The tragic death of comic writer Stan Lee (no relation to Vernita Lee who also died this month) has been overshadowed by an unfortunate blog post by Bill Maher:
The guy who created Spider-Man and the Hulk has died, and America is in mourning. Deep, deep mourning for a man who inspired millions to, I don’t know, watch a movie, I guess. Someone on Reddit posted, “I’m so incredibly grateful I lived in a world that included Stan Lee.” Personally, I’m grateful I lived in a world that included oxygen and trees, but to each his own. Now, I have nothing against comic books – I read them now and then when I was a kid and I was all out of Hardy Boys. But the assumption everyone had back then, both the adults and the kids, was that comics were for kids, and when you grew up you moved on to big-boy books without the pictures.
But then twenty years or so ago, something happened – adults decided they didn’t have to give up kid stuff. And so they pretended comic books were actually sophisticated literature. And because America has over 4,500 colleges – which means we need more professors than we have smart people – some dumb people got to be professors by writing theses with titles like Otherness and Heterodoxy in the Silver Surfer. And now when adults are forced to do grown-up things like buy auto insurance, they call it “adulting,” and act like it’s some giant struggle.
I’m not saying we’ve necessarily gotten stupider. The average Joe is smarter in a lot of ways than he was in, say, the 1940s, when a big night out was a Three Stooges short and a Carmen Miranda musical. The problem is, we’re using our smarts on stupid stuff. I don’t think it’s a huge stretch to suggest that Donald Trump could only get elected in a country that thinks comic books are important.
Superhero fans fave reacted harshly to Maher’s attack:
Pumpkin Person 
i recall the claim that chess players peak in their mid-30s.
that hasn’t been true recently.
maybe chess has had its own flynn effect.
kasparov reached his highest elo rating at age 36.
so it’s more like peak strength. some power lifters peak in their early 40s.
and mental arithmetic and memory champions are often over 40, perhaps because the specific task requires practice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_Calculation_World_Cup
for example, this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Jeonghee
was 55 when he won.
so the reality is more like you see diminishing returns in some areas.
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and penisson is just MAKING EXCUSES.
the oldest age for average peak physical performance is opera singers at maybe 55.
i’m not making that up. i heard an opera singer say that on charlie rose’s oldest show Night Watch. but it corresponds to my experience. and it is a physical thing. the vocal chords hypertrophy just like muscles. it just takes a long long time.
in true hegelian fashion what you’ve seen over the decades is that as more is expected of older people, the more they meet expectation.
but there’s also a CONSIDERABLE thing where the older you get the less interested you are in competing and being the best. you just say, “fuck it!”
btw, there are two world records in athletics from 1986 still unbroken. the hammer throw and the discus.
gigli was 59 when he recorded this iirc:
but maybe italians age well.
bill maher is retarded. no one cares.
pavarotti WAS 59 here:
can’t find it. it was his thing at the 1990 world cup.
he could’ve been a great sumo too.
as you can see…
most of the best snooker-ers are over 35.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snooker_world_rankings_2017/2018
it’s nice to know the woman who has spewed so much abuse and derogation toward an actual BGI volunteer is…
BLACK.
explains everything.
TRULY SAD!
You truly are sad
I wonder if theres any difference in facial symmetry or proportion amongst the races. I guess its pretty easy to note that eye shape and nose size/shape is different. But symmetry and proportion in the face is what id consider to be the ultimate sexy as no culture seems to deny it. By proportion i mean distance between facial parts, like the distance between the eyes or nose and lips, or lips and chin.
I bet most comic book fans didnt vote for trump so I dont know what the hell hes talking about. Ive long held a suspicion that the cognitive elite who are male and not aspy, would tend to vote for trump for not obvious reasons.
Click to access Hanushek%2BWoessmann%202012%20JEconGrowth%2017%284%29.pdf
table 11 page 42
What do you think PP? African shcoolkids perform 1SD below western populations in math. Most hereditarians would proclaim that africans have more pathologies than just intelligence, most of which damper school performance significantly. And so we would expect them to score lower in school than iq tests (in proportion to their IQ gap), but they dont!
