Or maybe it's better to point out blatant dishonesty than to run everything through a "Who-Whom" calculus?

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Ron Unz is to be commended for narrowing down the deep historical roots of The 6 Million
 

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As I said in my review, "Why the movie isn't entitled 'Crazy Rich Chinese' is never explained."

And tan Asians make up another large part of Asia. Assad, for example, isn't very brown.

Asia is really big.

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Maybe Professor Nguyen hired an agent recently and the agent recommended it?

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Sailer is simply the Ultimus Americanum. A relict of a bygone Californian golden age of genteel grace and good neighborliness. Sailer's affability and lack of contrariness means even those who disagree with him can't find fault with him and he never comes off as irritable or angry in his writing. He is the Mr. Rogers of American conservatism and his ideas of "citizenship/stewardship" are the bedrock of post-war American mainstream ideology (which has failed) that only seem strange today because the 21st century is so pozzed. If this were still the 60's, Sailer would probably be regarded by most as practically a liberal.

Karlin is simply a product, like most of us, of the post Cold War era. An already decadent age where trolling and memes substitute for reasoned discourse and the Elloi host on twitter dictates the caliber of discourse and behavior. I think my manner of thinking is probably 90% similar with Karlin's and I recognize that he sometimes likes to get snarky, which I really enjoy because I mostly agree with him, but I think might really enrage those he disagrees with. I think Karlin is also much more of a radical because his rationality is untempered compared to Sailer. While Sailer notices, his solutions are limited by his niceness and I doubt he nor his distractors believe he is willing to get truly dirty in political fights. Karlin, like you yourself, and me for that matter, see a problem and advocate the most immediate, effective, and expedient solutions. Whether it be White Sharia, Jew expulsion, or gulags for Muslims, or sending all the Manchus and Mongols to human abattoirs to be rendered into protein pellets for fish farms.

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France might win but everybody knows that, this year of all years, it was not really a prize worth winning, Well I hope the winner enjoys winning, but, sad to say, this was the year when it was not a prize worth winning. Think about it.

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Indeed, the energy industry’s recent unexpected leaps forward in energy extraction technology, such as fracking, have largely bailed out the American economy.

 

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"NYT had a few Razib op-eds and was going to hire him as a 2nd tier columnist who gets to write about once a month, until guilt by association with deplorables got him fired."

Razib is Literally Adolf Hitler by The New York Times standards. RAZIB YOU NAZI GO HOME! NO NAZI NO FASCIST USA RAZIB YOU ARE A MEMBER OF THE KKK!

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You are incorrect and a racist clown.. Wahabbi's like the American allies in Saudi Arabia are zealous followers of female genital mutilation. The Kurds are much more western civilized then the head choppers in Saudi Arabia.

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What was Ukraine to do, sit idly bye and condone this type of aggressive behavior?
 

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Read the review. Third child at 41.
The worst thing about this site is the 90 year old male virgins endlessly yapping that women should get married and have 3 kids by the time they are 25.

If you want that to happen these things are necessary.

1 An economy where young people find family wage jobs at 20.

2. Housing costs commensurate with the average workers wage.

3. Men eager to marry between 20 and 22.

And you are the same 90 year old male virgins who endlessly denounce the black and Hispanic 15 to 25 year old women who have several kids at a young age.

Aren’t they doing exactly what you want, having babies at a very young age?

And how many children do you have and how old where you and your wife when they were born.? Your post shows such complete ignorance of economics and employment trends of the last 60 years that I seriously doubt you have children or have been married.

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"Durrr, homos are all pedos... By the way, get off my lawn, you no good whippersnappers!!!! Now where did I put my Metamucil..???"

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He is a publicist and this is activism aimed at a Russian audience
 

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There’s also not much need to suppress pro-Russian opinions when such opinions are more fringe than alien abductions
 

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Lyndon Johnson’s maternal ancestors, the Huffmans, apparently migrated from Germany sometime in the mid-eighteenth century.

Congressman Johnson used legal and sometimes illegal methods to smuggle "hundreds of Jews into Texas, using Galveston as the entry port"

Johnson raised a very “substantial sum for arms for Jewish underground fighters in Palestine"

While serving in the Senate, Johnson blocked the Eisenhower administration’s attempts to apply sanctions against Israel following the 1956 Sinai Campaign

Johnson’s closest advisers were several strong pro-Israel advocates, including Benjamin Cohen and Abe Fortas

 

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You got him pegged, he's actually a Jew pretending to be a Russophilic German who comments on a sub blog read by about 1000 people at the behest of the Mossad as part of a larger Psy Ops operation. But you can't fool everybody and obviously he didn't get past you.

