Operation Blank Slate, 2011 Edition

As usual around this time of year, a list of links I was going to comment on here but didn't (in the order in which I bookmarked them). Lots of interesting stuff, as well as lots of stuff I hardly remember.

• Robin Hanson: Control Variables Avoid Bias
• Tino Sanandaji: The Spirit Level Is Junk Science
• Various: When Science Goes Psychic
• Bryan Caplan: The Overlords of Immigration
• Daniel Read et al.: Mixing Virtue and Vice: Combining the Immediacy Effect and the Diversification Heuristic (pdf)
• Eric Barker/Francesca Gino & Francis J. Flynn: Are the Best Gifts Surprises or Things the Recipient Specifically Asks for?
• Fabio Rojas/Duncan Watts: Duncan Watts in Scientific American
• Angela Lee Duckworth et al.: Role of Test Motivation in Intelligence Testing
• Statsquatch: A bad apple in Duckworth's IQ-Motivation meta-analysis?
• Lovisa Stannow: Rape Factories
• Mark Liberman: Ask Language Log: One = Only One?
• Eric Crampton: Rationality and Economists
• Andrew Potter: Art, Alcoholism, Amy Winehouse
• Steve Hsu: Heritability 2.0
• Will Wilkinson: What's the Big Idea?
• Eduardo Bonilla-Silva: The Linguistics of Color Blind Racism: How to Talk Nasty about Blacks without Sounding “Racist” (pdf)
• Charles Kurzman: Why Is It So Hard to Find a Suicide Bomber These Days?
• Arnold Kling: Act Libertarianism and Rule Libertarianism
• Bits & Pieces: What Is Something You Realized Embarrassingly Late in Your Life?
• Will Wilkinson: Did Steve Jobs Give Good Advice?
• Seth Roberts: Grandmother Knows Best about Crohn's Disease
• Ross Douthat: Democracy's Collateral Damage
• Sven Wilson: Cheap Sex as Collective Action Failure
• Dr. Φ: Corporations Will Do Anything for Profit (as Long as It's Bad)
• Ann Althouse: System One and System Two: The Brain's "Two Independent Systems for Organizing Knowledge"
• Will Wilkinson: Success as Pollution: Layard Meets Coase
• Bryan Caplan: Usually Look on the Bright Side of Life
• Matt: More Linky, Less Thinky: Special Edition on Income Inequality