tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post2584095669918352157..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Is the balance of power shifting?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger89125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-40870667537920885142009-07-25T10:10:55.441-07:002009-07-25T10:10:55.441-07:00Comment from one Madoff investor: "We though...Comment from one Madoff investor: "We thought he was cheating. We just didn't think he was cheating us."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-79615698078642377272008-12-19T13:28:00.000-08:002008-12-19T13:28:00.000-08:00South Vietnam was settled by Cantonese-speaking tr...South Vietnam was settled by Cantonese-speaking traders. The commercial capital Saigon was primarily a Cantonese-dominated city.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-24940587793018917042008-12-18T02:55:00.000-08:002008-12-18T02:55:00.000-08:00Interestingly there is a similar divide in Vietnam...Interestingly there is a similar divide in Vietnam. The south is known for producing good businessmen while the north is a bit hopeless in trade.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-40920651671619248892008-12-16T21:08:00.000-08:002008-12-16T21:08:00.000-08:00"Anonymous said...Anon said: Israel is the most re..."Anonymous said...<BR/><BR/>Anon said: Israel is the most reliable American ally in the region and provides the US with important intelligence, technology, etc."<BR/><BR/>Israel has on occasion also provided our adversaries with intelligence and technology. They've also spied on us (i.e., Jonathan Pollard).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-77124314655131080592008-12-16T09:49:00.000-08:002008-12-16T09:49:00.000-08:00Anon said: Israel is the most reliable American al...Anon said: <I>Israel is the most reliable American ally in the region and provides the US with important intelligence, technology, etc.</I><BR/><BR/>Testing99 is that you?<BR/><BR/>Israel is America's strongest ally against countries that are only America's enemies because America is Israel's ally.<BR/><BR/>There's a Gordion knot for you - fancy cutting it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-1196607903235393352008-12-15T04:37:00.000-08:002008-12-15T04:37:00.000-08:00Larry ain't that smart, as his Harvard career show...Larry ain't that smart, as his Harvard career shows.<BR/><BR/>Nobody's that smart. Everybody drank their own Kool-Aid. <BR/><BR/>When it's all added up, I suspect (based on admittedly flimsy anecdotal evidence) that the more ethnocentric Jews will, on average, be among the bigger losers in the crash. My vague impression is that they tend to be more aggressive risk-takers, which is great for the net worth during a bull market and ungreat during a bear market.Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-52606370505850119042008-12-15T04:30:00.000-08:002008-12-15T04:30:00.000-08:00Steve - You are doing excellent work covering the ...Steve - <BR/><BR/>You are doing excellent work covering the "third rail" in America's financial meltdown. No one is "blaming the Jews" 100% for what has happened. But it is clear that any such successful, high IQ group so naturally talented in finance is going to play a role. <BR/><BR/>America desperately needs a journalist to connect the dots. <BR/><BR/>Steve and readers, please consider these 4 ancedotes..<BR/><BR/>1) How is it possible that Larry Summers is being REAPPOINTED by Obama to play a government role in economic oversight? When Summers himself played a role in policies to give blacks and Hispanics easier mortgages - a key cause of the domino ripple effect that caused the meltdown?<BR/><BR/>Am I missing something here?<BR/><BR/>2) In the Fall of 2008, as the Baby Boomers turn 60, and look to cash out of the 401K's they dutifully plowed their earnings into for years, the stock market collapses. <BR/><BR/>Indeed, the Boomers became known, until 10/08, as the "wealthiest generation in history." Further, their 401K bonanza would be the "biggest wealth transfer in history" to their own children, mainly Generation Y. <BR/><BR/>Along came October 2008. The 401K turned out to be quite a gamble at the roulette wheel. A generation was reduced, supine, financially, rather quickly and efficiently. As were their children, the wealth transferees. <BR/><BR/>Quite interesting timing. <BR/><BR/>3) What is accomplished by weakening millions of citizens financially, and nationalizing vast new areas of American business? Does this serve anyone's interests? Whom?<BR/><BR/><BR/>4) Is it possible there are men in America who are smart enough to be conversant and sympathetic with Leo Strauss' lofty ideas about democracy vs. "what is good for the Jews" AND know the grand strategy as to how to accomplish this on the ground in reality - what dominos need to fall to cause X... which causes Y... which will result in Z down the road... <BR/><BR/> Like, oh, I don't know, Larry Summers..