For the last 40 years, Oprah and Gayle King Bumpus have had the kind deep intimate friendship that most women can only dream of, sharing secrets, bonding, laughing, and talking on the phone every single day.
The friendship began in 1976 when Oprah was just 22 and was hired to co-anchor the evening news in Baltimore, with a grumpy older white man who did not want to co-host the news with young Oprah. One day Gayle, who was a 21 year old production assistant, walked up Oprah to say how proud she was to be on such a historic team (at the time, a black women co-anchoring the evening news was considered historic).
One evening there was a snow storm and Gayle was afraid to drive all the way home.
“Stay at my place,” suggested Oprah.
“But I have no underwear,” said Gayle.
“I’ll give you underwear,” said Oprah.
That snowy night in 1976, the two women stayed up all night talking and bonding, and 40 years later, they are still talking and bonding every night. Although those early Baltimore years were some of the worst in Oprah’s life, professionally and romantically, Gayle was the constant shining light.
It was Oprah and Gayle against the World. Two young black girls trying to make it in the white male dominated world of TV news, where many simply did not want them.
The two would spend the 1970s hitting the Baltimore bars, looking for sexy black men. They would stay out all night getting drunk. Well, Oprah would get drunk. Teetotaler Gayle would sip on cocoa or order a glass of milk, much to Oprah’s chagrin.
Now in their 60s, the two women must look back with nostalgia to those long nights in bars and night clubs, in their carefree 20s, in the heart of the 1970s. To quote the song 1973 by James Blunt:
And though time goes by I will always be, in a club with you, in 1973
While Gayle King knew her best friend was “scary smart”, little did she know that her friend’s head circumference measured a superhuman 25.25″ around, and that such a huge brain size would give Oprah the intelligence to rocket out of Baltimore, and become, at her peak, both the World’s richest black and the World’s most influential woman, and that as the loyal best friend, Gayle would come along for the ride, seated in first class.
And what a ride it’s been.
So what is Gayle’s IQ?
Expected IQ of Oprah’s black best friend: 110
If we begin with the fact that on a scale where the average white American has an IQ of 100 (Standard Deviation = 15), the average African American has an IQ of 85 (SD possibly 15, though reports vary). The average African American thus has a best friend who also has an IQ of 85. However Gayle is best friends with Oprah, who I believe has an incredible IQ of 140 (3.66 SD higher than the average best friend of a black American).
It is known that the IQs of spouses correlate at about 0.45. If we assume the IQs of best friends also correlate at 0.45, then simple regression would predict Gayle’s IQ to be about 45% as far above the black mean as Oprah’s:
0.45(3.66 SD) = 1.65 SD
Being 1.65 SD above the African American mean implies an IQ of 1.65(15) + 85 = 110
Expected IQ of a 5’10” black female boomer: 98
Having a brilliant best friend is not the only sign of intelligence Gayle displays. Gayle is also 5’10” tall. The average African American woman over 60 is about 5’3″ (SD = 1.98 inches). Thus Gayle is an astonishing +3.53 SD in height! Given the within sex, within race correlation between IQ and height is about 0.24, simple regression would predict an IQ of 0.24(+3.54 SD) = 0.85 above the black mean, which is 98.
Expected IQ of 5’10” black female boomer who is best friends with Oprah: About 120
So based on the IQ of her best friend, we’d expect Gayle to have an IQ of 110, and based on her height, wed expect Gayle to have an IQ of 98. What happens when both of these predictors are considered together?
Obviously having two signs of intelligence (brilliant best friend AND super tall height) would predict a higher IQ than having just one of these.
It’s tempting to simply add the prediction based on best friend’s IQ to the prediction based on height:
0.45(best friend IQ) + 0.24(height)
However the problem with doing that is that the two predictions are not entirely independent so simply adding them redundantly counts their shared predictive power twice.
According to the brilliant Promethean who introduced me to multiple regression, in order to make predictions from multiple variables, we must first know the correlation between the variables themselves. If we assume that the IQ of one’s best friend and one’s height only correlate because they both correlate with one’s own IQ, then taking each variable’s correlation with one’s own IQ (0.45 and 0.24 respectively) and multiplying them (0.45 * 0.24 = 0.11), gives the correlation between the variables themselves.
