Monday, November 19, 2007

It's Obvious

That Barack Obama has 50% white genes in him. I guess his dancing skills came from his white side.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

His father was a harvard-educated economist too. Wait. I thought that was outside the range of a population of retards. Especially how Obama didn't regress to the mean.

TabooTruth said...

In Kenya, a country of 39 million:
average IQ: ~70
SD: 15
IQ of 130 = 4 standard deviations out of the mean.

.01% (so .0001 fraction) of the population has an IQ 4 STD above the mean:

39,000,000 * .0001= 3,900

So even if the average person is borderline retarded, in Kenya, there are thousands of people who have the capacity to study econ at Harvard.

Anonymous said...

Whoa, except those people would be so hilariously spread around, and Harvard is pretty demanding. And Harvard is very selective.

Then you've got regression to the mean. Again. I guess the idea of a continent of RETARDS has never struck you as absurd?

But wait, it's taboo. And it's the TRUTH! No matter how insane and outright retarded it sounds and manages to fly in the face of common sense.

Anonymous said...

The high IQ Keynians might not be so "hilariously spread around." Since IQ isn't randomly distributed there are probably clusters of intelligent people.

TabooTruth said...

OMG you're so smart you made fun of my blog name. Wow you're so cool.

"I guess the idea of a continent of RETARDS has never struck you as absurd?"

Uh, have you been paying attention what's going on in Darfur, Congo, Somalia, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Eritrea, and so on? Considering how blessed they are with natural resources and how messed up they are, am I so far off?

Go read Jason Malloy's explanation.

Anonymous said...

"OMG you're so smart you made fun of my blog name. Wow you're so cool."

Yes. Your blog name is self-aggradizing and pretentious. How could I not go at that?

"Uh, have you been paying attention what's going on in Darfur, Congo, Somalia, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Eritrea, and so on? Considering how blessed they are with natural resources and how messed up they are, am I so far off?"

Yeah sorry, SS africa's failure is much more complex than genes. But wait- since east asia and europe have been hellholes in the past too, maybe they were retarded as well? Since apparently these things are purely reflective of genes when they go on?

That's why I see the term "race realism" as so intellectualy dishonest. You pay little to no heed to anything beyond genetic factors when it comes to looking at human soceities. Hell, this is a perfect description of it from an aquintance of mine:

"Racialism is an arbitrary pseudo science. Worse, its pseudo SOFT science. It makes arbitrary decisions about what values to ascribe to social traits that CURRENTLY are posessed by select populations. It doesn't take past traits into consideration, or take a realistic measure about the nature of social behaviour. It has no objective criteria."

"Go read Jason Malloy's explanation."

What, you mean his Rindermann data? Did you read the eyeondna.com link I posted? Malloy was a lying little bastard. NONE OF THOSE MEASURES WERE IQ TESTS. Rindermann even went at these vague measures because of the unrealiability of most IQ data from SS africa.

TabooTruth said...

The thing is that Europe and Asia, while they have had their share of brutality, have not had governmental failure at the level of SS Africa.


"Racialism is an arbitrary pseudo science. Worse, its pseudo SOFT science. It makes arbitrary decisions about what values to ascribe to social traits that CURRENTLY are posessed by select populations. It doesn't take past traits into consideration, or take a realistic measure about the nature of social behaviour. It has no objective criteria."

I have no idea what this means. Is it saying to include culture? If so, there are clear patterns from Africans throughout the world and from many cultures.

Anonymous said...

"The thing is that Europe and Asia, while they have had their share of brutality, have not had governmental failure at the level of SS Africa."

Really? So why do so many non-african countries show up as just as corrupt?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_corruption

"I have no idea what this means. Is it saying to include culture? If so, there are clear patterns from Africans throughout the world and from many cultures."

No- it's basically reffering to how people of your stripe typically make judgements about entire ethnic groups while taking little to no consideration of prior historical, cultural etc. factors into account, especially those outside of genetic ones. You think people across the globe are largely in the situation they're in because of genes and little to nothing else.

And yes, africans do seem to exhibit certain behaviors globally. Then again, that's just this little snapshot of human history, so I'm not sure how relevant this is.

And yes, I'm that same person but that's been trying to change you, but I'm more abrasive now because you're... well, stubborn?

TabooTruth said...

No complaints here. I appreciate the extra perspectives, but unfortunately, the people arguing against the "HBD" (Sailer, GNXP, 1/2sigma) perspective have been ignoring and shouting us down, not directly engaging us.

So, you were trying to change me in terms of my religious conclusions from HBD but are now talking about general worldviews?

I've studied economics for years and also at the master's level and have read God knows how many papers on development. But yet, when comparing development strategies between countries, the professor was always scratching his head when comparing EastEurope/Asia against LatinAmerica/Africa. No one wanted to talk about the elephant in the room.

I'm interested in this because mainstream economics and politics have failed miserably and kids die.

Anonymous said...

"No complaints here. I appreciate the extra perspectives, but unfortunately, the people arguing against the "HBD" (Sailer, GNXP, 1/2sigma) perspective have been ignoring and shouting us down, not directly engaging us."

Well thanks, I guess. I agree with you there too. There's barely been any sort of substantial middle-ground in this debare without any informed backing. I'm one of those few.

"So, you were trying to change me in terms of my religious conclusions from HBD but are now talking about general worldviews?"

Both, I guess.

"I've studied economics for years and also at the master's level and have read God knows how many papers on development. But yet, when comparing development strategies between countries, the professor was always scratching his head when comparing EastEurope/Asia against LatinAmerica/Africa. No one wanted to talk about the elephant in the room."

Well, you've obviously read vastly more than I have on this particular topic. Though I really have to ask, how often have you seen how much IQ could be some major explantory factor for all these differences? Something along the lines of L&V's work, where over half of all the economic differences between nations are due to IQ differences?

I really find that funny. The idea of africans being mentally retarded is pretty much 100% integral to their idea that IQ explains so much of GDP. Throw that out and wow, there goes the correlation.

Really, I thought reading into this would make you see how ridiculous the hereditarian position is.

"I'm interested in this because mainstream economics and politics have failed miserably and kids die."

Well yes, genetics are important. Then again, so is everything else.