In 2002 Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen’s book IQ and Wealth of Nations estimated the IQs of 185 countries. Critics accused them of cherry picking sources, using unrepresentative samples, comparing and combining samples tested on wildly different tests taken decades apart, and daring to think IQ could be measured cross-culturally. And yet despite nearly two decades of opprobrium, those national IQs remain a landmark, cited in countless peer reviewed articles and repeatedly revised.
One way Lynn has validated his numbers is by showing their high correlation with international exams like Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Another independent data-set against which Lynn’s numbers can be tested (assuming he already hasn’t done so) is the IEA‘s Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). Ostensibly an achievement test, the math section resembles an IQ test, and the test is scored so that most countries average between 400 and 600.
Sample items:
Using the score distribution of UK students as a reference group (see technical note below), I converted the scores from 39 countries to IQ equivalents. My source for the TIMMS scores is exhibit 1.2 in this report.
| Country | TIMMS score (8th grade math; 2015) | IQ equivalent |
| Singapore | 621 | 118 |
| Korea, Rep. of, | 606 | 116 |
| Chinese Taipei | 599 | 114 |
| Hong Kong SAR | 594 | 113 |
| Japan | 586 | 112 |
| Russian Federation | 538 | 103 |
| Kazakhstan | 528 | 102 |
| Canada | 527 | 101 |
| Ireland | 523 | 101 |
| United States | 518 | 100 |
| England | 518 | 100 |
| Slovenia | 516 | 99 |
| Hungary | 514 | 99 |
| Norway | 512 | 99 |
| Lithuania | 511 | 98 |
| Israel | 511 | 98 |
| Australia | 505 | 97 |
| Sweden | 501 | 97 |
| Italy | 494 | 95 |
| Malta | 494 | 95 |
| New Zealand | 493 | 95 |
| Malaysia | 465 | 90 |
| United Arab Emirates | 465 | 90 |
| Turkey | 458 | 89 |
| Bahrain | 454 | 88 |
| Georgia | 453 | 88 |
| Lebanon | 442 | 86 |
| Qatar | 437 | 85 |
| Iran, Islamic Rep. of | 436 | 85 |
| Thailand | 431 | 84 |
| Chile | 427 | 83 |
| Oman | 403 | 79 |
| Kuwait | 392 | 77 |
| Egypt | 392 | 77 |
| Botswana | 391 | 77 |
| Jordan | 386 | 76 |
| Morocco | 384 | 76 |
| South Africa | 372 | 73 |
| Saudi Arabia | 368 | 73 |
Consistent with Lynn’s hierarchy, we find that East Asian countries cluster around the top (Japan IQ 112 to Korea, Repub of, IQ 116), followed by white majority countries (New Zealand IQ 95 to Russian federation IQ 103), followed by Dark Caucasoid countries (Saudi Arabia IQ 73 to United Arab Emirates IQ 90) and lastly sub-Saharan countries (South Africa IQ 73 to Botswana IQ 77). And while Lynn’s data was ridiculed for declaring entire countries “mentally retarded”, it’s perhaps a sign of higher quality data that no country in this data-set averaged below IQ 70 (though most of the poorest countries chose not to participate).
Technical note
On page 95 of the report, we’re told that only 10% of England’s 8th graders could score 625+, 36% could score 550+, 69% could score 475+, and 93% could score 400+. Subtracting these percentages from 100 gives the following percentiles: 90, 64, 31, and 7 which can be converted to the following IQs: 119, 105, 93, and 78. Now that we have the IQ equivalents of four TIMMS scores, we can make a linear equation converting TIMMS to IQ which is IQ = 0.18(TIMMS score) + 6.5:
Pumpkin Person 
Kobe wasn’t the greatest player ever, or even top 5, BUT:
Out of everyone who’s ever played, if you can choose one guy in his prime to be on the court during crunch time it’s Kobe. No question.
In the NCAA you’d pick Laettner.
This matters a lot more than talent.
