Deviation IQ is defined as one’s Z score (relative to the American or white population) on an intelligence test multiplied by usually 15 and added to 100. Z score = (raw score) – (average raw score)/(standard deviation of raw scores).
Occasionally Z scores will be normalized, so instead of being calculated from the above formula, they’re assigned based on percentiles. So if the top 1% of the population scored X and the normal curve says the top 1% has a Z score of +2.33, X will be assigned a Z score of +2.33 regardless of how many actual standard deviations it is above average.
However not all tests need to be normalized. Some should in theory form a very normal curve on their own. Does anyone know which two of the following tests need to be normalized?:
TEST A
A general knowledge test where the author thinks up general knowledge questions ranging in difficulty from very easy to very hard.
TEST B
A general knowledge test where you have to name the faces of the 100 most important people in history as chosen by Michael Hart’s famous book The 100.
TEST C
A spatial test where the author buys a bunch of jig-saw puzzles from the toy store, and your raw score is the number of puzzles you could put together in under 1 minute each.
TEST D
A spatial test where the author buys one jig-saw puzzle from the toy store and your score is simply how many seconds it takes you to solve it (the lower the better)
TEST E
A spatial test where the author buys one jig-saw puzzle from the toy store and your score is the number of pieces you can fit together in one minute.
TEST F
A memory test where your score is the greatest number of syllables in a sentence you can repeat after one hearing.
Pumpkin Person 
Why not try a battery of physiological tests? Dutton and Woolley, whom im sure youre somewhat familiar with, pointed out a .9+ correlation between intelligence and this battery.
Essentially the test involves reaction times, pitch and color discrimination, as well as a host of other tests that can be done to validate ones intelligence quotient. Straight outta the Victorian eta for sure!
stop the gayness.
black men dunk.
white men walk on the moon.
If your verbal IQ were higher you would have said “black men moonwalk. White men walk on the moon”
Not all white men either just your typical redneck ones who drive pick ups and think theyre high T.
A white man can never be high T. Maybe higher than average but their SD is too low when not juicing.
Some thoughts of mine:
Elon Musks Neuralink sounds cool might want to be a participant
RIP Chadwick Boseman
Whites are inferior due to their inferiority complexes
Finally there is an outro for this song on SoundCloud that has a gospel snippet from a classical song of sorts
Sounds amazing if you can listen to it
I don’t know, but I’d guess C and F due to the potential for high outliers.
In any case, regardless of which ones NEED to be normalized, isn’t it standard operating procedure to normalize all test scores anyway?
Intuitively, i would say C, D and F, but you are our expert.
No I’m not
You desperately sound like a white man tryna earn some privilege. Thats called being an “expert” in my books.
I misplaced my comment. I was speaking about Pumpkin.
But you are citing Cooijmans. So you have an interest on IQ tests.
Btw, when you objected to Pumpkin compliment, I believe you were twice wrong :
1) first Pumpking proposition wasn’t about your score – there are 18 others – but by the was you got into it without statistic knowledge.
NB : Paradoxically, i think in the context of citing Cooijmans it’s more a case of crystallized skills by spotting patterns in tests or learning test scoring.
2) The rule istself is meaningless.
– As objective scores are ranked, there is an intrinsic judgment value at least about the people who scor. And Cooijmans has lots of conjectures on super high scorers. He created high IQ societies. And he sales tests. He prooosed his tests to Mega society wich voted no because the tests had to many awkward iodiosyncrasies and were not g loaded enough but encourage him to continue and gain more psychometrics knowledge if I remember.
– you can have objective scores and then make value judgments about whatever you want, even objective things
3) the only moral thing I would see justifying the prohibition is that compliments on nature are not deserved because the object of the compliment didn’t do anything. But as most traits and actions are at least partly the result of nature, that prohibition would forbid most compliments, wich would be dull.
Cooijmans has something interesting, it’s ho writing about mental health and in particular Asperger where he is very dark .
“1) first Pumpking proposition wasn’t about your score – there are 18 others – but by the was you got into it without statistic knowledge.”