You could say its the more well of africans and that it isnt an representative sample of the avarage phenotype of the SSA nations (nigeria and zimbabwe specifically), i might agree to an point. BUT (and an large kim k butt)! it might be representative genotipically as the correlation between wealth and genotipyc IQ might be much smaller within the other nations, as the environmental differences caused by econmic inequality and imobility give enough of an IQ egde to fend of most people who are competetive in genotipyc IQ.
It also shows that MENA is an complete disaster.
as the correlation between wealth and genotipyc IQ might be much smaller within the other nations, as the environmental differences caused by econmic inequality and imobility give enough of an IQ egde to fend of most people who are competetive in genotipyc IQ.
Environmental differences in Third World countries are not as large as most people think. Factors like malnutrition and disease tend to affect even the elites of Third World countries, as evidenced by the fact that Third World elites are often much shorter than First World elites.
But the data is interesting and seems to contradict Lynn’s claims about the academic scores of Africans.
I forgot about your stance on national variance in environment. Ill investigate it. Lets begin by: https://youtu.be/5IaYm3NjJnM
RaceRealist ! What are your thoughts on pps case about relatively poor environments being the case for Elite people within poor countries compared to elites in the first world?
pp
Are you talking about intellectual elites or economic elites? If the latter then why would malnutrition and disease affect economic elites even if it is the third world? Also isn’t height mostly genetic, so the fact that elites in the third world are shorter than the first world is probably a factor of their general population average rather than any sort of indication of disease effecting them too. Perhaps a better way to evaluate the two elites is compare them to their respective populations. In all likelihood third world elites are taller than the general population, perhaps due to their higher intelligence and better nutrition.
In any case I’ve held the position for a while now that the actual African genetic IQ is around 80 and not 70. My reasoning is that African Americans average around 85 but they have about 1/4 European DNA which means that their IQ has moved a quarter of the way closer to the European average from the African average. 100 – 85 = 15 => 15*4/3 = 20 => 100 – 20 = 80. So I hold that if education and nutrition of Africa is brought up to US/European standards their average IQ will be bumped up to around 80. An argument could be made that even African Americans don’t benefit from the full level of education and nutrition white americans do but IMO with regard to nutrition, once you get it to a certain standard any improvement beyond that is increasingly subject to the law of diminishing returns. In other words the improvement is minimal. Also African Americans have benefited greatly from various programs while the schooling system is probably very good at promoting gifted students even if they come from poor backgrounds. In other words even if more money is pumped into African American communities the average IQ would likely not increase by much more, 3 points max. I think that attitude and psychology is far more important in extracting the most out of your brain. People that obsess too much over what they eat and time and measure everything to perfection are probably under utilizing the far more important aspect of figuring out how to hack their psyche their brain.
Are you talking about intellectual elites or economic elites? If the latter then why would malnutrition and disease affect economic elites even if it is the third world?
Because rich people in poor countries still eat food processed by the same companies that their poor counterparts eat from, are still exposed to poor people via hired staff and servants and cooks at restaurants, and still are born in Third World hospitals etc.
Also isn’t height mostly genetic, so the fact that elites in the third world are shorter than the first world is probably a factor of their general population average rather than any sort of indication of disease effecting them too. Perhaps a better way to evaluate the two elites is compare them to their respective populations. In all likelihood third world elites are taller than the general population, perhaps due to their higher intelligence and better nutrition.
They are taller than their general population, but they’re perhaps not as tall as their genetic equals reared in the U.S.. I suspect if you compared the richest 0.01% of African Americans (excluding those who are largely white or highly selected recent immigrants) with the richest 0.01% of West Africans, you’d find the former are at least 0.5 SD greater in height (and perhaps brain size and intelligence). Because both are elites within the same race, this difference is unlikely to be genetic and can best be explained by nutrition/disease.