And you must think Bill Walton was the greatest center of all time, dont you?
Surprised Israel is so low and Kazakhstan is high. Maybe the smartest jews must live in Manhatten and control US foreign policy from there.
only a third of Israel is Ashkenazi and the smartest ones live in America.
When Lynn said entire countries were mentally retarded I believe it. All you have to do is imagine Detroit writ large and you have most sub saharan countries. The reason these countries don’t completely fold up into famine and war is international intervention from idiots like Bill Gates and the homosexual UN. Blacks don’t look that dumb because looks reflect ones social intelligence in my opinion more than ones academic type of intelligence. In fact the more academic type intelligence one has relative to social intelligence, the uglier one looks. e.g. many east asians
A related question is why east asian countries follow western countries lead in technology and science even though they have smarter people. In my opinion, the IQ tests are not measuring creativity and experimentation. Its a stereotype that east asians are not as creative as whites and I have to admit, even blacks. [redacted by pp, Jan 27, 2020].
Maybe their high IQ isn’t real at all. They cherrypick their results from cities/immigrants. Rural IQ is probably the real IQ.
Answered 5 years ago: Asians not creative, lack inquisitiveness.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282411443_Why_do_Northeast_Asians_win_so_few_Nobel_Prizes_1
I find it a bit curious that dark caucosoids perform so badly but the difference between israel and lebanon at least shows the ashkenazis are tipping the scale relative to neighbours in the region.
I’ve lived in Singapore. I can definitely agree they have a very nerdy population. It was the first time I ever saw an actuary club advertised in college.
I’m sure you know that David Becker is doing a lot of work on this, and it would be good if the two of you could be in contact.
best
James
Yes, it would be great to discuss this with him.
OMG, this is like a meeting between the two top heavyweights in the world. Like Mike Tyson and someone who is….not Mike Tyson. And you’re not fighting…
LOL! Yes one of the best parts of being a celeb is when other celebs drop by
Puppy is delusional
G-man & i are exaggerating for comic effect. Such subtle humour is above your head.
poor Philsophool
Kobe was top 5 and Laettner made only one clutch shot that was lucky his entire NCAA career. I’ve never met anyone who thought Kobe wasn’t top 5 nor have I met anyone who actually thought Laettner was that good. Just goes to show you how much white people know about basketball.
I said I’d pick Laettner in a high-pressure situation. He was no Pete Maravich.
But you’re right that Kobe’s top 5.
BTW they actually re-enacted the shot at a preseason even in ’95.
Think he missed?
Everyone knows about “the Shot” but it was a game in the 90s, when college basketball was at its lowest-performing ever and secondly, you have to give more credit to the passer than the inbounder, which in this case was Laettner, because he threw a bullet and hit him right where he could take the shot.
But either way, Laettner never again had a real clutch moment, especially not in the NBA. Dude might’ve been the most over-hyped player to step on to the court, and he was a white Blue Devil, meaning he had a support system from a college known for breeding mostly white talent.
J.J. Reddick might’ve been a better talent coming out of Duke than Christian Laettner, tbh. The guy didn’t replicate his success enough times to prove he was clutch.
Most clutch NCAA players post-80:
1. Kemba Walker
2. Adam Morrison
3. Steph Curry
4. Grant Hill (for the pass to Laettner that was even better than the shot itself)
5. Hakeem Olajuwan
Thinking and interacting with others has its benefits. It is easy to be a people person. Unfortunately, I did all my school work on time and never had time to socialize. It didn’t even bother me. I had a really bad incident on a 7th-grade field trip once and never hung out with anyone after that. I felt very disconnected after highschool graduation.
What IQ tests really measure is if you are a human calculator too what degree.
I am not bad at socializing. But from my bad experience, I had no friends and I vegetated, I was deprived from lack of stimulation. Plants wither and die without sunshine and water. I am not Autistic, I am stunted.
What IQ tests really measure is if you are a human calculator and too what degree.
