This is a documentary Lion of the Blogosphere would enjoy. Released in 2015, HBO’s Class Divide tells the story of extreme gentrification in Manhattan’s Upper East side. More specifically, on one side of the street you have housing projects where people live in poverty, and on the other side you have one of the most exclusive private schools in the World, where children of Hedge Fund decamillionaires learn to speak Chinese.
The kids in the housing project are living in an island of low IQ poverty surrounded by the high IQ super rich. Some of the apartment buildings surrounding them are so luxurious they have swimming pools in each individual unit and elevators that lift your car all the way up to your floor!
When the elite private school was built, part of the agreement was that scholarships would be provided for some of the kids in the housing project but as of the documentary’s completion, none were attending. It’s easy to blame the elite school but not everyone has the genetic ability to do calculus. Jensen observed that minorities and lower class kids (like our very own Pill) are every bit as smart as upper class kids when it comes to Level 1 ability (rote learning, school yard interactions) so teachers can’t understand why so many score in the mentally retarded range on IQ tests. Even Jensen himself thought the tests were culturally biased, until he saw these kids try level 2 tasks (abstract reasoning). Only then did their retardation show and it was 100% genetic.
The term “six hour retardate” became wildly popular in the 1970s to describe kids who seemed perfectly normal, except for the 6 hours a day they learned abstract topics in school.
In the documentary there’s a little girl from the housing project who dreams of attending the elite school. Her hero is Beyonce. Sadly she does not get accepted. Kids who admire Beyonce don’t qualify for schools like that:
The stark inequality is bad for the poor kids’ self-esteem but some of the more sensitive rich kids seem even more damaged. The film features a rich boy who went up an elevator with a black woman and her two toddlers. One of the toddlers notes that the boy is going to the 49th floor (where the super rich live) while they’re going to the 14th floor (where poverty lives). The rich boy is so worried that the mother thinks that he thinks he is superior that he is rendered speechless. Sadly, the rich boy kills himself before the documentary is complete for reasons no one understands.
You can watch the full documentary for free here.
Pumpkin Person 
pepe, you say that intelligence is the ability to turn whatever situation you’re in to your advantage. Having more money is an advantage. Would you agree that this implies that the ability to make money by committing crimes (drug dealing, murder-for-hire, etc.) reflects high intelligence?
Rich criminals are smarter than poor criminals, but non-criminals are smarter than criminals.
are rich criminals smarter than poor non-criminals?
depends how rich and how poor. A billionaire criminal will be a lot smarter than a homeless non-criminal.
per my dutch uncle:
bottom line. if you’re smart…crime pays.
and so a lot of very “high IQ” people (without other opportunities) should be drawn to crime…
BUT!
you never hear about them!
and so the idea that criminals are morons is confirmed.
in other words:
you only hear about the criminals who’ve been caught.
this is a yuge selection bias.
If I became a millionaire by committing crimes and got away with all of it, would that indicate high intelligence?
Well duh. Are you actually 150IQ or are you lying about that? Everything youve ever said indicates a much lower IQ.
”The term “six hour retardate” became wildly popular in the 1970s to describe kids who seemed perfectly normal, except for the 6 hours a day they learned abstract topics in school.”
Was this term used to describe white kids? or black kids? or any kids who couldnt grasp abstract concepts?
Peeps, you didnt answer this…because the question is silly? or because you dont know the answer?
I assume the term was applied mainly to minorities but I have no data
So Jensen basically claimed that rote learning(long-term memory?) is not g-loaded? Do you think that’s right?
Well this was back when Jensen was first learning about IQ. But later he would note that Digits Forward (rote memory) has a g loading of 0.3 and digits backward (working memory) has a g loading of 0.6. So a mentally retarded person who is 2 SD below average in g, would be only 0.3(2 SD) = 0.6 SD below average in rote memory & other low g functions and thus come across as normal in non-academic tasks, as long as his retardation wasn’t organic.
Not sure why you’re equating long-term memory with rote memory.
One reason the tests were seen as biased against minorities and lower class is they’re far less likely to be organic than white or upper class kids with the same IQ. This is because IQs below 70 are part of the normal curve for disadvantaged groups & don’t require some chromosomal abnormality.
“Not sure why you’re equating long-term memory with rote memory.”
Not to quibble but the phrase in question was “rote learning”.
I wonder if “normal” low IQ people in special ed classes feel like supermen compared to the organic ones.
