Meme - Hunter Ash @ArtemisConsort: "The reason I don't think the Democrats can ditch wokeness is because even the moderates are unwilling to say "group differences are not caused by past or present discrimination, and there's no reason to care about closing them as long as all groups do better over time."
Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma: "Democrats are not willing to accept "Black people are genetically dumber than white people" for the simple reason that *it is not true*"
i/o @eyeslasho: "I would bet my house that this guy hasn't spent one minute of his life reading any of the scientific literature on the subject, and therefore his tweet should be treated like the garbage framing and garbage opinion that it is. There have only been two comprehensive published surveys asking scientists who study intelligence about the cause of the IQ gap between US blacks and whites, and in the most recent one (published in 2020 in the journal Intelligence) an overwhelming majority of respondents indicated that they believe that at least some of the gap is due to genetic factors. About half of the respondents indicated that about 50% or more of the gap is due to genetics. "Because it's not true" should always be treated as code for either "I'm totally uninformed on the subject" or "I'm informed but my moral claim is more important" or "I can't deal with this question so I'm taking the easy way out." The contempt I have for these people knows no limits. The fact is that the reason(s) for the gap are still an open scientific question, and if you don't acknowledge this you're engaging in bad faith, moral cowardice or ignorance. (I had to use a screenshot of the tweet because, naturally, he blocked me.)"
Meme - Emil Kirkegaard @KirkegaardEmil: "We just published a study showing that national stereotypes of intelligence are also accurate. It looks like this."
John Carter @martianwyrdlord: "India lol"
"Relationship between national stereotypes and national IQs. Shaded region corresponds to the 95% confidence intervals of the linear regression"
*India with much higher stereotyped IQ than actual IQ*
Meme - Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil: "I was reminded of this yesterday when looking into national IQ estimates. The "pseudo-analysis" style of critique is to just spit out tons of possible problems, to nitpick, and then to assume that means a whole enterprise is rotten without even checking if the critique holds."
"Pseudo-Analysis. A principal feature of the many critiques of hereditarian research is an excessive concern for purity, both in terms of meeting every last assumption of the models being tested and in terms of eliminating all possible errors. The various assumptions and potential errors that may, or may not, be of concern are enumerated and discussed at great length. The longer the discussion of potential biasing factors, the more likely the critic is to conclude that they are actual sources of bias, By the time a chapter summary or conclusion section is reached, the critic asserts that it is impossible to learn anything using the design under discussion. There is often, however, a considerable amount known about the possible effect of the violation of assumptions. As my colleague Paul Mechl has observed, 'Why these constraints are regularly treated as "assumptions" instead of refutable conjectures is itself a deep and fascinating question...' (Meehl, 1978, p. 810). In addition, potential systematic errors sometimes have testable consequences that can be estimated. They are, unfortunately, seldom evaluated."
Emil Kirkegaard on X - "The US congress is also an intelligence meritocracy. Replicates our prior finding of genetic meritocracy and IQ. Religious groups and race groups with higher polygenic scores for IQ/edu. have higher measured IQs and more success in life."
Alexander on X - "The people I learned about IQ from - in two separate master’s programs - were left-leaning and maybe moderate at most. This is true of most researchers of human intelligence and cognitive ability in fact, given the large skew left in psychology overall. But the people who have a sort of axe to grind against this line of research - which remains by the way one of the most robust and replicable lines of research in psychology - are almost always political activists of the far left. They cannot conceive of individual differences in ability as anything except for a threat against their political ideology. What I don’t entirely grasp is why they stop at IQ or research on intelligence. For example, we have a lot of (unfair, unequal?) individual differences in humans (and widely researched in psychology):
1. Physical attractiveness. Not everyone is equally attractive and large benefits go to those who are.
2. Personality traits, like conscientiousness. These benefit individual life outcomes about as much as IQ does. Not everyone is equally predisposed to be hard-working and diligent. These are also highly heritable traits.
3. Every other cognitive ability. Memory. Attention. Social cognition. We see big differences across individuals here, too.
The same methods are used to research all of these, by the way. Nothing special, unique, or different is really going on with IQ. Hard to imagine someone being an “IQ denier” without also leveling the same critiques at every other human psychological trait."
