tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post3904018287239514735..comments2024-03-19T02:31:02.140-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Flynn: Flynn Effect has reversed among British teensUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger125125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-54291838132240346592015-11-30T13:54:07.209-08:002015-11-30T13:54:07.209-08:00@RobertHume -
"There have been authors trac...@RobertHume - <br /><br />"There have been authors tracing the effect of lead contamination on IQ. Lead has been declining for about 30 years and probably has leveled off recently. That may well account for the usual Flynn effect. This could be tested by comparing the trend in various countries because lead was taken out of gas at different times in different countries.<br /><br />"As for the counter-Flynn effect more recently..."<br /><br />Yes, lead toxicity rates have been declining. But they've taken a long time to get down to their previous levels.<br /><br />In Britain, the laws regulating lead usage and pollution were put in place between 1978 and 1996. <br /><br />http://www.air-quality.org.uk/02.php<br /><br />There is approximately a twenty year lag time for the children with low toxicity rates to reach adulthood, in terms of IQ averages and crime rates. So, for Britain, we'd expect to see the according decreases to happen between the late 1990s to the mid 2010s, which means about now we should see noticeable changes.<br /><br />Indeed, crime rates, specifically the violent kind, have been falling the past decades.<br /><br />http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2609623/Has-removing-lead-paint-petrol-reduced-CRIME-Toxin-linked-surges-theft-violent-assault.html<br /><br />I'm not sure about IQ. All I see is data that says on average 2 IQ points have been lost in Britain the past several decades. But going by the lead toxicity data, we'd expect that lost to have happened mostly in the past. The average IQ should be back on course with an increase at present, assuming all other conditions (besides lead toxicity) have remained the same.<br /><br />No one has shown any data to the contrary, as far as I know.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-48999306700344041702014-04-11T13:28:43.775-07:002014-04-11T13:28:43.775-07:00 tramadol hcl 50 mg tab - tramadol no prescription... tramadol hcl 50 mg tab - tramadol no prescription overnight shippingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-72610162446557930992009-02-12T15:44:00.000-08:002009-02-12T15:44:00.000-08:00...they went on about those huge, manly blond Germ...<I> ...they went on about those huge, manly blond Germanic tribesmen almost like they had a collective gay crush on them, and then consistently chopped them to pieces in battle after battle, because even back then, discipline and logistics trumped machismo.<BR/><BR/>"Teutoburg Forest, AD 9: Three legions under P. Quinctilius Varus, governor of Germania, and their civilian hangers-on are ambushed and virtually wiped out by the supposedly friendly Cherusci led by Arminius. Total Roman losses are probably well under 20,000, but the disaster means that the frontier coalesces on the Rhine rather than the Elbe as planned." -KL47 "This defeat marked the end of any hope of expansion across the Rhine. More than that, it marked a change in Imperial policy." -cjriga<BR/><BR/>Teutoberg Forest Disaster</I><BR/><BR/>http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/defeats/tp/Romandefeats.htmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-72038919564338014882009-02-12T13:41:00.000-08:002009-02-12T13:41:00.000-08:00Anonymous said... Hi, T99!Nah, he doesn't sound li...<I>Anonymous said... <BR/>Hi, T99!</I><BR/><BR/>Nah, he doesn't sound like T-Dawg. But he does sound like one T-Dawg's posse.<BR/><BR/><I>Anonymous said... <BR/>By the way, you're wrong again. I'm not T99.</I><BR/><BR/>Anon, you've got your Anons mixed up. That makes <I>you</I> wrong, Anon. I'm not that Anon, Anon. I'm this Anon. Got it now?<BR/><BR/><I>Truth said...<BR/>STOP WHITE ON WHITE CRIME!!!</I><BR/><BR/>Who says it's white on white?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-67240114502070916572009-02-12T08:02:00.000-08:002009-02-12T08:02:00.000-08:00T99, Anonymous, Svigor:STOP WHITE ON WHITE CRIME!!...T99, Anonymous, Svigor:<BR/><BR/>STOP WHITE ON WHITE CRIME!!!Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-59485851668274945292009-02-12T00:56:00.000-08:002009-02-12T00:56:00.000-08:00"Hi, T99!"Hi, jerk!By the way, you're wrong again...."Hi, T99!"<BR/><BR/>Hi, jerk!