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-13167412190483000432008-12-15T00:54:00.000-08:002008-12-15T00:54:00.000-08:00The main point of Flynn's study was that even when...The main point of Flynn's study was that even when Asians (Japanese and Chinese) scored about even with whites on overall IQ, they massively outdid them on academic metrics. So evidently there's a non-g mental trait that Asians seem to be very strong on. <BR/><BR/>You're right that a 1/4 of a SD gap on verbal is probably small enough that we might just be talking statistical noise. It's possible that Asians, for whatever reason, culturally tend to emphasize math over verbal and yet verbally are just as strong. If it came out that there is no verbal or math gap, it wouldn't surprise me. With high Asian reading PISA scores and adoption studies showing no verbal gap, it seems that a theoretical verbal gap may erasable given sufficient environmental conditions. In that case, any Asian verbal gap is purely environmental. <BR/><BR/>If you look at the Asian per capita GDPs and the Euro GDPs, there's about equal parity. So whatever cognitive differences that exist between whites and Asians, I don't see as terribly important. I don't doubt that Asian populations can produce enough high-verbal folks to sustain an advanced economy. My bigger concern would be with Latin America, Middle East, Central Asia, India, rural China, SE Asia, Pacific islands, etc. <BR/><BR/>I think the point of La Griffe's SFT 2 was to explain why Asians outdo whites on IQ, but perform about on par economically. La Griffe looked to the lower reported verbal IQs and gave us his theory. As Razib from GNXP said though, maybe La Griffe is overplaying his hand a bit. If it turns out math and verbal IQs are about on par when you control for environment and culture, then we might have our answer there. No math gap, no verbal gap, no IQ gap, no economic gap. Just differences in culture, interest, and education. <BR/><BR/>You know, you should e-mail La Griffe your objections and see if you can get his response posted on GNXP or iSteve. I think you make some good points, especially on PISA scores being quite high in some of Asia. I think he might respond too. I'd be interested to see what he says.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-75087399188224512272008-12-14T18:59:00.000-08:002008-12-14T18:59:00.000-08:00Re: PISA and all thatI agree that the PISA data do...Re: PISA and all that<BR/><BR/>I agree that the PISA data do seem to reflect schooling. You get some big jumps as you cross national borders (e.g., Norway vs Sweden or Belgium vs France). But I think that would show up as much or more on the math side as on the reading side. In Seoul if you turn on the TV at 10 pm you can watch a teacher solve calculus problems on the educational channel!<BR/><BR/>It's very tough to say how selected US Asians are, in toto. In addition to the highly educated engineer type there are restaurant workers and such with little education (many of the latter type enter the country illegally, as you may have read). The latter type tend to live in Chinatowns or similar ethnic enclaves in LA, NYC, etc. If you test a small N sample of Asians the variance could be quite large.<BR/><BR/>Even Asians born here are likely to suffer a slight environmental handicap if their parents don't speak English and they tend to hang around with other non-English speaking kids (i.e., in Chinatown or other ethnic enclaves). It's the same story as with Hispanics.<BR/><BR/>The best way to answer this question would be adoption studies like the one by Lynn I cited. Given the limited number of these I don't see how anyone could claim with high confidence that they know what the gap is. Estimating it at 4 points exhibits a false sense of precision. What do you think the honest error estimate would be? <BR/><BR/>BTW, LaGriffe's larger argument is nutty since only 500 years ago Asia was much more advanced than Europe. Does he think that the "smart fraction" was very different 500 years ago? And, since the *actual* ability of workers in Asia is reflected in the PISA scores (i.e., is determined by both genes and education), the smart fraction gap he discusses is *exactly* backwards -- PISA reading scores are actually higher in Asia. Finally, LaGriffe should learn some economics -- institutions, culture and history all impact GDP per capita.<BR/><BR/>I shouldn't say this here, but LaGriffe only impresses distinctly middlebrow readers -- people who only vaguely grasp the normal distribution and think his high school-level math is impressive. I'm not surprised to hear he's an academic in a field in which people are not very smart.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-16684990255917033082008-12-14T18:00:00.000-08:002008-12-14T18:00:00.000-08:00mnuez is always great for a laugh, with his predic...mnuez is always great for a laugh, with his predictable hostility, his stereotype personality and unclever sarcasm. when the original zionists were analyzing their tribe and finding out just how cramped and corrupt they'd become, they stared the facts in the face and determined to remedy them. not so with galut guys like this character.