Meme - i/o @eyeslasho: "Low IQ is consistently associated with antisocial behavior, and antisocial behavior is consistently associated with criminality. So it shouldn't be surprising that those groups with a higher mean IQ have lower crime rates than those with lower IQ nearly everywhere in the world."
i/o research @iointelresearch: "Genetic analysis (GWAS) of antisocial behavior found it negatively correlates with intelligence (rg -0.40) and educational attainment (rg -0.46). The association between lower IQ and higher antisocial behavior is a consistent finding..."
i/o on X - "High-minded new paper advocates restricting public access to genetic data so racistly racist comparisons between groups (especially on cognitive traits between blacks and whites) can't be made. When you think you're losing, you try to rig the game."
Peter Boghossian on X - "If someone genuinely believed an empirical claim, why would they oppose studying it? The argument that research might be “misused” is weak—that’s a call for better studies, not bans. My suspicion? The authors don’t believe their argument. It reeks of special pleading. Can you name another domain where believers argue against more research out of “misuse” fears? I can’t. Let’s have a real conversation. I invite the authors on my show to discuss this paper. I doubt they’ll accept."
Charles Murray on X - "Back in the early 2000s, I tried to put together scholars on both sides to jointly design a major study testing the effects of racial admixture on IQ. Hereditarians were eager. Environmentalists had zero interest. Now, with so many alleles affecting various traits having been identified, and with big multi-racial genomic datasets available, much more informative studies are possible. Hereditarians are eager to conduct them. Environmentalists want to sequester the data. Inferring the reason is trout-in-the-milk level of uncertainty."
Emil Kirkegaard on X - "Hereditarians: Yay science! Open science awesome! Study all the difficult questions! Release the data publicly! No censorship!
Egalitarians: Nooo, hide the data, fire the offenders, you can't know nothing, what if someone somewhere derives a political opinion I don't want!"
What could the left possibly have to hide?
Alexander on X - "Reading this paper ranking 300 careers by cognitive ability (IQ).
1. The average IQ of tech professionals is similar to social scientists (around 110).
2. Skilled trades are where you begin to see average IQs around the upper 80s and low 90s (varies a lot by trade though)."
(Not just) Intelligence stratifies the occupational hierarchy: Ranking 360 professions by IQ and non-cognitive traits
It also looks at Big 5 and other personality characteristics by occupation
i/o research on X - "David Reich's Harvard team detects recent positive selection for intelligence among Europeans: "We also identify selection for combinations of alleles that are today associated with... increased measures related to cognitive performance.""
i/o on X - "In study after study, modern genetics research is murdering blank slatism, and it's quickly becoming a bloodbath. Marxist biologist Stephen Jay Gould (who is still widely read and taught in academia) once said: "There’s been no biological change in humans in 40,000 or 50,000 years. Everything we call culture and civilization we’ve built with the same body and brain." This was orthodoxy for over 40 years because academia wanted it to be orthodoxy. The possibility that psychological traits like intelligence could change in certain groups but in not in others as a result of evolutionary processes put into operation by exposure and adaptation to novel environments outside Africa was morally and ideologically unacceptable. But science is real, baby, and that well-meaning and rigidly-enforced orthodoxy is now in tatters."
i/o on X - "Something just occurred to me that probably won't mean much to most of you, but it does to me. Years ago, when I had another (much smaller) account, big left-leaning accounts on Twitter would constantly post scientifically illiterate takes on IQ and I'd show up in their replies and beat the crap out of them and ratio them. This happened all the time. Sometimes we'd send out the bat signal to @Steve_Sailer , who, if he wasn't too busy with something else, would drop by and calmly super-ratio them. It was a blast, like shooting at fish in a barrel: These accounts had no idea at all what they were talking about. But here's the thing: I can't remember the last time this happened. No big lefty accounts on X post about IQ anymore. They know that they're going to get pummeled if they do, and my guess is that they also know by now that they're on the retard side of the debate. I consider this a victory."
High intelligence is not associated with a greater propensity for mental health disorders
Spooky Werewolf Misha on X - "I think IQ believers often go too far in the direction of “if I was born into a slum, I would simply reason my way into a well-paid, nonviolent life.”"
