intell/bellcurve.shtml (5488 words)

	Orienteering
		In rough orienteering (fast orienteering with little emphasis on navigation) the blood lactate level of elite male orienteers rose from 4.4 to 6.7 mmol/L. In contrast, during fine orienteering (complex navigation was required and the pace was then lowered) the blood lactate level decreased from 3.6 to 4.6 mmol/L (Creagh and Reilly 1997).
		In those elite female orienteers as portrayed through their somatotypes is close to that reported for elite marathon runners, who had similar endomorphy (2.8) and mesomorphy (3.6), however, a higher ectomorphy (4.6) ratings have been reported in distance runners.
		It was suggested that due to the unique physical and cognitive characteristics of this sport, orienteering evoked a significantly more variable heart rate response than cross-country running and fell running (Creagh et al 1998).
	www.physiotherapy.curtin.edu.au /resources/educational-resources/exphys/98/orienteering.cfm (2973 words)

	Elite Graduate Program Neuro-Cognitive Psychology
		The first focus is on basic-science neuro-cognitive psychology theories and methods, and the second on the application of neuro-cognitive psychology in selected fields, in particular, human-factors engineering and experimentally based diagnostics of neurocognitive disorders.
		The main goal of the new Neuro-Cognitive Psychology (NCP) program is to provide a select group of students (of approximately 20 per annum), to be recruited from around the world, with a state-of-the-art education in this brain research-oriented discipline of psychology within four semesters.
		The course is organized jointly by Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (lead institution), Technical University Munich, University of Regensburg, University of Würzburg, Forschungszentrum Jülich, and further academic and research institutions; it is funded by the German Federal State of Bavaria as part of the new academic Elite Network Bavaria.
	www.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de /methoden/lehre/ncp/index.php.en (520 words)

	Lemann.bellcurve
		Even if you trimmed the meritocratic elite back from one fifth to, say, one hundredth of the population, there would stlll be a big problem with the cognitive elite theory, arising from the sociology of its members.
		So a stampede into the professions, driven by risk aversion, is a key cultural phenomenon for meritocratic Ivy League students, the subject of many hand-wringing commencement speeches (and, years later, of the students' middle-aged longueurs).
		Let's say that Herrnstein and Murray are right that the most selective colleges today efficiently "soak up" virtually all the American adolescents with the highest IQs and that these people are plainly the most able members of their age cohort.
	www.haverford.edu /psych/ddavis/psych212h/lemann.bellcurve.html (289 words)

	Pandagon: Meritocratically Dumber Than A Sack Of Rocks
		The intelligence needed to get a place in the cognitive elite may become more concentrated in a fair meritocratic society, but the personal behaviors needed to find a valued place in society are available to everyone.
		Barone, as a member of the elite, would love to think that his position is by virtue of natural and unalterable genetic advantage.
		Unable to make the argument that we actually live in a meritocracy, he argues instead that a system which bases success on a distinctly unmeritocratic process is meritocratic by virtue of its final decision.
	www.pandagon.net /archives/2005/08/meritocraticall.html (2427 words)

	Drew Hempel ~ Epicenters of Justice -- Restoring the Lost Logos (Part 2)
		...due to resonance phenomenon...cognitive experiential states are created by the synchronization of fast oscillations in the gamma and beta range that tend to arise and subside quickly....
		349 Pythagoras focused on social change and creating a cosmopolitan ecological society of transcendence founded in the absolute void-for this activism his center of learning was burned down by the materialist, repressive Greek elite but his teachings of universal Truth live on.
		Now eco-fascism, a term Berman uses, is considered to be the threat of a genetically-engineered micro-chipped social cleansing lead by the religion of technology-derived, "world saving" "life sciences" of Cargill, Monsanto and their interlocking elite associates.
	lightmind.com /library/hempel/restoring-logos2.html (6779 words)