<BR/><BR/>o, the indignity to be a member of the second rate people the jews have craved to live among for millennia.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-31194225337080286052008-12-14T17:28:00.000-08:002008-12-14T17:28:00.000-08:001.) Flynn's earlier studies, cited in his book Bey...1.) Flynn's earlier studies, cited in his book Beyond Achivement, looked at Asian-American children born and raised in America. So their native language would be English. I just don't see how language issues would matter for them. Nor do I see how language issues would matter for 3rd gen Japanese kids taking the law exams. <BR/><BR/>PISA does have that advantage of being a uniform test, but it has the disadvantage of being applied to populations with different educational systems. For example, the Finns seem to be about average on g (compared to other Euros), when you look at per capita and overseas immigrant performance, but are as strong as Asians on PISA. Are Finns then really that much smarter than the other whites because of high PISA scores? Probably not; they just have a more advantageous educational system. <BR/><BR/>The Koreans score around 0.5 SDs above the Japanese on the reading section in 2006. Are they that much better on verbal IQ? I doubt it. <BR/><BR/>Here are the average Asian scores for 2006 -<BR/><BR/>For PISA math: 538<BR/>For PISA reading: 515.6<BR/><BR/>More interesting to note is the variance between Asian nations on the math and verbal.<BR/><BR/>For PISA math: 26 (1/4 SD)<BR/>For PISA reading: 64 (2/3 SD)<BR/><BR/>Why so much more variance on reading? My guess is that PISA's reading section is probably quite a bit less g-loaded and that's why the highest and lowest north Asian countries are IQ 10 points apart. On math, it is g-loaded enough that the difference is ~4 points. So PISA may not be the best measure of raw verbal ability. <BR/><BR/><BR/>2) Asian immigration is highly selected. If you don't believe me, just look at Census bureau stats. Asian immigrants come from highly educated backgrounds (mainly technical/scientific) and got their degrees in nations with extremely competitive university systems. Those that come here with engineering or medical degrees are going to be higher income; those with no degrees and poor English skills will likely be in the working classes. <BR/><BR/>It is true that high income whites are likely selected too, but Asians are much more likely to come from technically employed, high IQ, families than whites. For example, the son of an engineering professor is likely going to be a lot smarter than the son of a mid level manager. Yet their family incomes might be roughly equivalent. Similarly, even when Asians and whites earn the same income, Asians are much more likely to be doing intellectually rigorous technical work. <BR/><BR/><BR/>3) I would assume that the Asians taking the SATs are Asians with U.S. passports. Those that come over as foreign students aren't subjected to the SAT, to my knowledge. So your typical Asian SAT taker might be a kid whose parents want him to go to school in Cali, but have the benefits of Seoul's educational system. <BR/><BR/>I don't know if these kids are elite or not. I suppose you might be right that not everybody in Korea or China can afford to send their kid to a English prep school. However, Korean-American and Chinese-American immigrants are mainly from the degreed ranks of society. So I don't know if it's neccessarily unfair to make the comparison. <BR/><BR/>I will note that some Asian-American parents like to send their kids to Asian cram schools ("juku") to improve their scholastic ability. I don't think this would be happening unless there was a feeling that Asian schools do produce superior students. <BR/><BR/>You're right that white immigrants in Japan would score really low on verbal IQ tests. However, they might catch up with 1-2 generations of living in Japan. If they didn't, then it might reflect something g-related. <BR/><BR/>You're right on PISA being more widespread and systematic, but how g-loaded is it? Especially on verbal? <BR/><BR/><BR/>4) I will study these factors and get back to you. <BR/><BR/>Here is a directory of patent lawyers in SF and California that may be of interest:<BR/><BR/>http://lawyers.findlaw.com/lawyer/firm/Patents/San-Francisco/California<BR/><BR/>5) Good point here. Can't argue. N=19 though. <BR/><BR/>I think in his article SFT 2, La Griffe claims to have found a 4-point white-Asian verbal IQ gap. He found that the 8-point verbal IQ gap in law passage results might be on the high side.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-50148666483079233692008-12-14T13:39:00.000-08:002008-12-14T13:39:00.000-08:00I think we are severely discounting an important f...I think we are severely discounting an important factor. American Zionists, however pro-Israel they may be, are still very liberal. This means that their support of Israel is not based on any kind of Jewish nationalism, but is rather based on the same multicultural/diversity model that plagues the USA.