And just as First World elites are perhaps at least 0.5 SD taller,smarter,bigger brained than their Third World genetic counterparts, 21st century elites seem at least 0.5 SD taller,smarter,bigger brained than their 19th century counterparts. So whatever environmental factors cause blacks within the United States to scores so much higher on IQ tests than blacks within Africa, probably also explains why 21st century people of all races & places score so much higher than 19th century people of all races & places (the Flynn effect). Comparing black Americans to West Africans is probably the best way to learn about the Flynn effect, because it’s perhaps analogous to comparing to 21st century whites to Victorian whites.
In any case I’ve held the position for a while now that the actual African genetic IQ is around 80 and not 70. My reasoning is that African Americans average around 85 but they have about 1/4 European DNA which means that their IQ has moved a quarter of the way closer to the European average from the African average. 100 – 85 = 15 => 15*4/3 = 20 => 100 – 20 = 80. So I hold that if education and nutrition of Africa is brought up to US/European standards their average IQ will be bumped up to around 80.
Richard Lynn believes that too.
An argument could be made that even African Americans don’t benefit from the full level of education and nutrition white americans do but IMO with regard to nutrition, once you get it to a certain standard any improvement beyond that is increasingly subject to the law of diminishing returns. In other words the improvement is minimal. Also African Americans have benefited greatly from various programs while the schooling system is probably very good at promoting gifted students even if they come from poor backgrounds. In other words even if more money is pumped into African American communities the average IQ would likely not increase by much more, 3 points max. I think that attitude and psychology is far more important in extracting the most out of your brain. People that obsess too much over what they eat and time and measure everything to perfection are probably under utilizing the far more important aspect of figuring out how to hack their psyche their brain.
I think the best evidence is to look at African Americans with white biological mothers, adopted by whites, because these enjoyed both a white prenatal environment and a white family environment, so if the 1 SD black-white IQ gap in the U.S. is 100% genetic, they (being half-white) should score half an SD below white kids adopted by whites. That’s actually exactly what happened in the Minnesota trans-racial adoption study by age 17, however critics note that several low IQ white adopted kids dropped out of the study, thus raising the average IQ of the adopted white kids by age 17.
By the way, Stan Lee was Jewish. Bill Maher is a crypto-one.
“I don’t see any SS african countries in the pisa results”
Table 9 and 10 (page 37 and 38) show the tests that are discussed in the paper. The paper was done in 2012. It uses the TMISS as the primary source for the modern samples.
Also look at the graph here: http://www.oecd.org/education/school/programmeforinternationalstudentassessmentpisa/whereimmigrantstudentssucceed-acomparativereviewofperformanceandengagementinpisa2003.htm
Swedish Mena immigrants do well. But the other European numbers make me suspect the veracity of the mena immigrants performance in Sweden, in that they can sugar code it by picking the better schools, and therefore picking an unrepresentative sample.
TM,
Its true. Growing up, i actually had a mild zinc, vitc and magnesium deficiency. And i grew up in a rich family.
I think youll find many people in 1st world countries have deficiencies too. I doubt anyone actually looks at what they eat everyday.
I suspect most people have an iron deficiency. Thats why many kids cereals fortify their frosty flakes etc with iron. Vit D might be another one from being indoors all the time.
We didnt have fortified cereals at that time. Regarding iron deficiency, dont people in the west eat meat almost everyday. I am just curious.
We used to eat meat once a week.
I think we are talking about elite vs elite in first world and third world countries. Correct me if i am wrong but arent nutrient deficiencies in the west found mostly among lower income and some middle income people? Nutrient deficiencies are even more severe in middle and lower income people in the third world. Encompassing a lot of minerals and vitamins, even protein, carbs, fat. I once saw a thirteen year presumably from middle or lower caste, who was an average student in his class. Later he fell behind in his studies, became physically weak, ill. I dont remember in which order. Upon given vitamin and mineral pills too he recovered and also became one of the top students of his class. Usually those who recover from illness alone dont go from being average students to top students Nutrient deficiencies encompassing a wider range of nutrients are actually found more in the third world
Anyway it feels weird talking about this, it is seeming like a contest about which of us eat more nutrient deficit food.