Are the lower class kids in the video all black? That would explain the IQ difference more than where they live.
The documentary doesn’t actually mention IQ, but it’s demographically inevitable that there’d be a big IQ gap.
yes. this was proven with a study in france. mo’ money does raise IQ of adopted chirren. but not up to the level the adopting parents own chirren.
theroux quotes a famous american painter saying, “we had no money, but we weren’t poor.” in other words: “didn’t act like poor people.” money and class are not identical. but at the same time no money makes people more vicious and dumber than they would have been with money. especially when it’s no money for generations. this is a marxist interpretation: some virtues are luxuries. peepee will deny this.
my mother’s family is an example. she had a norman rockwell childhood even though she was poor in the south. her parents never raised their voice. never swore. nothing. even though her dad was literally an ex-con.
of course my mother wasn’t that poor. not like the people in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. she went to private schools and food was so cheap then and there she ate like a king. but her parents never owned anything.
theroux keeps pointing out, via quotations, how things are worse in the deep south than they were 50 years ago because outsourcing. and so all these corporate executives who talk about diversity have made life worse for blacks in the south. as marx says:
that is, the “ideas” are just a means of hiding a crime.
and in the northern cities southern blacks left for for factory jobs which were sent to china…it must be a lot of po’ white trash left for those jobs too. and i expect they’re still the bottom of white society in detroit. chicago, etc. for example, are MNM’s grandparents from the south or appalachia?
and people like peepee will claim this is genetic.
it’s poverty + a different way of talking + a different culture. it’s not just muh genes. why do blacks talk black? because “talking black” is just rural poor southern accent.
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the one rich guy theroux talks to in the “deep south” is an iranian. (agassi is an iranian.)
of all the sports we po’ people know of…
tennis is the one which is most important to rich people.
golf?
there are no golf camps/schools.
john daily could never’ve been a tennis player.
#tennissowhite
there are reasons (allen’s and bergmann’s rule) to believe that black men suck at tennis…unlike black [redacted by pp, 2022-06-01] women.
wypipo don’t care peepee.
rich pepo don’t care.
the class divide is obnoxious to both sides.
marx talks about this.
how the rich are degraded.
cry for the rich?
no.
cry for the rich who care.
yes.
don’t cry for oprah….
and DON’T cry for peepee.
weeping for tammuz 40 days underworld
rich accent, poor accent…
they wanna know that’s okay…okay they lost the war…
157 years…a trice in eternity…
hey boo!
Just think – the danes were making anti-white tribalist movies 60 years ago as soon as they could.
Back in 1960s America I would say 60-70% of white people wouldn’t want their child marrying a black.
Try 90%
Lion thinks Musk is a Bozo despite Musk being the richest man in the world after launching 2 successful businesses.
Lion predicted big city property prices and rents would crash and the opposite is happening.
Probably his not having invested in NY when it was cheap must influence his (wishful)-thinking. Financial institutions that have property in cities will do everything to get employees back to office. Industrial who have blue collars can’t tolerate their white collar working from home either. And businesses who depend on collective work need people to be living together a fraction of the week.
Taleb seems to have the same kind of bias on Bitcoin.
Intelligent people aren’t free from biases, they tend to rationalize it away instead of ignoring it like lower IQ persons do, but the result is the same.
Bruno are you still using the same email where I reached you before?
I wanted to get your opinion on a very important and top secret test.
Yes
perfect. sent you an email.
Poor Loaded. Puppy is very cute and adorable but he can be very spiteful and angry. Especially when he hasn’t eaten yet.
Heres something I don’t get. Why didn’t the usa actually invade the middle east for its oil? Those countries are pathetic dictatorships that wouldn’t have stood a chance. Why is the US letting Saudi Arabia make trillions from oil when it could steal it? It makes no sense.
trump didn’t understand either
Usa doesnt need to sell the oil. It needs the oil to be bought in dollar. That gives value to the money – like a gold standard – and allow it to print as much money as it wants (it doesn’t even have to print it, it’s just accounting lines in central bank balance sheet).
When Saddam Hussein started to accept non dollar money and building wealth in non dollar currencies, that’s when his problems started ….
[redacted by pp, 2022-06-02] If you take the oil that actually improves the current account surplus rather than importing it plus you actually have the commodity itself.
OF course knowing the way the US is ruled, it would have invaded the middle east and handed the oil over to Israel for ‘humanitarian reasons’ or something and then invited all the arabs to america for cheap labour.