Yeah, you may be right about that. Even so, I still think it’s justified to bring up the topic of why complimenting people on their scores is wrong, even if it doesn’t apply to Pumpkin’s comment specifically, since it’s something I see so many people do.
“– As objective scores are ranked, there is an intrinsic judgment value at least about the people who scor. And Cooijmans has lots of conjectures on super high scorers. He created high IQ societies. And he sales tests. He prooosed his tests to Mega society wich voted no because the tests had to many awkward iodiosyncrasies and were not g loaded enough but encourage him to continue and gain more psychometrics knowledge if I remember.”
I think you’re talking about Kevin Langdon’s criticisms of Cooijmans’ Test for Genius, back in like the late 90s. I agree that Cooijmans’ tests are imperfect, but he is certainly the best of the high-range test designers active today, which isn’t necessarily saying much considering how atrociously bad most or all of the others are.
“3) the only moral thing I would see justifying the prohibition is that compliments on nature are not deserved because the object of the compliment didn’t do anything. But as most traits and actions are at least partly the result of nature, that prohibition would forbid most compliments, wich would be dull.”
I agree with this too, but still, perhaps it’s a beneficial act of defensive memetic warfare insofar as it reminds people that a high IQ is not an achievement, and a high score on an IQ test should not an achievement either, if the test is properly constructed.
“Cooijmans has something interesting, it’s ho writing about mental health and in particular Asperger where he is very dark .”
Yes, I think I find that aspect of his writings more interesting than his ruminations on intelligence.
Cooijmans developed a checklist that measures how Aspie you are. Some of the questions are pretty funny.
Write complaint letters to authorities, professionals, companies etc.
Read full manual before taking equipment into use
Severely bullied at school
Little or no facial expression
Not well able to read another’s facial expression
Flat or monotonous voice
Rigid day or week schedule (repetitive patterns)
Strong interest in arcane subjects (either scientific, occult or trivial)
Lack sensitivity to nonverbal cues and social codes
Employed below ability level
….
I scored 3 out of 54.
16 out of 54
heres the link https://paulcooijmans.com/personalitytests/asperger.html
You checked 43 items out of 54.
This score is very far above the average range of intelligent adults. In this range there is a clearly increased likelihood of psychosocial or psychiatric problems, as well as reduced resistance to stress and reduced empathy. There may be deep introversion and/or an unusual imagination, while associative horizon may be wider than usual.
While we’re at it, we might as well bring up this thing: https://paulcooijmans.com/personalitytests/cultural_marxism.html
“Your CINEMA score is 19 out of 80.
Sorry, you do not appear to be a true cultural Marxist. Better next time.”
too worn out to retake it, but I remember scoring sub-10 on it a couple years ago. I’d probably score even lower now 🙂
I won’t comment the fact your agreed on all my points because you may disagree with such a proposition 😂
I scored 18. He says it’s normal for intelligent people (that’s an assumption on his part)
It’s bizarre because on Baron-Cohen test, I am very far above the clinical diagnosed autists average 38/50 and threshold (32). I get 45/46. Average is around 15/16.
Pumpkin hypothesizes that I must have some mutational genes that make me weird in some ways but don’t fit in all autistic/asperger parameters.
The best diagnostic he had was comparing my with Lt Data. I feel more like someone lacking some normal human trait very interests by emotions and feelings than like Aspies/autists who hate or despise those things. Around me, some people say I am very much like Sheldon Cooper. Others say I am the opposite …
I don’t think Cooijmans is qualified to speak about psychology. When I wrote to ask him if he had imagination and memories, he told me the thought those faculties didn’t exist and people were just making them up !!!
I like those but I am aware enough to see the inter subjective evidence and the descriptions cohérence even if it feels like sorcery to me.
Autism checklists are pseudoscience in my opinion. We know autism exists at the extremes (i.e. rain man) where everyone can recognize the phenotype, but how do we know if more subtle cases are milder versions of the same condition or just other phenotypes that coincidentally resemble it?
Best way to study autism in my opinion is to look for impairments in the first degree relatives of severe autistics because their genetic connection to someone we know for sure has autism makes them an objective place to look for milder forms (regression to the mean)
“Autism checklists are pseudoscience in my opinion.”
