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Category Archives: IQ
The Smart States
The Overton Window is shifting with more mainstream discussion on the importance of IQ. From today’s Washington Post: Iowa is one of the smartest states in America. This is necessarily hard to figure out, of course, given that “stupid” is … Continue reading
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Hive Mind: How Your Nation’s IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own
From Amazon.com: Over the last few decades, economists and psychologists have quietly documented the many ways in which a person’s IQ matters. But, research suggests that a nation’s IQ matters so much more. As Garett Jones argues in Hive Mind, … Continue reading
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High IQ Communities
The highest IQ society in history was probably the ancient Greeks around the time of Plato (average of 120 is one guess). Many Ashkenazi communities today would average 120. The average IQ of a Modern Orthodox shul is probably close … Continue reading
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The Pacific
Jennifer Senior writes a New York Times book review on Simon Winchester’s latest — Pacific: But what I learned most unexpectedly, to my depressed amazement, is how much the United States of today has in common with Australia … of … Continue reading
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Jewish Boy Graduates College – At Age 11
REPORT: Moshe Kai Cavallin, 11, became the second youngest American to ever graduate college this week, after completing an Associate of Arts degree with full honors to boot. Moshe Kai Cavallin (also known by his Chinese name Kai Hasiao Hu … Continue reading
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The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the Vietnam War
From Amazon.com: McNamara’s Folly: The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the Vietnam War by Hamilton Gregory (Author) In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara were desperate to find additional troops for the Vietnam War, but they feared … Continue reading
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Why can’t we talk about IQ?
Jason Richwine writes for Politico: “IQ is a metric of such dubiousness that almost no serious educational researcher uses it anymore,” the Guardian’s Ana Marie Cox wrote back in May. It was a breathtakingly ignorant statement. Psychologist Jelte Wicherts noted … Continue reading
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What’s the Average Credit Score of a Mass Shooter?
Steve Sailer writes: In a country that has hundreds of millions of guns lying around, it’s hard to stop a dedicated, competent individual with a long time horizon and no fear of death or prison from acquiring guns. But a … Continue reading
Credit Scores Correlate With Relationship Health
Credit score correlates highly with IQ. WP: The one number that’s eerily good at predicting your success in love When people are looking for a significant other, they often try to find someone whose values, education, earnings, hobbies and even … Continue reading
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IQ And Doing Dumb Things
Blog: Once there were 3 classes of birds of a feather: Dumb birds, Smart birds and Genius birds. There was also a genius bird of a different feather hanging around. All summer the genius bird of a different feather went … Continue reading
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