You sound like youve been racially discriminated against. Please contact your local rabbi for guidance on how best to aggravate the situation.
No I was not. And I am an Indian . I mentioned this before .
You mightnt have realised you were. Have you ever heard of institutional racism?
and peepee somehow thinks jewish ethnocentrism isn’t about more jewish wealth and power.
the rich and powerful CAN’T act in concert so far as they are NOT from the same group.
but the ultimate motivation of all groups is to maximize their own wealth and power. equality is NOT enough.
so (((one group))) pursues more wealth and power by brainwashing other groups into eschewing their own group interests.
No you misunderstood me. I was simply pointing out your incoherence. You complain about a Jewish elite, yet most of the motives you ascribe to elites are economic and shared by the WASP elite, and are not specifically Jewish.
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different groups of rich people have the same motives but achieve them in different ways.
[redacted by pp, dec 2, 2018]
But the other day you argued rich Gentiles pursued the same open borders strategy, citing the Koch brothers & Murdoch.
But does that hold thoughout the entire distribution of wealth?
Puppy person,
The only time i have been outside my country was as a tourist. I doubt experienced institutional racism them.
PP never mentions that the majority of the high IQ Ashkenazim live in NYC, especially Manhattan for the elite/wealthy types, and Brooklyn for the rest. There are more of them in NYC than anywhere else, including Israel.
NYC is where auto insurance is not needed, and everything else is easily available at your fingertips.
They are shrewd and know that life is all about minimizing liability and maximizing wealth.
One glaring difference between Ashkenazim and White Gentiles are their bookstores. The 1st group sells more intellectual stuff by the ten-fold giving their business more lasting power, while the 2nd group don’t really know how to run a bookshop.
blacks give themselves the highest hotness ratings. they think they’re smarter than they are too. this is why africa is a shithole.
By the end of the article, it’s pretty clear that Mr. Landry suffers from that kind of black megalomania that probably doesn’t have its own DSM code, but seems to be a Thing. — sailer
I wonder if the same is applicable to the religious parts of SSA and not just deboutched diaspora.
Pumpkin, i found something interesting recently, regarding both autism and psychosis:
Click to access ASD-and-Psychosis-Is%20caetextia-the-link.pdf
Particularly, what intrigues me about this journal is how it states that autistic traits are very similar to the ones of fishes; although i don’t necessarily concur to the statement implicitly expressed that autism is an impairment of imagination and an enhancement of convergent thinking.
i asked my brother why black people talk to themselves all the time.
he said, “they’re always ‘jiving’.”
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was a book by james agee.
bush i was the last of the episcopacy and non-latin-american american politicians. he was the last non-white-trash republican.
he ridiculed reaganomics as “voodoo” and raised taxes despite his acceptance speech promise.
he liberated kuwait but left sod in power.
the country would be better today if he’d had 8 years.
Franklin Nebraska
Agee, a hard drinker and chain-smoker, suffered a heart attack; on May 16, 1955, Agee was in New York City when he suffered a fatal heart attack in a taxi cab en route to a doctor’s appointment.
Power had filmed about 75 percent of his scenes when he was stricken by a massive heart attack while filming a dueling scene with his frequent co-star and friend, George Sanders. A doctor, Juan Olaguíbel, diagnosed Power’s death as “fulminant angina pectoris.”[27] He died while being transported to the hospital in Madrid on November 15, 1958, aged 44.
The ten-hour-long procedure was performed on June 26, but Serling had a third heart attack on the operating table and died two days later at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York.[40] He was 50 years old.
seems there are fewer heart attack deaths before age 50 than there were. why? is it just that fewer smoke?
people still have heart attacks before 50, they’re just more likely to survive them now thanks to improved medical care. same with strokes.
that’s got nothing to do with it.
