Pumpkin Person rating: 8 out of 10
Homeless (2016) Directed by Clay Riley Hassler
I watched this movie last night on tubi and was utterly blown away. It was so brilliantly simple, realistic and depressing in its portrayal of the dark side of teenaged life that I would compare it to the 2020 masterpiece Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always.
The film is about a homeless teenaged white boy named Josh (spelled Gosh). The film starts with the haunting image of Gosh just looking at a lantern in the blowing wind of a cold urban street. For this is the life of the homeless; you having nothing to do all night but fixate on random objects and appreciate their beauty until you fall asleep or you mind turns to mush; whichever happens first.
Gosh looks like the kind of guy who have might been one of the cool kids if he were in high school, but having sunk to a level of poverty so extreme, he is now the lowest of the low. Despite being a young white man in America, he is looked upon like a crippled old black skinned untouchable in India.
He enters a store and asks the clerk if she got his job application.
“we’re not hiring right now,” she tells him nervously and then looks at her coworker with horrified relief as he finally leaves.
He smells like shit, we overhear them whisper behind his back.
But then as Christmas approaches, the kindness of a single lady in a mall food court leads to Gosh getting a job, a place to stay and maybe even a cute girlfriend.
Can he finally turn his life around?
Available on tubi:
Pumpkin Person 
Pumpkin have you ever participated in drug use? im curious as to how this question has gone off the radar of people but i would be very interested to know your experience or lack thereof with illicit substances!
hinduism isn’t a semitic desert religion…TRUE!
(and btw, the very idea of “hinduism” as one religion is stupid.)
are any the equal of the azan?
they sound OLDER…
DEEPER!
https://www.ibtimes.com/heinrich-himmler-nazi-hindu-214444
the fuhrer was an apotheosis. stalin was just “cult of personality” ala khrushchev.
of course the christians have their chants too.
pipo don’t know how far india has come.
so even in bombay (pc mumbai) there are great places…and horrible places…
it’s like rio.
india’s #1 economic problem is just too many fucking pipo! the one state of uttar has 200m pipo.
boom bust success failure…
but france has always been under-populated…
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why is kate bush listed as a gay icon on wikipedia?
Stranger Things is retarded but still the only thing on TV.
so a song from it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_Up_That_Hill) is one of the most popular songs this summer.
even though it was recorded in 1985.
that’s 37 years ago.
…quoted several verses from the Vedas, including: The one who kills believes that he is killing. The one who has been killed believes that he dies. Both of them are wrong, for one doesn’t die and the other doesn’t kill.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Out_of_Mind_(2014_film)
This movie has a really poor rating on RT.
all the incidents with alcohol ive had have made my parents very suspicious of me and very despised by them. ive done a lot of stupid things but hey i was a youth what can i say! lol.
Pumpkin your hero Oprah would be disappointed in you!
She was the one who made famous that any publicity is good publicity!
I bring you publicity fool! You dont get it from any other source so dont treat me like i did nothing for you!
Your blog would be stalled out if it wasnt for me and speaking on a practical level you need me!
You learned nothing valuable from Oprah just the negative aspects like gossiping being elitist etc!
Why did Richard Gere’s career go into the toilet? Its a bit weird. Kevin Costner had the same trajectory and it was because he was exposing himself to women a lot.
it never went into the toilet. he’s just old. and he’s into buddhism.
but seriously why this?
my brother worked downtown pdx as a clerk at riteaid when he was in school and he said a lot of the “homeless” were just teenagers who wanted beer for urine soaked pennies…lots of pennies.
i’ve seen it my own self outside powell’s, these very young pipo begging…wearing the expensive shoes their parents bought them…they go into a pizzaria and ask, “can i just have some cheese?”
but in fake one dimensional politics pipo say, “see! they wanna be homeless.” and other pipo will say, “see! they’re LGBTQIAlmnop+!”
Pumpkin where did my comments about the homeless people go! they were all true and i feel comfortable sharing them with people!
