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Musical cognition and performance
Religion and politics
Happiness
Philosophical issues
100

The reason cockatoos and humans are good at beat synchronization

What is vocalization?

100

The reason religions can demand costly behaviors of adherents and maintain fitness.

Taking part in costly commitments can signal one's commitments to a religion's ethical values.
100

The definition of eudaimonia

What is the exercise of virtue—sustained and demanding engagement of the best human capacities, including ones that contribute to flourishing as members of the community?

100

The two types of genetic engineering

Gene editing (CRISPR) and (embryo) selection 

200

Three reasons why music might be like cheesecake for the ears

What are:

Language

Auditory scene analysis

Emotional calls

Habitat selection

Motor control

200
The attitudes which are associated with greater fertility.

What fitness consequence do religion and conservatism have in common?

200

The personality trait correlated with subjective wellbeing

Emotionality/neuroticism
200
The intelligence of a person who only had plus alleles at every SNP.

What is ~800 IQ

300

The ratio of sound frequencies (pitch) between notes and octave apart

What is 1/2?
300

The reason humans are hyper-active agency detectors

What is the consequence of false-positives being of little consequences and true positives being very important?

300

The four components of eudaimonia proposed by Murray

What are family, vocation, faith, and community?

300

The potential arguments against embryo selection (I want at least 3)

What are:

1) The difficult of controlling correlated selection

2) Inequality

3) The destriction of potential life

4) Playing god

5) Selection against sexuality

400
The occupation which shows high scores on genetic liabilities for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

What are creative professions?

400
The cognitive ability which is not relevant to political attitudes

What is spatial ability?

400

The heritability of subjective well-being

What is fairly low, roughly 10–40%?

400

The practical limitations of CRISPR

What is the risk of off-target mutations?

500

The twin study of Hambrik and Tucker-Drob (2015) provided a refutation of a naive interpretation of the 10,000 hours rule because...

What is the weak genetic correlation between practice and musical performance?

500
The mating behavior (and causal pathways) which may accentuate political divisions.

Assortative mating, which increases genetic variance and more variance in socialization.

500

The change in subjective well-being among young Americans

What is going down?

500

Roughly how much more does a broiler chicken weigh in 2005 compared to 1957

What is roughly 4 times (900g to 4200g)?