Whats your ancestry puppy? Why are you so reluctant to say where your dad is from?
take 2 more tests and i will answer
I bet you are 1/52nd native american and because youre so woke you say that makes you a person of colour.
I’m 1/256 Native American
math IQ question: give an ancestry such that 1/52d is native american.
1/64th means one great great great great grandparent. but there may be fewer than 64 such grandparents without ill effect.
the anti-gun people never mention why the pro-gun people are pro-gun. the pro-gun people always mention why the anti-gun people…
theroux visits a lot of gun shows and he recounts a slogan something like “liberals: why we have a 2d amendment”.
the pro-gun people don’t want guns for hunting or self-defense against ordinary criminals. they want guns to defend themselves against the government. they think without guns they’d by sent to a GULAG for thought crimes. the 2d amendment is meant as a safeguard for all the amendments. not fantasy. original intent.
such abstract concerns seem ridiculous to peepee. but lincoln sent 700k americans to their death to save the union. the idea being that if the south had been let go the empire of liberty would cease. hitler would’ve won the war.
well. bdah-zee-oo ended slavery without a civil war. and only 23 years after the end of the civil war. though perhaps americans forced this.
even though confederates resettled in the amazon.
I found a picture of Mug of Pee
It doesnt matter whether the founders really thought people needed guns to defend against a dictatorship.
Its totally dysfunctional now and the 2nd amendment should be repealed.
Something i found on the net :https://www.rd.com/list/highest-iq-in-the-world/
Some remarkable numbers. Thanks for the link.
I should note that I didn’t read much beyond the numbers and corresponding names, so perhaps I missed mention of the intermingling of deviation and ratio scores somewhere within the article. In any event, I recall hearing a figure of 186 for Einstein from at least one (possibly two) credible source(s) a number of years ago.
https://pumpkinperson.com/2015/05/28/einsteins-iq/#comment-41812
Steve Sailer is right that gun crime is mainly a black people testosterone problem but the example of numerous other countries shows that limiting guns does save lives and leads to less chaos. The NRA is basically a lobby for gun makers at this point.
The other thing I disagree with the alt right about is economics. I am a socialist. I think Elon Musk has waaay too much money. 50% at least should be donated to the Fed for printing it for him.
Musk’s wealth is almost meaningless because it’s all tied to his stocks so he can’t liquidate. The real measure of net worth is how much money could he borrow against all his assets. I doubt it would be anywhere near $200 billion.
Damn!….you are good in finance too.
I notice the way a lot of right wing hispanics are white. I think Steve Sailer might have made the same observation. For example, a lot of the Proud Boys leaders have hispanic names. Are they people like JS, the commenter puppy banned? – descendants of Spain? Its interesting to see that maybe some of them would be ‘race-ist’ towards hispanics from latin america.
all of them are racist towards mestizos, mulattos, zambos, etc. latin america is very very woke on race in the way peepee thinks is bad.
mexico has had only one non-white president, juarez. 90+% of mexicans are non-white.
My ancestry is from a notoriously racist part of Europe. I definitely think it has something to do with warrior genes.
Least racist parts of Europe – the Scandinavians
It’s because you’re genetically inferior and come from the inbred part of Europe. See HBD Chick’s theory
“One general-processing theory is weak central coherence theory, which hypothesizes that a limited ability to see the big picture underlies the central disturbance in ASD.”
Yes. Yes. Exactly. Autists just can’t compute the whole situation. This leads to them saying stupid shit like lower wages is great for the economy or believing in libertarianism.
That’s what my non-verbal test measured. The ability to size up the situation as a whole and see the big picture. I’ve now given it to 4 people and it appears to be the most powerful predictor of autism ever created. Another example of me striking gold by accident as jealous Pill would say.
You only know it pinpoints autism because I said those people were autistic in the first instance.
every single person you diagnosed with autism has failed the test. Of course it could just be a coincidence since you only diagnosed 3 people. Or maybe the test is so hard that neurotypicals would fail too but I doubt it since you did well. More research needed.
You did not do especially well on the verbal though.
I aced the verbal and got all the correct answers. You dont know that because youre social intelligence is so low.
No sir. In fact the bonus question was suggested by Teff which is why it was a bonus (it’s a very famous question & the first time I read it I immediately got it but you were stumped).