I think the GAIA is slightly misnamed. It seems to me that the point isn’t so much to look for traits of autism per se as it is to measure a general factor of psychosocial deviance, similar to the general factor in intelligence.
“I don’t think Cooijmans is qualified to speak about psychology. When I wrote to ask him if he had imagination and memories, he told me the thought those faculties didn’t exist and people were just making them up !!!”
Aha! Another aphantasia sufferer shocked to find out the truth.
I feel this is one of the biggest questions in psychology: does autism exist on a spectrum, or is it binary and researchers are conflating a number of other similar and milder conditions with it? I’ve been reading more on this topic and I can’t really make up my mind….
There have been a bunch of cases in my family of males hiding when someone was visiting the home, of people watching the roof all day without working (but going out on their own time and having fun with prostitutes and card play) and of 4 siblings out of 5 not mating not leaving family home … But it was in Spain were there are more weird family life.
What’s wrong with prostitutes and card play?
The guy was weird because he had done 6 years of medicine and 3 of neurosurgery (2 more were needed to be a neurosurgeon) when his dad died of an heart attack because he lost his fabric and his house playing cards.
His mother had been repudiated because she married this pharmacian that was known to be a womanizer in the cities her parents owned. Very rich spanish hacenderos.
He earned some money playing the piano until his sister found a guy who had 4 baker shop and a firm – coming from extreme poverty in Basque Country and making quite a lot of money in Seville. Then he has lived all his life from her sisters husband money without ever speaking to his 3 nephews. My grandfather was said to look exactly like him.
When he died, all the money of hi mothers family had been stolen because the other 4 siblings stay bachelors and as his mother was written off, he should have inherited everything but the local authorities managed to keep everything.
That’s how 3 cities with 70 000 inhabitants houses wich all belonged to my mothers ancestors were written off in the 1950ies of my inheritance line …
The guy had a good life but he had to endured his step brother insults every day each time he went out of his room
He was also a germophobe and everything had to be hygienized for him . But there were around 10 maids in the house.
Such a good song. This is by the greatest mexican immigrant to america of all time.
This song only made it to no.36 on the charts in 66. WTF. Its brilliant.
can’t make it out. is he a white mexican?
what % of latinos in the US are unmixed european?
my guess is LESS than the % in their home countries, because unmixed europeans in latin america tend to have fewer reasons to emigrate…unless they’re brazilians or argentines…
the whole “latino” category is bullshit.
i mean i have spanish ancestors, from spain ancestors…and my cousins have italian ancestry…BUT our latin ancestors arrived in the US 300+ years ago.
He looks native mexican to me. As in aztec type background.
https://i1.wp.com/girlhowdy233.tripod.com/ChrisMontez/chrisandshirley2.jpg?resize=374%2C307
He looks like most of the hispanic guys in LA. Half European half native Mexican.
According to his wiki bio he was born in LA and grew up in Hawthorne, which is a dumpy latino neighborhood near LAX. Apparently there was a sizable Mexican population there even before Hart Celler. I wouldn’t have imagined that.
Hispanics in LA seem to be Mestizo as you described.
I myself pride myself in being an original Aryan from Scythian origin. I used to look very much like one.
Crap this version is the mono, half the song is missing.
I feel the need to point out that this isn’t the same as the Cyndi Lauper song of the 1980s, but it is a rendition of a popular Broadway/pop standard of the 1940s written by Sammy Cahn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_After_Time_(1947_song)
Most of Chris songs were covers.
Santo posted a good song here a few months ago. I’m trying to find it. Puppy can you remember the name/artist.
“Cos were livin in a world of fools (Puppy)
Breakin us down.
When they all should let us be
We belong to you me”
good songwriting doesn’t exist anymore. at least not in mainstream pop. Modern music is too rhythm and synth-driven….
Plus it’s just fucking boring. No one writes hooks anymore!
This stuff is dumber than shit but at least it’s fun and hooky
G A Y & B O R I N G
dumb. and fun
Been getting into elton john lately of all things. I never thought Id say that.
