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Category Archives: IQ
At Our Wits’ End: Why We’re Becoming Less Intelligent and What it Means for the Future
Here are some excerpts from this new book: …intelligence is a vital predictor of life outcomes, correlating with school results at 0.7, university performance at 0.5, and postgraduate performance at 0.4. It correlates with salary at 0.3 and is an … Continue reading
How to Judge People by What They Look Like
Edward emails: “I’ve done a book called “How to Judge People By What They Look Like’ which brings together the mass of evidence for the accuracy of physiognomy which mostly passed under the radar for fear of offending PC. My … Continue reading
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Loses It
Racial nostalgia is one hell of a drug https://t.co/7tmxYTie5v — Kevin Michael Grace🏴🇮🇪⚜🇳🇴 (@KMGVictoria) January 11, 2019 IQ is far from the only issue when it comes to immigration and cultural compatibility. Many Chinese, for instance, have a high IQ, … Continue reading
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Megan McCardle in WP: Who should decide what topics are off-limits?
Steve Sailer writes: McArdle: You Should be Allowed to Ask if It’s OK to Ask if Race Influences IQ, But Not to Ask if Race Influences IQ …Okay, but should arguments based on the assumption that there cannot be empirical … Continue reading
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How Stifling Debate Around Race, Genes and IQ Can Do Harm
Noah Carl writes in Evolutionary Psychological Science: “It is often asserted that, when it comes to taboo topics like race, genes and IQ, scholars should be held to higher evidentiary standards or even censored entirely because of the harm that … Continue reading
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Quillette: The Dangers of Ignoring Cognitive Inequality
Wael Taji writes: “The connection between intelligence and behavioral problems, such as Conduct Disorder (CD) or Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD), was well-known around the time of the Port Arthur Massacre. A review by biostatistician and UCSD professor Sonia Jain cites … Continue reading
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What is it like to have an IQ of 130?
From Quora: I test in the 130 range. People in this range are approximately in the 95% percentile, or 1 out of 20. That is, 19 out of 20 random people you interact with will have a lower IQ. One … Continue reading
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Why do Jews have more wealth than Christians?
* Book: Wealth in America * Higher IQ predicts higher performance. * Linda Gottfredson on IQ and achievement. Audacious Epigone: “A paper by Helmuth Nyborg tracking white adolescents by religious denominational membership, IQ, and income by way of the NLSY, … Continue reading
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Where will Jews get their future leaders, future earners, future scientists and future Talmudic sages if this horrifying trend continues?
I don’t doubt many blacks find Jewish life exhausting. Many white converts do as well. Many white born Jews do as well, including FFBs (frum from birth aka Orthodox for life). The average Ashkenazi IQ is around 110, so unless … Continue reading
Higher IQ Predicts Higher Achievement Even Among Top 1%, Justin Trudeau Groping Scandal
MP3 MP3. 1m1s The use of race as a proxy for IQ, sterilizing the low IQ is better than being racist, everyone gets a fair chance to propagate 2m3s Luke wants to empower police to give the reverse five digit … Continue reading