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The Fortune article doesn't even try to answer the question of its title, since the only explanation provided, that Rubashkin's 27 year sentence was somehow excessive compared to Jeff Skilling's 24 years and Bernie Ebber's 25 years, is trivial on its face. If Fortune wants to argue that Skilling apparently was released in 2017 after serving 11 years, that's a different matter, though of course that difference, this one in Rubashkin's favor , is 27%, versus the original 'excess' sentence of 13% against Rubashkin. It's also worth noting that Ebbers is still in jail after serving 11 years and cannot be released, barring some similar pardon, for another ten years.

Looking for a real explanation, one I might normally be partial to would involve some kind of Rubashkin-Kushner connection or sympathy, but I actually think something different is happening: Rubashkin is presumably unlikely to re-offend on illegal immigration, so his release is a low-cost bone for Trump to throw his enemies, considering how he's slaughtering - heh - them in almost every goal they have for importing a new people. Art of the deal.

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But I thought "illegal immigrants" were bad. The vast majority of economists disagree with your view of immigration.

Name me one bad thing an "illegal immigrant" has done to you.

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Translation:

It's all about the JOOOS!!! The Evil, Genocidal JOOOOS!!!

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More Anglo-Saxon whining from Derbyshire. Why don't you stick to things that you are good at like getting fired?

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The Korean left is certainly more nationalistic, but I wouldn't say the right is "more cucked" so much as "not insane."

It is certainly possible to take nationalism to the point of insanity, like the WWII Japanese military or their German allies. Seeking, at the minimum, to aid the depraved, communist Kim regime in retaining power in North Korea makes Hideki Tojo look like he was taking all his lithium pills.

There are few ideologies, indignities or foreign peoples I (or any rational person) would not side with in preference to rule by North Korea, even were they my "ethnic and racial kin." That would in fact steel my opposition further, as there'd be no way to "side with" my enslaved co-ethnics other than against their ethnic-traitor enslavers.

And as far as indignities go, hosting (friendly) US military bases is pretty small potatoes; they actually make for pretty good neighbors, as Filipinos discovered after getting what they wished for in Subic Bay. Still, I can understand the rage induced by female fraternizing with other, more-masculinized races. But there's no point in being a brainier race if you can't act rationally.

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Miss Amy Chua-lite
 

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There will of course be people who say, in regard to the Uighurs: “Serve the buggers right. That’s the way to deal with Islam! They only understand force.”

I’m not of that school myself. As I’ve explained numerous times, I have no problem with Islam in its own countries; I just think it’s insane to import great masses of Muslims into non-Muslim nations.
 

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The American Establishment has been doing the same for decades -- similar to the petrodollar arrangement, China trade deals which helped gut American manufacturing were exchanged for the Chinese agreeing to buy US government debt with their dollar-denominated trade surpluses -- one ultimate result of this policy is the Opioid Epidemic.

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Another more germane Daily Beast article comes to mind: "The Mossad Playbook for Turning Jews Worldwide Into Israeli Agents".

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"You’re saying south and east Mediterranean countries isn’t??"

Somewhat/more or less, I said (see chart for comparisons): (to give a few examples from each region) at about the same range the Mediterranean (Greece at 89 , Italy 89, Malta 91, Spain 92—though there may be reasons to doubt the low scores for Italy and Greece which may be a little underestimated, as may a few of the others; e.g. the very low scores of Guatemala and Nicaragua are especially questionable), some Balkan—though they vary (Serbia 92, Slovakia 87, Romania 82, Hungary 96, Bosnia 95) and some South East Asian countries—though higher than some others (Thailand 96, Vietnam at about 94 according to the old data, Malaysia at 84, Cambodia 84, the Philippines 83, Laos 82, Indonesia 80) and higher than most of the Middle Eastern (Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Jordan 79, Turkey 87, Palestine 75, Israel 90, Kuwait 89, Saudi Arabia 79) Central American/North S. American countries (Mexico 88, Costa Rica 87, Ecuador 73, Colombia 86, Guatemala 58, Nicaragua 54), and somewhat higher than the mixed-race Spanish Caribbean (Puerto Rico 72—though that seems suspiciously low for Puerto Rico—, Dominican republic at 86, Cuba at 83).

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3c4TxciNeJZWUx5bzBWZ1BuMUk/view

"And colored/mixed race south Africans score much higher than pure blood blacks in South Africa."

True (as far as I know, though I'm not certain of the quality of that data), but coloreds were historically favored relative to blacks (by the preceding regime—and I believe the studies I mentioned were conducted soon/not long after the end of apartheid), and tended to be wealthier and enjoy (and be generally permitted) more education and higher living standards, so its not clear how much of the difference is environmental and related to factors such as those.