<BR/><BR/>In other words, Zionist supporters are some of Israel's worst enemies.<BR/><BR/>Look at the result of their influence since the Oslo Accords. Israel's security situation has become worse. Israel is less secure today then it was even 15 or 20 years ago. If trends continue, Israel will not survive the next 10 years.<BR/><BR/>What went wrong? <BR/><BR/>Contrary to what people think, America is not an ally of Israel. America is an ally of the Arab-Israeli Peace Process. America does not care about the Jewishness of the Jewish state. They care about Israel as the "shining example" of being the only democratic and prosperous country in the region. That is what the Zionists are building.<BR/><BR/>This is why, despite the rhetoric of Zionists, no effort is being made to remove the Palestinians and Arabs from Israeli territory. This is why there are no bases in Israel. It's why the percentage of Ashkenazi Jews in Israel is declining (currently at 37% and falling.)<BR/><BR/>With friends like these, Israel doe not need enemies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-74118497209694575102008-12-14T12:53:00.000-08:002008-12-14T12:53:00.000-08:00"I don't have any data, but I'm sensing anecdotall..."I don't have any data, but I'm sensing anecdotally that the kind of man who funds Israel hardliners is losing money faster than the average. Today, the New York Times writes in "Standing Accused - A Pillar of Finance and Charity" about Bernie Madoff, the money manager who just admitted to the FBI that he had been running a giant Ponzi scam and had lost maybe $50 billion (billion!) of his investors' money:<BR/><BR/> “There was a joke around that Bernie was actually the Jewish T-bill,” the executive went on, referring to the ultrasecure investment of treasury bills. “He was that safe.”"<BR/><BR/>Yes, you got it<BR/><BR/>My own personal hero, Mr. Weiss, has said the same thing.<BR/><BR/>Now, there will one ramification of all this:<BR/><BR/>Simply put, the American taxpayer will pick up the slack, while the media WILL keep silent on any foreign "humanitarian" aid to Israel.AmericanGoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00865892490752172185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-17640969494595480242008-12-14T11:26:00.000-08:002008-12-14T11:26:00.000-08:00"the kind of guy in New York or Las Vegas who care..."the kind of guy in New York or Las Vegas who cares about Israel in the same way that rich guys in Oklahoma care about the Oklahoma Sooner football team"<BR/><BR/>Funniest line I read all weak.<BR/><BR/>I'll also second Anonymous' comments about the absurd NYT description of the "Robert I. Lappin Charitable Foundation"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-17895124553768010582008-12-14T10:09:00.000-08:002008-12-14T10:09:00.000-08:00From the comment thread here:http://www.gnxp.com/b...From the comment thread here:<BR/>http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2008/06/east-asian-psychometric-variance.php<BR/><BR/>Note some people misunderstand "relatively weaker verbal abilities" to mean relative to whites, but in this study it mean relative to even higher spatial scores. Lynn is one of the HBD heroes around here.<BR/><BR/>The intelligence of Korean children adopted in Belgium<BR/><BR/>Marcel Frydman and Richard Lynn<BR/><BR/>Several studies have found that Oriental populations tend to have high mean IQs, strong visuo-spatial abilities but relatively weaker verbal abilities, as compared with Caucasian populations in the United States and Europe. The present paper reports data on these claims for 19 Korean infants adopted by families in Belgium. The children were tested with the WISC at a mean age of 10 yr. Their mean IQ was 118.7, the verbal IQ was 110.6 and the performance IQ 123.5. The results are interpreted as confirming those obtained from other Oriental populations.<BR/><BR/>This was actually discussed previously on GNXP:<BR/>http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2006/07...ites- and_17.php<BR/><BR/>Is there a Flynn correction that needs to be applied to these (rather high) numbers? The GNXP post has a remark to this effect and says it corrects the overall IQ to Belgian AVG+10 (110 or so?). So I would guess the adopted Koreans are about average in verbal and strongly superior in math relative to ethnic Belgians.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43051732359267568272008-12-14T09:37:00.000-08:002008-12-14T09:37:00.000-08:00Due to the internet, it is now possible to raise m...Due to the internet, it is now possible to raise money directly from small contributors in a way that was not possible 10 years ago. Just look at Obama. For the first time in a generation the environmentalists, Unions, and others actually matter. <BR/><BR/>There is also a qualitative difference. By being able to bypass large donors, or at least being able to diversify, politicians can now have a greater modicum of control. <BR/><BR/>I think this could be the missing link for Republicans on issues such as immigration where the Ag lobby and Chamber of Commerce types always hold sway. It will also allow the Democrats seperate from the neocons and DLC types that have disproportionate influence within the left.