I am partially good at being a human calculator. Another way of saying nerd not autistic. On an achievement test, I got (Math 769, Verble/reading 702)(total 1471)le/reading 702)(total 1471)(year 2006)
I post all my ideas on my blog. It is pretty much all I come up with these days.
I make a lot of errors.
They can be explained by visual field neglect. (processing speed) not autism.
Glad to hear you’re updating your blog regularly again. I’ll be sure to check it out.
Uh oh
Haha. Now that their liberal pseudoscience is being debunked six ways from Sunday, they’re trying to ban real scientists from using the bio bank.
Good luck with that.
What “liberal pseudoscience is being debunked six ways from Sunday”? What “real scientists”? Psychology isn’t a science and psychologists aren’t scientists.
Imagine thinking GWA studies can show genomic causation (whatever that means). This is, as I said last week, about ethics.
If only PP knew what was forthcoming.
>posted from Israel
Pumpkin, did your 115-120 math iq friends have to work hard to get good grades in algebra and precalc?
Yes
“If only PP knew what was forthcoming”
Here:
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/2qfkt
“Protracted debates about the cause of an observed IQ gap between Black and white populations around the world have persisted within the fields of genetics, anthropology, and psychology for over a century. Newly available public genomic data have changed each of these fields in many ways; one side effect is that they have encouraged a new generation of race science. The current generation of race scientists claims that analysis of polygenic scores—generally computed as linear combinations of alleles identified by a genome-wide association study—provide evidence that a significant portion of differences in cognitive ability between Black and white people are caused by genetic differences, frequently claiming these differences came about due to divergent natural selection. In light of recent calls for cautious interpretation of polygenic-score analyses by geneticists, I apply the latest robust methods to detect genetic differentiation and polygenic selection that address known biases in polygenic-score analysis, testing the claim that genetic differences explains the gap in educational attainment and cognitive performance and that divergent selection has occurred between African and European populations. I show that past results were inflated by these biases and a more careful analysis provides strong evidence inconsistent with divergent selection and genetic differences driving the Black-white gap in cognitive ability.”
“Additionally, the low-level genetic divergence and polygenic score difference observed for currently identified educational attainment and cognitive performance related variants between African and European samples serve as strong evidence inconsistent with the hypothesis that a significant portion of the Black-white IQ gap is due to genetic differences between Black and white populations. It appears that, once again, claims made by proponents of the genetic hypothesis have outpaced what current evidence shows. Current evidence is inconsistent with the hypothesis that divergent natural selection has produced substantial genetic differences between Africans and Europeans. If there is a large genetic contribution to the Black-white IQ gap, it appears it does not exist in known education and cognitive performance variants.”
The title that Kevin chose is lovely: The Mismeasure of Genes. (Like The Mismeasure of Man.)
Melo what do you think?
PP what do you think?
i think murray’s op-ed is incomplete but his critics are total morons.
I was talking about Kevin’s pre-print.
Kevin B? He claims there’s no evidence the polygenic differences were selected yet doesn’t deny they exist (at least not in his summary on Twitter which is all I read)
I don’t think you read the paper or the thread.
RR, do you take hard drugs? Why do you have a blog called Race Realist and argue that race is a social construction. Are you retarded? Please explain.
I don’t take hard drugs. Race is a social construct of a biological reality. I’m not retarded.
The pre-print has been out since Monday night and no hereditarian has said anything of note about it. Hilarious.
Trannyporno went pretty hard on it in r/heredity.
What did Jordan Lasker say other than “That’s why he needs to get it published”?
Who’s Jordan lasker?
TrannyPornO, he publishes with Kirkegaard.
The more I think about American university admissions, the more skeptical I am of a test-score meritocracy being the best policy.
Something that the left sort of gets right is that university aesthetics matter. No one with any standards wants to go somewhere that’s 95% white or 60% Asian, so race should be considered.
Same goes for income. Stuffing private schools with poor people makes them worse. It’s mean but true. So legacy admissions are also OK.