Your talent is not social intelligence per se, but big picture thinking. You did very well on both the Gestalt and the cartoon test because you see the forest not the trees. So you grasp broad narratives like Danes run the World, but rely on more analytical people like me to work out the mechanism.
I got all the verbal questions correct. You just don’t know it.
Not even close. And you failed the World famous bonus question I correctly answered immediately. You’re too inferior to me. You’re no challenge.
I got the bonus question correct. Like all the other questions. I would say 70% of the questions tested whether you were retarded not a persons social intelligence.
No the bonus question had a very clever answer that you missed by any standard but in your defense it might just be because you have a low IQ and not because you’re socially dumb per se.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome#Characteristics
Anyway I happen to know a lot about autism because I had a close friend in my teenage years who as I reflect now, had the condition. Basically he was good at math and terrible at understanding people and found it hard to make friends.
Actually I was the only person in the whole 100 student year that was his friend. And I was not that popular either but from schizotypal reasons like paranoia and intense shyness.
I think I liked Tim because I felt he wouldn’t judge me.
That was basically my main criteria for being sociable with someone.
Schizotypals are known to have some social interaction deficits but my personal experience is that they can develop them with more interaction and confidence around people whereas an autistic person like Bruno can’t learn to read a person’s expression no matter how much time he spends around people.
the reason why unmixed european latin americans can maintain a bright color line is:
1. they deny it exists. they claim “we’re all mixed” when it isn’t true.
2. this denial is credible even to them because the difference in economic status between unmixed europeans and everyone else is much greater than in majority unmixed european US and canada. that is, they can confuse the class issue and the race issue. and because some unmixed iberians look like mestizos.
but in argentina and uruguay and rio grande do sul there are plenty of “broke ass” wypipo. because wypipo are the majority.
for example gisele bundchen is from rio grande do sul. there are also parts of chile which look like you’re in germany. puerto montt.
according to theroux and pico iyer there are chinese in angola and paraguay. chinese who aren’t there on behalf of china, but there to stay.
peepee has no idea what a shithole rural china is. it’s like mexico.
he always wins except he keeps buying put spreads like a retard.
but they paid off in early 2020.
it’s very simple:
efficiency + sector + maybe there is no sector.
the CFA curriculum on stocks is shit.
and mugabe has this prejudice that…
efficiency and quality aren’t antonyms.
for example, relative to other car companies, toyota has a yuge operating margin, but at the same time is the highest quality/fewest repairs.
eventually consumers flock to cos like TM.
all roads lead to cheap.
Look at the end of the day, its gambling. Anyone that pretends to be able to have a secret formula for stocks doesn’t know what hes doing. Even Buffet’s formula is wrong 50% of the time depending on market conditions and what the Fed is doing.
you need to smell less like a mangina sandwich.
PUBLISH THIS.
Ok Im going to be straight. I dont understand why people feel guilty about slavery. First of all the blacks would have enslaved the whites if they were technologically advanced enough. Second, the arabs enslaved blacks too. Third of all slavery existed in all human civilisations and it isn’t particularly notable among whites other than it was well organised by whites.
huge difference between slavery and chattel slavery
Whats the difference? I.e. Theres none.
Basically what you really want to say is that slavery for blacks was worse than slavery for whites.
Denying that blacks experienced way more & way worse slavery than everyone else is a form of HBD denial. If there’s a racial hierarchy then those on the top will dominate those on the bottom. You’re an HBD denier thanks to your mediocre social judgement.
Indeed. Our modern Western conception of slavery, in addition to being colored by racism against blacks, is based on a purely capitalist notion of owning someone for profit. Slavery has been common throughout history, and I believe in most cases it was basically a family relation or job condition. Slaves in many cultures had rights and could even buy their freedom eventually. From that perspective on slavery, you could argue that we are slaves today in that we aren’t completely free to act as we please.
Slavery is slavery. Whites were enslaved by turks and berbers sometimes. It was equally as bad for them as blacks. Youve been brainwashed by jews to think the black slavery experience was somehow unique.
No dumbass, I am following logic of HBD. Whites being enslaved by Arabs is inTRA-racial slavery because they’re all Caucasoids, but blacks being enslaved by Whites and Arabs is inTER-racial slavery.