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-54579266531046226102008-12-14T09:18:00.000-08:002008-12-14T09:18:00.000-08:00"[Murdoch's] son in law and father of two of his g...<I>"[Murdoch's] son in law and father of two of his grandsons is a black African."<BR/><BR/>Really? That's VERY rare for super upperclass types. Got any details on the happy couple?</I><BR/><BR/>Here's one "detail": they're no longer married, and Murdoch's daughter subsequently married Sigmund Freud's great-grandson, Matthew Freud, founder and CEO of Freud Communications. They had a daughter named Charlotte, born in 2000, nine months before the weding.<BR/><BR/>http://www.wargs.com/other/murdoch.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-27093542673537986062008-12-14T08:58:00.000-08:002008-12-14T08:58:00.000-08:00Re: Flynn, Asian IQ, etc.1) it's clearly a dis...Re: Flynn, Asian IQ, etc.<BR/><BR/>1) it's clearly a disadvantage on verbal tests to be tested in something other than your native language. That is why I am dubious of results from earlier studies -- unless they were very careful about this they would tend to find a depressed verbal IQ for any recent immigrant population. Please tell us *exactly* how Flynn did his study?<BR/><BR/>The advantage of PISA is that the tests are done in the takers' native languages. It gives the most systematic international comparisons of verbal ability. Your response to the fact that Asians score higher on the verbal is that it's all due to their educational system and not an innate effect. But you would take the +.5 SD math result and claim it *does* reflect a difference in innate ability. The PISA math gap corresponds very closely to what was reported in the past for math or spatial IQ. Why is the education effect not evident here?<BR/><BR/>The parsimonious answer is that early studies of Asian verbal IQ were affected by language issues that are no longer present in the PISA data. You, on the other hand, seem to be clinging to your prior beliefs.<BR/><BR/><BR/>2) when SAT verbal data (from LaGriffe, no less) show that modestly affluent Asians (>$70k in family income) outscore equally affluent whites, you say those Asians are selected. But affluent whites also have higher IQs than average whites (they are selected too)! And, the SAT does have a strong component of non-native Asians, which should depress the average score. It's very plausible that the *relative* Asian-White gap, which depends on family income, is partially reflecting the immigrant-native born language issue (more immigrants in the low-income population than in the modestly affluent one).<BR/><BR/>3) your point that Asians educated in Asia score higher on the SAT than Asians born here is again not very useful, since it is a highly selected minority of Asians from Asia that would ever take the SAT. A random sample of Asians educated in Asia would score horribly on the verbal SAT, since they are nowhere near fluent in English. But then a random sampling of white Americans tested in Japanese would appear to be morons. Japanese social scientists testing white people in Japan would obtain very misleading results if they weren't extremely careful. <BR/><BR/>That should caution us about interpreting early IQ studies. For example, in The G Factor (IIRC) Jensen describes studies done in San Francisco Chinatown, but there was little effort to control for language issues. One should remember that "IQ science" is poorly funded and studies are typically small. PISA, TIMMS etc. have far greater resources and are much more systematic.<BR/><BR/>4) re: bar passage rates, there are quite a lot of confounding factors. Were the Asians concentrated in states with more difficult bar exams? (e.g., CA?) Were the Asians concentrated in fields like patent law? (Former engineers switching fields?) etc., etc.<BR/><BR/>5) there is also adoptee data: Korean infants adopted into Belgian families score higher than the Belgian average on verbal IQ. Many of these infants suffered malnutrition (i.e., during the Korean war) before being adopted. How do you explain that?<BR/><BR/>I've yet to see any good data showing a white-Asian verbal ability gap. Yet I see it cited constantly by so called "HBD realists" who can't actually analyze social science data in a sophisticated way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-34167212018028171902008-12-14T08:53:00.000-08:002008-12-14T08:53:00.000-08:00You aren't the only one to think about this, Steve...You aren't the only one to think about this, Steve. There was a <A HREF="http://www.jewcy.com/post/heretic_will_wall_street_bring_collapse_israel%E2%80%99s_ultraorthodox_welfare_state" REL="nofollow">neat article</A> in <I>Jewcy</I> not too long back about the effect that the collapse of the housing/complicated financial instruments that depend on housing bubble is going to have on the ultra-Orthodox in Israel.