You really don’t want to fly Air Asia (a low-cost Malaysian airline) or Malaysia Air or Egypt Air or Iran Air or Air Zimbabwe. Instead, fly a white or a North-East Asian airline.
It’s not a coincidence that Malaysia keeps having airline disasters and then can’t find planes. Malays tend to be incompetent at first world tasks.
As Jared Taylor wrote in 2008: “Malaysia is about 60 percent Malay, 25 percent Chinese, and 8 percent Indian. According to Prof. Richard Lynn, who has done extensive work on population differences in intelligence, the average IQs of both the Malays and Indians are about 87 while that of the Chinese is 103 to 106. The gap between the Chinese and the two other races is therefore as wide as that between American blacks and whites, with the inevitable result: Chinese dominate the economy. Like the United States and every other multi-racial country, Malaysia faces the hard reality of racial differences.”
From comments to Steve Sailer: “African accident rates are 7-fold (i.e. 700%) that of Aeroflot, which itself was considered dangerous by western standards.”
Top of the ranking from AirlineRatings.com of the safest carriers in 2013 is the Australian airline Qantas.
Awarding it a full seven stars, the website cites the airline’s fatality-free flying record from the beginning of the jet era in the early 1950s.
Other airlines sharing the seven-star rating and winning a place among the top 10 safest airlines are, in alphabetical order, Air New Zealand, All Nippon Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways, Emirates, Etihad Airways, Eva Air, Royal Jordanian, Singapore Airlines and Virgin Atlantic.…Probably not among them, however, is Scat, the unfortunately named Kazakh airline that shares a one-star ranking with the Afghan Kam Air and the Surinamese Bluewing Airlines.
All are on a list of airlines banned from flying within the EU [from low-IQ countries such as Ghana, Suriname, Afghanistan, Angola, Benin, Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Gabon, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz, Liberia, Libya, Mozambique, Nepal, Philippines, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Zambia]…Of the carriers awarded two stars, three are from Indonesia and one each from Afghanistan, the United Arab Emirates, Eritrea and Myanmar.
The United States doesn’t blacklist individual airlines, but it does make public a list of countries, including Indonesia [Bangladesh, Barbados, Curacao, Ghana, India, Nicaragua, Siint Marten, Uruguay] that it judges to fall short of international aviation safety standards.
Dr. Linda Gottfredson wrote about the correlation of IQ with fatal accidents:
Cohort studies reveal robust relations between childhood IQ and adult mortality (Batty & Deary, 2004). For example, three large cohort studies in the Scottish Mental Surveys found that higher IQ at age 11 forecast lower all-cause mortality, fewer deaths from stomach and lung cancer, less late-onset dementia, and more functional independence among persons followed up at ages 55 to 70 (Deary et al. 2004). A significant association between IQ and premature death remained after controlling for confounding variables. A large cohort study of Australian male Army veterans followed to about age 40 found that higher IQ at induction (~age 18) predicted lower all-cause mortality, and fewer deaths from suicide and motor vehicle accidents (the two major causes of death), even after controlling for other personal factors, including prior health (O’Toole & Stankov, 1992). Both sets of analyses reported that each additional IQ point (e.g., 97 versus 96) was associated with about a 1 per cent reduction in relative risk of death, meaning that a one standard deviation difference in IQ (15 points) was associated with about a 15 per cent difference in mortality…
Health scientists often treat IQ as just a marker for socioeconomic status (SES), but the opposite is a safer bet. That is, social class may predict health differences within a population mostly because it provides a weak but valid signal for the cognitive capabilities that allow people to prevent and effectively manage illness and injury. Possessing material resources is not enough; they mean little if not exploited wisely….
In an important sense, each of us is our own primary health care provider. Health self-care is a life-long job, and it is becoming ever more complex as health information proliferates and treatments become more complicated. Arvey’s (1986) job analysis, when applied to the job of health self-care, warns that it will increasingly require us to “learn and recall job [health]-related information,” “learn new procedures [treatments] quickly,” “deal with unexpected situations [health emergencies],” “identify problem situations [symptoms of disease] quickly,” and “reason and make judgments [in the daily management of a chronic illness].”
The mind’s eye is especially important in motivating adherence to treatment when deadly diseases such as hypertension have no outward symptoms or, as with diabetes, lax self-care (blood sugar frequently too high) causes no immediate, obvious harm, but the internal
damage builds inexorably toward disability and death…Only natural disasters seem to affect all ages and sexes about equally.
The very young and very old die disproportionately from falls, aspiration (choking), burns, exposure, neglect, and being struck by vehicles. Relative to other age groups, they are cognitively weak, physically vulnerable, and dependent on caretakers, so they have less capacity for escape and recovery from harm. Young males are the major accident victims of drowning, lightning, weapons, and vehicles of many types (motorcycles, bicycles, automobiles). Many such deaths involve alcohol and reckless behavior, and may result from the testosterone-driven displays of masculinity that surge at this age. Adult males are the group most subject to injuries involving production-related technology and activity, about half such deaths occurring at work and half at home: vapor poisoning, piercing, crushing, electrocution, explosions, falling objects, and machinery. Not surprisingly, male provisioners die disproportionately from the hazards associated with their provisioning activities.
Steve Sailer writes: “Christopher Eppig is back, this time in Scientific American, with his study showing a high correlation between average national IQs around the world and infectious disease burden. I would hardly be surprised if this were partly true (for example, in some Third World regions, various public health measures undertaken in the U.S. in the 20th Century, like hookworm eradication and iodine and iron staple supplementation, remain low-hanging fruits).”