Assuming these two predictors (best friend’s IQ and personal height) correlate 0.11, instead of the predictors having values of 0.45 and 0.24, they are reduced to 0.43 and 0.19, because these slightly lower values reflect their predictive power independent of one another. Thus Gayle’s expected IQ:
IQ = 0.43(best friend’s IQ) + 0.19(height)
IQ = 0.43(3.66 SD) + 0.19(3.54 SD)
IQ = 1.57 SD + 0.67 SD
IQ = 2.24 SD
Thus I estimate Gayles’s IQ to be an impressive 2.24 SD above the black mean, or roughly IQ 120. In other words, I think Gayle is smarter than 99% of black America, and smarter than 90% of white America.
However this is a very crude estimate with a large standard error. At best we can say with 95% confidence that Gayle’s IQ is anywhere from 95 to 145, with 120 being roughly the best guess.
Gayle & Charlie Rose
You can go pretty far in America with an IQ of 120, especially when your best friend is the most influential woman on the planet. Several years ago Gayle was hired to host CBS This Morning with Charlie Rosie. Oprah told Gayle it was a once in a lifetime opportunity so Gayle took the job, and Gayle recently landed a coveted interview with the Obamas.
Gayle would sometimes joke about having a romance with Charlie Rose, and Rose would play along with the joke. Because Gayle is so tall, the #1 trait she looks for in a man is height, so the 6’3″ Rose might appeal to Gayle. She would also appreciate the fact that Rose seems highly intelligent, curious, interested in current events, and extremely successful and famous.
So why then has there been so romance between these two seemingly single morning co-stars? Does the erudite Chalie Rose think the gossipy Gayle is just not good enough for him, or is it Gayle who is not interested in Rose?
Pumpkin Person 
“For the last 40 years, Oprah and Gayle King Bumpus have had the kind deep intimate friendship that most women can only dream of, sharing secrets, bonding, laughing, and talking on the phone every single day.”
Colloquially known as “lesbianism”.
So most women are lesbian, 🙂
Have you seen Graham?
A total beard. Watch any video with him and Winfrey.
The body language makes it palpable.
Well I can to agree that she’s not the most feminine black people that I “know”. Bit this type of relationship is far to be rare among women.
…she’s far to be the most feminine black women that I know.
“…she’s far to be the most feminine black women that I know.”
Ha. We know with the average female negro surging with testosterone doesn’t look like a woman (or act like one).
Because there are a over-proportion of ”masculine” traits among blacks but more masculine stuff also mean more mutations.
But yes, i agree that avg black woman is more ”masculine” than the avg white woman than the avg northeast asian woman.
of course this reality tend to be more nuanced when it is viewed closely.
Santo
The cause is testosterone.
I will repeat, there are plenty of study showing mixed results. I thought you already knew.
Yes, it’s the logically simple answer based on simpler understanding of the testosterone role in the human behavior.
But also there are studies showing greater influence of feminine hormones in behavior, violent behavior included…
“But also there are studies showing greater influence of feminine hormones in behavior, violent behavior included…”
Of course. I forget the hormone that blacks have more of, which is a female hormone, which in my opinion is a cause for their mood swings and part of the reason for low impulse control. Look at the average hood black woman and you’ll see what I’m talking about.
Black men seems has been more selected than women, this explain why they tend to be much more attractive than black women.
Or this is a natural or universal traits among primary human populations.
“Black men seems has been more selected than women, this explain why they tend to be much more attractive than black women.”
The author of Erectus Walks Amongst Us makes a good argument for this. Black men were selected for attractiveness and women for slightly higher IQ due to foraging for food. The reverse holds true for Eurasians.
yes i already read this theory before.
jesus christ who gives a shit?!
I know I don’t.
Is PP black? Seems like it.
Yes, s’he’s all the time writing posts about black celebrities.
or jewish ones…
Is this PP?
Or is this PP?
https://pumpkinperson.com//?s=Roots+of+his+rage&search=Go
I think PP is just a White guy.
but he never talks about his own identity very much.
I suppose he could be mixed-race, however. That would make it so he wouldn’t have to be “non-White”
““Stay at my place,” suggested Oprah.
“But I have no underwear,” said Gayle.
“I’ll give you underwear,” said Oprah.”
I agree with Jorge. Sounds like lesbians to me.
Was Gayle as obese as Oprah was to wear her clothes?
or can serve as a chalet
Oprah is left handed,
a intelligent black woman,
fat (fatness tend to increase testosterone in woman and reduce in man, what i already read about)
but she appears to be a avg black woman, behaviorally speaking, if she were too much lesbian-style their black public would notice.
Or Oprah have a public persona and a relatively different private persona or real personality, or indeed she have a genuine avg black woman behavior.