<BR/><BR/>Planetary Archon MouseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-35486098192942578452008-12-14T07:21:00.000-08:002008-12-14T07:21:00.000-08:00"mnuez said...Precisely what that means and whethe..."mnuez said...<BR/><BR/>Precisely what that means and whether they actually tend to row in the same direction or whether they mostly cancel each other out by rowing in different directions...whatever."<BR/><BR/>My point about "what that means" is that it does mean something, and I have a right to have an opinion about it. The actions of a small number of people have a large impact on the country I call home. You may not care. That's your right. I do. That's mine.<BR/><BR/>"No one offered me an oar and no one's sharing the crop of fish with me so I don;t really care."<BR/><BR/>When I said that jews, as a group, wield inordinate influence, I did not mean all, or even most of them. This is of a kind with simple observations like: "Most men are not criminals, but most criminals are men." I don't believe that every son of Israel gets his marching orders from hebrew-central every morning. And you are right that anti-semitism has a heavily distorting and mind-bending effect, as does any obsessive bigotry. Anti-semitism seems to be the end-state of any form of bigotry. An Eskimo who deeply hates hottentots, will eventually come to believe that the hottentots are but tools of the international zionist conspiracy.<BR/><BR/>On other hand, there is such a thing as class interest and class conscienceness (as a marxist, I'm sure you're familiar with these). And I don't have to believe in ZOG to recognize that jews are a distinct group, and may have some common group interests, and that those interests are not mine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-58743631496099831122008-12-14T02:48:00.000-08:002008-12-14T02:48:00.000-08:00Mr. Anon!Funny, I actually logged on here just now...Mr. Anon!<BR/><BR/>Funny, I actually logged on here just now to comment on your comment regarding Roissy and it looks like you're the same fella who left the long comment on my comment!<BR/><BR/>Anyhow, i don't really have much to say to that comment (sorry) because I don't recall denying that Jews were inordinately represented among the movers and shakers of the world (or the country, or whatever). Precisely what that <I>means</I> and whether they actually tend to row in the same direction or whether they mostly cancel each other out by rowing in different directions...whatever. doesn't interest me very much. No one offered me an oar and no one's sharing the crop of fish with me so I don;t really care. I just think that the monomaniacal folk here who have pretty limited amount of harddrive space in their brains AND CHOOSE TO USE UP THAT SPACE on tribalistic data, end up with skewed perceptions of reality along with a number of mental and emotional diseases such as antisemitism, but whatever. <BR/><BR/>Like i said, I actually logged on to comment on this comment of yours (assuming there's just one Mr. Anon here):<BR/><BR/><I>"Danindc said...<BR/><BR/>I probably shouldn't say this because it will bum a lot of people out but Roissy is actually Gary Brecher aka the War Nerd....weird how things come full circle."<BR/><BR/>Really? That's great news. It means that there is one less loathesome nihlist in the world than I had thought.</I><BR/><BR/>I smiled! Really! That was clever and I thank you for it. <BR/><BR/>Regardless of my thoughts on the war nerd, Brecher, Roissy or Nihilists, I thought that was a clever response to danindc's (accurate or not) comment. I'm not saying it's the greatest thing I ever heard or anything, but I was pleased enough to log in (and to go through a long explanation of why I don't really have a comment on your post regarding my post ;-)<BR/><BR/>As for the anonymous of the "quotes". Yup, you figured me out, I was trying to make you believe that neoconservatives are a figment of your imagination. Look ma, no Jews! You're very clever. Nothing gets by you. <BR/><BR/>As to the second Anonymous who referenced me - your comment made me smile too, I liked the double meaning and in the event that you're the anonymous of the "quotes", I actually just did that! Insulting his intelligence, but for all I know... other than in the way I believed I was doing it. I hope you're not him though because I thought that his comment was stupid while yours was smart. Anyway, it's been fun guys. G'night.<BR/><BR/>mnuezmnuezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10328856077944673860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-49342549820004569992008-12-14T02:21:00.000-08:002008-12-14T02:21:00.000-08:00IQ testing is a crude science: "g factor" stands ...IQ testing is a crude science: "g factor" stands for "we don't know how to measure all aspects of intelligence."