They didn’t go anywhere. Please calm down.
i am calm and dont call me crazy for saying that east asians lack dynamic spatial ability or ever for anything i ever say because odds are you are the one who is flawed in your reasoning!
https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ761404#:~:text=Dynamic%20spatial%20ability%20is%20one%27s%20ability%20to%20estimate,and%20its%20role%20in%20psychomotor%20%28PM%29%20task%20performance.
here is a link to what dynamic spatial ability is and what it correlates with!
east asians suck at this and are only good at spatial tasks on paper! literally ON FRICKIN PAPER BRO!
they are not some type of elite cognitively gifted group of people they lack practical skills! east asian supremacy is so retarded that a black white or even an east asian child would not believe it looking at the facts and reasonings of practical matters!
East Asians DOMINATE popular video games
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190608005029/en/Nintendo-News-Nintendo-Crowns-Multiple-New-Champions-in-High-Energy-Video-Game-Tournaments
Genetically superior
The 10 greatest video gamers ever; 60% East Asian
https://www.ranker.com/list/best-esports-gamers-in-history/ranker-games
i remember poitier was on terry gross and gross axed him “why haven’t you done any movies recently?” and poitier said, “terry! i’m 100 years old!”
i mean think about what you (actually i) think if you’re in the whitest big city in america, portland, oregon. when you see a dark skinned south asian you assume he’s rich. when you see an african-american you think, “that’s weird. don’t see many of those ’round here.”
theroux deep south: jamie dimon is way worse for black pipo than the grand wizard of the kkk. WAY!
Oprah’s releasing a documentary about him:
East Asians dominate the most mundane games known to man! The games they play are 2-D like if that analogy makes sense!
Madden and FIFA require 3-D visual perception! Hell even Call of Duty etc which I dont okay often have more users of other demographics than East Asians!
Why are there no East Asian athletes in dynamic visual sports?
Only tennis etc which is static etc have a share of East Asians!
Why are there no East Asian athletes in dynamic visual sports?
Because sports requires physical speed. East Asians have mental speed. This was ultimately a physiological tradeoff as we moved up the evolutionary tree.
East Asians have much faster reaction times! All I see are games like StarCraft and League of Legends on that list both of which are notorious for having millions of East Asian users and a largely East Asian comprised playing demographic!
So your points are still mute Pumpkin! Try again.
I could say the same about games whites excel at. They have a largely white demographic.
Pumpkin did you even make an attempt at reading the article i posted? anyways i hope to see all my responses to you uploaded because all of them have credible points in them!
no meandering from the mission which is truth my man!
PP how is “genetic superiority” measured?
To quote Rushton “from an evolutionary perspective, superiority can only mean adaptive value. If it even means this”
How do you measure adaptive value? You’re claim presumes that X is measurable. If I say temperature is measurable, then there is an instrument to measure that. What’s the instrument to measure “genetic superiority?
Adaptive value could be measured by putting people in many different kinds of environments & seeing how well they adapt to a stated goal.
You specifically claimed it was measurable – what’s the specified measured object, the object of measurement and the measurement unit for genetic superiority?
I claimed it’s measurable in the conventional sense, not necessarily by the standards you’re citing.
How does it meet the standards of metrication in the conventional sense? What are the minimum requirements for metrication?
How does it meet the standards of metrication in the conventional sense?
By assigning numbers
What are the minimum requirements for metrication?
Assigning numbers. The nominal scale is the lowest form of measurement and the ratio scale is the highest.
So the standards of metrication in the conventional sense and the minimal requirements of measurement are the same? Are you saying that if we can assign numerals to something we can measure “some thing”? Are numerical values assigned to metrical concepts? OK you have your assigned numbers and your highest and lowest for of measurement scales (let’s say) – how do you then know what to measure? What rules are used for measurement?
Psychometry cannot provide a clearly specified measured object nor can it provide the measurement unit so we should disregard psychometry as measurement proper. By the way, scales aren’t measures and just because we can obtain a numerical value from a scale or questionnaire doesn’t mean that they are “measuring” anything. Psychometrics isn’t a science, it’s an ideology.
So the standards of metrication in the conventional sense and the minimal requirements of measurement are the same? Are you saying that if we can assign numerals to something we can measure “some thing”? Are numerical values assigned to metrical concepts? OK you have your assigned numbers and your highest and lowest for of measurement scales (let’s say) – how do you then know what to measure? What rules are used for measurement?
