[sauropod]

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[Doctor Stochastic]

...most people who have not read the book still think it was about race....

Strangely enough, everyone that I know who has read the book thinks it's about race.

[Tribune7]

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[GOPJ]

The European Union’s immigration policy has, willy-nilly, decided that now you can move to Denmark and become Danish or move to France and become French. Is this true? Everyday experience suggests that Denmark’s culture works because it fits the characteristics of Danes, that France’s culture works because it fits the characteristics of the French, and that these ethnic characteristics are importantly different and deeply rooted, whether in genes or in habits of the heart. Replace a large proportion of French with Danes—let alone peoples more distant—and French culture will be profoundly changed. But it is taboo among the elites to talk about such things (although ordinary people sense what is at stake), and so a momentous social experiment is under way without any reason to think that its assumptions are correct, many historical reasons for thinking they are wrong, and recurring stories on the evening news suggesting that the social fabrics of Europe will be shredded before the elites can make themselves come to grips with what they have been doing.

One more reason the Department of Defense should expand to include "cultural democracy teams" to interpret the ideas of freedom within Middle Eastern cultural norms.

[wotan]

In all cases, the variation within groups is greater than the variation between groups.

This is true, but it is also true if we include gorillas as a "group". The IQ of Koko the gorilla was determined to be in the range 70 to 95 - higher than the nation of Ghana, where the average IQ is 62. Several other sub-Saharan nations in Africa fall near the low end of this range. Many nations fall below the high end. There are at least three at 90 - Turkey, Croatia, and Israel (probably due to its large Arab population). Only one, Japan (110), is a full standard deviation higher than Koko's high end estimate. Average IQ in the USA is 98 and falling due to immigration from lower IQ nations, high fertility among low IQ groups, and low fertility among high IQ groups due to a variety of media propaganda campaigns to reduce fertility here in the US (think abortion, feminism, homosexuality, lesbianism, hedonism, zero population growth, catholic-bashing, etc.). The media has, of course, also been behind the open-borders propaganda to enable massive illegal immigration.

IQ matters (see here), but, obviously, IQ is not the only thing that matters. Ghana is not ruled by gorillas!

[white trash redneck]

When the lefties sneer at conservatives for ignoring the scientific method and supporting creationism, it's fair to point out that lefties cast the scientific method aside in dismissing the heritability of, and racial and sex differences in intelligence.

[Tolik]

In case you missed it! A very long and very interesting article for your weekend reading.

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