tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post8481464936951558229..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Cato's Lindsey says Richwine is wrongUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-22743607541905846352013-05-16T19:06:22.602-07:002013-05-16T19:06:22.602-07:00Regarding the French adoption study, Jensen's ...Regarding the French adoption study, Jensen's reanalysis suggested that the effect of high- versus low-SES adoptive parents on adoptees' IQs was not on general intelligence, while the effect of high- versus low-SES biological parents was. He wrote:<br /><br /><i>The mean standardized difference in g factor scores for the postnatal [adoptive] environmental effect… is 0.129, t = 0.41, p = .68 (2- tail). The mean standardized difference in g factor scores for the biological effect… is 0.861, t = 3.08, p = .004 (2-tail). In other words, the effect on the level of g of an extreme difference in SES environmental background is small and, in this study, even nonsignificant. In contrast, the effect on g of a difference in the SES level of the adoptees’ biological parents is relatively large and highly significant.</i><br /><br />This would suggest that the IQ boost caused by being adopted to a high-SES family reflects gains in narrow skills rather than general ability (or, conversely, being adopted to a low-SES family causes deficits in narrow skills). Such an effect will most likely fade away as the kids grow up. In contrast, the boost in g caused by being born to high-SES parents (or a g deficit caused by being born to low-SES parents) will likely become more potent with age.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78768455435444290242013-05-16T12:49:24.205-07:002013-05-16T12:49:24.205-07:00>There really aren't any think tanks on the...>There really aren't any think tanks on the right interested in preserving our civilization, are there? Why do they even exist?<<br /><br />To stroke the 1%. That's what they're paid for, and they do a good job.Davidhttp://david-passingparade2.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-67015699679797508272013-05-16T09:55:47.282-07:002013-05-16T09:55:47.282-07:00But immigration is not just about personal likes &...<i>But immigration is not just about personal likes & dislikes.</i><br /><br />Jesus Christ himself could rise from the grave, and if he and the majority demanded he stay at my house, claimed it as a right, and threatened opprobrium if I refused...I'd refuse.<br /><br />I don't like the way these people ask.Svigornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-66933936092070619072013-05-16T05:51:59.261-07:002013-05-16T05:51:59.261-07:00Anonymous is right, Will Wilkinson and Brink Linds...Anonymous is right, Will Wilkinson and Brink Lindsey left Cato around the same time in what some called a "liberaltarian purge".TGGPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11017651009634767649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-66648205328594868312013-05-16T03:34:09.937-07:002013-05-16T03:34:09.937-07:00I have nothing against Hispanics on a personal lev...I have nothing against Hispanics on a personal level. They seem nice enough.<br /><br />But immigration is not just about personal likes & dislikes. Basically its a HR decision. The state is recruiting potential military recruits and tax-payers. (Unless the state has some other agenda beyond the well being of its citizens.) On that score the Hispanic recruitment drive is not a good bet.<br /><br />Its not like we dont have much experience of evaluating Hispanic social performance under conditions of modernity. Its been more than five hundred years since Cortez dragged the indigenous inhabitants of Latin America kicking and screaming into the modern age. So far they have done...so-so. Not too bad, but nothing to write home about. <br /><br />If this immigration reform goes through and you want a vision of the US future, think urban Brazil. Is that what Washington, Lincoln and Roosevelt were thinking of when they urged their fellow citizens to make sacrifices for the future?jack strocchihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17534084770633227131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-73620356358389018742013-05-16T03:24:56.306-07:002013-05-16T03:24:56.306-07:00Brink Lindsey Said:
Specifically, it is based on ...Brink Lindsey Said:<br /><br /><i>Specifically, it is based on the ahistorical and ethnocentric assumption of a fixed relationship between the development of certain cognitive skills and raw mental ability. In truth, the skills associated with intelligence have changed over time--and unevenly through social space--as society evolves.</i><br /><br />Man, what a mouthful. Lindsey is saying that human nature does not exist in a fixed Platonic form because human populations evolve. Thats true, so far as it goes. But the process of human evolution usually takes hundreds, if not thousands, of years, to go through the formality of actually taking place. And even when it does occur, it does not necessarily get "better". Plenty of breeding populations have lost their evolutionary mojo. (Greece, I am looking at you.)