You are GAY!
exactly!
montez sounds like michael jackson.
this is how i know pill is a sockpuppet.
there is ONE great Reginald Kenneth Dwight song though…
but NOT as good as…
inb4 “kys faggot.” I sorta like some of his obscure stuff
Interesting to think this gay guy could get lots more pussy than most straight guys. But great song:
peepee is a bull dyke, so she WANTS to believe all men are gay…more women for her…
That’s not true at all
Pumpkin is way too sensitive to be a bull dyke. “He’s” definitely just a regular dyke.
Its a great song but the video above under where you write reg dwight about the illegal immigrant is very annoying to watch
He actually does look a lot like a good james bond. The current one, Daniel Craig is too serious for me.- like hes some sort of assassin more than a spy.
Remember when Mugabe said the COVID would die down in the summer?
Another thing he was clearly wrong about.
But what else is new?
Have you seen the COV denialists? I told someone to put his mask on and he said “I understand you’re scared of the fake ass coronavirus” haha. And I see others question the death toll and method used to glean infection rate/deaths saying its “not that bad” and we should “open up cuz muh economy.” I wanna get back to work at what I do for a career too, but this shit is real and not a joke.
Im going to try to look at that paper yoy linked me the other day this weekend. Haven’t had any time to read any dense material like that.
Have you read any Akeel Bilgrami? I just bought his Self-Knowledge and Resentment.
RR, how did you do on the PATMA?
I didn’t do it. I’ll check it out later and tell you my results. I didn’t even look at it yet.
Cool
A “deadly disease” that almost exclusively kills the old and immunodepressed is nothing to panic about. Government response to the coronavirus should focus on helping vulnerable populations to self-isolate. In the meantime, the rest of us shouldn’t have to bother with any epidemiological measures beyond minimal inconveniences like wearing a mask to the grocery store.
Denying the fact that the disease exists is stupid but whatever. Anyways, it’s literally nothing to worry about. The fact that it’s literally just seniors and people with multiple health commorbidities dying is a testament to how harmless the disease. Also doesn’t help when you’ve got 45-80 percent of cases being asympomatic and instances of governments/institutions artificially inflating the numbers.
It’s nothing to worry about. The economic problems are also very real. The intergenerations costs this pandemic will have on future generations is unreal as well.
Even young people with the virus are dying of strokes. That sound kind of worrisome to me:
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/24/strokes-coronavirus-young-patients/%3foutputType=amp
all i did was repeat what fauci said. do you hate italians? short italians?
which two of the following tests need to be normalized?
Doesn’t it depend a lot on who’s taking the test? Like you’d probably need to normalize A if your readers took it because 10-15% of them would max it.
But I think C and D for sure, especially if the puzzles in D are at the same level of difficulty.
the answers i was looking for were A and C. But not for the reason you gave for A as I’m assuming the test has enough floor and ceiling for its takers. The problem with A and C is the gap in raw scores between people is a function of the test author’s subjective judgments and not something that emerged naturally. For example in test A the author may try to select items that are smoothly graded in difficulty but he has no way of knowing if they actually are. For example I tried to select PATMA items that were evenly graded in difficulty but I have no way of knowing if the difficulty gap between the two easiest items is the same as the difficulty gap between the two hardest items. However in say a memory test of repeating sentences, where your score is just the longest sentence you can repeat from memory as measured by syllables, we have an objective way of knowing that each item is equally more difficult from the item before it, because each sentence you’re asked to repeat increases in length by X syllables. So in theory, we shouldn’t need to force that test to fit the normal curve, it should do so naturally (assuming cognitive abilities are themselves normally distributed which Jensen argued convincingly they are, though RR made some good counter-arguments)
Gotcha, thanks.
Hey pumpkin, on the PATMA, I realized I made a mistake, and I retook it (without paper and pencil and calculator), and I got another one of the problems correct. Since this is a reasoning test, can I add it to my final score?
why are you always getting yourself into these ambiguous situations? Just take tests as they’re designed to be taken and accept your score.
Would you estimate that the practice effect would be low for this?
yes
So, can I pretty much just count it as half correct?
I fucked up on the cube one. For some reason I was thinking of cubes and then I realized I got that problem wrong…
Also, in school it’s a common pattern for me to not get the questions right during the actual test, but once the test is over, a lot of times I figure out the answers to the questions without help. If that’s the case in real life, wouldn’t that be the case on this test and other tests? If that happens a lot, it’s probably something other than ability right?
