tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post4462720291857530342..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Mr. and Mrs. KrugmanUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger105125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-15271691609444437572011-11-06T14:28:29.066-08:002011-11-06T14:28:29.066-08:00The mainstay of management is behavioral therapy, ...The mainstay of management is behavioral therapy, focusing on specific deficits to address poor communication skills, obsessive or repetitive routines, and physical clumsiness.[9]<br /><br />Thus Wikipedia, for what's unsourced stories are worth.<br /><br />Krugman has Poor communication skills???!!! That's like saying Obama is tongue-tied and makes lousy speeches.Jan Rogozinskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13928697255558664209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-18366524036535385952010-06-29T14:15:16.904-07:002010-06-29T14:15:16.904-07:00An easy answer for Krugman's rock ticket quand...An easy answer for Krugman's rock ticket quandry is that the rock stars have their OWN agents buying tickets at regular prices, then reselling them at double or triple price - whatever they sell it at, it's TAX FREE.<br /><br />I can't believe what I've written is an original idea... It must have been suggested before - Why didn't the author of this article or Krugman think of it themselves?TEFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17253371906081722525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-74450432585174911342010-03-02T22:59:27.578-08:002010-03-02T22:59:27.578-08:00So when Krugman opposes the right he's an arro...So when Krugman opposes the right he's an arrogant and angry man but when you do it you are a sensible bastion of reason?Narwhal Pantsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-48244085688474956062010-03-02T22:59:27.577-08:002010-03-02T22:59:27.577-08:00What does Checkhov have to do with anything? I don...What does Checkhov have to do with anything? I don't understand.<br /><br />Are you trying to allude to science fiction in general?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-53248907312729033542010-03-01T14:10:06.764-08:002010-03-01T14:10:06.764-08:00these ostensibly mild-mannered academics who are o...<i>these ostensibly mild-mannered academics who are one perceived slight away from going all Columbine on you.</i><br /><br /><i>The nihilism of the modern academy rots out these peoples' souls, and they are left with great big empty black holes where their hearts ought to be.</i><br /><br />The blame belongs not with the post-secondary academia, but with public education. These people have been rotted by the erosive atmosphere of pre-secondary education with its pervasive boredom, bullying, and slander. By the time they reach college, their souls are <b>already</b> "black holes one step from columbine" <br /><br />In the good old days, super-smart people bound for academia were either homeschooled or private-schooled, and they got the mentoring they needed. Public school may be good for average kiddies and moderately smart ones, but not for the academic elite.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-55010591922145043252010-03-01T14:04:53.414-08:002010-03-01T14:04:53.414-08:00Mmmm, why would certain influential circles in our...Mmmm, why would certain influential circles in our society lend generous support to economists, given discipline's inbuilt resistance to <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/01/ticket_scalping_hack/" rel="nofollow">reality*??</a><br /><br />*Reality: Real World economic interactions, therefore not applicable to our sophisticated Economic models.<br /><br />Money quote: “How is it that most of the world remains so poor?” <br /><br />Isn't one of the main traits of Asperger's demonstrated lack of emphathy?<br /><br />I'll get my coat...sj071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-45822289788414258662010-03-01T13:58:22.294-08:002010-03-01T13:58:22.294-08:00@TGGP: Jews do occasionally intermarry. In San Fr...@TGGP: Jews do occasionally intermarry. In San Francisco, there's a lawyer named Gilda Turitz who in her C.V. states that at age 15 she promised herself she'd marry a black man, and she followed through.alonzo portfolionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-52830753277498466232010-03-01T09:48:28.712-08:002010-03-01T09:48:28.712-08:00Huh? I thought feminists were mostly the daughters...<i>Huh? I thought feminists were mostly the daughters of cads. At least the hardcore, angry ones are.</i><br /><br />Those are sluts, God bless their empty, whorin' hearts. Second wave feminism ('70's) was largely a university(middle and upper middle class) and upper middle class housewife thing. Since cads don't raise their kids or stick around with the moms, their daughters weren't in college. Their babymammas had to work, and so weren't able to spend much time writing about how the suburban home was a prison.<br /><br />Oh and I meant, "I'm sure most left-wingers who promoted Great Society welfare for bastard children <i>never</i> expected the explosion in the number of bastard children."robnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-20747154633070799632010-03-01T07:03:35.407-08:002010-03-01T07:03:35.407-08:00To David Davenport:
I don't understand your co...To David Davenport:<br />I don't understand your comment, except that it was supposed to be snarky. I quickly noted that the people I encountered in high-IQ societies were markedly more unpleasant and less interesting than comparably high-IQ people I encountered academically and professionally (and with whom, unlike with Mensa and Four Sigma members, I enjoyed interacting). I wasn't deriving any enjoyment or benefit from my association with those societies, so I didn't renew my membership in either one of them. Non-renewal of a membership is socially offensive to nobody; what evidence do you have of my own social skills?Polymathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12332963337386407840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-53915924877101845942010-03-01T05:00:50.815-08:002010-03-01T05:00:50.815-08:00Jews do not allow white people to do the same.