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unless they’re extremely obese like peepee.
so john candy and chris farley died from heart attacks before age 50.
russert died at 58 and gandolfini at 51, and both were fat,
unlike power and agee and serling.
strangley sumos don’t die from heart attacks and don’t develop diabetes.
but they do die in their 60s from cancer.
the fight starts when? 9 pm PST? flabby white trash vs crazy black man.
Mikey and Puppy person,
https://hillreporter.com/men-who-are-insecure-about-their-manhood-support-donald-trump-16309
Thoughts? lol
This kinda shows that Schiz people are bad with women, as to be seen in the black belt.
More jewish nonsense. Id imagine Trump supporters are far more masculine than supports of jew puppets like Hilary and Macron
Please explain what makes Macron a puppet of the Jews, and Trump not one. It’s Trump who moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem and ripped up the Iran nuclear deal, just like Bibi and Sheldon Adelson wanted. Macron criticized both moves.
Hahaha i knew you would say that…
Being insecure and more masculine is not incongruent, especially if the entire community is more masculine, which would make an masculine guy normal.
Its also that the entire population and the electorate are different samples.
I still think you need to awnser about the results in the black belt.
I find this data kinda humorous.
I still think you need to awnser about the results in the black belt.
I don’t see any SS african countries in the pisa results:
Click to access pisa-2015-results-in-focus.pdf
Obama must sit there and laugh inside at the naivete of some of the questions. Im sad Bill didn’t ask Obama about his stance on Israels lebensraum policy which caused mass migrations a year back. I think bill thinks saving africa is an important thing to do.
Obama is such a boring speaker. I drift in and out of reveries watching this. In one of my daydreams I dreamt I ran for office and used it only to thrash conventional standards and say the truth and…..basically what trumpy did.
If i was in the audience. No joke. I would ask bill whether he thinks tripling africas population is a good thing in terms of even the fact these countries are only now able to provide mad max type scenarios.
I bet Bill would say ‘education’ in his answer. And then id say: “come on bill, a 14 year old civics class contestant would say that”.
He already replied to this, as we’ve discussed:
And he said EDUCATION which is not a real answer.
He doesn’t say education, he just says that as child mortality decreases, so too do birth rates. In another video he implied that’s because if you know all your kids are going to survive long enough to take care of you in your old age, there’s less incentive to have a large number.
”And then id say: “come on bill, a 14 year old civics class contestant would say that””
But you cant!
SAD!
even if gates scored high on an IQ test, that just means the particular IQ test is defective.
And that particular test was the SAT. Once again Mug of Pee is hoisted on his own petard.
taleb has a name for people like gates:
IYI, intellectual/intelligent (on some IQ test) yet idiot.
Actually the killshot and the 1 question bill gates muyst dread getting is someday hearing someone ask him what he thinks about HBD.
I guarantee he believes in hbd, though he would never admit to it publicly.
I genuinely think he doesnt know anything about hbd. And he probably has the same opinions as Afro on it i.e. most of the difference is caused by environment and teachers not being sassy enough.
No science nerds like Bill Gates are inclined to believe in HBD because they understand genetics and evolution. Also, Gates is a huge IQ nut which means he’s likely a Jensenist.
I would guess he is much more soft in his beliefs compared to, say, Lynn or Rushton. Aid to Africa would be really good if their genotypic IQ was higher than 80, since they could become sedentary enough to reduce their birthrates and not be an environmental issue. If he actually believes their genomic IQ is around 80 then it might be worthless and more appropriate to give the continent to the big powers like China and India.
He seems to be interested in psychometrics though (i saw that UNZ article, i never fact checked it though lol)! kinda interesting guy. Maybe he is an jensenite.
the difference is NOT caused by environment OR genes.
you still don;t understand this after all this time?