<br /><br />The Left, by censoring the analysis of human nature, have lost all credibility on the debate over the national interest. They plan to "naturalize" eleven million illegal immigrants (about five percent of the total US adult population) whilst ignoring or banning the analysis of the natural attributes of Hispanics. <br /><br />Thus we have naturalization without nature. <br /><br />The worlds most prestigious science journal is called "Nature". But what would they know?jack strocchihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17534084770633227131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-90485412306799536282013-05-16T01:50:15.031-07:002013-05-16T01:50:15.031-07:00Here's a great idea for raising the mean IQ of...Here's a great idea for raising the mean IQ of hispanics in the US: introduce immigration policy that privileges high IQ hispanics over their less smart brethren.teqzillahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10644136551384385125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-11809635209434703962013-05-16T00:20:50.233-07:002013-05-16T00:20:50.233-07:00Wouldn't it make more sense to select immigran...<i>Wouldn't it make more sense to select immigrants who can strongly contribute immediately, not in several generations?</i><br /><br />I don't want any more immigrants into my country Steve! I don't care how intelligent they are. We are already too crowded, competition is already too cutthroat. We need a foreign overclass like we need a foreign underclass.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-55924567952468769102013-05-16T00:12:36.820-07:002013-05-16T00:12:36.820-07:00It's the mother of all coincidences
Another c...<i>It's the mother of all coincidences</i><br /><br />Another classic!eahnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-25891457332678215122013-05-16T00:10:03.045-07:002013-05-16T00:10:03.045-07:00The U.S. has had enormous experience with Hispanic...<i>The U.S. has had enormous experience with Hispanics since 1848.</i><br /><br />For that matter, so has most of Central and South America, including Mexico. But never mind all of that! What kind of nutcase racist are you anyway!!eahnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-52489880457277682682013-05-15T23:27:06.862-07:002013-05-15T23:27:06.862-07:00There really aren't any think tanks on the rig...There really aren't any think tanks on the right interested in preserving our civilization, are there? <br /><br />Why do they even exist?<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-42399630677593523802013-05-15T22:56:58.085-07:002013-05-15T22:56:58.085-07:00@C. Van Carter
> Bold policy innovations are n...@C. Van Carter<br /><br />> Bold policy innovations are needed<br /><br />Don't observers detect the sameness after umpty repetitions that equality, like nuclear fusion, is always some number of years of intervention by yet-to-be-conjured genius, away? I don't think it would take an observer of good faith much time to notice and figure it out. <br /><br />The author is dishonest to state his conclusions strongly up front, and bury the fact of a need for, and his weak, merely hopeful solution at the bottom. Putting them at the top would make clear that you can't build the conclusion from them and would ruin anything else he has to say. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43918644013121610512013-05-15T22:28:38.857-07:002013-05-15T22:28:38.857-07:00the richwine dissertation was about culture (hispa...the richwine dissertation was about culture (hispanics) not race (latinos). hispanics include white people (spaniards).<br /><br />how to easily tell anglo culture is superior to hispanic culture? just look at economies and standard of living of former british colonies vs former spanish colonies. DUH!<br />john marzanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08036820667908976630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-70304675527578466332013-05-15T22:17:57.453-07:002013-05-15T22:17:57.453-07:00Lindsey's views are a prime example of what Fe...Lindsey's views are a prime example of what Feynman called "cargo cult science" <br />Feynman says that to do real science, you have give all of the information that is available; not just the<br />information that leads to judgment in one particular direction . Lindsey is obviously interested only in those result that support his POV.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-51229085124210865842013-05-15T22:02:40.244-07:002013-05-15T22:02:40.244-07:00libertarianism reminds me of an isolated, radical ...libertarianism reminds me of an isolated, radical totalitarian clique that brooks no dissent. we should be grateful they forswear the initiation of force.<br /><br />(my browsers spell check doesn't even recognise 'libertarianism' as a proper word, a good message about the significance of that movement)xnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78610095753741114482013-05-15T21:24:14.069-07:002013-05-15T21:24:14.069-07:00Modern libertarians are lunatics. In a fit of piqu...Modern libertarians are lunatics. In a fit of pique, one Ayn Rander wrote a long, crabbed expose of the libertarian "movement" ("Libertarianism: The Perversion of Liberty," by Peter Schwartz). The theme of this was interesting. The theme was that liberty minus content, i.e., liberty on principle, is not other than nihilism; it means a revolt against any concept of solid, constraining facts.