<BR/><BR/>There is obviously some unmeasurable aspect of IQ that whites have in abundance. Whatever it is, white IQ does not need to be defended when compared to any other race's IQ. White IQ is self-evident in the achievements of the white civilizations throughout history, whether that civilization is local, regional or continental. White IQ is evidenced in the small everyday actions and the great epochal actions. <BR/><BR/>The achievements of white civilization are stupendous on both an individual and group level. And yet lately it is commonly suggested that whites just don't have the brains to keep up with the real leaders of the human race, Asians and Jews.<BR/><BR/>The constant drumbeat of Asian and Jewish mental superiority compared to whites is ethno-war propaganda. I use the term "war" because the amount of raw intellectual dishonesty involved in that exercise points to an extreme level of malice.<BR/><BR/>On the other hand, Asians in Asia, and Jews in Israel, secure and comfortable in their national identity, are a lot more likely to scoff at the absurd notion that whites are intellectually inferior. <BR/><BR/>But here in "melting pot" America, at ground zero in the ethnic struggle for control of the most powerful country on earth, the obvious truths are being twisted and flushed down the memory hole. After all, truth is the first casualty of war.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-47835180865259044262008-12-14T01:20:00.000-08:002008-12-14T01:20:00.000-08:00I think the conclusion here is that US Jewish busi...I think the conclusion here is that US Jewish businessmen will have less money, but still have more than enough to influence US politics in ways to which the US population is basically amenable, eg supporting Israel vs the Arabs. Since the EU leadership are pro-Arab and anti-Israel, their love affair with Obama may not last long.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-6336558691963960592008-12-14T00:09:00.000-08:002008-12-14T00:09:00.000-08:00If you look up per capita incomes for Hawaii, 3rd ...If you look up per capita incomes for Hawaii, 3rd and 4th generation Chinese and Japanese are about on par with whites (Filipinos are much lower). Similarly, third generation HK Chinese in the UK are about on par with whites economically. <BR/><BR/>Furthermore, according to Canada's statistics bureau, 2nd generation Chinese-Canadian men also earn about on par with whites. <BR/><BR/>Nationwide stats show that Taiwan is about on par with the more developed European countries.<BR/><BR/>It is true that 3rd gen Chinese-Canadian families outearn white families, but that doesn't adjust for the higher cost of living or the family size. It's better to look at per capita income results for Hawaii (controls for geography and family size), which show no gap.<BR/><BR/>So I wouldn't say Chinese earn less, but I don't think they neccessarily earn more either. <BR/><BR/>Current Asian-American immigrants include a lot of doctors, engineers, scientists, phds etc. - people selected for math/verbal IQ. So not really a fair comparison between their kids and white kids. The law passage exam data mainly include the descendants of earlier, non-select waves of Japanese and Chinese (Cantonese) immigrants. So the white-Asian verbal gap for law passage rates are a better comparison than recent SAT scores. Though I would acknowledge there likely is no verbal gap between whites and the children of the current highly select AA immigrants. <BR/><BR/>Flynn analyzed IQ data for the descendants of Japanese and Chinese immigrants that arrived in the early 20th century. He found no overall IQ difference between Asians and whites, but found Asians were higher on the math IQ and lower on verbal. PISA results are interesting, but don't take into account that the Asian educational system is far more intense than the U.S. educational system and don't control for environment. For example, did you know that Asians educated in Asia outscore Asian-Americans substantially on the SAT? <BR/><BR/>That's why I'd rather take a verbal metric (law passage rates in the 1980s) that compare whites and the children of non-select Asian immigrants that all grew up under the same educational system. <BR/><BR/>Also, you might be interested to know that that there was no relationship between immigrant generation and law passage rate. So I don't think AA verbal IQs are depressed; and I would guess that high-scoring, high-income AA kids are probably the children of phds and tech/medical guys (especially Indian-American guys). <BR/><BR/>I think it might be fair to assume no overall Asian-white economic disparity, but slight differences in verbal and math IQ. That would be consistent with Flynn's earlier findings of overall Asian-white IQ parity, but differences in verbal and math ability.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-63165706809461579042008-12-13T23:20:00.001-08:002008-12-13T23:20:00.001-08:00"Danindc said...I probably shouldn't say this beca..."Danindc said...<BR/><BR/>I probably shouldn't say this because it will bum a lot of people out but Roissy is actually Gary Brecher aka the War Nerd....weird how things come full circle."<BR/><BR/>Really? That's great news. It means that there is one less loathesome nihlist in the world than I had thought.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com