Category Archives: IQ

Despite some popular assertions, a single factor for intelligence, called g, can be measured with IQ tests and does predict success in life

Professor Linda Gottfredson writes: No subject in psychology has provoked more intense public controversy than the study of human intelligence. From its beginning, research on how and why people differ in overall mental ability has fallen prey to political and … Continue reading

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Should Some Knowledge Be Forbidden? The Case of Cognitive Differences Research

Shouldn’t they want more testing? As a progressive and Radical Jew, I want as much peer-reviewed testing as possible to prove once and for all that evolution didn’t lead to any variance in brain development and cognitive ability between races/breeds/tribes … Continue reading

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Why Are Jews So Successful?

IQ accounts for most of it. Comments at Steve Sailer: * You can say that’s a result of them being smarter than the rest of us, but that explanation just doesn’t hold water when you take into account what a … Continue reading

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Genes Account For Success, Though Not Happiness

From NewScientist: When Belsky and his colleagues looked at the genetic profiles of the New Zealanders, they found that those with higher polygenic scores not only had a greater education, but went on to achieve more in other ways. By … Continue reading

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Muhammad Ali’s IQ

From VDARE: A few thoughts apropos of Steve Sailer’s post, which included Muhammad Ali’s IQ, 75 and linked to Phillippe Rushton’s piece, which explained how mystified college professors are when seemingly engaged, prepared, intelligent, garrulous and entertaining black students fail … Continue reading

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