<BR/><BR/>By the way, you're wrong again. I'm not T99. <BR/><BR/>But you are a jerk.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-47591320666277301792009-02-11T20:53:00.000-08:002009-02-11T20:53:00.000-08:00As a Brit living in...Britain.Thank you for joinin...<I>As a Brit living in...Britain.</I><BR/><BR/>Thank you for joining. I was hoping some Britons would lend us their perspective.<BR/><BR/>Some questions:<BR/><BR/>Do you find yourself consciously avoiding certain areas to stay away from young, native-born males?<BR/><BR/>Is there a consensus as to what is up? Do most of your associates agree that drinking is the problem, or bad education, or too many episodes of the Young Ones, or...?<BR/><BR/>Was the atmosphere different in the Thatcher-Major era (assuming you remember?)B322https://www.blogger.com/profile/18257802768718375656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-57204740296661533152009-02-11T20:32:00.000-08:002009-02-11T20:32:00.000-08:00... but because the model of tough hood attracts w...<I>... but because the model of tough hood attracts women the quickest if you have no money.</I><BR/><BR/>T99, all you have to do is act like a tough hood, and then you'll get plenty of love action.<BR/><BR/>It's EZ! Easier than getting money.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-84341187137836899412009-02-11T19:28:00.001-08:002009-02-11T19:28:00.001-08:00My guess is that the IQ drop in UK has several cau...My guess is that the IQ drop in UK has several causes: massive drinking and drugging, a huge welfare state, mass immigration, a powerful inverted snobbery that hates anything hinting of intelligence, and a pop culture that celebrates yobbishness to an extreme degree. Idiocracy, in a word.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-50395351433610639252009-02-11T19:28:00.000-08:002009-02-11T19:28:00.000-08:00As a Brit living in...Britain. I have to say that ...As a Brit living in...Britain. I have to say that while elements of this discussion are true, everyday life is not quite the brutish ordeal portrayed by some!<BR/><BR/>Uncouth behaviour maybe more common than it was, chavs may haunt the urban areas - and surburbs too - but they are not the majority.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-83690724381250375662009-02-11T19:15:00.000-08:002009-02-11T19:15:00.000-08:00Will whoever it is that constantly carries on abou...<I>Will whoever it is that constantly carries on about T99 and his "WASPY elites" kindly shut up? First of all, WASPY elites do indeed exist</I><BR/><BR/>Hi, T99!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-13608066811907912982009-02-11T13:05:00.000-08:002009-02-11T13:05:00.000-08:00Will whoever it is that constantly carries on abou...Will whoever it is that constantly carries on about T99 and his "WASPY elites" kindly shut up? First of all, WASPY elites do indeed exist, regardless of how big a role in America's decline one wishes to ascribe to them. And second, it was (maybe) funny the first couple of times you skewered T99 this way, but the twentieth time, not so much.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-90557733175482108742009-02-11T09:47:00.000-08:002009-02-11T09:47:00.000-08:00Since "dropout culture" seems to have a stronger i...Since "dropout culture" seems to have a stronger influence today than 10 or 20 years ago, it seems likely that the apparent IQ drop is an artificial reflection of teens styling themselves as stupid. Increasing IQ among middling IQ people seems to be correlated with an increase in self-image/self-consciousness which in this case leads to a lower IQ score consistent with the full arm tattoo. (The economy has done a great job of making a drop out self image easy to achieve).<BR/><BR/>One drawback of IQ score comparisons between cohorts is potential change in the "sandbagging effect", which could be isolated if a sample of well proctored test takers in each cohort were paid money for score. change in the difference between the motivated and unmotivated scores in a cohort could help to capture changes in sandbagging over time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-9664110466562738422009-02-11T08:13:00.000-08:002009-02-11T08:13:00.000-08:00Anon: "I guess those nerdy, gabby, egghead Jews wo...Anon: "I guess those nerdy, gabby, egghead Jews wouldn't make good soldiers - no wonder Israel keeps losing every war they fight with those macho manly Arabs."