I like your plot summary of Idiocracy, but I seem to remember it ending more positively.

That's what I was going to say. How do you become obese on such a restricted diet?

A couple of sites mentioned that the fist coloured Miss South Africa was Amy Kleynhans back in 1992. I did a GSI for her, and based on those pictures, she has a very definite East Asian look.

True, and I think that many of the Cape colony slaves were brought from Madagascar, which gives them an even earlier mixing.

I'm worried that this method may overstate the hype for artists with single important works. Vivaldi's Four Seasons is a piece where everyone should own a recording, while Schoenberg managed to revolutionize modern music without ever creating an obvious 'must-own' work. In general, I expect that composers with single great works would be 'overhyped' on this methodology because there is not a lot to spend column inches on in encyclopedias, and people may generally understand that they are not important composers (i.e. Saint-Saens) even as they want to own that one piece.

I think executive function or prefrontal lobe functioning is as important as general intelligence. Suprisingly even with a lot of damage to the prefrontal cortex general intelligence is not necessarily affected, but many afflicted subjects become unable to take care of themselves. Motivation, drive, planning ahead and attention are all traits that are affected by prefrontal cortex dysfunction. Asperger's is very similar to certain types of frontal lobe trauma especially those with medial frontal damage. 
http://www.ect.org/effects/lobe.html 
 
I think proper function of the prefrontal cortex is critical to being able to use your intelligence. With damage to this area you would have poor socializing ability, poor attention, apathy, low motivation and an inability to think/plan ahead. Mesocortical dopamine in the prefrontal cortex is associated with improved attention/interest/motivation, so drugs that increase dopamine can help executive problems. 
http://www.newsweek.com/id/139885 
 
My own theory for creativity is that people who are creative are very tangential, meaning they make a lot of seemingly bizarre and irrelevant connections. See thought disorder. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_disorder 
 
Tangentiality is common to schizophrenia/schizotypal, aspergers and psychopathy. Surprisingly all of these disorders have been associated with increased creativity. I thinks thats one thing that perhaps asians have a deficit. It's not that they aren't creative or imaginative, it just seems like they are less likely to make tangential, odd combinations of novel ideas. Combining tangentiality with a high general intelligence is like striking gold. You can make seemingly bizarre connections, but your intelligence allows you to sift out which connections are good and which are bad.  
 
Tangentiality may actually be associated with impaired prefrontal lobe function (which is found in people with schizotypal, bipolar and asperger's). NorthEast Asians have a different level of COMT in their prefrontal cortex. COMT breaks down dopamine. I think this generally means that asians have more dopamine in their prefrontal lobe and thus have better concentration/attention/motivation than europeans on average. However this increased focus/concentration may come at a cost as they are less likely to make tangential connections. Also it could be partially societal too. Asian culture may prohibit asians from making the more bizzarre seemingly irrelevant connections. This probably interacts with the openness to experience personality trait as well. Europeans may be more open to new ideas on average than asians. The asians I know who are very creative also seem to be more more open to new and different ideas and are also able to make bizarre/weird connections. So it probably cuts across ethnic groups and is more a confluence of traits that one group may have
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Being a quarter Finnish (along with half-Ukrainian Jewish and a quarter Irish), I love the Finn baiting. My full-blooded Finn grandfather was absolutely the stereotypical Finn--quiet, shy, blond and an engineer. When it comes to Finn baiting, it's usually funny 'cause it's true.

The above should read "beneficial effect," not "beneficial result."

Brooks is telling all parents of children who have Mental Retardation or Borderline Intelligence that their children's low cognitive ability is a direct result of parental inadequacy. If these parents would love their children more, the Mental Retardation would go away. 
 
No, he's saying that growing up in a family, as opposed to growing up in an orphanage, has a beneficial result on IQ for mentally retarded children.

Hi, I had a question about one of the supporting links that you provided about the chart displaying Wellesley College majors and the amount of virgins associated w/ each major. You claim that the chart correlates with the average GRE score for each of the majors, and that the CAT.INIST paper could prove it. When I followed the link though, it took me to a study that only compared gre scores of asian and white students at an unspecified university/ies. I was wondering if you might be able to provide a link to a study that actually correlated to the survey conducted at Wellesly College.

Nasr's book, The Shia Revival, is a great read for general background. His treatment of the Iranian "Red Shia" revolution is interesting, as well as the way he traces the Sunni (esp. Saudi) reaction to that revolution.

Of course War Nerd is against the Iraq War -- that's one reason why Steve Sailer likes him so much. Steve's pretty soundly against it too and has been for awhile. War Nerd articulates the American Conservative position better than they do.

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