Also, if you were to use pen and paper, by how much would you estimate a score increase?
Pumpkin, if you don’t have the sufficient math abilities, no amount of tries without help would let you solve the problems on the PATMA correct, no matter how many times or how long you try?
If your score improves with multiple attempts then it’s logical to assume others would too, so the test norms are meaningless unless you take the test the same way most others did
But wouldn’t the practice effect for these types of test be low?
Whoever this Ganzir person is, I like him already.
1. Did you just assume my gender?
2. Thanks, friendo
I am not an illegal immigrant despite what Pill says. Do not under any circumstance believe his disparages about me.
Hes a good guy but…
You fill in the blank.
Pumpkin, if someone takes a WAIS matrix reasoning test and gets a score, but the second time around gets a much higher score, id assume the first time the guy didn’t show his full ability, because the practice effect for matrix reasoning is only like 2 points, which is nothing. I’m wondering if it’s the case for this test too, since it’s kind of similar to similarities and matrix reasoning in that these are logic heavy, and logic can’t beaffected as much.
Practice effect is based on people who took the test again a few weeks later & thus forgot the questions. If you take the test again the same day & still remember the specific question it might be bigger.
But even if you remember the specific question, if they’re questions on a logic test, you wouldn’t just understand the logic out of thing air right?
Hey pumpkin, on tests like the SAT, if during the correcting stage you realize your mistakes, and those mistakes add up to about 80-100 points, is there something else going on, such as attention issues, besides raw Math ability? I suspect this is what happened in this particular case, and since it happens to me all the damn time. I’m trying to figure out what the hell is happening.
Do you know of any math iq tests which are normed off of people taking their time, taking breaks in the middle and such?
pumpkin, if you got a 780/800 on the SAT math section (after studying for it), can you reasonably assume that your math ability is at least 115?
Yes
So Pumpkin, due to the fact that I got a 780, and I eventually got all the questions right on the PATMA without outside help, can i reasonably add at least one more of them to the final score? Which, in US norms, will net a 115?
Even if a test has no practice effect, you still can’t take it multiple times and choose your best score. The SAT has very little practice effect but if everyone took it multiple times & chose their best score, the mean would go way up. That’s why many colleges want to see the AVERAGE score of repeat test takers
No since math and verbal correlates to logical mathematical ability! This is what IQ tests are implied to test as one category if im being specific enough.
doesnt a small practice effect imply that the even the best scores of everyone wont change the mean that drastically?
Also, on the PATMA, wouldn’t an average of the first time and second time work if there is very little practice effect?
Would this still be the case if you took the SAT multiple times, that your math ability will be at least 115 because you got a 780?
Pumpkin, on the wisc v, hispanics had a viq piq discrepancy of about 2 points, however, around 30-40 percent of hispanics arent bilingual. Would that mean that if only bilinguals were tested, that discrepancy would be higher than 2 points?
If 35% are native English speakers then yes they’re probably pulling the discrepancy down.
hasnt it been proven empirically that english speaking hispanics have higher vocabularies than bilingual hispanics?
That would make mathematical sense since it is known that addition of one number to another number usually leads to a higher number Rahul.
That is how math works. It was safe to assume you already knew that for someone that scored a 780 on the math portion of the SAT though.
hey pumpkin, can you make a spatial or a verbal test similar to this and norm it too?
Hey Pumpkin, is a part of testing also measuring your mental stamina? Personally, I get tired really fucking quickly, and my brain is a fucking cobweb, but I still end up eventually understanding the logic to shit.
Perhaps, but that’s not really what a mental ability test is supposed to measure, as a rule. That sounds more like a disorder, e.g., ADHD.
I’m thinking about posting my WAIS-IV scores somewhere in the comments on this blog. Not sure yet if I should take that leap.
Do it. Sounds interesting. I’d do it but I haven’t (yet) taken the WAIS-IV
Autism means auto-self. The person goes inward because they are overstimulated. But they also can have supervision because of early growth in the visual cortex. They can be overly logical because it helps them cope with the world in black and white terms.
