Pumpkin Person rating: 9/10
As my vacation finally comes to an end, I just watched Margaret, a 2011 drama film written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan. The film is ostensibly about a 17-year-old hybridized Ashekanzi New Yorker (Lisa Cohen played by Anna Helene Paquin) who struggles to overcome the guilt she feels about helping to cause a woman’s death.
The film paints a fascinating portrait of American Jewry.
In school, Lisa is a skilled debater (especially on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that she feels so passionate about-see ethnic genetic interests) but she is failing geometry, despite having a crush on her Gentile Math teacher (played by Matt Damon who ironically played a huge anti-Semite in 1992’s School Ties). Once again we see the typical Ashkenazi and typical female pattern of verbal IQ > spatial IQ. Lisa being both Jewish and female, shows this pattern quite acutely. Despite sucking at geometry, she still manages to make her math teacher feel inferior by implying that growing up in fly-over country, he’s probably ridden a lot of horses, and is out of place teaching at a private school full of “over-privileged liberal Jews”. “Was this the summit of your life’s ambition?” she asks him condescendingly.
The most endearing character is Lisa’s single mother, who struggles to bond with her temperamental daughter, and is so grateful when Lisa shows up to watch her in the New York plays she stars in. The mother starts dating an Italian guy, but things end badly when she invites him out to dinner with Lisa and one of their friends. The three Jewish females are horrified to discover that he sympathizes with the Palestinians, and one of them is so disgusted she throws whine in his face.
“That, is the Jewish response,” he says, wiping the whine from his face.
After dumping the Italian guy for perceived anti-Semitism, Lisa’s mother realizes the only love she needs in her life is her daughter, and in a heart-warming scene, the two females break into tears and start hugging while feeling the emotion of an opera they’re attending.
Despite this being a huge box-office flop, generating less than $47 thousand despite a production budget of $14 million, I strongly recommend watching this if you’re a movie buff, especially the three hour version, which I assume is even better than the 150 minute version I saw.
My aunt told me that today is the beginning of Chanukah.
It’s odd that Dec 7 is also the day of pearl Harbor.
I saw this cartoon about Chanukah in 1993 when I was 6 on the disney channel.
I took a new IQ test the day before thanksgiving. You said Jewish verbal IQ is high and spacial is average. I have both of them high but the other two lowers the average Full Scale IQ. It took 3 hours. Comparing the test I took in 2009 I think I took the WAIS-R in 2009 not 4 as I had thought because the test I took on the 25 nov was more complex and said IV on the box.
Verbal Comprehension 132
Perceptual Reasoning 121
Working Memory 95
Processing Speed 86
Full Scale 113
Here are the raw scores.
Block Design raw 61 scaled 15
Similarities raw 32 scaled 14
Digit Span raw 23 scaled 7
Matrix Reasoning raw 22 scaled 13
Vocabulary raw 47 scaled 14
Arithmetic raw 15 scaled 11
Symbol Search raw 23 scaled 6
Visual Puzzles raw 21 scaled 13
Information raw 24 scaled 18
Coding raw 67 scaled 9
Letter Number Sequence raw 21 scaled 10
Figure Weights raw 24 scaled 16
Comprehension raw 29 scaled 13
Cancellation raw 28 scaled 6
Picture Completion raw 8 scaled 6
I wonder what it would be like to have an IQ of 170. Since my working memory is 95 I think it would be really neat to be 170. It would be like a lucid dream I had recently where you control everything with your mind. I have problems understanding how to solve the rubik’s cube. IQ 170 could do such puzzles with many abstraction layers at once and fast. It was fun when I made my java program of brain waves. I could understand what each part did. Game developers can make games many orders of magnitude greater in complexity than my program.
If I knew more about GPU programming I could make an avatar that could talk to you. Nvidia invented CUDA which is a version of C and C++ parallelism language. Artificial Intelligence that follows brain design would be signal processing. Delayed gratification and everything else is just stop and go signals that rewire the network. Differences in the working memory of people as in IQ is inhibition signals and excitation signals. Stop and Go and reinforcement between neurons.
http://www.kurzweilai.net/forums/topic/no-singularity-for-you/page/2#post-732775
Thank you for these scores. This is a treasure trove of psychometric data!
“I wonder what it would be like to have an IQ of 170. Since my working memory is 95 I think it would be really neat to be 170. It would be like a lucid dream I had recently where you control everything with your mind. I have problems understanding how to solve the rubik’s cube. IQ 170 could do such puzzles with many abstraction layers at once and fast. It was fun when I made my java program of brain waves. I could understand what each part did. Game developers can make games many orders of magnitude greater in complexity than my program.”
There’s no way this guy has a verbal IQ of 132….
Fascinating! You even have the raw scores. My report only has the scaled.
peepee uses the collective “jewry”.
nauseating-ly prole.
“jews” has one syllable. “jewry” has two.
using more syllables than necessary is utterly prole.
david foster wallace begs to differ
Schindler’s List (1993)
Pumpkin Person rating: 7/10
This movie is the story of a wealthy business man named Oskar Schindler in Nazi Germany, who defied his ethnic genetic interests by moving thousands of Ashkenazi Jews to safety. The Ashkenazis despite having high IQs which are said to be linked to Tay-Sachs disease and torsion dystonia, failed the ultimate Darwinist test of intelligence…the cognitive ability to adapt; to take whatever situation you’re in, and turn in around to your advantage. A possible reason is that according to scholar Richard Lynn, Ashkenazis have a pattern of verbal IQ >> full scale IQ, and likely higher than social IQ as well; with higher social IQ the Jews might have seen the Holocaust coming, and moved out.
Schindler is interesting because, although a White gentile whose ethnic genetic interests told him to attack the Jews; he instead protected them, and even saved many of their lives! Maybe the reason, is that with his high IQ (a successful businessman with a very large head, showing high intelligence) he could refuse his Darwinian instincts of ethnic genetic protection, and instead focus on Universalist ethics.
Overall an interesting study of IQ and ethnic genetic interests.
I forgot to mention that the Nazis; being antisemitic, would have gotten along very well with commenter chartreuse.
you are hilarious.
and way over peepee’s head.
It’s a testament to PP’s generosity of spirit and kindliness that he still lets me comment, even though I insult him! (And you. And ruhkuah, animekitty, Carl Churchill, and myself.)
*I meant that I insult all of you, not that all of you insult him
you are hilarious.
and way over peepee’s head.
I very much get the joke. He’s doing a parody of the review I would have possibly written for Schindler’s List had I seen the film, mocking my tendency to see everything only through some narrow Darwinian lens while completely missing the point and humanity of the film.