Psychometry cannot provide a clearly specified measured object
intelligence
nor can it provide the measurement unit
IQ
If psychologists have the specified measured object and it is indeed intelligence, then you must be saying that intelligence is a physical thing, like a property in the brain, and that it is in physical space to therefore be measured. But if intelligence is understood to be cognition and cognition is psychology, it then follows that since there is a distinction between physical and mental substances that the specified measured object for mental traits (psychology) can’t be measured.
X is only measurable iff X is P.
If X is ~P, then X cannot be measured.
X is ~P.
Therwfore X cannot be measured.
Your proclamation that intelligence is the specified measured object speaks to the ignorance in the psychometric literature on the reality of what their tests do and measure.
A measurement unit is a definite magnitude of a quantity. In other words, psychological traits need to be quantifiable in order to be measured. If X is quantitative, then X is measurable. If X is measurable, then X is physical. So for you to say that intelligence is measurable, you need to attempt to argue that psychological traits are reducible to brain states. This is why I’ve been saying for years now that it is inevitable that hereditarianism would be reduced to cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging since hereditarianism is ultimately a physicalist theory of mind, assuming that mind-brain identity is true.
In any case PP, for you to successfully argue for your claim that psychology is measurable and therefore scientific, you need to show that psychology is physical and reduces to physical brain structures (that is, you need an argument that establishes that mind-brain identity is true). If you do that, you then need to explain how, using those structures that supposedly cause mental states, it is then quantifiable by so-called mental tests.
In any case PP, for you to successfully argue for your claim that psychology is measurable and therefore scientific, you need to show that psychology is physical and reduces to physical brain structures (that is, you need an argument that establishes that mind-brain identity is true)
Says who?
It’s an inference. If one claims that X is measurable, then the assumption is that X is in physical space. There needs to be an identity between the two substances, either showing that M is P or M reduces to P. If a form of substance dualism is true, then it is impossible for psychology to be a science and it therefore is impossible for human psychology to be measured. That’s why it is imperative that the hereditarian establishes arguments for identity between the mind and brain, and the only way to do that—in my view—is to attempt to argue for mind-brain identity. Hereditarianism, ever since the 1970s and since the publication of Jung and Haier (2007) has been trending toward a kind of identity between mind and brain, as evidenced by papers of that nature. So, thy is why you must show that psychology is physical and reducible to brain structures.
Though if what I’ve been arguing is true, then physical facts don’t explain mental facts which means that the mental is underdetermined by the physical. Thus, if substance dualism is true, then hereditarianism cannot possibly be true, as it posits that aspects of mind are genetically transmitted. The claims being advanced by the new hereditarians and their form of mind-brain identity is that if we can correlate (that is, if we “know that”) brain states to mental states, then we have successfully reduced—and can attempt to measure, given we have established a physical basis for—the mental. But we can’t know a mental states by merely knowing facts about brain states.
That’s because mental facts don’t reduce to physical facts. And this is shown by, for example, the explanatory knowledge argument (Morch, in “Phenomenal Knowledge Why”. The argument is:
(1) All physical facts are knowable without experience.
(2) Some explanatory facts are not knowable without experience.
(3) Thus, some facts are non-physical.
This is a proof against physicalism about the mind and is one of dozens of arguments that establish the fact that since the mental is irreducible to the physical then I can rightly infer that the mental cannot be an object of scientific study.
The other big thing here is that the Berka/Nash measurement objection has yet to been addressed on what the specified measured object, the object of measurement and the measurement unit for IQ is and ANY posited psychological construct. It’s for this reason that psychology fails and is not scientific.
It’s an inference. If one claims that X is measurable, then the assumption is that X is in physical space.
And that assumption is arbitrary. Oxford merely defines measurement as “the act or the process of finding the size, quantity or degree of something.”
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/measurement#:~:text=measurement-,noun,quantity%20or%20degree%20of%20something
How can “the size, quantity, and degree” of a psychological trait be found if they aren’t physical?
The same way they can be found if they are physical.
Are psychological traits physical or reducible to physical processes? Is psycho-neural identity true? The Oxford definition you quoted seems to posit PHYSICAL quantities. Your claim in this comment seems to imply that either psychological traits are physical or that they reduce to the physical. I don’t see any argument for that claim. All I’ve seen from the usual suspect hereditarians are unstated metaphysical assumptions before they go on with their research program. There is no metaphysical justification for the concepts used.
