Posts with Comments by RB

No sh*t psychology

  • Comparison groups sorted stringently by SES and IQ should be used to see if this result still holds robustly. Maybe we can also add observed and self-reported personality measures as well.  
     
    The result seem to reflect a primitive,'hard-wired' tendency.
  • Bye bye Kalash! It was good while it lasted….

  • Kalash are a very interesting subject. I've seen many pictures of the Kalash over the years. Many of them are of a very pink complexion, othrs with fair hair and eyes of striking color. But, all in all, I've personally found the Kalash to physically resemble Pakhtuns and Tadzhik very much. 
     
    I'm curious --- being an isolate, just how close are the Kalash genetically to the Pakhtun/Pashtun, Ghaljis and Tadzhik?
  • GNXP readers do not breed

  • How about attractiveness vis-a-vis corporate and bureaucratic criminality?  
    The highly intelligent seem very adept at acts of a skilled but unknosher nature. Whomever it is that eventually presses that red button of final destruction of all that lives, I've little doubt that it will be someone well to the right on the bell distribution. This sorts of "fun" correlational studies really waste scientific funds for lopsided science, imo.
  • Retention-not flunking

  • If teachers can't pass the tests, why expect them to help the students pass them?

    If american schools are so great, why do universities have to spend more and more time with remedial ed?

    Why do universities have to import so many science, engineering, and computer science students from other countries' educational systems?

    Why do US labs and corporations have to import so many foreign professionals and engineers?

  • Affirmative Action strikes a Knock-out!

  • Interesting article.

    I would have to agree that since Connerly's groups are funded by voluntary private donations, rather than public taxpayer funds, it is up to the donors to decide what is fair compensation to Connerly for his time.

    Any volunteer donor is free not to give, after all.

    Contrast that with people who live well from taxpayer funded projects. Taxpayers cannot simply withdraw their tax payments when tax money is spent unwisely.

    It seems a lot of people simply do not like what Connerly stands for, and will try just about anything to try to embarass him. Unfortunately for them, Connerly is both charming and honest, which makes potential donors look favorably on him.

  • Asian-American Race Traitors?

  • Those who support AA, no matter what "race" they belong to, often fall into the category of "activist."

    If persons are born "activists", just as a person is born a homosexual or blue-eyed etc., one might find a certain irreducible portion of all ethnic groups falling into the "activist" category. There may be a "bell curve" distribution of activism.

    Activists of both left and right are often shrill and airheaded. In fact, on the shrill-o-meter, leftist activists have a decided advantage. On the airhead-o-meter, they are just about even.

  • White boys only please

  • Sue everybody for everything. Get more politicians in office who are sympathetic to trial lawyers, and get judges who assess very stiff judgments. Pass more laws that give everyone more chances to sue about something.

    Let the lawsuits do for america what fundamentalist muslim militants have not been able to do so far.

  • To respond to “Genetic weapons”

  • A bioweapon may be used to incapacitate a population while it is being conquered. In that sense, a weapon that affects 50% of the enemy, and only 5% of your own, would sufficiently weaken an enemy to allow it to be conquered. Especially if your own population had been immunized so that more like .05% were susceptible, rather than 5%.

  • Yo colored-a derivative isn’t authentic and true to your culture

  • Understand that there is money to be made in the social sciences to any scientist or mathematician willing to play along with the "all science and math is culturally relative" chorus. I suppose they are not hurting anyone, as long as they do not draw from the science and math budgets of their universities, and as long as potential scientists and mathematicians do not take them seriously.

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