If you think I’m evil, think about it this way: should Paris put up a cheap housing project on the Champs Elysees?
Of course, it’s good when poor people are given opportunities to make money. But we shouldn’t be obliged to turn Cambridge into Southie doing so.
You’re from Massachusetts I take it. We should link up sometime and collaborate on some hip-hop beats and instrumentals and shit. I think you would be good at that.
It’s almost like coding except way more fun.
Actually from LA, but I visit friends there every year. Next time I’m up there I’ll ask peepee to send you my email.
Perfect. Sounds like a plan.
There’s no way micro and macroinnovation levels are going down. Because of technology, creation both micro and macroinnovations are increasing at a ridiculously heightened state. I mean, it’s not captured by what’s patented but the government has created more things for us over these last 30 years that private businesses are doomed to be second-rate. Look at governments where government organizations intervene in their manners and pay directly to the people.
This just shows us that Asian countries are so advanced that they rival Victorian intelligence and can create societies with the complexity that mirrors some of the greatest civilizational periods in history.
No questioning their advancement as a genius race. I mean, if you could imagine having people with that much of an increase in intelligence compared to the average white person, it would be hard not questioning the eventual stabilization and hostile takeover by an advanced group of people.
The Jewish cause is not yet dead.
Do these comments actually make sense to you or are you smashing the keyboard onto the floor and hoping something comes out?
A little of both, probably.
Irish IQ was supposed to be at 87 in 1972, like afro-Americans, and the explanation was immigration of disproportionate fraction of the half most intelligent of population, keeping the dumbest half, each year during 130 years. That made sense. And UK people always spoke about Irish being dumb and naïves.
Now, it’s supposed to be at 101. They are very high on education tests. And Irish gdp per capita is one of the highest in Europe. All consistent with high IQ.
So Ireland is a big stone in the garden of HBD and a flower for environmentalists, no ?
Its just 1 example against a majority of the evidence going the other way. There may be measurement errors of the 1972 study.
Was thinking about how east asians look quite similar and if this is because of the huge numbers of them (and thus, shared ancestors) or whether it says something about the environment and how it moulds the same personalities.
combination of founder effects and convergence
They kill all their freaks (geniuses)
Guardian is promoting a story about Kobe being a rapist. I looked briefly at the details and it seems he did rape her but pulled her accusation under intense media pressure.
My linkedin feed was full of kobe bryant and Im not even american and have no interest in basketball.
Skimmed the wiki page. She definitely wanted it, but he was rough. Plus she was a skank who probably had a body count that could double as a area code.
Im sleeping very long hours the last few months. I just slept 20 hours and thats quite common for me. Some of it is the medication but I wasn’t always like this.
So loaded it looks like India is banning muslim refugees with its new citizenship laws and inviting people of every other religion. What do you say about that? As an illegal immigrant yourself you must see the duplicity.
Puppy do you ever get tired of being wrong?
LOL! If you weren’t autistic I would think that was sarcasm, but sadly that’s not in your neurological toolkit.
Puppy is like the Thing in John Carpenters movie. He steals peoples personalities because he has none. Very sad.
Of course Carpenters best movie is his documentary: They Live
LOL! I’ve owned that movie for years but still haven’t seen it despite it being a co-worker’s favorite movie & despite Carpenter being a brilliant director. Just sounds a little over the top for me.
This is puppy and how he steals all my lines.
Or more like you stealing the theories of others & ruining them (i.e. my race & autism theory, Kevin MacDonald’s Ashkenazi influence theory)
Those weren’t the original theories anyway.
So Murray’s book is really bad and he has a shitty article in WSJ making idiotic phil sci claims. [redacted by pp, Jan 29, 2020]
Murray is a highly respected intellectual so perhaps the problem is you
Check Twitter and see his book and his WSJ op-ed getting ripped up. He made idiotic Plomin-like claims about PGS.
What causes black people’s grades to be behind every other race when controlling for IQ/SAT scores? Is it psychopathy?