	Linguistics prof. George Lakoff dissects the "war on terror" and other conservative catchphrases
		They shouldn't be complaining about "tax cuts for the rich," they should be complaining about "tax cuts for the conservative elite," because that's who's getting them.
		In response to demand, Lakoff set aside his linguistic research for intense — and in many ways more challenging — study of the application of linguistics and cognitive science to politics.
		Meanwhile, by using this frame, we get a commander in chief, as the Republicans keep referring to Bush — a "war president" with "war powers," which imply that ordinary protections don't have to be observed.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/media/releases/2004/08/25_lakoff.shtml (2719 words)

	History of popular Islam in northwestern Tunisia 1800-1970
		But on the other hand, the formal variant of Islam, and its local exponents, cAn be heard to be explicitly rejected by Khumiri peasants when discussing, with scorn and resentment, the alleged machinations of local authorities and elite both within and outside the sphere of the religion.
		This implicit assumption of continuity could be interpreted as an unconscious attempt, on the part of the Khumiris, to escape the cognitive dissonance between on the one hand formal Islam as a local ideal reinforced from outside and on the other popular Islam as a fondly cherished local practice.
		This paper explores the interplay between local popular Islam and the repeated introduction of formal Islam in Khumiriya, against the background of its social and political structure and the radical changes the latter underwent in the colonial and post-colonial era.
	www.shikanda.net /african_religion/popul.htm (2719 words)

	Talk:Folk mathematics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"Folk mathematicians", in the form of computer scientists who use a heuristic approach to math rather than an axiomatic one, still exist today (and one could argue that they form a more elite group than are mathematicians in general - they certainly get paid more).
		It's entirely inappropriate to make confused objections about the fact that folk mathematical concepts don't divide up the world of thought into neat packages the way we did in the 20th century (but may not always do in future, see cognitive science of mathematics).
		Physics predicts events; so your comments in this regard indicate a confusion - you are attempting to define mathematics as something to do with the real world; but that is not the the domain of mathematics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Folk_mathematics (2719 words)

	Untitled Document
		The central theme of this intersubjective view is that science and religion express truths arrayed along a spectrum of “invariance” among diverse cognitive frameworks.
		Rather, subsets of the scientific community form their own elite, intersubjective groups who alone can authoritatively judge the value of their peers’ theories and discoveries.
		Moving along the spectrum of intersubjective truths, other claims may be valid solely within the context of a single family, a community, a nation, an ethnic group, or a species.
	www.srhe.ucsb.edu /lectures/text/wallaceText.html (9521 words)

	Eugenics or Democracy Part 3.
		So it was in internal debates among the cognitive elite during the Fifties that population policies, which are still being carried out, were formulated.
		As a consequence of these discussions among eugenicists in the Fifties, population control is integral to the 'development' programs of the rich nations, including the United States and Japan, who spend half a billion dollars annually to prevent development of Asian, African and Latin American babies.
		Sharpless does not say that the debate was dominated by eugenicists but the people whom he identifies as having dominated the debate, were in fact eugenicists.
	www.eugenics-watch.com /eugbook/euod_ch3.html (9521 words)

	English Usage Archives Page
		His syllabary became a tool for promoting Christianity among the Cherokees, and was used to empower an elite that had ties to whites and wanted to translate and disseminate English texts.
		Many people who graduated from colleges and high schools during that era deeply regret the easy, feel-good education that left them with few cognitive skills.
		Pauline Cairns, a senior editor for the new dictionaries, said there had always been examples of rhyming slang in Scots but its use had become much more widespread thanks to a growing national pride in the country's native tongue following the creation of the Scottish parliament and the breakdown of the class system.
	www.yaelf.com /archives.shtml (9521 words)

	Econlog, Behavioral Economics Archives: Library of Economics and Liberty
		Observing that some societies are consistently richer than others, social scientists have invoked such ingenious explanations as "the Protestant ethic" (of working and saving for the future) or "the resource curse" (when an elite controls a valuable natural resource, such as oil, and has no incentive to encourage political and economic modernization).
		They use the term "behavioral economics," which I think of as looking at cognitive biases in decision making.
		Trust encourages savings and investment, and reduces the "transaction cost" of investigating the people you do business with.
	econlog.econlib.org /archives/cat_behavioral_economics.html (9521 words)

