Commenter Tvrtko writes:
P.P. what would be Marx’s IQ? I’d like to know what you estimate is the intelligence of the Left’s main deity.
On Michael Hart’s list of the 100 most influential people of all time, Marx is the second highest ranked Ashkenazi Jewish academic behind only Albert Einstein.
How exceptional does that make him? To answer that question, we need to know how many Ashkenazi Jews have ever lived. If you believe Greg Cochran et al (and some of you don’t), biological Ashkenazi Jews as we know them today did not full emerge until about 1700.
About 20 billion people have lived since 1650. If we conservatively assume based on current demographics, that Ashkenazim are only 0.14% of all humans in this era, then 28 million Ashkenazi Jews have ever lived, and Marx being the second only to Einstein, would be at the one in 14 million level in scholarly success.
If there were a perfect correlation between IQ and scholarly success, this would put Marx’s IQ about 79 points above the average Ashkenazim, but since the correlation was about 0.7 in national samples (though it’s shrunk in recent decades), and assuming roughly the same correlation and variance in Ashkenazim, this implies an IQ that is 0.7(79) = 55 points higher than the average Ashkenazim, and since Ashkenazim average about 110 (when the white mean is set at 100) an IQ of 165 is implied (95% confidence interval 144 to 186).
However because Ashkenazim come from an intellectual culture, they likely over-perform their true ability on IQ tests to some degree, so I’d round Marx down to 160; which is still absurdly high (only one in 30,000 whites score this high).
Tvrtko correctly describes Marx as a deity of the left which is ironic because he was arguably alt-right. Unlike the right who hate the poor (including blacks) and the left who hate the rich (including Jews), Marx like many alt-righters has been accused of hating both.
Even though Marx is considered the poster body for political correctness (cultural Marxism), he was anything but, and while like most leftists, regarded the rich as parasitic, he also viewed many members of the underclass this way too, referring to them as the lumpenproletariat though it’s unclear if this was an attack on their class, or their lack of class consciousness. If it’s the former, it’s a right-wing view, but if Marx was merely calling certain members of the underclass “class traitors”, he’s a typical leftist.
Pumpkin Person 
Buffet says a lot of sense in his berkshire agms. Him and munger have a lot of common sense. Theres nothing fancy in what they say. I disagree with bugfet though. I do think you need a high iq as well as a patient personality to become rich stock picking. I also agree with him about derivatives…i.e stay away….or tech stocks.
Its much easier to uderstand how a tyre company makes money than say yahoo.
Its kind of baffling buffet would say you dont need to be smart to do investments. He himself said his mentor has a 200 iq and used it to invent security pricing. If you iq tested hedge fund managers who make alpha i bet you find they are not only high in math iq but verbal iq. Unlike tech ceos who are usually retarded and give money to barbarians.
Philosopher,
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But it isnt.
The other day, I spoke to a student who is doing a PhD in psychology and she was bothered by the following problem : she didn’t knew the average IQ difference among two random selected people (same population)
She said she looked everywhere and didn’t find the answer . She was a bit choked to discover how’ simple the answer is when I told her 😉
answer?
Have you ever tried reading Marx? Not only could he not write for shit at a basic level (unlike Engels), he consistently failed to rigorously define terms, shifted definitions, employed fuzzy reasoning and imprecise verbal modeling that defied any attempts to make them mathematically rigorous.
Had there been no Russian Revolution – and its success was a historical fluke – that turned Capital into a latter-day Bible (it was good for little else), then Marx would be regarded as nothing more than some random graphomaniac.
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marx was very clear, unlike 20th c french “philosophers”.
but even david harvey admitted he had to make an effort to undertsand him. harvey read him in his 30s just out of curiosity. until then harvey was not a marxist.
marx is like heidegger. they both appear to the intellectually lazy to be jive turkeys, but what they say is obviously true, just impossible to express in ordinary language.
i tried to read capital and sein und zeit when i was in school and they didn’t make sense.
i tried again and they made sense.
Sein und Zeit doesn’t make sense.
How does this jive with Rushton’s theory?
“In Guangzhou, Dr Bakken’s research team found that 97.5 per cent of crime was not reported in the official statistics.
Of 2.5 million cases of crime, in 2015 the police commissioner reported 59,985 — exactly 15 less than his ‘target’ of 60,000, down from 90,000 at the start of his tenure in 2012.
The murder rate in China is around 10,000 per year according to official statistics, 25 per cent less than the rate in Australia per capita.
“I have the internal numbers from the beginning of the millennium, and in 2002 there were 52,500 murders in China,” he said.
Instead of 25 per cent less murder than Australia, Dr Bakken said the real figure was closer to 400 per cent more.”
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-18/china-criminal-villages-undermine-chinese-dream-research-says/9451758?pfmredir=sm
it’s the same in japan. organized crime in japan actually serves the governmental function of conflict resolution. the japanese have no desire to put an end to the yakuza.
What are most disturbing are however arguments that the low crime is partially a result of a police culture that are obsessed with keeping crime statistics low. Former detectives claim that police is unwilling to investigate homicides unless there is a clear suspects and frequently labels unnatural deaths as suicides without performing autopsies. Coincidentally, Japan has one of the highest suicide rates in the world.
Did you know the Yakuza have to pierce their dicks as part of an initiation ritual?? I don’t even know where it goes, hopefully not in the urethra (pee pee hole).
Goes to show Japs aren’t always that smart…
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Gahahaha!
Afrosapiens, why google IA confuse black people faces with ape faces ?
I really want your opinion on this.
You look like a rhesus monkey to me.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTv_BoVbttjWFQ8GMSMq8uejZ0lJZYN_DbjUzQsBL7q2OjEdQ2ebw
You mean white people look like rhesus monkeys to you.
And IA is far more objective than your own perception. Or may be it isn’t ?
I don’t think it has rhesus monkey faces to analyze or it would immediately analyze this monkey as Hugh Jackman.
This monkey looks like Hugh Jackman.
I should try to watch Bloomberg. I am a bit drugged by the anchors I know : Fox (Ingraham/Hannity/Carlson/Beir) and MSNBC (Reid/Hayes/Ruhle/Williams) . I ve always liked a contrarian environment with repetitive thinking. Else I need to induce myself in repetive thinking and useless calculations. When I was young, it was a right wing radio Radio Courtoisie and a left wing one, Radio libertaire I used to listen with France Culture.
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go get your fucking shinebox fenoopy!
Legacy of colonialism made me drive past a red light yesterday. The red reminded me of redcoats which triggered my fight or flight response.
I bet Bill Gates has actually used the phrase ‘legacy of colonialism’ in a serious way once.
Maybe Pumpkin got the phrase from Gates?