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Category Archives: IQ
Black Vs White Smarts
Comments to Steve Sailer: * …the in-depth research done by Harvard’s admissions department in the 1970s, as summarized in Klitgaard’s “Choosing Elites.” Initially, Harvard figured there were black diamonds in the ghetto rough that they could find. But soon realized … Continue reading
Are Men Smarter Than Women?
Dr. James Thompson writes: “The paradox about sex differences in brain being greater than for intelligence has, to my imperfect recollection, been attempted to be resolved in three main ways. 1) Men are in fact brighter than women, though girls … Continue reading
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The Low-IQ Crim Look
Comments to Steve Sailer: * I also wouldn’t be too surprised if the genes controlling IQ also had some unrelated effects on facial structure (we read about people having an ‘intelligent face’ in old Victorian books all the time, and … Continue reading
Jewish Race Realist – ‘I Defied Nazis, Now I Defy Leftists’
From Wikipedia: Hans Jürgen Eysenck (/ˈaɪzɛŋk/; 4 March 1916 – 4 September 1997) was a psychologist born in Germany, who spent his professional career in Great Britain. He is best remembered for his work on intelligence and personality, though he … Continue reading
The Evolution of One Person’s Views on Racial Differences in Intelligence
By Lawrence Auster February 1995 With the publication of The Bell Curve, we see the fascinating phenomenon of mainstream journalists and intellectuals wrestling, most of them for the first time, with the uncomfortable facts about race differences in intelligence. While … Continue reading
Dysgenics And The Declining Quality Of Student Writing
A college professor writes on FB: “I have now taught at both the university graduate and undergraduate levels for five years. The quality of student writing has never been worse. If I were a university president, I would require every … Continue reading
Whites die sooner than Asians. How many votes has this cost Republicans?
Washington Post: Blacks die sooner than whites. How many votes has this cost Democrats? Research has shown that blacks are not dying in excess because of differences in genetic endowment or health behavior. Instead, health disparities reflect racial and class … Continue reading
Why Are Some People Smart?
From Wired: “You cannot ask a kid with low IQ to just work hard and then become a really talented mathematician,” he says. “It’s impossible.” And yet, Zhao says, that’s what is currently expected in China. He wants to stop … Continue reading
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WP: New brain science shows poor kids have smaller brains than affluent kids
WP: “People who have less ability and marry people with less ability have children who, on balance, on average, have less ability,” he said. Thompson noted that there is a genetic component to intelligence that Noble and Sowell failed to … Continue reading
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Car Crash Rates Equal Average IQ Levels
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