Is that comment directed at me? Yes I understand your reaction norms model, but when it comes to differences in IQ (especially group differences), I feel the P = G + E model is much closer to reality. Are you claiming the races are equal in independent genomic effects on IQ?
IQ nut = dumb person. gates is a nerd.
Most ‘science nerds’ believe race is an optical illusion. Youtube national gebetics conference or myths about science and race.
Most educated people believe that whether they’re nerds or non-nerds, but non-nerds believe it more because they have degrees in social science, while nerds are more HBD-open because HBD is like a sci-fi movie nerds can get into.
Youre crazy. Just google the main science journals or read Nature/National Geographic magazine. Nature is for scientists only. They 100% are HBD blind and actually have more a complicated version [redacted by pp, dec 3, 2018] thanks to our mutual friend Stephen Jay Gould. These lies actually kind of sound plausible from a technical standpoint. But its still sophistry once you think about it. Which science nerds, can’t.
no it was directed at pill.
the twin studies meaningless, yet they’re taken as definitive by cockring, shoe, and other fucktards.
IQ nut = dumb person, but…
i’m still yugely in favor of OBJECTIVE tests as sole criteria for admission/ hiring/ promotion/ etc.
if you can’t measure it, you can’t change it.
so quoth W in a state of the union address quoting deming, the white master of japanese business. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming
W was referring to education.
i remember my mother telling me how deming had basically brainwashed japan and thinking “female exaggeration”.
but then i worked for exactly one day at a jap company and saw all the deming stuff on posters…and quit.
ne asians are GREAT at COPYING. the GREATEST!
not so good at…
they’re what the nazis called “maintainers of culture”.
this is opposed to…
1. creators of culture
2. destroyers of culture
My psychiatrist gave this reasoning as to why racism is ‘socially constructed’. He said children dont discriminate. They are race blind.
My response was that they were children. Ask them whats the difference between good and evil and see what you get.
racism starts at puberty. it’s a sex thing.
Ive always suspected this. Other forms of status emerge in puberty as well. So there could be confounders to your idea.
Apparently someone with my disorder has a life expectancy of 50. Hahahaha. I will beat that.
it’s not cause and effect. the anti-psychotics make people fat and then all the problems which come with that. and the high rate of extreme poverty. john nash lived to be 86.
One thing I will always say about obama. His stance on his (((handlers))) was great. I bet he loathed rahm emmanuel.
I guarantee his wife chose that outfit for him to wear on ellen. In real life Ellen actually has the opposite personality to bill gates. Apparently she is a really vile person. She does look nasty aesthetically too.
I guarantee his wife chose that outfit for him to wear on ellen. In real life Ellen actually has the opposite personality to bill gates. Apparently she is a really vile person. She does look nasty aesthetically too
the majority of lesbians are psycho-/socio-paths. this is the only explanation for their enormous over-representation in female prisons.
You have to be mentally retarded in some way or manner, even if its not on your iq test or CV, to listen with interest to whatever bill gates says.
Buffet on the other hand says a lot of common sense stuff about business. Its munger that brings more general topics into light in those BH GMs
yes. gates simply doesn’t seem that smart in interviews. soros, nixon, and buffett sound much smarter.
so fury wilder was a draw. i didn’t know boxing had draws until yesterday.
maybe it was faked just to promote the rematch.
fury was winning until he was knocked down twice.
did wilder actually connect?
it seems wilder just got p.o.-ed so he went beast mode in the last rounds.
peepee is like a black woman at a 7-11.
she has a huge ass and frizzy hair and looks like a [redacted by pp, dec 4, 2018] but she orders a 7-11 hot dog.
then she says, “$3 for a hot dog?!” and throws the hot dog at the baljit behind the counter.
Shameful. People taking a great man and completely shitting on him. Truly sad.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5221650/
According to this study, information subtest is underestimated by 2 points, but the standard deviations are different. According to the study, if I got a scaled score of 15 on a test normed on monolinguals, would I still be able to add two more points? The SD were 3.07 (normal), and the other one was 1.96, lower than normal.