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Category Archives: IQ
Anatoly Karlin: National Wealth and IQ at the Edge: American Exceptionalism, East Asian Mediocrity
Anatoly Karlin writes: Japan has a 5-7 IQ advantage over, say, Italy, but its GDP per capita (PPP) is similar, while its productivity is significantly lower – even though Japan rates higher on ease of business and perception of corruption … Continue reading
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When The US Military Let In The Below 85 IQ Crowd
Steve Sailer writes: The 1980 hostage rescue fiasco in Iran was during the 1976-1980 period when the military had accidentally (?) misnormed its AFQT score minimums and let in a lot of real dullards. Sen. Sam Nunn kept insisting to … Continue reading
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Average Filipino IQ is 86
National IQ scores. New York Post: Filipino devotees nailed to cross in Crucifixion re-enactment
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Asians And THE BELL CURVE In Fairfax, VA–Diversity Or Meritocracy?
Patrick Buchanan writes: A voracious and eclectic reader, President Nixon instructed me to send him every few weeks 10 articles he would not normally see that were on interesting or important issues. In 1971, I sent him an essay from … Continue reading
It’s Important To Invest In The Coming Latino Majority
The Los Angeles Daily News reports Mar. 31, 2015: While their growth has slowed in recent decades, Latinos will likely be the majority in Los Angeles County by 2020, experts say. And since 2001, more than 60 percent of babies … Continue reading
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The Atlantic: Haunted by the Past: A Criminal Record Shouldn’t Ruin a Career
Why wouldn’t an employer want to know if a potential employee is a criminal? Who’s to say this information is irrelevant? An IQ test is an excellent proxy for likelihood to engage in criminal behavior. Higher IQ people are more … Continue reading
Hate Facts
LINK: The intelligence scores came from work carried out earlier this decade by Richard Lynn, a British psychologist, and Tatu Vanhanen, a Finnish political scientist, who analysed IQ studies from 113 countries, and from subsequent work by Jelte Wicherts, a … Continue reading
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Most Adults Can’t Reason Formally
Dr. Herman T. Epstein writes: Only one-third of adults can reason formally. That means that two-thirds of the citizens in a democracy cannot understand the more complex issues facing them both in life and in elections. Unless ways can be … Continue reading
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Do IQ Differences Matter?
Linda Gottfredson writes: Life is complex, and complexity operates like a headwind that impedes progress more strongly for individuals lower on the IQ continuum. Everyone makes cognitive mistakes, but lower intelligence increases the risk of error. Take, for example, health … Continue reading
For The Discerning Reader
Comments to Steve Sailer: * “Publishing this today would risk prosecution under the hate laws. Unless Johnson (who, like Orwell, has never been much of a fan of the Irish) publishes it to shame Darwin. Then it’s legally okay.” It … Continue reading
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