Below are my scores on the WISC-R at age 12:
Even though there were 12 subtests (2 of them optional: Span of attention & Visual planning) a hierarchical factor analysis of older Wechsler scales identified three major types of intelligence of (verbal, spatial, and memory), and a single general factor (g) at the top of the hierarchy.
An example of a hierarchal factor analysis of mental tests (though not actually from the Wechsler)
So even though Wechsler subjectively divided the tests into verbal and performance scales, factor analysis gave a more objective answer.
The same logic applies to race: Even though we can look at say 12 different “populations”: East Asians, Ashkenazi Jews, Whites, Middle Easterners, South Asians, Arctic people, Andaman Islanders, Southeast Asians, Pacific Islanders, Australoids, Congoids, Capoids, a hierarchal factor analysis of genomic phenotypes might identify three major factors “Negroid, Caucasoid and Mongolid” each of which could be divided into sub-factors.
There would also be a strong g factor at the top of the hierarchy, because we’re all human.
Pumpkin Person 
You are like doctor Carson, must be black 😉
Carson has a very East Asian profile. Most blacks are memory > verbal > spatial I think
That’s exactly what I meant. Id monolog.
You have a link to Carson’s results? I’d like to see them.
“The same logic applies to race: Even though we can look at say 12 different “populations”: East Asians, Ashkenazi Jews, Whites, Middle Easterners, South Asians, Arctic people, Dark Caucasoids, Southeast Asians, Pacific Islanders, Australoids, Congoids, Capoids, a hierarchal factor analysis of genomic phenotypes might identify three major factors “Negroid, Caucasoid and Mongolid” each of which could be divided into sub-factors.”
You’re reaching really hard to try to justify Rushton’s three-race model. It’s unjustifiable. K = 5 shows that race exists and is real. The argument for the existence of minimalist races show that race is real and enjoys biological reality.
Reminder that Americans aren’t East Asian.
The point is the hierarchal factor analysis would decide how many races there are
Is there genomic evidence or is this just some thought experiment you can toss at me?
it’s this blog…so it’s a thought experiment.
although rr it does seem like people are talking past one another.
no one is arguing with you that the differences we associate with race don’t reflect real genetic differences. everyone is arguing about how meaningful those genetic differences are.
you’d need to pony up evidence that the genetic evidence we see is NOT the result of something like genetic drift…
https://notpoliticallycorrect.me/2017/07/30/human-physiological-adaptations-to-climate/
Physical adaptations to climate are similar to physiological adaptations to climate.
yet another argument that fails to address the arbitrary nature of the categorization. why not use the main factor? why not use 8 sub-factors?
Well the lowest level is the individual. And if you agree we’re all anatomically modern humans, the highest level is species. What you call the intermediate levels is semantics.
Ideally they could do a hierarchal factor analysis of all life with the lowest level being individual organisms of all types.
The highest level would be life itself, followed by domains, followed by kingdoms etc
So you would just work your way down applying the appropriate labels according to taxonomic convention
It’s also worth noting that because Africa has most of the world’s genetic diversity, it’s not unreasonable for us to expect that (assuming heredetarianism is true) the smartest person in the world is of the ‘black’ race, and following that, that the most attractive person in the world is of the ‘black’ race.
IIRC Africa’s genetic diversity is more than the rest of the world’s regions combined. So using K = 5, then the black race would have (assuming everywhere else has equal diversity) 4V. So, in IQ terms, that’d be sqrt(15^2 * 4) = IQ SD 30. So even setting the African IQ to 70 still has 2 SD Africans at 2 SDs above the white mean.
….whats K?
Your assumptions seem….suspect.
Nevermind, K=possible sub-factors
K = whatever the investigator wants.
And swank, some argue that that’s the case in regard to pygmies.
And we get to preserve the ‘blacks as animals’ stereotype at the same time! Look at all of those low low low IQs and super uglies we’d get.
Liberals and conservatives would be happy with this solution. Plenty of negros, both beast and magic to go around.
How would I find (g) from my WISC-3 test scores?
Can you please transcript the footnotes.
Huge verbal/performance gap.
Extreme emotional sensitivity (? lmao)
High arousal (?)
Lack of self-confidence
Signs of depression
Suggest alternative high school?
Suggest neurological exam?
Holds pencil differently (lol, like how?)
Sounds like Pumpkin needed Adderall/Ritalin.
Pumpkin, did you ever take Adderall or Ritalin and experience its life-revitalizing effects???
Memory? Is that short-term, working or long-term?
Pumpkin, It looks like you have got plenty of emotions with the memories associated to this piece of paper that people can’t share. I believe I can conceive some of it despite my being unable to experience any personal memory since I was born (and discovering what memories are very recently).
I’ve always had memories. (despite Aphantasia)
It is just that I only see them in my subconscious.
So you can be traumatized by a bad experience ?
Can you daydream too ?
Those things are unknown to me
I have many traumatic memories.
But I have Aphantashia, that means I see nothing when closing my eyes.
I cannot daydream because I see nothing when I close my eyes.
Everything I see in in the unconscious, that part that is not conscious.
That makes it extremely hard to manipulate my thoughts.
But I still know what is in there so I can remember things.
I see things unconsciously not consciously.
Seriously?
Bruno and Kitty are extremely autistic. The fact you haven’t noticed makes me think you are the first ever black autist.
