I have not yet indulged in viewing Chery's photos, but based on her name I would imagine that she is only half east asian. Of course, she might have been adopted. 
 
 
Now that I have seen what I take to be her photo, I guess it was adoption or marriage :-)

Kurt: 
 
 
The thing about Cheryl's comments about IQ tests being defined ( and therefor biased) towards favoring white males is the fact that both men and women of Cheryl's race tend to score higher on those tests than most white males. This is quite entertaining to me. 
 
 
I have not yet indulged in viewing Chery's photos, but based on her name I would imagine that she is only half east asian. Of course, she might have been adopted.

May says: 
 
 
Someone should have intervened and retired him that time. If you are a scientist and you start voicing out conclusions for controversy, you are just a sad old man begging for attention. 
 
 
Well, I think it is fortunate that people don't pay too much attention to your opinions, then May.

In some sense it is trivially true that IQ tests are not universal. 
 
For example, they do not test the test-taker's ability to survive and pass on their genes in a disease-infested, low-tech, low-civilization environment like much of Africa. 
 
Of course, less and less of the world looks like that these days.

Also, Japanese and Chinese seem to do very well on this IQ test stuff, despite it being invented in the West and possibly carrying some sort of Western Cultural bias. 
 
????????

Blah impulsively spurts out: 
 
 
50 years ago, they cant go to a university. 
 
 
Hmmm, fifty or so years ago, Japanese and Chinese immigrants also had difficulty being able to afford to go to college, I believe. 
 
They now have a very big presence in colleges across the US despite their small percentage of the US population.

May says: 
 
 
Most pedophiles are white males. 
 
 
I presume you actually mean "Most pedophiles in the US are white males," although perhaps you have information on the distribution of pedophiles world-wide. 
 
Do you have the stats? How do they fare when compared with their proportion of the actual US population?

The reality is that all people will use social techniques to mitigate their shortcomings vis-a-vis the more capable in society. 
 
Moreover, the social control techniques being exercised are a form of selection that will simply drive the evolution of more capable people.

Razib says: 
 
the first crusade was even more nuts than the fourth. the seige of antioch was pretty much a miraculous victory. it bring it up because it was obviously one of those irrational and nuts decisions which probably changed the course of history and the reproductive values of those who engaged in it and survived. 
 
I think this also highlights very nicely that what is rational, in terms of promoting reproductive success, for males, is very different that what is rational for females. It just does not male sense for females to take those sort of risks, since males can be found everywhere ...