<br /><br />Example: I dislike paying tax. So, taxes should be abolished and everyone should build his own road if he wants to go anywhere. He could charge tolls, using military weapons for enforcement since there would be no government. Nor should there be one, because government only tells people what to do, like my father did. Now dress all that up with footnotes, moralizing, and a whitewashing of the disasters that would follow if this were put into practice, and you have what's called libertarian scholarship.<br /><br />A Lew Rockwell writer, Bob Wallace, was turned into a non-person by Lew, who destroyed Wallace's archives - because Wallace non-profanely expressed some race-realistic platitudes. Wallace <a href="http://uncabob.blogspot.mx/2008/04/dilemma-of-libertarian-homosexual.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> reports that homosexuality of a nihilist type is well-represented among libertarians. He calls it "The Dilemma of the Libertarian Homosexual". This is well worth reading.Davidhttp://david-passingparade2.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-12773668776522740082013-05-15T20:57:14.527-07:002013-05-15T20:57:14.527-07:00"Brink Lindsey, a lawyer at Cato,"
I..."Brink Lindsey, a lawyer at Cato,"<br /><br />I'm pretty sure he was kicked out of Cato along will Will Wilkinson for being a "liberaltarian". I always thought they were both douchebags. <br /><br />Surely in the spirit of open debate The Atlantic will commission a companion piece arguing from the other perspective. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-20792139797533540682013-05-15T20:47:56.220-07:002013-05-15T20:47:56.220-07:00cato institute are dirtcato institute are dirtxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-36534717996459598502013-05-15T20:42:42.438-07:002013-05-15T20:42:42.438-07:00The French adoption study did not track people all...The French adoption study did not track people all the way until adulthood. Moreover, the adoptions effects found at earlier ages are not on 'g'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-39172277198717473162013-05-15T20:41:07.812-07:002013-05-15T20:41:07.812-07:00Stop the presses, it turns out Lindsey figured out...Stop the presses, it turns out <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/kauffman/2012/08/13/in-the-inequality-debate-both-sides-are-wrong/2/" rel="nofollow">Lindsey figured out a way to make everyone equally intelligent</a>: "[H]ow can we accelerate the flagging pace of human capital development? Bold policy innovations are needed on a number of fronts: more effective early childhood interventions to help kids from disadvantaged backgrounds"C. Van Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09918883799053031223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-50107206470643066472013-05-15T20:40:46.207-07:002013-05-15T20:40:46.207-07:00There it is again, not just racist, but also wrong...There it is again, not just racist, but also wrong. I guess people are starting to make the connection that the charge of racist isn't being made in such a way that the context means "innaccurate" or "false".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-75121291195632885462013-05-15T20:39:54.844-07:002013-05-15T20:39:54.844-07:00It is well established in the behavioral genetics ...It is well established in the behavioral genetics literature that the full impact of genetic factors does not manifest itself until adulthood. Social liberals on the Left and at the Cato Institute sometimes cite the French adoption study because it offers the most hope for their anit-hereditarian, Open Borders dogma, but other adoption studies do not find any lasting IQ effects of having had adoptive parents (irrespective of the adoptive parents' socioeconomic status).<br />Richard Nisbett still needs to track down all of the adoptees and show us that their IQs are still as high as Lindsey claims. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-16605992332285811622013-05-15T20:39:06.129-07:002013-05-15T20:39:06.129-07:00It's the mother of all coincidencesIt's the mother of all coincidencesAlcalde Jaime Miguel Curleohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11801154986193443160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-22568350160581171432013-05-15T20:25:43.757-07:002013-05-15T20:25:43.757-07:00"Morally unsound" - one of the things I ..."Morally unsound" - one of the things I can't stand about Libertarianoids is their moralizing.C. Van Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09918883799053031223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-885309376430297692013-05-15T20:05:47.530-07:002013-05-15T20:05:47.530-07:00This "cosmotarian" idiot Brink--it sound...This "cosmotarian" idiot Brink--it sounds like the name of Miss September or something--has been de-educating the public and battering the collective IQ for far too long. Will no one rid me of this meddlesome think-tank dorkAlcalde Jaime Miguel Curleohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11801154986193443160noreply@blogger.com