"Selected populations??"

I doubt they're really selected. The black populations of both descend from slaves. The Barbadian samples were also even taken from people who had suffered from marasmus and kwashiorkor (or had it when they were children—the Barbadian samples were of course of adults, which have been shown to lower IQ significantly (any selection in the samples if any, would likely be significantly mitigated by that—selection could possibly even be negative as in meaning those in atypically/exceptionally afflicted by disease, though I don't know)

So it seems maybe it’s even possible that healthy Barbadian controls could score a somewhat higher (though I'm uncertain).

“Long-term effects of early kwashiorkor compared with marasmus. II. Intellectual performance.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3119812

“Relation of Kwashiorkor in Early Childhood and Intelligence at School Age”
https://www.nature.com/pr/journal/v5/n11/pdf/pr1971371a.pdf?origin=ppub




"Bahamas e Barbados are two little nations with few inhabitants, seems very good governments,
members of Commonwealth:..."

Yes, those factors likely do help: I would think (and I think would agree with you) that things like good government, widespread education (which is still much rarer in some other Caribbean Islands), relatively high living standards, and a relatively lower rate of tropical diseases (though they still have a moderate rate of a few of those diseases by first world standards), contributes to the better performances in those countries (and where the conditions are also significantly better than in some other—but likely not all—Caribbean and South and Central American countries (and some Middle Eastern). Also, relatively prosperous (for South America) Argentina and Chile score at 94 and 91 respectively, and Costa Rica—which is largely European in Ancestry, unlike most other central American countries which tend Mestizo-Indian—at 87)

"...with sizable non-black populations namely among elites living there and there, specially Barbados. I’m totally aware about Bahamas demography but seems similar to Barbados."

They are about similar. There are significant non-blacks among the elites it's true, but both countries are about 90% black in their overall populations (the non-black fraction is 10%, and the average inhabitant is primarily African genetically—about 85% (more so than African Americans are, who have more white admixture). The small non-black 10% (a category which also includes, not just the whites, but also some mulattoes—as is enumerated in the Bahamian census I cited in my comment at the link—and East Indians), would not make much difference even if it did score higher than the black majority (which it might do but not necessarily by very much).

The score from the Bahamas is also similar to the result reported below which found an overall IQ of 93 (for my comments on the demographic see comments section) based on a representative sample of secondary (late adolescent) school students.

http://humanvarieties.org/2013/03/12/hvgiq-the-bahamas/

Also, the Horn Africa countries in the chart of the new Becker study. also score (Eritrea scoring at 69, Ethiopia 66) very low (as low or lower than the other African countries) despite the peoples there having on average about 30-50% caucasian admixture (from ancient Middle Eastern migrations).

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Does that make you a takkiyah troll or a stormfag?

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Anti-semitic threats are just another job White Americans don't want to do, it seems.

Sad!

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Rape is essentially a black crime. It is definitely not a crime committed by elderly Asian women. It is a crime - like murder, burglary and armed robbery - closely associated with young black males. Everyone knows this. Why must I have to point out the obvious?

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Acording to a recent PEW poll, most countries trust Trump even less than Putin
 

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Who cares what happens there, provided we can check IDs at the airport and prevent Afghanis from coming to the US and causing problems?
 

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Nationalism is simply the love of one’s language, culture, history and heritage, one’s very identity in short,
 

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Youre either a fool or I suspect a crafty jew, (((google))) is doing exactly what the play book has said for decades, use islamic extremism to justify extreme sanctions on whites. you will see the jihad videos will somehow continue to slip through as they do on twitter and facebook while all the non prog videos will be censored. These companies need to be turned into utilities and forced to except net metering of content

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Nothing new here. I and some other Nippon-resident iStevers have been warning about this. And I repeat that Abe is an Invade/Invite PM.

It's all a huge mistake. The foreigners moving to Japan are not making enough. I don't have stats, but I'm looking around and seeing a net drain on social services. And that's saying nothing about the effects on society of having a bunch of foreign self-interested leftists and their mongrels stinking the place up.

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No but for some reason I am concerned they have assaulted defenceless women.

Correct, the Knowledge does work as a form of IQ test to ensure a better sort of person drives you around rather than someone just off the plane from Lahore. GPS doesn't work well in London though, the rare occasions I have used Uber, booked by friends I was with, they have invariably taken the wrong and slower direct route. A local cabby will be able to, off the top of his head, go the quicker back route. Also using the postcode for location can be quite wrong with the number of small streets clustered in confined areas.

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I guess the perfect really is the enemy of the good.