Seems increase testosterone among woman tend to increase intelligence in some ”special” cases.
Look that in the natural world woman tend to look less different than in western societies…
“Or Oprah have a public persona and a relatively different private persona or real personality, or indeed she have a genuine avg black woman behavior.”
This is the case with all “celebrities”. They play a character for the public eye but most are nothing like that.
Stone Cold Steve Austin said for his WWF character he played himself “with the volume turned up”. I’d say it’s the opposite for celebrities (G-d I hate that word).
I have read that testosterone increases testosterone but that it also decreases it. Many conflicting studies. But on average Asians less, whites in the middle and blacks more.
Pregnant black women also have 50 percent more testosterone in the 2nd trimester in comparison to white women.
”This is the case with all “celebrities”. They play a character for the public eye but most are nothing like that.
Stone Cold Steve Austin said for his WWF character he played himself “with the volume turned up”. I’d say it’s the opposite for celebrities (G-d I hate that word).
I have read that testosterone increases testosterone but that it also decreases it. Many conflicting studies. But on average Asians less, whites in the middle and blacks more.
Pregnant black women also have 50 percent more testosterone in the 2nd trimester in comparison to white women.”
There are total, circulatory testosterone…
Circulatory testosterone seems more relevant but yes, just with a well done study and with great sample to show for us something more concrete.
In the end, every trait that is superficially correlated with testosterone such as
facility to gain muscle,
sexual / behavioral impulsivity,
deeper voice,
more primarily dominant personality, etc
are found more commonly among blacks and less found among east asians…
Free testosterone is what matters the most.
”Pregnant black women also have 50 percent more testosterone in the 2nd trimester in comparison to white women.”
interesting
source*
“interesting
source*”
http://m.jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/89/3/188.full
Oops, was early pregnancy not 2nd trimester.
“Gayle recently landed a coveted interview with the Obamas.”
Hmmm. Michael (not a typo, he is a tranny) Obama who has no idea about diets and Barack Obama who has no idea how to run a country? What’s so “coveted” about that PP? They have destroyed America even more.
Also PP,
The head circumference you talk about is measuring from the Middle of the skull?
I wear 7 3/8 fitted hat. My long italian locks will prevent me from getting a good measurement so how big is my head? (7 3/8 hat size when I have no hair.)
Italian locks?
Long, curly, Italian hair.
got it.
I suppose, although I only have miniscule Italian ancestry, I could have that, too.
They tell me I look like this guy (1/2 South Italian, 1/4 North, 1/4 French, according to ethniceleb);
Are you from a Mediterranean country, which includes the Islamic world extending to Central Asia?
I’ve seen a cooking show hosted by this guy called Bobby Chinn:
It turns out that he’s part Egyptian and part Southern Chinese, with Med and East Asian features.
What a strange mix!
Yea my maternal grandmother is from Calabria, maternal grandfather is from Naples. My paternal grandfather is German, paternal grandmother is a castizo.
My ancestry dna test shows some West Asian blood. That’s from muh Italian side.
I look 6 million percent Italian though.
The above person in your comment, has a phenotype found also among the Armenoids. Basically anyone from Turkey to Central Asia. On a rare sighting, a Northern Indian with light skin who could pass as a person from the Mediterranean.
Anthropologists who have studied the Asian populations of Western China of Xinjiang, often calling the demographic with more robust Meditteranean features. Many Central Asian Caucasoids look like Italians.
The Islamic geniuses from Medieval Persia and parts of Arabia, could have share the same phenotype of the Greco-Roman Intellectuals that preceded them, whom they admire, as to translate and critique their works.
Whenever the WN proles (hilarious word, I’ve stated using it on forums and it triggers anglos) cite the central Asians, they say muh lost white tribes, their phenotype is that of whites!
Some Nordicist moron tried telling me that the Tarim mummies were white. Showed me pictures of them. Come to find out, they show affinities with Europeans because those populations have ancient ancestry to Siberia, Ancestral North Eurasians, and that’s why they’re similar. The same goes for the Brahmin caste.
Morons who have no understanding of genetics will look at people like that and think “muh white homeland. Muh sand niggers genociding whites in muh white homeland”. People are so stupid that they don’t know that whites are an amalgamation of what is considered today non-white.
“The Islamic geniuses from Medieval Persia and parts of Arabia, could have share the same phenotype of the Greco-Roman Intellectuals that preceded them, whom they admire, as to translate and critique their works.”
I love when WN say the Arab golden age isn’t true. They also day that Mayan accomplishments are greatly embellished. When pressed on how and why, they never say anything.