Are psychological traits physical or reducible to physical processes?
I don’t know because there’s so much about physics I don’t understand like quantum mechanics, parallel universes, Schrodinger’s cat, and other phenomenon that appear to defy physical laws, so how do we even decide what is physical and what is not? Is it metaphysical until we understand it and then it becomes physical? The mind feels like it’s our true self, our soul, while the body is just the container, which is why mental disability and mental illness are so stigmatized; they’re seen as attacks on the person’s very being, not just his physiology. But at the same time, evolutionary psychology tells us there must be a biological explanation for everything, so I’m just going to stay in my lane studying IQ until that explanation is found, assuming it ever is in my lifetime.
By the way, your recent discussions on weight and BMI are telling—using something that we know how to measure and using a word that refers to a measurable property, like weight and temperature. Jensen and Eysenck, since the 1970s, have claimed that if the measurement of temperature is scientific, then so too is the measurement of intelligence. So they are, without knowing it, presuming a lawful relationship between intelligence and some thing, just like there is a lawful relationship between the level of mercury in a thermometer and the temperature in a room. Good luck proving that the mental is lawlike when mental facts don’t reduce to physical facts. Thus, hereditarianism has been at a standstill since the 1970s and they haven’t even realized it yet.
What’s the specified measured object, the object of measurement and the measurement unit for “genetic superiority”?
How do you know which genes are “superior”?
genes work together.
like hands and feet ratio is never too wide.
glucose efficiency can be many genes but in small groups also.
gene activation
after/during
fetus growth
It’s an inference. If one claims that X is measurable, then the assumption is that X is in physical space. There needs to be an identity between the two substances, either showing that M is P or M reduces to P. If a form of substance dualism is true, then it is impossible for psychology to be a science and it therefore is impossible for human psychology to be measured. That’s why it is imperative that the hereditarian establishes arguments for identity between the mind and brain, and the only way to do that—in my view—is to attempt to argue for mind-brain identity. Hereditarianism, ever since the 1970s and since the publication of Jung and Haier (2007) has been trending toward a kind of identity between mind and brain, as evidenced by papers of that nature. So, thy is why you must show that psychology is physical and reducible to brain structures.
Though if what I’ve been arguing is true, then physical facts don’t explain mental facts which means that the mental is underdetermined by the physical. Thus, if substance dualism is true, then hereditarianism cannot possibly be true, as it posits that aspects of mind are genetically transmitted. The claims being advanced by the new hereditarians and their form of mind-brain identity is that if we can correlate (that is, if we “know that”) brain states to mental states, then we have successfully reduced—and can attempt to measure, given we have established a physical basis for—the mental. But we can’t know a mental states by merely knowing facts about brain states.
That’s because mental facts don’t reduce to physical facts. And this is shown by, for example, the explanatory knowledge argument (Morch, in “Phenomenal Knowledge Why”. The argument is:
(1) All physical facts are knowable without experience.
(2) Some explanatory facts are not knowable without experience.
(3) Thus, some facts are non-physical.
This is a proof against physicalism about the mind and is one of dozens of arguments that establish the fact that since the mental is irreducible to the physical then I can rightly infer that the mental cannot be an object of scientific study.
The other big thing here is that the Berka/Nash measurement objection has yet to been addressed on what the specified measured object, the object of measurement and the measurement unit for IQ is and ANY posited psychological construct. It’s for this reason that psychology fails and is not scientific.
You look at Tom Cruise who has had a 40 year career at the top level of Hollywood despite all the weird PR disasters (i.e. Scientology and jumping up and down on Oprah).
Then you look at Richard Gere who started out on the A list in the 80s/90s and sank totally into obscurity.