Here is a 2012 paper critical of IQ fat tails:
Does the Normal Curve Accurately Model the Distribution of Intelligence?
http://www.ncurproceedings.org/ojs/index.php/NCUR2012/article/view/159

Here is a 1963 paper from Cyril Burt which claimed fat tails:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2044-8317.1963.tb00208.x/abstract
Table 1 gives observed/expected numbers in 5 point bins from 30-160. The low tails were fatter (but they were closer after screening for pathology, etc.).
utu, you might like figure 1 which shows a histogram overlaid on both a normal and type IV distribution. The y scale is logarithmic which I don't recall seeing often for this kind of plot and really helps show the tail effect.

As I have already commented in this thread and is mentioned in that first link, ratio IQs had a fat tail problem as shown in the Terman study. See comments about tail behavior in http://hiqnews.megafoundation.org/Terman_Summary.htm
I suspect that is a big part of the "fat tail mythology." For example, see La Griffe post mentioned above.
Also note comments about tail behavior in other characteristics (e.g. height).
This brief popular level post talks about height: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/07/20/why-heights-are-not-normally-distributed/

As I mentioned earlier, I would like to know what the SMPY/TIP found.

P.S. I would be very interested in what people here more conversant with the literature than I am think about this.

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Dear Chuck,

Thanks for your response and analysis! I largely agree with your conclusions (in the linked Chisala post's comments I argue for a similar multifactorial explanation).

Could you share your estimates for the national merit scholarship fat tail estimates, say for thresholds of 3, 4, and 5 SDs? Is the data you are basing that on public? It seems like the TIP/SMPY studies would be a good dataset to try to answer this question since I don't think the current PSAT/SAT/ACT reach above 4SD (and are lucky if they resolve that).

I think it is good to focus on the distributional issues since that is relatively easily measurable. My primary questions are whether the African distributions have fatter tails than those seen in the US/Europe (I think the answer is yes), and if so why (I think the primary answer is smart subpopulations)? How does this sound to you? Regarding La Griffe's coefficients, I believe he used the Terman data. My understanding (hopefully one of the experts here, perhaps you?, can validate/refute this) is that the Terman study used the older ratio IQs (rather than deviation IQs). IIRC the obviously fat tails in that study caused the change in IQ test methodology to make the observed values more closely approximate a Gaussian (thus La Griffe's coefficients don't reflect current IQ tests). I have never seen an analysis of how well that succeeded.

I definitely agree with your 2. My primary question there is how well good environments match up with good potential. I think that is part of what skews the distributions. The follow on (possibly alternative since it is more measurable IMO) question is how closely that maps to identifiable subpopulations (e.g. the Igbo)? My guess (based on little to no data) is that African mean genotypic IQ potential is something like 80-85. Does that sound in the ballpark?

I agree with your 3 as well. Elsewhere I have speculated (based on the stereotypical African extemporaneous verbal skills, possibly also classic hunter gatherer navigation/pattern recognition abilities) that Africans may have a relative advantage (both from genetics and environment) in these additional skills. What do you think of this idea? (I realize my idea overlaps with your statement, question concerns the differences)

Regarding your final paragraph, I agree with the qualitative conclusion, but I am not sure how to interpret the 85 estimate. I would assume the group taking the GMAT is highly selected? Does your 85 estimate correct for that? Is your GMAT data public?

Thanks again for your interesting comment!

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How does one establish the adequacy of continent of origin samples in this graduate test?

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If Scrabble requires IQ 130+
 

This is the “assume a can opener” part of this whole enterprise. Can you be sure of this?
 

The average rating for SCRABBLE experts was 1755, equivalent to the 98th percentile of all national SCRABBLE competitors (N = 26, highest rating = 2052, lowest rating = 1520, SD = 168) (Figure 4).

 

Tukey’s honest significant difference analyses showed that self-reported verbal SAT scores for crossword experts (M = 724, SD = 56.50) were significantly higher than for SCRABBLE experts (M = 657, SD = 89.59), p = .005
...
Differences between the novice undergraduates (M = 692, SD = 63.38) and both crossword experts and SCRABBLE experts failed to achieve statistical significance. No significant differences existed for quantitative SAT scores between SCRABBLE experts (M = 751, SD = 53.58), crossword experts (M = 737, SD = 81.41), or novice players (M = 736, SD = 62.45).
 

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I explained that chess is a better basis for international comparisons because it is non-verbal, has a simple scoring system, and is widely played internationally. Scrabble is verbal, has a more idiosyncratic scoring system, and is not widely played internationally, though there are different language based competitions.

Comparing standard deviations of tests requires standard scaling. The best estimate of the standard deviation of Nigerian IQ as measured by Ravens is about 15 IQ points, with the caution that because the mean is so low there may be restriction of range. It could be higher.

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