I wouldn’t doubt it. Rome extended into the middle east as well. They probably do share the same phenotype since the predominant paternal haplotype for South Europe is J2.
”People are so stupid that they don’t know that whites are an amalgamation of what is considered today non-white.”
recessive amalgamation/progressive–gracile skulls
“I love when WN say the Arab golden age isn’t true. They also day that Mayan accomplishments are greatly embellished. When pressed on how and why, they never say anything.”
I suppose with the Islamic golden age they’ll mutter something similar to what they say about Rome “those Arabs were different than the ones there now- they used to be Nordic” (retarded).
For the Mayans they do something odd and say “well they invented the wheel, but they did not utilize/understand the significance of inventing the wheel”, which is like saying Christopher Colombus did not discover the new world because he thought he hit India. Lol.
“For the Mayans they do something odd and say “well they invented the wheel, but they did not utilize/understand the significance of inventing the wheel””
Retarded logic. Make things that look like vehicles for children, with wheels, but not understand the significance of the wheel.
They didn’t use it on their vehicles because it didn’t work with how their roads were made. They still built amazing things without the wheel.
The Mayan golden age was from 200 to 900 AD. That’s when Europe was in the dark ages.
I argued with a Billy Roeper year on the Solutrean hypothesis. He’s some WN moron who thinks whites created and founded every great civilization. He said that the Mayans, Incans, and Aztecs have a story about white gods who gave them knowledge. What he doesn’t know is that they created the myth to explain how their empires fell. I guess that tidbit was lost on him.
Most WN are morons.
Medicists are retarded too*
The best was the old Canarian/Guanche (I am of significant Andalusian-Canarian ancestry)-Aztec link.
They built pyramids that looked vaguely similar to the Aztecs, so it’s assumed they influenced that 🙂
What is your ancestry, Santo?
I was under the impression it was 95% Portuguese 5% Black, but actually I’ve heard there is more diversity in Ethnicity among Whites in Brazil.
“95% Portuguese, 5% Black”
lol
American Right-O-Sphere groups are dumb, just as with any opposition group.
People on anthropological forum classify invariably as gracile med with alpine influences.
This is my grand-grand-grand-grand parents, 😉
This is you Bill*
You seem Mediterranid. but brachycefalized and brachymorphic cheekbones above.
so mainly Mediterranid but with Dinaro / Alpinoid trends or influence
Bill*
”Yes, you are gracile mediterranid sure, you do not have a robust buil, Italian and Spanish, typical south of France IMO”
http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0006899316300373?via=sd
EVIL science
“because these slightly lower values reflect their predictive power independent of one another.”
an estimation…right?
I’ve seen this lady a lot but never researched her/new she was friends with Oprah.
http://www.kuriositas.com/2012/11/1910s-america-in-color.html
http://northsentinelisland.com/
no black lady who straightens her hair or wears a wig has an IQ > 100.
who do they think they’re fooling?
they’re like trans-sexuals…
ain’t foolin’ nobody ‘cep’ they selves.
that said, i think rebecca walker’s pretty hot, or was, but she’s a jew-groe and a lesbo.
note the natural hair.
Come on guy,
it’s about getting by………
getting by in a world where Blacks are disproportionately underrepresented.
also…
many people, of all races, do not find Black hair on a woman attractive.
OTHERWISE (myself included) they like Black women (don’t have a problem with skin, other features) it’s JUST the hair.
It’s hideous. They hate it so much they do whatever possible to look like white women. The funniest ones are the ones going bald because their hair is so thin.
yes, but would you not say it is an attempt to go with the mainstream culture and is really anti-diversity?
Dilma……………
the ONLY example showing;
1. Latin America is not just a bunch of savages, have issues, but the SAME as the U.S.
2. The racial conflict is the only admission you get that Latin American Whites DO exist
http://www.newstatesman.com/sites/default/files/styles/nodeimage/public/blogs_2014/06/450109800.jpg?itok=axcwXMn_
explain the context of this picture……..
Anti-semite, a shame of you
=(
PresidentA is divine
she’s Jewish?
da fuq….?
I do find it suspicious, her father was an Eastern European (Bulgarian) immigrant…
….the years coincided with the pre-Russian Revolution Pogroms……..
Is she Jewish on her dad’s side?
and/or Sephardic on her mom’s?
Well
Rousseff is not a common bulgarian name, maybe a ”arabization” of Ruzev or any other slavic surname.
Some people said that she’s a crypto-jewess.