Autism happens when the cortex is too thick. The pruning of synapses happens much slower. Everything gets squeezed. Unlike a video camera, everything becomes like jello, unable to take things in. That is they have difficulty taking in higher causality structures.
Higher casual structures really are all there is to it. Basically it is the ability to abstract causally. The correct term is higher-order associations.
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Animekitty was lethargic and had severe anxiety. Animekitty had anhedonia, they shut down for a while. It wasn’t Autism it was depression and anxiety. Anime kitty would clench up when forcing themselves to speak but this was part of the anxiety. Animekitty is anxious reading books and watching tv. Anmekitty takes Gabapentin for anxiety. They have a hard time relaxing and get stiff.
Animekitty has a psychosomatic condition not a developmental disorder like autism.
Dude, the best way to deal with anxiety is to just let accept the sensation and let it wash over you. Spend 15-30 minutes a day in a relaxed position and let your mind wander to things that are bothering you. When you start feeling anxious just accept it.
It’ll be tough at first, but your anxiety and depression will disappear in like 2-3 months.
I was a depressed and anxious bitch in high school and my first 4 semesters of university, but I’m completely fine now.
“Animekitty has a psychosomatic condition not a developmental disorder like autism.”
WRONG
Please go more in-depth. You cannot just say “WRONG” and not explain?
Pill is a moron he doesnt have the capacity to explain. He is vilifying you as being autistic since he is a schizo lunatic.
Pill never learned to have impulse control either. I notice he just shouts things out that he thinks warrants a reaction or seem good to him in the moment. I wouldnt put much stock in it Anime.
Psychosomatic disorders are surely real and are the underlying cause of a lot of the physiological and mentally related issues you are struggling with now. Be strong you will conquer this!
and TSLA’s market share is down in europe.
they couldn’t even make a profit when they had no competition.
porsche now has an all electric car and TSLA’s self-driving tech is the worst of all.
so musk will have to LITERALLY pull something out of his ass or TSLA is going to < $20.
I’m NOT an experienced day trader/stock picker so I don’t want to pick a side, but I’ve yet to hear a single person bullish for TSLA explain why without sounding completely full of shit.
That’s a pretty bad sign.
pumpkin, what do you think about the queendom iq test. There was actually a study done which said that this test inflated IQ by about 5 points, which is pretty damn good for an online test. https://castle.eiu.edu/edjournal/webiqtests.pdf
https://testyourself.psychtests.com/testid/3109
This is the website Billy gave me to take the Queendom. I just took it again, this time on the actual Queendom website, and scored a 98 (mostly guessed on every question except maybe twenty of them).
https://www.queendom.com/tests/access_page/index.htm?idRegTest=3108
Same test different website.
Scored a 111 my first time, hence my most recent comment on a previous thread. That took a lot more effort and concentration and I did really up to 80% of my ability.
Oh I read that study last year and did the Queendom test too. I emailed the creator of the Mensa Norway test about the scores I got and he told me that they were pretty accurate and that they correlated highly with WAIS and other real IQ tests. He also told me that he was going to make a test that was more accurate in the “high” range.
Man, I also think that the practice effect is affecting your results A LOT. Like I seem to see you talking about the IQ tests you do all the time so I’m guessing you take them regularly.
I don’t really take them that often. Most online tests I took were RAPM tests. The stuff queendom tests is other things too. I mostly only ever took math tests on Ivan ivec and matrices. I’ve taken a ton of matrices though.
But even then, doesn’t practice effect significantly diminish if you wait a period of time and if it’s you doing different tests?
Also, if it’s a timed test, I think the practice effect would change the result a lot. If you’re able to recall the solutions quicker because of your past results on the test, you’re able to do other questions faster and you save time. I think that would definitely distort the results
I haven’t taken the queen dog test before, and if I did, it would’ve been like a year ago.
Also, queendom is not a timed test, iqtest.dk and mensa.no are.
pumpkin, does the iqtest.dk deflate you actual matrix reasoning score. I got a 104 on that, but on the wais iv one I got a 120. After trying iqtest.dk a couple more times I got 120 too, and that was before i took the wais one. There probs isnt much of a practice effect since they are different tests right?