Youre such a weirdo. No HBD person on the planet puts arabs and whites together just because theyre caucosoids.
parana and santa catarina have a smaller black %. but do they have a a higher sasquatch population?
bill clinton was born in hope, AK. but from age 7 to 18 he lived in hot springs, AK.
why does that matter?
theroux says that hot springs, AK was very unlike every other town in AK.
it had whore houses, gambling, and was frequently visited by capone, costello, luciano, bugsy, etc.
this all quit about the same time bill clinton left https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Springs_High_School_(Arkansas)#Notable_alumni
The only thing keeping Ukraine in the war is copious amounts of shipments from the west. Its like a boxer being kept in the fight by the constant administration of adrenaline.
You can’t name 1 thing you disagree with CNN with. How sad.
I disagreed with most of their most of their Middle East agenda over the last 20 years.
I have the same hair as Gareth Southgate. Same pattern of receeding hairline. Sad!
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/jun/03/chess-magnus-carlsen-starts-stavanger-while-seven-year-old-kushal-jakhria-eyes-expert-record
All these young chess prodigies are south asian. Thats a bit weird. I would have thought east asians would do better.
South asians are no slouches:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_inventions_and_discoveries
PLayed aoe 3 for 6 hours. I ended the day with 10 wins and 10 losses.
One of the guys I played was a hacker. Asshole.
And I’m using what is generally regarded as the weakest civilisation – Spain.
Ok now 12 wins, 11 losses. Going to bed now.
why would a heterosexual male be an expert on celeb gossip [redacted by pp, 2022-06-06]
Because he’s not heterosexual. The hostility he has towards gays screams projection & self-hatred.
Heres something thats different between what women want and what gays want. I think women are attracted to power and status a lot more than gays. I’d say there would be tons of russian women who would love to be with putin for that reason but there would be very few gays who would find putin attractive.
Philo i don’t like to be a giant because I scare people and I am clumsy. If I walk behind people at night they are terrified but I don’t know what to do, because if I cross the steeet I am scaring the other people ! It’s better when I am with someone else and even better my wife or a woman. Then, I become attractive 😊
maybe. just because women shack up with a rich powerful man doesn’t mean he turns them on. and i’m sure plenty of rich fags have their live in rent boys. sex is dangerous in many ways. and most men can’t be porn stars even of they have the equipment. they can’t stay hard in front of a camera. the difference between male and female sexuality is exaggerated. in new zealand women report more partners than men. sex is dangerous in terms of possible chirren, disease, fixation/infatuation/love/etc…
Pumpkin, I remember when I was working in a professional American firm, I was one of the guys responsible for strategic internaltional recruitment.
I had the best score worldwide with no back-out (people not succeeding or leaving the job in 24) and they had been measuring performance for more than 30 years back then. The second person was a girl with both a law degree from Stanford and a bachelor in psychology from NYU. She said she was extremely intuitive and could read anyones mind,
So being incapable of reading peoples mind and social situations like my Baron-Cohen test and yours indicate clearly isn’t a criteria to be good at spotting if someone really wants the job and will do well at it … I remember I did very structured interview . For example to know if someone would value more teamwork or efficiency, I built cases where they would have to choose. Or very open questions that would reveal preferences. Teams would tell me it was amazing that people would behave exactly as I told them they would …
Now my job doesn’t imply that kind of skills being an “authority” job where I get the last word.
Bruno, do you know the phrase “Well, at least I’m pretty?”
In your case, it’s “At least I’m extremely smart.”
Haha
Brunos best asset is his 6’6 height not his IQ. Otherwise hed be a virgin.
Phil, I meant in the context of his professional life. His wife, I gather, knows him for a very long time. Maybe she thinks tall, emotionally naive and high IQ is cute. Also, height/penis size correlation.
Well even in the office height is known to be a very distinct advantage. I’ve never met an investment banker under 5’10.
pretty sure you’ve never met a jew then. schwarzman and bloomberg worked for investment banks at one time and blankfein was ceo of gs for a long time. i’m sure all of them are under 5’10”.
Ok jews excepted since they own the banks.
yeah. basically the “men are from mars and women are from venus” thing is bs. or “what do women want?” or “why do women have sex?” men and women are different and MORE different in much more important ways than their sexuality. it’s like dude. every woman has a penis and a scrotum. have you heard of XY females?
el momento de la verdad:
going back in time…savages don’t act like civilized men and women. going back further in time…lady chimps are easier than a twink in a bathhouse.
but humans are rational…and it used to be the band took care of the chirren past age 4.
bumper sticker: huge financial burden on board.
a lot of this manosphere stuff is just ugly men. not poor men. ugly men. they’re not always the same.