Do you think that most school systems are too conformist?
Because the SAT is an imperfect measure of intelligence, the true intelligence will regress to a lower racial mean
Pumpkin, what subtests are most associated with creative writing vs analytical writing?
There was a interesting comment left by Blaz on Prehistoric War. It looks like it got buried under the other comments.
https://pumpkinperson.com/2020/01/07/prehistoric-war/#comment-150966
What do you think?
Yeah that was a good comment. Here’s what I think:
1)There’re average differences in the traits that different groups have, but there’s lots of variance in each group so there’s a lot of overlap.
2)Genetic clusters are probably determined by looking at traits that on average both differ a lot between different groups and have relatively little variance within groups. A small minority of genes are like this, so you can get a lot of overlap among the majority that aren’t without the techniques losing their predictive power.
I think there’s the potential for someone in the Vlogosphere to become one of the most influential people of the 21st century.
It’d take a charismatic/good looking person with a YouTube/livestream channel that was 75-25 trendy nonsense to politics. He’d have to a high VIQ and not give a shit about political correctness—but he couldn’t be evil.
Is knowledge justified true belief?
I never thought so but that was one of my issues with philosophism.
When people have been arguing over the definition of knowledge for multiple centuries with inherently no clear answer, then there is a serious problem.
What do you think of Gettier’s argument and the regress argument against skepticism?
Here’s Gettier:
P1. If knowledge is justified true belief, then it is not possible for a person to have a justified true belief that isn’t knowledge.
P2. A person can be justified in believing a false proposition.
P3. If a person is justified in believing a false proposition, then she is justified (at least to the same degree) in believing any proposition that she competently deduces from the original.
C1. A person is justified (at least to the same degree) in believing any proposition that she completely deduces from the original (modus ponens, P2, P3).
P4. If a person is justified in believing a proposition that is true by accident or luck, then his justified true belief is not knowledge.
P5. Jackson is justified in believing that someone in the room owns a Ford, which is true by accident or luck.
C2. It is possible for a person to have a justified true belief that isn’t knowledge (modus ponens, P4, P5).
C3. It is not the case that knowledge is justified true belief (modus tollens, P1, C2).
Here’s the regress argument:
P1. If any believer is reasonably (or justifiably) to hold a belief, then a believer must do so on the justifying basis of another justified belief.
P2. If a believer reasonably holds a belief, then that believer must reasonably hold another belief to justify that first belief, and a third belief to hold that second one, and a further fourth belief to hold that third one, and so on. Call this “a chain of reasons.”
C1. If a believer reasonably holds a belief, that believer must have a justifying chain of reasons (hypothetical syllogism, P1, P2).
P3. If any believer is reasonably to hold a belief, it cannot be on the basis of a circular chain of reasons.
P4. If any believer is reasonably to hold a belief, it cannot be on the basis of an infinite chain of reasons.
P5. If any believer holds a belief on the basis of a belief without justification, that believer does not reasonably hold the first belief.
C2. No believers with chains of reasons with unjustified beliefs at their ends are justified (universal generalization, P2, P5).
P6. Chains of reasons either (a) are circular, (b) end with unjustified beliefs, or (c) are infinite.
C3. For any believer’s chain of reasons, it either (a) goes in a circle, (b) ends with an unjustified commitment, or (c) goes on to infinity (instantiation, P6).
C4. There are no beliefs for which believers are justified in holding them (destructive trilemma, P3, P4, P6).
Both arguments from https://www.amazon.com/Just-Arguments-Important-Western-Philosophy/dp/1536643726
And here is Gettier’s paper:
Click to access gettier.pdf
Pumpkin, what does it mean if you have a high Verbal IQ, but bad verbal expression abilities?
I hate going shitlib but the alt right is full of losers.
I made the obvious point somewhere that Laura Southern is white trash for getting married at 24 and it immediately triggered like 50 people.
Alt-rightists love white-knighting for white women. It’s gross.