There are rumours that a lot of the top [redacted by pp, 2022-08-06] in Hollywood are gay and it is a requirement that some actors do sexual favours for them. Maybe Gere refused and Tom didn’t? I can imagine Gere would have integrity.
gere isn’t a good actor. and he was never a-list the way cruise was. look at his box office when he was on the “a-list”.
what happened to burt reynolds is a better question. he really was a-list and then did TV.
i remember my first real terrible incident with alcohol happening when i gave a homeless person fifteen bucks to buy me a fifth of Smirnoff vodka.
it was the only money i had even though i had written college essays for a friend’s mother who promised to return the favor by giving me at least fifty bucks (i was a senior in high school and she was pursuing a nursing degree because she was from Iran) but that never happened.
i did not devour any food that day but when i arrived at the kickback i started drinking from my own bottle. by the time the other kickbackers knew it i had drank the whole bottle and was finishing a second one!
this gave me extreme alcohol poisoning. i ended up in the hospital etc.
not the last time i would have alcohol poisoning i achieved in befriending a homeless New Yorker in NYC during New Year’s Eve concurrently my birthday! i decided to drink a half bottle of Popov a Four Loko and multiple White Claws which i shared with the homeless dude. also smoked a little bit of pot with that mix but absurdly i had already had Abilify Vistaril and Klonopin in my system from medication i took daily then!
in the middle of all these antics i managed to punch a girl in the eye socket walking with her family in Times Square in front of a bunch of cops who did nothing (lmao) end up back in the hotel lobby i was staying at and throwing up all over the floor being handcuffed by NYPD whom i disparaged and repeatedly cursed terrible terrible curse words at and then ended up in the hospital. my family and i had to leave the next day.
oh and this was to start 2020 off so right before COVID. true to say that alcohol really is the Devil’s Drink!
yes. LOADED brings up an interesting phenomenon.
there are actually two evolutionary reasons for alcoholism.
1. your ancestors didn’t drink.
it is a federal crime to sell spirits on a reservation in the US. my ATF dutch uncle told me.
2. your ancestors drank…a lot…and thus it takes a lot more for you to feel it or you develop a much higher degree of tolerance.
the first pipo to consume spirits were the irish…for example. it had been discovered by the muslims, who didn’t drink, the christian irish drank.
3. two may drink the same for their respective peak BAC but it may affect the personality of one by making him talkative but chill and the other by making him violent.
in australia the whites drink MORE than the abos, but the abos go to jail for behavior the booze seems to trigger. paul theroux claimed this in his happy isles.
btw, the reason why peepee has labeled scott adams “autistic” is because scott adams is short and a lady-boner shrinker.
UN-like men, women ignore all non-sexy men.
men will listen to an ugly woman.
women are such whores!
neal cassady was right about that.
peepee needs to do a hike in the PNW…
she will see ishvara.
But there are other examples of A list actors fading into obscurity too. Russell Crowe has been very subdued for the last 10 years.
Colin Farrell had been quiet and doing lots of independent movies before he had that role in the new Batman.
^^^dorothy^^^
yes i used to hang out with homeless people. this is when my life started deteriorating. first it happened in my young adolescence in California probably beginning at the age of 19!
then it transferred to me hanging with the homeless at 23 all the way to 25 when i was in Boston! i am 26 now and hopefully will avoid hanging with homeless people now.
their biggest concern was people filming them! they usually gathered in groups and would drink together in the town i lived in and have orgy-like debauchery in the areas that were less populated but still had people walking around! like the town center for pete’s sake!
i was real up-close-and-personal with them and they would smoke crack in front of me. i invited a few into my apartment building and such which got my parents and i kicked out haha. i would hang out with them because they provide alcohol and marijuana to me sometimes free sometimes with an extreme upcharge but i was so desperate to do substances i did not care! (never did crack heroin meth etc. in my life though!)
i am now a college graduate and have learned my lesson…hopefully. i will only ask people with money for drugs or booze lol.
the ideal regarding drugs is one and done on the addictive hard stuff just so you know what it’s like.
i’m way too autistic to have done any illegal drug.
and i can’t handle mj at all.
pretty woman did better box office than top gun inflation adjusted.
but…
gere not as good an actor, not as into being a celebrity, typecast as romantic lead in chick-flicks…
gere is plenty rich. and he’s mayflower. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower_Society
Pumpkin why do you post comments so erratically? i think its because you try to discredit me by posting my comments much later which i dont get but okay….
what have to say is much more important than what you have to say if im being honest. i dont mean this offensively but look at your audience and look at what they are reading!
none of the commenters make any sense (neither do at times but whatever im a reactive individual not an active one) and you profit off of my words more than anyone i know because to be honest im nowhere near as benevolent to other people as i am to you!
i write things on your blog that attract a lot of attention whereas none of the commenters including you really do! yes at the beginning you were making really good strides with your work but now its just obsolete and resolved and there is no way for you to find a niche in the science world without people like me behind you!
oh and NYPD never charged me with anything despite my very very public intoxication and my harassment of the police while trying to detain me.
that must be a victory for me for sure!