<BR/><BR/>The nerdy egghead Ashkenazi Jews generally aren't the ones doing the front-line fighting...they leave the actual front-line fighting up to the darker more Arab-like Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews in Israel, not to mention many of the Black African Jews who also live there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-61088894305443242542009-02-11T05:44:00.000-08:002009-02-11T05:44:00.000-08:00"The ancient Romans had the same romantic notion a..."The ancient Romans had the same romantic notion about the nature of martial prowess, equally demonstrably at odds with reality - they went on about those huge, manly blond Germanic tribesmen almost like they had a collective gay crush on them, and then consistently chopped them to pieces in battle after battle, because even back then, discipline and logistics trumped machismo."<BR/><BR/>Anonymous, those illiterate barbarians sacked Rome and kept sacking it until there was nothing much left and the ruler of Rome was crowned in Aachen. Along the way the Romans tried paying them off and then recruiting them into its legions to fight their kinsmen and hold the borders. How did that work out? History repeats itself. <BR/><BR/>However: I am not talking about formal military defense here (even so, "rednecks" and working class kids fill the ranks of the armed services). I am talking about something related: Turf. <BR/><BR/>Case in point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqyU2z-FJr8<BR/><BR/>This is a street scene in the UK. Ask these fine young gentlemen what they are doing hanging out on the street corner? "Protecting their patch." <BR/><BR/>Now, switch the scene the LA. What fine young gentlemen are protecting territory there? <BR/><BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfjaLxwv4gM<BR/><BR/>A little history lesson: <BR/><BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G6vazn0RCA<BR/><BR/>These fine young gentlemen politely negotiate with their competitors over turf and market share on an ongoing basis. Who is on what street corner impacts for average non-member citizens where they go at night, where their business can be located, which businesses they patronize, to whom they pay taxes, and other neighborly arrangements. Overstepping the bounds set by these young politicians has material consequences, even for women and children. <BR/><BR/>That is what I mean by "turf." <BR/><BR/>Bear in mind that many of these organizations are young and will mature in the next 10-20 years with their membership. Right now they are heavily recruiting middle school age boys who will be trained on an ongoing basis in organizational skills and protocol. <BR/><BR/>Make of it what you will. Well mannered and educated Western people have quickly forgotten the meaning of so basic a term as "turf." You probably believe you can depend on law enforcement and bureaucrats to handle these matters as they have done in your life experience. <BR/><BR/>History records the answer to that train of thought: "Vai victis."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-52025485591200254462009-02-11T00:22:00.000-08:002009-02-11T00:22:00.000-08:00This thread has kind of made me want to go get som...This thread has kind of made me want to go get some male rats, name them T99 and Svigor, let them at some lady rats, and see how long it takes for them to feel crowded.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-14139348666702307602009-02-10T23:21:00.000-08:002009-02-10T23:21:00.000-08:00114 comments? WTF??? I don't have time to read all...<I>114 comments? WTF??? I don't have time to read all that.</I><BR/><BR/>Shorter version:<BR/><BR/>Britain's IQ decline is caused by overcrowding, except that's silly because it used to be even more overcrowded, but no it's not silly, so there.<BR/><BR/>T99 says it's because bitches won't sleep with guys like him.<BR/><BR/>Several people make fun of T99 and his bitter virginity. A couple of people sort of stick up for T99 and tell him it's really not so bad dying a virgin.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43235341670952405932009-02-10T23:10:00.000-08:002009-02-10T23:10:00.000-08:00114 comments? WTF??? I don't have time to read a...114 comments? WTF??? I don't have time to read all that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-76104991309463517372009-02-10T20:53:00.000-08:002009-02-10T20:53:00.000-08:00Please, please. There is a difference between get...Please, please. There is a difference between getting laid, and maintaining a healthy relationship.<BR/><BR/>Getting laid is fairly easy; all you need is a one-night stand, or even enough money and a visit to a prostitute. It is long-term monogamous relationships that "Big Man" soft polygamy has been eroding. Testing99 is quite right that it breeds thuggish violence. Also this early maturity (pseudo-maturity is more accurate) does create dumbness and narrow-mindedness.