I got a 102 my second time overall and my most recent try yesterday.
Down from the 104 I got the first time.
” I’ve taken a ton of matrices though.”
That could maybe explain the practice effect. You’ve taken so many of them that your brain is already familliar with the patterns
The first time I took IQtest.dk was back in 2017. Also, ravens patterns and wais matrix reasoning patterns are different, so the practice effect wouldn’t be super large.
the neocons are a little more than just jews.
they were former trotskyists right, permanent global revolution vs socialism in one country.
combine this with burkean conservatism and american exceptionalism and you get…
the american revolution is the only successful revolution.
and hitch can call himself a revolutionary.
this is why it’s very important to collect data on blacks who live in almost all white areas.
blacks make blacks dumb.
not white racism.
but if they can’t form a quorum, then they’ll be white-ified.
this is why SOME immigration is fine.
however different they LOOK, they are TOTALLY indistinguishable in ALL other ways.
including RELIGION!
the idea that religion isn’t a legit reason to discriminate is the height of NIHILISM!
this research hasn’t turned up in dentistry yet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorum_sensing
dental plaque (= bacteria) are harmless until they “gang up”. they form yuge acid producing colonies (quora).
teeth actually heal themselves in a well hydrated mouth, and supposedly some savages have no tooth decay…but those don’t include the hadza…they have horrible teeth.
the hearing for dropping of all charges against the minneapolis 4 will be on…
9/11!
btw, the point isn’t that i know apodictically they aren’t guilty of something.
the point is they aren’t even close to guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, and therefore…
the prosecution is just wasting time and money for political reasons.
then there’s the whole “qualified immunity” thing for cops.
the judge would find for the defendants under ordinary circumstances…like where he didn’t fear for his life if he dismissed all charges.
Someone powerful will tell the judge what to rule. The case is too politically important now.
Anime can be used to convey some pretty meaningful messages to their audiences. Let’s take Itachi Uchiha from Naruto as an example. He is the older brother of one of the main characters of the anime (Sasuke Uchiha) and he is initially depicted as a psychopathic murderous maniac at first and Sasuke’s entire motivation is centred around him trying to kill his older brother. This is because Itachi killed their parents and the rest of his clan and told Sasuke to hate him and live his life to seek vengeance on him some day. As we later find out, Itachi didn’t actually kill his clan for a stupid reason like “testing his power” but to quell the coup d’etat that they were going to do against the village.
Basically, the Uchiha were planning on overthrowing the leadership of the village that they were in to usurp power from the Hokage (the village head) for themselves. In order to avoid a blood civil war with many casualties between the Uchiha and the other shinobi in the Leaf Village and leave an opening for foreign villages to attack, Itachi took it upon himself to rid the village of the treacherous Uchiha and leave only his younger brother Sasuke alive.
Basically, this entire situation is a lesson in utilitarianism and the ‘greater good’. While what Itachi did may seem unsavoury to many of us in the audience, he did it because it was the path with the fewest casualties and the smallest amount of blood spilled. If the Uchiha were not prevented from committing to their coup d’etat plan, there would be far more casualties in the village as well as destruction and chaos, which would leave them vulnerable to attacks from all of the other villages around them which would obviously be extremely problematic for the other civillians. Itachi chose the greater good and made the difficult choice to kill the Uchiha clan to prevent it. Every single last one from the seniors to the children except for his younger brother.
The anime wants people to understand that what he did was the GOOD thing because we have examples of many important characters within the show making remarks on how Itachi was a great and capable shinobi. He is painted as a good person and respected by many people within the anime’s world. The anime elucidates the point that the greater good is always to be strived for and that it is worth making sacrifices for, no matter the cost. Because Itachi did what he did, their village enjoys a peace and stability that they wouldn’t have if the Uchiha did succeed in their coup attempt. The author hammers the point home that Utilitarianism is THE RIGHT choice and that it is something which is to be commended.
It’s really cool that this anime has utilitarianism as a pretty major theme.
Pumpkin make a verbal test like PATMA since you’ve already made a math-type one. Should be interesting to do.