Shut up schizy. It’s obvious that Bruno is mildly trolling us.
Black person with autism.
Notice anything peculiar about his father?
Hes south asian.
I spent 10 minutes looking for a video on blacks and autism and this is the best I could find. Autism is basically non-existent in full black people.
That street with the barclays bike racks shes walking on was where my buddy used to live for a short period in brick lane.
Hahah…first thing that popped into my head when I read Bruno’s comment.
Actually I think that with about 80% of AnimeKitty’s comments.
And I don’t relate to the movies of autistic kids. I wasn’t like that at all I am being told. My mother said I brought attention on me from being very cute. Then people were stunned because I would make them speak about themselves or staff I had interest on. And then I would lectured them and it was quite an embarsment for my family because it would be deep truth. Old child’s are like that. It was just a bit more intense with me.
But then I chose to be locked in my room in a phantasy world for at least 5 hours a day. But when that hours weren’t available, like family holidays, it wouldn’t be problematic at all and could adapt without any problem just to return to my ways after the 2 summer months in Spain (there, life is much more collective and it’s impossible to be isolated when you are popular). I had friends my age and others around 10 years older. The older one said we have never let anyone talk to us like you do. You get away because we like you, you re a foreigner and your a kid. At that time, I didn’t understood it was inappropriate to tell hard stuff to people privately (I never embarrassed anyone in from of people, it always was private conversations ).
But the bizarre movements and expressions those kids have, it’s obvious from videos of me as a kid that I never had them .
Afro it is said that 2% of people don’t have any mental conscious imagery. So it’s as frequent as being gay for example.
For SDAM, there is no data, but it’s not unheard even if it’s a bit less frequent.
For lack of familiarity, there is research only for acquired Pb. Not for congenital. It has weird effects. People who got that either think their family or their home has been replaced. They can be very intelligent people but their are absolutely convinced for example that their children or spouses are impostors or that their house has been destroyed and built again exactly the same. It’s because they have lost their familiarity with it and so they develop a feeling of strangeness. The good part for me is that I will never have that 😉
Philo and G, why is it autistic – i am completely fine if’I were it sondon’t be bothered – not to have memories ? Alzheimer people loose their’memories progressively and doesn’t appear to become autistic.
For Kitty —>
I don’t understand what you mean by seeing unconsciously. I am pretty sure the images are stored somewhere else I couldn’t remember anything visual : words, places, people etc . So images are available. The problem is that they are not accessible.
I don’t believe that it slows you down. When people think through a problem or plan, in most cases, they have to stop thinking in images, and use their internal voice, even for 99% of mathematicians except a few (like Mandelbrot), because it’s the only way to be precise. So not having mental images in your consciousness is something that makes you much more effective for logic and learning most things (except caractères of a new languages or paintings ) . I believe it boosts people « normal » IQ by a full standard déviation. From Galton studies, it’s quite frequent among most successful scientists.
Then the episodic memory part is correlated but not the same as not’having images. I suppose that not having images makes the child less likely to ruminate his experience and then he doesn’t create at 7 or 8yo the personal memory system. But’maybe its more the same factor that can provoke both things.
And I have a third one wich is lack of familiarity. I don’t have the special feeling people have when they are with people or objects that belong to them : like ones house or family. I have lots of knowledge about the thing but it doesn’t have any special treatment .
My intuition ls that the 3 are quite correlated . The point in common is that the « personal » perspective , the identity , in its most usual definition is missing . But I have a strong sense of my self and no depersonalization . I have never had identity questions or doubts. It’s more like my past is something going into a book that don’t affect me more than if I am reading a book about someone else …
So Kitty I think your condition is much less peculiar . You should be happy thinking about what you avoided !
@The PC Philosopher
Autistic people visualize at the same frequency as non-autist.
I don’t have sensory overload problems.
I don’t have theory of mind / social problems.
I have a mood disorder.
(anxiety)(depression)(motivation/low energy)(dull senses)
most people don’t even visualize that well, half don’t.
Half can’t even use visualization for thinking,
they see random clips from memory.
Don’t know why you think I am autistic?
Perhaps your irrational schizo tendencies are acting up.
If the basics of intelligence is to take in information, hold it and then do something with it. Then the speed this happens is important. Thinking includes both perception and action. This is the perception-action cycle. What ties this all together is that the neocortex does something with the information and the hippocampus stores the result for later converting the new data into memories. The cortex needs to work in parallel to do something with the information taken in and send it to the hippocampus that normally allows access to this new information back the to cortex over 24 hours. Sometimes the hippocampus or cortex works better than the other yet they are inherently linked.
General Intelligence (g) is a combination of both hippocampus and cortex. Verbal is in the cortex and perceptual reasoning is in the cortex. Their reliance on new memories is in the hippocampus. Working memory relays on memory also but also the 4 areas in the brain that hold information and do something with it. Processing speed relays on the cerebellum that coordinates all areas of the cortex. Coordination is key to speed.
(g) is a structure. Specifically, you hold information, do something with it and store it in memory. This structure links the front and back of the brain. New memories formed improve the function of the structure. The structure can be asymmetric when compared to the structure in different people yet handle the same amount of information, manipulating it in different ways. Front to back to front. Working memory need not affect this front back cognitive process. But it is just as important as processing speed. Coordination, holding information, Reasoning as manipulation and memory storage. They all play a part.
(g) as perception and executive function, working together, it the center of cognition.