Meme - Do Not @ Me, PhD @UsingLyft: "Black kids with IQs of 100 have the same odds of escaping the bottom quintile of socioeconomic status as white kids"
"Percent of Children Moving Up and Out of the Bottom Quintile, Conditional on AFQT Score, by Race"
Meme - (Black Woman) OmoAuntyNurse @_arike_adey: "Nursing hard af ain't nobody dumb finishing that shit. Passed my iq test and scored in the top 85%, lot's of the doctors I work couldn't even get that high"
"TestYourlQ.org. Results: Your IQ is 86. Your IQ is in the top 85%"
Auron MacIntyre on X - "For all its vaunted capabilities when it comes to contemplating hypotheticals or abstractions high-IQ doesn't seem to enable individuals to understand the lives of those who are lower on the distribution High-IQ individuals have a very hard time developing a theory of mind for those with lower IQ and understanding how they order themselves This leads to a cognitively sorted elite developing systems that rely on every mind working exactly like their own and then becoming disdainful of the 80% of people who do not function this way Perhaps this was less of a problem when martial prowess and other factors were more heavily involved in elite selection but in a world of foxes cognitive capacity becomes the only selection criteria, and lions are left on the wayside Any elite can become isolated and grow disdainful of the people but an elite selected solely on intelligence seems to be uniquely incapable of grasping what the good may look like for someone who isn't a few standard deviations above It also seems to encourage the belief that all people are both improvable (at least according to the standards of the current ruling class) and interchangeable Of course our elite have now become so insuler they are no longer selecting for merit even in the realm of intelligence, only for ideological conformity, for faith in the religion of the elite class, which only separates them further from a vision of the good which would serve other segments of the population I don't have any immediate answer here but there just is a serious disconnect that will only increase as we encourage cognitive stratification"
The Black Horse on X - "A huge issue here is the isolation of high-IQ individuals from gen-pop and especially from physical hardship. The fact that our present elite class is coddled from birth is a bigger issue than their raw IQ."
Into the Memory Hole on X - "Reminder that the government forbids any further research on the proven genetic links to race and IQ"
Muzzling scientists and obstructing science is only wrong when it hinders the left wing agenda
Fight Mate on X - "Cameraman deserves an Oscar for catching this moment from ever angle..."
Eric S. Raymond on X - "It was difficult for me to watch this video all the way through to the end, but it reminded me of something important that I think a lot of people at and above IQ level 100 don't understand. It's something I only understand myself because travel is broadening. This video is what like life among the truly stupid is like. The incompetent, spasmodic monkey-dance violence. The pre-verbal hooting crowding out articulated speech. The squalor of people without the cognitive capacity to plan much beyond the next cheap high. No, the important thing about these wretched people isn't that they're black. It's that they're sampled from a population with an average IQ of 85, and the high time preference that predicts, and the general inability to handle counterfactual hypotheticals that that predicts. If you picked a stupid enough cohort of white people and let them stew in each other's juices for long enough, you'd see the same crap. Hillbilly Elegy anyone? People of average intelligence (average intelligence for Europeans or Northeast Asians anyway) do not usually understand how stupid stupid gets. When they try to model the behavior of somebody with an IQ of 85 or below, they imagine someone like themselves but with a smaller vocabulary and missing the ability to do specific smart-people things like mental arithmetic or whatever. It isn't like that. It isn't like that at all. This video is what it's like."
Family of slain Twin Peaks photographer lament jury deadlock - "A mistrial was declared today in the murder trial of Fantasy Decuir and Lamonte Mims in San Francisco Superior Court. The pair were accused of robbing and killing photographer and film location scout Ed French, 71, at Twin Peaks overlook in July 2017... While they did not dispute that their client fired the shot that killed Mr French, defense attorneys argued that, at the time of the killing, Ms Decuir was in a “sickle cell crisis” and suffering from opiate painkiller withdrawal. They added that Ms Decuir had a low IQ, a “lack of adaptive functioning” and suffers from stress and anxiety. As a consequence, they said, she did not act “consciously” when firing the gun."
Weird. Didn't they get the memo that IQ was meaningless
Jeremy Stamper 🇺🇦 (e/acc) on X - "1) There’s only one race: the human race.
2) race is a social construct.
3) there’s no such thing as “intelligence.
4) there are many different kinds of intelligence.
5) the difference within races are larger than the differences between races.
