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Category Archives: IQ
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
Is Intelligence Hereditary?
Robert Plomin, a deputy director of the MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Center at King’s College London, responds: Scientists have investigated this question for more than a century, and the answer is clear: the differences between people on intelligence … Continue reading
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For People With An IQ Of 140 Or Higher, There’s An 8:1 Male Advantage
Dr. James Thompson blogs: So, if population measures are the best, then the established ratio of very brightest boys to very brightest girls is 8 to 1 in actuality. This is not a glass ceiling effect, nor any ceiling effect … Continue reading
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IQ Differences By Sex
REPORT: The conventional wisdom about sex differences in IQ is that males and females have the same average IQ. The conventional wisdom also stipulates that males are more variable than females, meaning that there are more mentally deficient and gifted … Continue reading
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Dear White People
John Rivers tweets: * Dear White People. At the peak of Slavery only 1.5% of Whites owned slaves. Stop apologizing. * Dear White People, Thanks for discovering & inventing pretty much all of Science & Technology. * 9 year study: … Continue reading
Smart People Have Fewer Sex Partners
Psychology Today: “Intelligence is negatively associated with sex frequency,” says Rosemary Hopcroft, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. “It’s a bit dismaying.” And people with higher education levels generally have lower numbers of sexual partners. The … Continue reading
When Black Children Were Denied IQ Tests in California
From 2004: SAN JOSE, Calif. – The United States may have come a long way in the fight against institutionalized racism but in California, black children are still being denied access to an important educational tool. Pamela Lewis wanted to … Continue reading
Study Reveals NFL Players with Low Wonderlic (IQ) Scores More Likely to Be Arrested
This is no surprise to anyone acquainted with IQ’s predictive ability. REPORT: In a new NFL draft-related study released Tuesday, it was revealed there may be a correlation between players scoring poorly on the Wonderlic test and running into off-field … Continue reading
NYT: Why Talented Black and Hispanic Students Can Go Undiscovered
Comments to Steve Sailer: * So, IQ testing can boost the numbers of gifted black and Hispanic children through affirmative action. Frankly, this spin is a new low even for the New York Times. * In other words the entire … Continue reading
Intelligent people have ‘unnatural’ preferences and values that are novel in human evolution
REPORT: More intelligent people are significantly more likely to exhibit social values and religious and political preferences that are novel to the human species in evolutionary history. Specifically, liberalism and atheism, and for men (but not women), preference for sexual … Continue reading
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