	Internet Commentator: Competition in political systems
		Translation: "Don't you dare tell me that the world is a more complex place than can be accomodated by my simplistic racist philosophy." You display an absurdly low tolerance for cognitive complexity for an alleged member of the intellectual elite.
		Don't even think about commenting on my site ever again - you will be banned straight away, and all your comments deleted.
		Communism versus liberal democracy was the biggest variable in the laboratory when I was growing up, but it's far from the only one that has been and is being tested.
	internetcommentator.typepad.com /internet_commentator/2004/06/competition_in_.html (9521 words)

	SCIENCE AT THE EDGE
		Included in his works as author and/or editor are By the Late John Brockman, The Third Culture, Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite ;editor of The Greatest Inventions in the Past Two Thousand Years, and The Next Fifty Years : Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century ; Science at the Edge.
		He is a cofounder and senior editor of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience and has served on several National Research Council committees advising the government on new technologies.
		John Brockman argues that scientists - through their research and writing - are creating a 'third culture' in which the word "humanism" is once more defined in terms of the 15th century idea of one intellectual whole.
	www.edge.org /books/science_edge.html (9521 words)

	Transhumanism's Extropy Institute - Transhumanism for a better future
		At the same time, Fukuyama is exactly right: transhumanist ideas are dangerous; they pose a serious threat to the continued reign of age-old afflictions of humanity, including the deterioration of old age, the severely limited cognitive powers of biological brains, and the disturbed emotions thrown up over the course of our evolutionary emergence.
		A vastly greater danger is the controlling desire to stop progress on the basis of vague fears promoted by a few elite thinkers with a foot in the corridors of power (which includes Fukuyama as well as Leon Kass).
		Extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org was the premier transhumanist email list dating back to 1991 when transhumanism was in its early stages.
	www.extropy.org (638 words)

	'War on terror' emboldens white supremacists
		He asserted that “Sub-Saharan Africans have an average IQ of 70 to 75”, and pointed to the underdevelopment of Africa as proof of the “difference in cognitive ability of blacks and whites”.
		Already the legal order is radically skewed against the interests of white men; that tendency will grow more pronounced as the managerial-professional elite becomes more heavily Asian.”
		The ugly face of white supremacism was bared on national television on July 18 when Channel Nine's Current Affair host Ray Martin interviewed Macquarie University associate professor of law Drew Fraser.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/2005/635/635p11.htm (916 words)

	Human Intelligence: Cyril L. Burt
		His long research career began in 1909 with a study comparing the intelligence of boys enrolled in an elite preparatory academy with the intelligence of boys attending a regular school.* To control for environmental influences, he chose measures (such as mirror drawing) that were unlikely to have been learned during the students' lifetimes.
		He noted however, that this superiority is transient, and that the overall cognitive differences between boys and girls are negligible.
		Thirdly, intelligence is by definition an innate capacity: hence a lack of it is not necessarily proved by a lack of educational knowledge or skill" (Burt, 1957, p.
	www.indiana.edu /~intell/burt.shtml (1335 words)

	John Derbyshire on Pop Culture on National Review Online
		It is not the cognitive elites whose IQs are being elevated by the Flynn effect so much as those of us in the middle bulge of the Bell Curve.
		He is well read on all the relevant topics, though he stumbles a bit when discussing IQ, obviously being in the grip of the opinion-elite dogma that IQ is a slightly disreputable concept, yet being unable to discuss the thing he wants to discuss without bringing it in.
		What he wants to discuss is the Flynn effect, which I have covered myself on NRO.
	www.nationalreview.com /derbyshire/derbyshire200505250801.asp (1420 words)

	feature4.html
		ELI draws not only on linguistics but also cognitive psychology, educational research, sociology, and neurology to explore how second languages are learned by different individuals in different contexts.
		As for the program itself, the ELI is among an elite group of similar programs nationwide linked to an academic department, says Juffs.
		A linguistic family is a group of languages with similar origins.
	www.discover.pitt.edu /pittmag/spring2005/feature4.html (1784 words)