My record in Madden 23 is currently 27-20. I am ranked ~3500 in the top 100000 players! i believe there must be 500000 players who have played online thus far at least (the game was released only a few weeks ago).
this would mean i am pretty good! this is extraordinarily good for someone who doesnt fit the archetype of the high T male who plays Madden and has good dynamic spatial ability (ie blacks and whites who are high T with good dynamic spatial ability).
FIFA is a little more tricky to gauge. yes i am good and have 3 stars but my wins come at a heavy price: i only have 52 wins with just over 300 games played! but the games are close and i make the opposition play extremely competitively no matter whom they are!
this is extraordinarily good for someone who doesnt fit the archetype of the high T male who plays Madden and has good dynamic spatial ability (ie blacks and whites who are high T with good dynamic spatial ability).
Are you crazy? Spatial ability evolved in the ice age. Nerdy whites and East Asians are the ones who are good at it.
your point makes no sense! go check the people who are good at shooters and sports video games firstly!
secondly there is a subset of spatial ability that is not measured by your much beloved block design subtest or whatever called dynamic spatial ability!
this is what makes athletes good at what they do! if you were actually correct which you are not then it would only make sense that nerdy whites and east asians would do well in sports and that is the farthest thing from the truth!
yeah there are spatial abilities east asians are good at but none of them have to do with sports or the specific video games ive mentioned.
no east asian i know personally or of (meaning ive played against) has been any good at FIFA or Madden! they suck!
LOADED, what you are referring to might be executive functioning.
Are you saying executive functioning is higher in blacks and whites than East Asians? Hmm possibly!
But what im referring to is DYNAMIC spatial ability! In the article I linked Pumpkin it coherently states that it is the ability to gauge moving targets and assess objects in motion!
This is like how blacks and whites are better at spatial direction and orientation than East Asians as well!
This is like how blacks and whites are better at spatial direction and orientation than East Asians as well!
FALSE!
I don’t think east Asians are worse at direction or orientation. Is there a psychological test for this that could convince otherwise?
It seems loaded is correct.
https://uwaterloo.ca/news/media/physical-athletes-visual-skills-prove-sharper-action-video
1) visual acuity is a sensory ability not a cognitive one like spatial ability
2) The sample was pre-screened & thus not representative: “All participants were matched based on their level of static visual acuity”
how exactly are asians more adaptive Pumpkin? you are the one making up crap!
show me some data that proves me otherwise or you should just stfu like the rest of us fool!
1) Regardless of whether there is a coherent conceptual difference, Loaded is, in fact, talking about a sensory ability, not a cognitive ability. I believe you may have jumped the gun.
2) Static visual acuity is simply how good your eyesight is. It’s usually measured by the Snellen charts you see at an optometrist’s office. It’s not really going to affect the outcome of the results. Last time I checked (a long time ago), East Asians have higher rates of myopia which is consistent with the fact that most great physical athletes are white or black.
If that’s what Loaded mean then fine
Actually Melo, dynamic spatial ability is arguably a cognitive ability. There’s a zone of ambiguity making it impossible to categorically classify all abilities as cognitive, sensory or physical, but here’s a study that seems to treat it as cognition (and published in the journal intelligence)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/016028969390012T
pp are E Asians good at madden
Pokemon is a good game to adapt to.
I have myopia as the east Asians pokemon do.
@Erichthonius and LOADED
Interesting. Is there research on correlations between visual acuity (both static and dynamic) and subtests from WAIS-IV or any other commonly used IQ test?
no Anime to answer your question East Asians suck at Madden.
“There’s a zone of ambiguity making it impossible to categorically classify all abilities as cognitive, sensory or physical”
Oh, absolutely. This is why I implied that there might not be a conceptually coherent difference. Nonetheless, I believe Loaded meant it as a sensory one, or at least distinguished it from what we normally consider when we think of spatial IQ. Hence, why he stated:
In fact, the study you linked suggests that dynamic visual acuity is not an ability that would load significantly on a g factor.