6) Neil DeGrasse Tyson
7) the soft bigotry of low expectations
8) redlining
9) we can’t rule out clerical errors"
The original tweet got deleted (OOP seems to always delete his old tweets after a while) but it was something about the race/IQ taboo
Darkage Possum on X - "In my post graduate program in the 1980's at the youngsters request the chairman took us through the work of Jensen, the dishonest and facile criticisms of it, what happened to his career and everyone else who touched it, and basically said " never speak of this again. These conversations never happened." This has really opened up a lot since then. It was okay to leave it alone as long as policy was grounded in the notion of equal opportunity and equal treatment as individuals. The idea of equity, that group outcomes must be equalized forces confrontation of the fact that groups aren't equal because it is creating huge injustices. Equality doesn't exist in nature. It was nice to protect peoples ethnic pride and let that dog sleep but bigger things than peoples feelings are at stake now"
Bala on X - "If you can't win an argument using facts, logic, or reason, then tabooing that argument is the way to protect your narrative."
Ralph Kaladin on X - ""Truth is not important, only social justice""
Meme - Emil O W Kirkegaard @KirkegaardEmil: "Smarter Nazi leaders more likely to be acquitted at Nuremberg trials."
Clearly, the only thing IQ tests measure is how good you are at doing IQ tests
Measuring Human Capital Across Countries: IQ and the Human Capital Index - "It has been shown that country-level IQ and aggregated performance by school-age children on international assessment tests in math and science are by-in-large capturing analogous indicators of the cognitive human capital. We expand that analysis by comparing country-level IQ to the World Economic Forum’s Human Capital Index (HCI). This index, comprised of several dozen separate indicators, accounts for inputs and outcomes to measure human capital, across age profiles and gender. Two outcomes are of note. First, there is a positive, significant correlation between IQ and the vast majority of the component indicators in the HCI across all age cohorts. Second, because the HCI’s interpretation of educational attainment extends beyond formal education by including indicators such as on-the-job learning and other work-related skills, our finding that IQ is positively correlated with these measures suggests a deeper connection between national average IQ and the fundamental factors of what constitutes the cognitive side of human capital development."
Meme - Asterix Respecter @ArmoricaStan: "Can anyone tell me the average IQ of a house elf? Miss Granger"
"Actually, IQ is a pseudoscience which doesn't measure anything exc..."
"That's wrong, 10 points from Gryffindor. Now, ogres make up just 13% of the population, yet-"
"50, Sir"
"Correct, 20 points to Slytherin"
Thread by @CiurriaMichelle on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Thread on the ableist fetishization of so-called intelligence in academia. I just read yet another article that glorifies so-called intelligence, which is a social construct rooted in eugenics. In an ableist culture (such as ours) in which so-called intelligence is so idolized that it’s a condition of citizenship & personhood, everyone will have anxieties about whether they’re ‘intelligent enough.’ Intelligence is a disciplinary apparatus that mobilizes people into a regime of compulsory (able-minded) intelligence, which conveniently justifies capitalism as a ‘meritocracy’ that both produces and rewards the most ‘intelligent’ (nondisabled) citizens. Capitalism is vindicated by its ability to produce intelligent citizens, who are, coincidentally, from the wealthiest & most elite families! And this capitalist regime of compulsory intelligence also punishes & persecutes the (disabled) ‘unintelligent’ by pushing them out of the economy, forcing them into public dependency, politically disenfranchising them and making them a spectacle of horror for the ‘intelligent’ able-bodied majority, who are compelled to avoid ‘unintelligence’ (in themselves & their offspring) at all costs. Academia is deeply complicit in this charade, and this can be seen seen in the ubiquity of ‘impostor syndrome’: academics have so internalized compulsory able-mindedness that they never feel ‘smart enough’ no matter how many degrees they rack up or how much they alienate themselves from the public by their ascetic intellectual regimens. We subject ourselves to rarefied philosophical defenses of human supremacy and, relatedly, the supremacy of (Eurocentric) ‘intelligence’ above all other human faculties to the point that we - or many of us - internalize this bullshit as scripture and live the rest of our lives in constant fear of being (seen as) ‘stupid.’ Crip theorists consistently debunk the fetishization of intelligence in academia and society in general, and underscore its roots in the capitalist-eugenics regime that uses ‘intelligence’ to uphold racial-patriarchal institutions and hence we are, unsurprisingly, marginalized and silenced. So is the toxic culture of the neoliberal-ableist university. #ableism #academia #philosophy #intelligence #iq #impostorsyndrome @biopoliticalph"
If you don't reward stupid people the same way as smart people, you're a bad person
Jesse Singal on X - "The New Yorker, on Jon Haidt: "He has been beset by a troubling fixation on the heritability of I.Q.—a contention widely dismissed as scientific racism" This is completely false. The heritability of intelligence is accepted by mainstream researchers. The debate is over *race*. I don't understand how something like this gets through fact-checking. It's quite frustrating. Spreading misinformation about the present state of intelligence research doesn't help anyone."
