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Culture and conservationA greater sensitivity to local culture could increase the success of both conservation and development projects
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Complexities of conflict: the importance of considering social factors for effectively resolving human–wildlife conflict
TL;DR: This article reviewed a wide variety of case studies to show how social factors strongly influence perceptions of human-wildlife conflict, and highlight how mitigation approaches should become increasingly innovative and interdisciplinary in order to enable people to move from conflict towards coexistence.
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How Much Does Schooling Influence General Intelligence and Its Cognitive Components? A Reassessment of the Evidence.
TL;DR: This article found that much of the causal pathway between IQ and schooling points in the direction of the importance of the quantity of schooling one attains (highest grade successfully completed), which fosters the development of cognitive processes that underpin performance on most IQ tests.
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You can't take it with you: Why ability assessments don't cross cultures.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze ability tests as items of symbolic culture and present a theoretical perspective to detect, correct, and avoid the cross-cultural misunderstandings that undermine the validity of ability tests applied outside their culture of origin.
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The g‐factor of international cognitive ability comparisons: the homogeneity of results in PISA, TIMSS, PIRLS and IQ‐tests across nations
TL;DR: This article showed that interindividual data level, cognitive ability and achievement comparisons share a common positive manifold, i.e., they share the same positive manifold of the human brain and cognitive ability.