	Duboisbibliographybydate.htm
		Wilson, F. For Whom Does the Bell Toll?: Meritocracy, the Cognitive Elite, and the Continuing Significance of Race in Postindustrial America.
		Wilson, K. Towards a discursive theory of racial identity: The souls of black folk as a response to nineteenth-century biological determinism.
		Staton, M. Power acquisition theory and the tragic legacy in selected works of August Wilson.
	www.library.ncat.edu /ref/Duboisbibliographybydate.htm (3432 words)

	Ingse Skattum
		Here French, though dominant, is a minority language mastered only by an educated elite, the majority language being Bambara, the mother tongue of around 40 % and spoken by another 40 % of the 10 million inhabitants.
		As for the BICS/CALP dichotomy, it does not take into account the cognitive competence of people who live in a state of ‘orality’.
		French is the official language and still the dominant medium and matter of instruction, while there are around 20 languages in Mali, of which 13 have been given the status of ‘national languages’.
	www.unizh.ch /spw/afrling/afrosympo/abstracts/Skattum.htm (517 words)

	TIME.com: Is This the End for the SAT? -- Page 1
		To Richard Atkinson, cognitive psychologist, testing expert and, since 1995, president of the University of California, the SAT has always been a mystery.
		But Atkinson, 71, is worried about the growing number of parents pouring thousands of dollars into SAT-prep programs (last year an estimated 150,000 students paid more than $100 million for coaching) and even shopping around for psychologists to certify that their kids are disabled so that they get extra test-taking time.
		Last week Atkinson said he would recommend that the University of California, one of the largest public systems in the country, no longer use the SAT in its admissions process.
	www.time.com /time/education/article/0,8599,99821,00.html (686 words)

	Davenetics* : Electablog Exclusive: Beyond the F Word
		The naming of programs, the attacks on the media, the ridiculing of the intellectual elite; all of this is part of a longstanding strategy developed in well-funded think-tanks and delivered with partywide discipline.
		One of the experts on how this strategy was developed is George Lakoff, Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science.
		In the video piece How Progressives and Democrats Can Win, Lakoff (a Kerry advisor who Howard Dean describes as, “One of the most influential political thinkers of the progressive movement.”) describes how the Right has used language and the framing of issues to their advantage and offers some thoughts about how Progressives can respond.
	davenetics.com /2004/09/electablog-exclusive-beyond-f-word (686 words)

	Society without the father;: A contribution to social psychology
		Baron, J. Upstream: Upstream: Issues: Psychology: IQ: Cognitive Elite.
		Society without the father;: A contribution to social psychology was written by Alexander Mitscherlich
		Society without the father;: A contribution to social psychology
	www.limotransportation.info /books-plain/B0007FV124.html (686 words)

	CHFM Home Page
		CHFMs enjoy the pride of recognition of being among the elite in a critical field of healthcare.
		Self Assessment Examination (SAE) The CHFM Self-Assessment Examination is an online study tool created to simulate the Certification Examination in format, content and cognitive levels.
		And CHFM is a premier credential based on a sound assessment that provides distinction in an increasingly competitive marketplace.
	www.ashe.org /aha/certification/chfm/chfmindex.html (686 words)

	Book Reviews: Three Books on the "Bell Curve"
		Murray and Herrnstein claim that we have lost the mobility of bygone days because the low-I.Q. people keep begetting low-I.Q. children who will form an increasing threat to the peaceful existence of the "cognitive elite," the high-I.Q. people.
		I belong to what must be the least exclusive club in the country: People who have written critical reviews of The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life by Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein.
		I liked that the best because it is one of the only reviews that challenges the statistical quackery directly and doesn't leave the mathematical high ground to Murray and Herrnstein.
	www.scientificexploration.org /jse/bookreviews/11-2/bellcurve.html (686 words)

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