i/o on X - "The only consensus — and I do not use that word lightly — scientific finding that is routinely deliberately slandered in the media is the heritability of intelligence. Literally — and I do not use this word lightly either — no reputable intelligence researcher disputes that intelligence is substantially heritable. So why does this lie keep finding its way into the pages of even "prestige" publications like the New Yorker? Because intelligence heritability, if it were ever widely-known and understood by the public, can threaten the blank slate foundation of the modern progressive project."
When fact checking is about pushing a left wing agenda, and not checking facts, this is what happens
Meme - RAMZPAUL @ramzpaul: "Interesting. White women who date blacks statistically have lower IQs than black women who date Whites."
Meme - "r/trans
Trans people stay winning! Top 15% IQ and I barely even tried. It's time to destigmatize being your true self.
Your IQ is 86. 16%. Your IQ is in the top 85%"
i/o on X - "The decoding of the human genome brought powerful tools to investigate the relationship between genes, race, and IQ. But fear of where this research might go led the best genetic database in the US to restrict access. The most recent survey of scientists conducting research in this area indicated that findings on human intelligence have been tipping over the past few decades in favor of those who believe race IQ gaps have at least a partial genetic basis. The left has waged a continuous campaign of smears, misinformation, data suppression, censorship, cancellation, grants withholding, and even physical intimidation and violence, to stop this research. Activist scientist Eric Turkheimer famously wrote that if the hereditarian hypothesis were ever proved correct it would be like an "atom bomb going off.""
i/o on X - "Jonathan Haidt: "I expect that dozens or hundreds of ethnic differences will be found.. the ways in which we now think about genes, groups, evolution and ethnicity will be radically changed by the unstoppable progress of the human genome project."
We already see federal government agencies and universities, as a matter of stated policy, refusing to share genomic data with scientists conducting research into certain types of differences between population groups."
i/o on X - "Institution: There are no innate differences in intelligence (and other psychological traits) between groups.
Scientists: Let's take a look at the genomic data so we can show that this is true.
Institution: No! Only bad people would want to do that kind of research!
Question: If they're so convinced that innate group differences are impossible, then what are they so afraid of?
Answer: They're afraid because they are not convinced.
They're afraid because they know what the existing scientific evidence looks like — and what the clear majority opinion is of those who conduct the research — and they will do everything they can to stop any scientific investigation that might be dispositive. As activist scientist Eric Turkheimer warned: The effects of a clear scientific finding of innate race differences in intelligence would be like an "atom bomb" exploding."
RiotIQTest on X - "Intelligence researchers often focus on "g," referring to a general factor of intelligence that arises because different scores are positively correlated with each other. But is g found in non-Western groups? This 2019 study by @Russwarne says yes. The authors found 97 archival datasets from 31 non-Western, economically developing nations (shown in dark grey on this map) and performed a factor analysis. The results were clear: 94 (96.9%) of the datasets produced g, which is a strong indication that g is not a cultural artifact of Western culture or economically developed nations. The authors stated, "Because these data sets originated in cultures and countries where g would be least likely to appear if it were a cultural artifact, we conclude that general cognitive ability is likely a universal human trait" (p. 263, emphasis in original). Moreover, the average strength of the g factor was 45.9% of variance, which is about the same as what is found in Western samples (~50%). It is important to mention what this study does not show. This study is not evidence that the g in one country is the same as the g in another country. The study also cannot be used to compare or rank order countries in intelligence. Those conclusions would require a different design. But it is still an important contribution to understanding g. It is not a cultural artifact. It is something that exists cross-culturally and is worthy of study."
Richard Hanania on X - "Study from Sweden shows that children adopted from non-Western countries ended up having lower IQs than native Swedes. The one exception was South Koreans, who actually had higher IQs than Swedes. I guess babies take "Confucian culture" with them when they are adopted?"