But you are correct. It’s possible to consider this ability as a cognitive one.
Ironically enough, My father is the typical east Asian (in appearance), broad head, chink eyes, and short. Except he has pretty dark skin. But where he is not typical is that he’s pretty athletic. He played football in high school and is amazing at basketball. His black friends would constantly say that he may be 5’5″, but he plays like he’s 6’4″. He also happens to be really good at madden and COD.
@Erichthonius
Do you think that that dynamic ability is mostly connected to the occipital lobe or do you think it is mostly controlled by the cerebellum? Or maybe something else?
MeLo youre Filipino correct? Filipinos are the only non whites or non blacks good at Madden! Probably because of high T!
Ive seen them be good at all video games and probably linked to T!
Flamin…I think T (testosterone) is more important than individual parts of the brain for developing the skills I mentioned!
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3827365/
Prenatal T is associated with video game addiction! also Latinos are good at Madden as well ngl.
Testosterone masculinizes the brain (obvious to some less obvious to others) and is very important for how good someone can be at video games was my point as well Flamin!
Yeah it masculinizes the brain, but which parts does it effect related to this kind of action?
I haven’t played Madden in years. The only sports game I play now is MLB The Show 21 and if you call it a sport, WWE 2K. I’m mostly A JRPG guy. Currently playing Xenoblade 3 and it’s everything I thought it’d be and more.
Loaded, the 2d4d-androgen relationship has been called into question, by a few authors, eg below. I’ll get more refs later if you want.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0003216
yes 2d:4d is unreliable but one of the better proxies for prenatal T we have unfortunately.
Pumpkin admit it most of your audience probably only check in to your posts to see the comments i write! they have no interest in what you or others have to say for the most part unless they are academically inclined.
dont censor people who give you your best content. that is not ethical nor does it give you any credibility in the long run!
If your content was good I wouldn’t censor it. Nobody wants you.
This is a matter of static visual perception that is dominated by East Asians but dynamic spatial skills require looking at the moving object from all possible perspectives!
This is the key differentiator between different forms of spatial ability!
There’s no evidence that whites or blacks are AS GOOD, let alone BETTER than East Asians at ANY spatial ability. Please top making crap up or you’ll be banned from this blog so fast your head will spin.
thinking about kid in my school who skipped a grade and two grades in math class, so he was in the highest junior math class at age 14.
what did he do?
just went to a local college. got a degree in computer crap. but then became a commercial pilot. his gig was LAX to LAS iirc. maybe he was a gambler.
commercial pilot is very high end blue collar, but they usually don’t make much at all until decades on the job and a good union.
what you fap to is sometimes NOT what you want IRL.
but even if it’s just physical…women age 21 still look not fully grown…
AND…
are young women really into old dudes? or are they just faking it?
either way it’s gross.
the very idea of “i’ll put it in you just because the way you look is satanic.”
it makes me wanna throw up.
the roman church has been firm! one and done with marriage.
this is straight out of the NT red letters.
jesus “radicalized” two of the ten commandments.
1. thou shalt not kill became…thou shalt not even be angry.
2. thou shalt not commit adultery became…you can get divorced, you can do that, but you can’t remarry and thou shalt not even “lust in your heart” ala jimmy carter.
i mean the sexual act cut off, free floating from the act of procreation is SATANIC.
paul vi was RIGHT about that.
marriage = fucking = children
LOADED’s bs is especially smelly because…
sufism = vedanta
does it take a christendom-ian to see this?
What do you mean bs? Youre the only on this blog LARPing like a motherfucker!
Everything I say is truthful! You on the other hand make up and have made up everything I can think of you writing! You are not autistic youre a schizophrenic worse than Pill you can tell by your erratic writings!
Ive never believed a single thing you wrote and everything you say sounds preposterous! You are just making stuff up to virtue signal your stupid and inane values because….mental illness!
in the end the only difference between personalities like pill and peepee and me is…
is the phrase “ultimate reality” meaningless? and if not, what does it mean?
let’s not excommunicate one another because orientation.
i mean it’s possible that pill will experience samadhi and moksha while being sodomized in a gay steam room.
but is it likely?
One hundred.
Thanx for the tip! I will look for it.