So...<i>Jews do not allow white people to do the same.</i><br /><br />Sorry, but no. The only thing stopping you from such discussion is yourself and your delusions of persecution.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-91033552442470017432010-03-01T03:20:41.762-08:002010-03-01T03:20:41.762-08:00Just another useful fool.Just another useful fool.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-84067504495262707812010-03-01T00:03:47.529-08:002010-03-01T00:03:47.529-08:00They examined their feelings, looked at their fath...<i>They examined their feelings, looked at their fathers and the men they knew, and it never crossed crossed their minds how many men aspire to be cads.</i><br /><br />Huh? I thought feminists were mostly the daughters of cads. At least the hardcore, angry ones are.<br /><br />But then, the "moderate" ones, in business, elective politics, etc.-- i.e., those known for something other than feminism-- are often <i>too</i> attached to their fathers, wanting to copy their careers rather than give them grandchildren.Reg Cæsarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-41008846647828418282010-02-28T21:34:04.813-08:002010-02-28T21:34:04.813-08:00OT, here is another story on the thread that liber...<i>OT, here is another story on the thread that liberals think IQ is meaningless, but they have a higher IQ than other people.</i><br /><br />The correlation between males' desire to be monogomous themselves and IQ is interesting. It strongly supports Rushton's r-K selection differential for causing racial variation in IQ.<br /><br />Personality and personal preferences varying with IQ explains why smart people (esp. liberals) are surprised when policies have pretty predictable consequences. I'm sure most left-wingers who promoted Great Society welfare for bastard children expected the explosion in the number of bastard children. Feminists didn't imagine that a huge chunk of men raised and supported their kids only because of social pressure, the dudes would have been happier in strip clubs. They examined their feelings, looked at their fathers and the men they knew, and it never crossed crossed their minds how many men aspire to be cads.robnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-42298298262588991562010-02-28T17:59:25.660-08:002010-02-28T17:59:25.660-08:00High-IQ societies attract people with poor social ...<i> High-IQ societies attract people with poor social skills ... which is why I ended my memberships in Mensa and Four Sigma very soon after joining them.... </i>/i><br /><br /><br />Yes, nothing wrong with your social skills.David Davenportnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-14928558034919174242010-02-28T17:43:48.848-08:002010-02-28T17:43:48.848-08:00I haven't met many secular 20-35 year-old Jews...<i>I haven't met many secular 20-35 year-old Jews who seek out the anti-intermarriage writings of Eliot Abrams (secular) or Esther Jungreis (orthodox).</i><br /><br />But most of them still manage to end up married to other secular 20-35 year-old Jews.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-66439831550905277572010-02-28T15:35:38.484-08:002010-02-28T15:35:38.484-08:00The smart nerd stereotype may be true but (I say t...The smart nerd stereotype may be true but (I say this as a professional statistician) there are some severe selection effects that make this hard to judge clearly. At MIT I was surrounded by very smart people and concluded that there is a positive correlation overall between smarts, looks, and social skill. However, there is a higher proportion of dweebs at MIT partly because dweebishness is less of a handicap there since cognitive ability is so disproportionately important. Similarly, chess grandmasters are more likely to be Aspergery *than people of prominence in other fields* because nonexistent social skills won't handicap someone.<br /><br />The sample frame is critical -- if you are looking at people who have achieved some degree of fame (meaning you know of them but you don't know them personally) you will see lots of spurious negative correlations because they are likely to be famous because they are at the far left or right end of SOME trait. That's why "brains vs beauty" is such a cliche -- if people get famous EITHER for brains OR for beauty, then you are dropping everyone with neither from the sample, and since the people who are dropping from the sample have neither you are removing a subsample with a positive correlation and what remains will have a spurious negative correlation that overwhelms the true but smaller positive correlation.<br /><br />If you think about the people you know personally rather than the people you know of, you are likely to observe a positive rather than a negative brains-beauty correlation.<br /><br />High-IQ societies attract people with poor social skills and underachievers, which is why I ended my memberships in Mensa and Four Sigma very soon after joining them.<br /><br />My son has Asperger's but his extreme intelligence has allowed him to compensate very well, so people who know him superficially have no idea how severe his deficits are. If he had not been so smart he would have probably been autistic instead. That's not to say that the traits on this spectrum are not genetically connected to intelligence, just that selection effects exaggerate the apparent strength of the connection.Polymathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12332963337386407840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-51622191324460446342010-02-28T15:29:16.310-08:002010-02-28T15:29:16.310-08:00SF sed:
OT, here is another story on the thread th...SF sed:<br /><i>OT, here is another story on the thread that liberals think IQ is meaningless, but they have a higher IQ than other people.</i><br><br />In keeping with the true motivation of liberals as exposed by Steve u need to rephrase that statement:<br /><br><br />"OT, here is another story on the thread that liberals think IQ is meaningless, <i>as long as they have a higher IQ than other people.</i>"headachenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-4208923447881405972010-02-28T13:38:21.147-08:002010-02-28T13:38:21.147-08:00"I briefly attended Mensa meetings when I was..."I briefly attended Mensa meetings when I was a lonely stressed out graduate student, and what I saw were mostly middle age losers whose only claim to fame was that they had a high IQ."<br /><br />As a member of this board for three years; well, let's just say you could be describing other things aside from Mensa.<br /><br />"It is interesting that in marrying a black woman Krugman picked the whitest-looking one that he could get."<br /><br />Or maybe he just married a woman he liked?<br /><br /><br />Naaaaah. what was I thinking?Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-39263685209049624092010-02-28T13:09:55.786-08:002010-02-28T13:09:55.786-08:00Well--cant believe I actually went back and read t...Well--cant believe I actually went back and read the whole article.Certainly on my death bed I will regret the x # of minutes wasted. Eyes glazed over at several points. It confirmed my initial belief that this couple is extremely creepy--and I could not imagine them having sex. I pray that theyre one of those couples that are happy that they found each other because they consider all "that" to be waste of time,rather messy,and not worth the effort. That is until,Roissy-like,she meets some musclebound drug kingpin... At one point where the article describes Paul manfully wading out into the sea,I kind of hoped for a sudden 'Jaws'moment: "The blood-crazed Great White savagely attacked Paul,ripping off a leg--the left one--as Pauls high pitched screams were drowned out by the laughter of the little brown children happily playing on the beach,oblivious to what was unfolding before them. Pauls wife stood motionless. 'This is,' she said at last,'disturbing.'" These guys are relentless in their glorification of "intelligence" and their innate superiority,but they are destroying the nation! How can you be so smart but ruin everything built by the lesser beings who are so inferior to you? he seemd especially stupid in explaining away his ignorance of the crack up of Enron--tho people were writing to him telling him waht was going on.joshnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-70199559813009801322010-02-28T11:22:54.816-08:002010-02-28T11:22:54.816-08:00"Jews, in their own media and organizations, ..."Jews, in their own media and organizations, spend a great deal of time discussing how intermarriage is bad and how to lessen it."<br /><br />Except among the orthodox, it is not a monolithic opinion among Jews that intermarriage is bad. The intermarriage critics are quite vehement (not surprising given that some believe that God supports their side), but the rank and file don't pay much attention. I haven't met many secular 20-35 year-old Jews who seek out the anti-intermarriage writings of Eliot Abrams (secular) or Esther Jungreis (orthodox).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-23801475303155855682010-02-28T03:10:06.922-08:002010-02-28T03:10:06.922-08:00'His darting eyes have always kind of bothered...'His darting eyes have always kind of bothered me. He reminds me of a ferret.'<br /><br />That is a vicious, unprovoked insult to ferrets.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-80938569121521097172010-02-27T22:10:43.063-08:002010-02-27T22:10:43.063-08:00http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/26/liberals.athe...http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/26/liberals.atheists.sex.intelligence/index.html?hpt=C2<br /><br />OT, here is another story on the thread that liberals think IQ is meaningless, but they have a higher IQ than other people.SFnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-21986050104734998752010-02-27T16:47:28.100-08:002010-02-27T16:47:28.100-08:00His darting eyes have always kind of bothered me. ...His darting eyes have always kind of bothered me. He reminds me of a ferret.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-84751389560075819382010-02-27T14:02:11.251-08:002010-02-27T14:02:11.251-08:00Jews, in their own media and organizations, spend ...Jews, in their own media and organizations, spend a great deal of time discussing how intermarriage is bad and how to lessen it. <br /><br />Jews do not allow white people to do the same.ATBOTLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-76074373691383705642010-02-27T13:41:24.984-08:002010-02-27T13:41:24.984-08:00"My co-worker says he was mystified at first ..."My co-worker says he was mystified at first by his daughter-in-law's being so hot for Judaism...He decided that she would rather the kids identify themselves as Jewish than black.<br /><br />"considering that none of her in-laws were religious at all."<br /><br />Could be, or it could be that you, in your imminent genius, answered the man's question right here;<br /><br />"considering that none of her in-laws were religious at all."<br /><br />"Although Jews do have noticeable rates of out-marriage, they are much lower than that of other groups."<br /><br />Only around 50% of Jews marry other Jews.Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.com