Are you white?
Yeah. WASP
pill asks you a question he himself refuses to answer
A couple years ago he said most of his family were hillbillies. Your Irish traveler guess is probably pretty good.
Let’s not forget hypocritical. They preach about white supremacy, yet they date mostly asian chicks.
Hapas have high suicide rates and more mental problems.
Mixed race children are gonna have a hard time finding organ donors.
Mixed couples have more stillbirths.
At least black&white muluattos have more success.
Hapa marriages have weird dynamics. Normally it’s ball-busting Asian woman with low T (or closeted gay) white guy. Oftentimes the men are Jewish.
I don’t think their kids are less happy than the average full Asian though. Their misery is from academic stress.
I never brought into the tiger mom bullshit. When I was in my art class with asians in high school (it was a mixed class from students from all grades) they needed stress balls. That was a school where it wasn’t that bad. i always felt for them. There’s no way you can learn efficiently from this.
This is one of the reasons why most asians underperform and cheat. Their brains are fried by stress so they want to relieve that stress by taking shortcuts.
People should be free to pursue their interests.
Amy Chua is pure evil
Is there anyone alive better than Mac DeMarco? This is GENIUS.
Dude, stop. Just stop.
I dont understand why Q tip isn’t worshipped more. Blacks usually like very good music and this guy is miles ahead of most hip hop these last 15 years.
Apparently Q tip dated Nicole Kidman….Kidman is also the person the came to Weinsteins yacht when he summoned her in front of a girl he was hoping to seduce.
Q-Tip is actually well respected in the black community. He’s just not the newest/hottest sensation so he isn’t talked about.
This song came to me about the same time I started to lose it a bit.
truecrypt?
This song is quite magical in American Graffiti. It made me sad for an era of true greatness in america. I never lived through the 50s unfortunately.
That was when small towns were at their best too. My parents moved to the southeast a few years ago and driving through them it’s shame to see whats happened.
As an L.A. native, I love talking to people who grew up there in the 40s and 50s.
They don’t get into the racial and criminal stuff per se, but they always tell me that customer service has gotten a lot worse.
There’s a really powerful video from the late 70s about customer service that I watched in a marketing class one semester. I can’t find it but IBM used to make its employees watch it. I think it’s called Remember Me.
People were willing to go the extra mile for each other back then. There was a sense that everyone was on the same playing field. Regardless of class.
Now we hate each other.
Air is one of my favourite bands. French outfit.
PP,, What’s the highest possible IQ a person can have without being atleast mildly autistic?
Just received the Murray this morning … but I have 600 pages of technical stuff (that I like) to read too for work so I can’t binge it this WE.
I’ve been here for years and still don’t know whether RR thinks the black white IQ gap is at least partly genetic.
He thinks it’s 100% not genetic
The black white gap is probably genetic to the extent of 10-15 points. I don’t know why people think this is controversial. Blacks are probably 15-20% more athletic or have bigger penises or better at dancing. Why not embrace the stuff youre good at rather than whine?
People are sensitive about their weaknesses. For example you still can’t admit you have autism even though it was obvious to me & both your therapists from the moment we encountered you.
It may be more complicated than that pumpkin.
I think the phenotype of autism and schizo is little understood.
First: There is: thin spots and or thick spots.
There are wholly thin and wholly thick patches.
Or a mix and mash of thin and thick.
Thin wiring = schizo
Thick wiring = autism
Thick and Thin = (?)
Not all conditions express themselves the same.
normal to me is not normal to you.
intelligence, ability, skills have not been measured completely.
It is all a hodgepodge
We don’t really know?
What are your weaknesses?
I don’t read enough & therefore don’t know enough
He starts with gender. At page 57, the overlap with Plomin book is 90% at least. But he talked about a cool semi-technical factor: Mahalanonbis distance. And his view about when traits should be aggregated (small thing adds up !) or averaged. He doesn’t present the statistics details though (unlike Jensen or even Plomin). His style is great.