<BR/><BR/>BTW, monogamy in western society was the result of pagan Greco-Roman and Celto-Germanic peoples.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-46087150648550499112009-02-10T20:36:00.000-08:002009-02-10T20:36:00.000-08:00Half-Sigma:"The above commenter is right. The Godl...Half-Sigma:<BR/><I><BR/>"The above commenter is right. The Godlessness is the heart and soul of the problem. Christian patriarchy is the greatest force for good and civilizational development."<BR/><BR/>The Japanese manage to run a civilized country without Jesus.</I><BR/><BR/>As did the classical Greeks and Romans, who invented western civilization long before Christianity became a carbuncle on its back. The parallels between Roman Empire and Christians, and the modern West and Muslims, are all too obvious.<BR/><BR/>Besides, Christianity wasn't all that patriarchical, and its strong Paulist anti-sexuality was a mighty sword waiting for feminists (no matter how anti-Christian and anti-religion they claimed to be) to pick up later.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-71288729822872410402009-02-10T19:16:00.000-08:002009-02-10T19:16:00.000-08:00T99 is a lot less repulsive than Svigor. I can ima...<I>T99 is a lot less repulsive than Svigor. I can imagine holding a conversation with T99, even if the conversation involved him being wrong about everything, which it would. Svigor, not so much.</I><BR/><BR/>Silver - I second, third, fourth and fifth that!<BR/><BR/>Thats funny, because Svigor is far more on the money, certainly more than you Silver. T99 is interesting but he will go on about Israel and unsinkable aircraft carriers and the like.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78938486726084297372009-02-10T18:39:00.000-08:002009-02-10T18:39:00.000-08:00"Any British patriot should sing a paean to those ..."Any British patriot should sing a paean to those uncouth, unclean, tattooed, unlettered working class hands, because those are the only hands that can pick up arms and defend your nation. <BR/><BR/>If a society tries to exist as a disembodied head that spites and shuns the rough and dirty hands, then it will find itself supplanted by rough and dirty hands from outside. Whether those hands belong to British yobs or "rednecks" or someone else does not matter. What is assured is that those will be the same hands that take up arms and defend---or conquer---the polity."<BR/><BR/>Hahahaha!<BR/><BR/>The Brits have always been in love with this idea that aggressive stupidity makes for good soldiering, even though their own imperial success was based 99% on having the best (and smartest) economy on earth.<BR/><BR/>I guess those nerdy, gabby, egghead Jews wouldn't make good soldiers - no wonder Israel keeps losing every war they fight with those macho manly Arabs.<BR/><BR/>The ancient Romans had the same romantic notion about the nature of martial prowess, equally demonstrably at odds with reality - they went on about those huge, manly blond Germanic tribesmen almost like they had a collective gay crush on them, and then consistently chopped them to pieces in battle after battle, because even back then, discipline and logistics trumped machismo.<BR/><BR/>Societies are vulnerable to attack when their institutions are weak, not when their people are well-mannered and dislike violence.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-83905306467820260742009-02-10T17:30:00.000-08:002009-02-10T17:30:00.000-08:00Truth saidwith an NAt least I got away with "wigge...Truth said<BR/><BR/><I>with an N</I><BR/><BR/>At least I got away with "wigger"...maybe because it's on topic for this post, who knows?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-65946516308276253232009-02-10T16:27:00.000-08:002009-02-10T16:27:00.000-08:00testing99 said...*I* do allrightYes, if by "allrig...<I>testing99 said...<BR/>*I* do allright</I><BR/><BR/>Yes, if by "allright" you mean that you'll never in a million years run the slightest risk of ever catching an STD, then you're definitely doing all right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-10940434557131871472009-02-10T16:19:00.000-08:002009-02-10T16:19:00.000-08:00t99,"*I* do allright, however I shudder at the cas...t99,<BR/><BR/>"*I* do allright, however I shudder at the casual misogyny of young men who have little attachment to women and few prospects."<BR/><BR/>You are in a safe place. There's no need to anonymously lie on the Internet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com