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Category Archives: IQ
Was Adolf Hitler A Genius?
Walther Johann von Löpp writes: For a bunch of amoral foul-ups, the Nazis at Nuremberg were an above average group. Four of them, Schacht, Seyss-Inquart, Göring and Dönitz were in the genius range. In fact, Schacht and Seyss-Inquart possessed IQ’s … Continue reading
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The Correlation Between Looks & Brains
A professor tells me: “Sometimes I make decisions about whether I like students or not immediately based on their appearance. I do it all the time actually. It’s not that I like the more attractive ones more either. I call … Continue reading
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The decay of Western civilization: Double relaxed Darwinian Selection
REPORT: This article briefly describes Lynn’s view on what makes modern populations rise and fall. It then provides a demographic analysis of what happens to modern sub-fertile high-IQ Western populations when Internal Relaxation of Darwinian Selection (IRDS) combines with External … Continue reading
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‘Intelligence can be measured directly from brain scans, without tests of any sort.’
REPORT: Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies typically collapse data from many subjects, but brain functional organization varies between individuals. Here we establish that this individual variability is both robust and reliable, using data from the Human Connectome Project to … Continue reading
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Pinker on the Hunt for IQ Genes
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Steve Pinker has done a great job of slowly and cautiously getting HBD thinking into the mainstream. He needs to watch his every step or he will be Watsoned by the censorship mob. So far … Continue reading
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‘The Bell Curve’ 20 years later: A Q&A with Charles Murray
James Pethokoukis writes for AEI: October marks the 20th anniversary of “The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life,” the extraordinarily influential and controversial book by AEI scholar Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein. Here, Murray answers a few … Continue reading
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America and the Nexus between Free Speech, Minorities and Refugees
Rabbis Abraham Cooper and Yitzhock Adlerstein write: There is no gene for hatred. Youngsters learn it from others—from parents and peers; from sermons and social media. So Americans would do well to heed calls to oppose hateful barbs aimed at … Continue reading
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How can we stop dumb people from driving?
Psychometrician Linda Gottfredson wrote in 2004: “IQ was the best predictor of the major cause of death, motor vehicle accidents. Vehicular death rates doubled and then tripled at successively lower IQ ranges (100–115, 85–100, 80–85; O’Toole, 1990).” Perhaps no drivers … Continue reading
The Panicking Cashier
Comments: * Once a gay Asian cashier at Starbucks once visibly panicked when I paid for a $2 coffee with 8 quarters. * There have been a few times when I have been at a fast food restaurant or supermarket … Continue reading
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Intelligence Genes Discovered by Scientists
Sarah Knapton, Telegraph, December 21, 2015 Genes which make people intelligent have been discovered and scientists believe they could be manipulated to boost brain power. Researchers have believed for some time that intellect is inherited with studies suggesting that up … Continue reading
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