tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post3371577306169700634..comments2024-03-28T16:22:14.888-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Daniel Seligman, RIPUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-25529640955367731512012-07-16T01:22:34.413-07:002012-07-16T01:22:34.413-07:00That's terrible. I'll have to post more of...That's terrible. I'll have to post more of his old columns. I'm very busy right now, but email me in the future and remind me.Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-21482534850762219302012-07-16T01:04:16.059-07:002012-07-16T01:04:16.059-07:00he dies in 2009. i write this in 2012. I can't...he dies in 2009. i write this in 2012. I can't find a picture of the man nor one "keeping up" column online.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-25375936506529217482009-02-10T10:18:00.000-08:002009-02-10T10:18:00.000-08:00Reg Cæsar saidTories are significantly more likely...Reg Cæsar said<BR/><BR/><I>Tories are significantly more likely to be tempted because, unlike the Left,</I> they actually have a sex drive.<I>...the Right cares about sex rather than money, and the Left about money rather than sex, and each wants strict control over its preferred drive</I><BR/><BR/>On the campaign trail Bush the First once replied to Ted Kennedy's mocking question "Where was George?" by shouting: "Unlike you, I was at home and in bed with my wife and children!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-5086214077958753142009-02-10T06:10:00.000-08:002009-02-10T06:10:00.000-08:00Re. the Brimelow interview with Seligman. Mention ...<I>Re. the Brimelow interview with Seligman. Mention is made of the University of Minnesota identical twin study and 'In one case, the twins were raised respectively as a Hitler Youth member and as an observant Jew.' For real? Any more information?</I><BR/><BR/>I recall reading about that.The non-HJ grew up in Trinidad (of all places) and later migrated to SoCal. I don't remember him as being at all religious.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-5145533659898338592009-02-09T21:36:00.000-08:002009-02-09T21:36:00.000-08:00Reg Cæsar - You make an interesting argument, but....Reg Cæsar - <BR/><BR/>You make an interesting argument, but...Gary Condit, Gary Hart, Mel Reynolds, John Edwards, Jesse Jackson, Eliot Spitzer, Jim McGreevey, Antonio Villaraigosa, Gavin Newsom, The Kennedys...<BR/><BR/>Aside from press bias the one reason I can think of that liberal pols might get caught less is because, perhaps, they're less likely to be married.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-90700232087349663432009-02-09T11:11:00.000-08:002009-02-09T11:11:00.000-08:00Re. the Brimelow interview with Seligman. Mention ...Re. the Brimelow interview with Seligman. Mention is made of the University of Minnesota identical twin study and 'In one case, the twins were raised respectively as a Hitler Youth member and as an observant Jew.' For real? Any more information?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-68281138065399880412009-02-09T05:03:00.000-08:002009-02-09T05:03:00.000-08:00Much relieved, Steve; thanks.Much relieved, Steve; thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-68345761748262274092009-02-08T22:16:00.000-08:002009-02-08T22:16:00.000-08:00...Mr. Seligman was a son of Irving and Clare O’Br...<I>...Mr. Seligman was a son of Irving and Clare O’Brien Seligman.</I> --NYT<BR/><BR/>Oy and begorra! Now there's hybrid vigor for you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-18013088583255998822009-02-08T22:10:00.000-08:002009-02-08T22:10:00.000-08:00If you make the assumption that Laborites and Tori...<I>If you make the assumption that Laborites and Tories are equally likely to engage in extra-marital shen[an]igans [an assumption which, BTW, is almost certainly unfair to Tories in the first place]... </I> --Lucius<BR/><BR/>You're right, it is. Tories are significantly more likely to be tempted because, unlike the Left, they <I>actually have a sex drive</I>. Lefties have a <I>power</I> drive instead. Which might explain why they go ape over those few of their own, like John Kennedy or Bill Clinton, who display both drives in spades. (Come to think of it, those two were seen as centrists as well. I rest my case.)<BR/><BR/>The smartest thing Ayn Rand ever said was that the Right cares about sex rather than money, and the Left about money rather than sex, and each wants strict control over its preferred drive, while being indifferent to the other.<BR/><BR/> <I>...then the probability that only Tories would show up in publicized sex scandals is just vanishingly small...</I><BR/><BR/>... or perhaps guaranteed...<BR/><BR/><I>which indicates that LEFTIST journalists are covering up for their own.</I><BR/><BR/>... or that leftist journalists are covering up the <I>LACK</I> of their own!<BR/><BR/>I read somewhere that it's conventional wisdom among caterers in DC that right-wing shindigs will be a lot wilder than left-wing ones.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-88766334485244835962009-02-08T20:59:00.000-08:002009-02-08T20:59:00.000-08:00La Griffe du Lion and Dan Seligman aren't the same...La Griffe du Lion and Dan Seligman aren't the same person.Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-26324746000231389522009-02-08T19:54:00.000-08:002009-02-08T19:54:00.000-08:00gene berman - And what, pray tell, is the state of...gene berman - <I>And what, pray tell, is the state of M. du Lion's health?</I><BR/><BR/>La Griffe posted quite recently in fact. So I dont think it was him, time will tell.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-5877103476233210432009-02-08T14:07:00.000-08:002009-02-08T14:07:00.000-08:00That is sad news. I read his book "A Question of I...That is sad news. I read his book "A Question of Intelligence" a few months ago. A very level headed and well written overview of the controversy. It also features an interesting chapter on Arthur Jensen based on Seligman's interview with him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-74099513348621259912009-02-08T10:29:00.000-08:002009-02-08T10:29:00.000-08:00I can recall sitting up all night in 1981, when I ...<I>I can recall sitting up all night in 1981, when I was supposed to be writing an MBA term paper at UCLA, with a shelf full of bound volumes of Fortune, reading years worth of his Keeping Up column.</I><BR/><BR/>I remember similar displacement activity, only I read The Diceman in a one night sitting. Then I <I>still</I> had to write the essay.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-81626747003077045932009-02-08T08:58:00.000-08:002009-02-08T08:58:00.000-08:00From the NYT: ...Many of Mr. Seligman's opinions w...<B>From the NYT:</B> <I>...Many of Mr. Seligman's opinions were grounded in his own application of mathematics, and while he was an ardent anti-communist in his early years, he sometimes used statistics to <B>criticize the right</B>, as well. In a 1992 column he tweaked a fictitious Conservative member of the British Parliament who wondered why so many of his colleagues had been ensnared in sex scandals.<BR/><BR/>"Imagine," Mr. Seligman wrote, "a jar filled with 600 marbles, 331 of them blue and 269 red (these being, respectively, the numbers of Conservative and Labor MPs last fall, before the wave of scandals broke)." <BR/><BR/>"An observer wearing a blindfold — this would be the media," he continued, "reaches into the jar and pulls out six marbles. What is the probability that all six will be blue? The answer is 2.76 percent, meaning there is only one chance in 36 of the Tory monopoly on parliamentary sex scandals being attributable to chance"...</I><BR/><BR/>Uh, no, he's using mathematics to criticize LEFTIST journalists: If you make the assumption that Laborites and Tories are equally likely to engage in extra-marital shenigans [an assumption which, BTW, is almost certainly unfair to Tories in the first place], then the probability that only Tories would show up in publicized sex scandals is just vanishingly small, which indicates that LEFTIST journalists are covering up for their own.<BR/><BR/>Gee whiz, is contemporary NYT copy written by baboons?!?<BR/><BR/>[That's not a facetious question...]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-56014437632004497342009-02-08T07:47:00.000-08:002009-02-08T07:47:00.000-08:00Mark:Seligman made no logical error. He simply and...Mark:<BR/><BR/>Seligman made no logical error. He simply and specifically asked you to assume the conditions as given.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-68127167290910614982009-02-08T07:42:00.000-08:002009-02-08T07:42:00.000-08:00And what, pray tell, is the state of M. du Lion's ...And what, pray tell, is the state of M. du Lion's health?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-36062999785763703872009-02-08T03:54:00.000-08:002009-02-08T03:54:00.000-08:00This is related to Seligman's work, and I figured ...This is related to Seligman's work, and I figured the iSteve crowd would get a kick out of it.<BR/><BR/>The link: http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/02/post_59.html<BR/><BR/>The headline: "Busting a stereotype 2X at Portland's Science Bowl"<BR/><BR/>The story: a feel good piece on a Hispanic team from Walla Walla competing in a science bowl competition. The article doesn't say how they perform in the competition.<BR/><BR/>The sidebar: a list of the "all stars" from the science bowl.<BR/><BR/>The last names of those "all stars":<BR/><BR/>• Wong<BR/>• Le<BR/>• Singh<BR/>• Levy<BR/>• Nikong<BR/>• Soo<BR/><BR/>Game. Set. Match.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-26843478322960463372009-02-08T01:42:00.000-08:002009-02-08T01:42:00.000-08:00“Imagine,” Mr. Seligman wrote, “a jar filled with ...<I>“Imagine,” Mr. Seligman wrote, “a jar filled with 600 marbles, 331 of them blue and 269 red (these being, respectively, the numbers of Conservative and Labor MPs last fall, before the wave of scandals broke). An observer wearing a blindfold — this would be the media,” he continued, “reaches into the jar and pulls out six marbles. What is the probability that all six will be blue? The answer is 2.76 percent, meaning there is only one chance in 36 of the Tory monopoly on parliamentary sex scandals being attributable to chance.”</I><BR/><BR/>Seligman's logical error there is in assuming the media ever wears a blindfold.<BR/><BR/>I liked Seligman, and remember reading him in my dad's issues of Fortune. RIP, Daniel.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com