Ever since the bell curve controversy his books have avoided discussing race so I’m not sure if I’ll buy this one
I like Buckley’s main criticism of Chomsky. In their TV debate he implied that Chomsky’s stated mission of ultimately influencing U.S. foreign policy was a fraud.
He was a self-righteous prick who squandered his talent telling weirdos what they wanted to hear. Building bridges was beneath him.
Wasting that kind of talent is evil. He could have made a real difference outside of anarchist circles.
What do you think of 4chan’s /pol/?
I like that you can literally say whatever you want. But most of the users are boring retards.
Commenting here is a lot better because you have almost as much freedom and the commenters have much more interesting views.
I think so too. The reason why people are boring around here is that they mindlessly spam and don’t know when to change topics when the time is right. It shows their autism.
Race is supposed to be one third of the book but its treated in pages 129-202 = 74 pages (less than 20%). So if it’s the main interest, I don’t think it’s worth reading the book.
So far, the amount of new information is close to 0 for someone who has read Jensen, Plomin and Reich, but I am only at page 57. Plomin didn’t touch the race subject. 70 pages, there is lot of fuel for fiering up the media of being totally ignored.
How much of it have you read? I’m writing my thoughts on Twitter. Here.
And no one is talking about his book. Good. I’m sure Kevin’s preprint stole a lot of Murray’s fire.
More bad news for RR:
I just posted that.
Where’s the successful criticism?
Where’s the successful criticism of Murray?
Did you read it?
Yes. Where is it?
It’s almost hilarious how juvenile the whole thing is, from the formatting (including leaving in links to the page your friends work on it at and failing to typeset), to the arguments he doesn’t even seem to comprehend don’t work, to the outright lies, misrepresentations, grievances, non-sequiturs, and vitriol. The confusion about Fst and the ignorance of power, modeled priors, using appropriate hypothesis tests, even bare and logical connections between arguments (who the hell implies the pop strat height issues in GIANT, which were resolved, were NoN?) makes it very clear that Kevin and his mentally underdeveloped friends wrote this horseshit. Next time I need someone to square a variance (or misinterpret it!) for me, I’ll call Kevin.
Which is successful and why?
Idk I didn’t read Kevin’s paper. I was just posting Tranny’s reply because you said nobody had replied to it yet. I assume you did read it though, so what’s wrong with the criticism? Do you think it’s a mischaracterization?
Yea i don’t consider calling someone a liar, dropping buzzwords and saying “Wait until it’s published” replying.
Buzzwords?
“from the formatting (including leaving in links to the page your friends work on it at and failing to typeset), to the arguments he doesn’t even seem to comprehend don’t work, to the outright lies, misrepresentations, grievances, non-sequiturs, and vitriol. The confusion about Fst and the ignorance of power, modeled priors, using appropriate hypothesis tests, even bare and logical connections between arguments (who the hell implies the pop strat height issues in GIANT, which were resolved, were NoN?)”
He doesn’t want to end up like Watson who didn’t have enough social/verbal iq to have tact with talking about race differences.
Here’s one thing that I’d love cleared up:
You hear from Sailer, Murray, and to a lesser extent PP that there’s mounting evidence in favor of hereditarianism, but it’s obvious that most mainstream geneticists completely disagree with this.
Where is this evidence coming from? Are the sources reputable? Most of the links here are from unis that i’ve never heard of.
What type of eugenics should we have? High iq individuals from low iq groups would benefit the most.
Last comment before I put the game on.
Here’s a John Nash interview from 15 years ago. He and his son are both hardcore schiz, but they’re clearly on the autism spectrum too. His son especially.
I’d love to hear y’alls thoughts.
According to this list Iran is retarded but Iran is in the top 15 countries in various Olympiads.
International Mathematical Olympiad (12)
– https://www.imo-official.org/results_country.aspx?column=awards&order=desc
International Olympiad in Informatics (8) – http://stats.ioinformatics.org/countries/?sort=total_desc