Franz von Stuck, The Spirit of Victory
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Dear Friends of Counter-Currents,
There’s a lot going on at Counter-Currents, so I thought I would combine several announcements into a single post.
The 2024 Fundraiser
We started the 2024 Fundraiser at the end of March. Our goal is $300,000. We got off to a good start, raising $11,236.48. I want to thank everyone who helped out.
But after just three weeks, disaster hit: We were debanked due to political persecution. Debanking let to the shutdown of our Echeck service, which is the principal way we receive donations and paywall subscriptions.
The good news is that we now have a bank account, and the Echeck service is working again.
The bad news is that donations and sales were dead for more than three weeks. That’s almost a month, and there are only 12 of those in a year.
We desperately need to get the fundraiser back on track. We have bills to pay, projects to launch, a world to change. So if you were thinking of making a donation to Counter-Currents sometime this year, I’d like to ask you to do it now. It would be a huge help.
You can visit our donate page here.
The Counter-Currents Reader Poll
On Wednesday, we closed the Counter-Currents reader poll.
- 5,053 invitations were sent.
- 540 people completed the poll, more than 10% of the invitees.
- 146 people started but did not finish. We will have to look into why, to improve the poll for the next round. Nevertheless, the completion rate was 78%.
The $500 prize was awarded. All the data was downloaded from the website. Then, to give hackers nothing to find, we deleted all the data from the site.
Now we are analyzing the data. Then the hard part begins: putting our findings into practice. By understanding you better, we hope to improve both our inreach and our outreach, to better cultivate our current readers and to convert new people.
Since knowledge is power, most of the data will not be published. But David Zsutty shared some interesting preliminary findings, which we will now update based on the final numbers.
Sex Ratio
- 91.6% of our respondents are male, 8.4% female.
Age
- The average age of our readers is 46.4.
IQ
- The average IQ of respondents is 130.
Myers-Briggs Types
- 46.3% of respondents are INTJ (Architect), compared to only 2.1% of the general population.
- 18.5% of respondents are INTP (Logician), compared to 3.3% of the general population.
- 10.7% of respondents are ENTJ (Commander), compared to 1.8% of the general population.
- 6.7% of respondents are ENTP (Debater), compared to 3.2% of the general population.
Education
- 36.2% have Bachelor’s degrees.
- 19.3% have Master’s degrees.
- 6.7% have PhDs.
- 6.1% completed law school.
- 1.3% completed medical school.
To put this into perspective, 23.5% of Americans aged 25 and up had obtained a Bachelor’s degree and 14.4% had completed an advanced degree such as a Master’s degree, professional degree, or doctoral degree as of 2021.
This Saturday’s Livestream
On this Saturday’s Counter-Currents Radio livestream, I will be joined by David Zsutty of the Homeland Institute to discuss another poll, the Homeland Institute’s recent poll on attitudes toward natalism and proposed pro-natal policies.
Join us at noon PST/3 PM EST/9 PM CET on:
DLive: https://dlive.tv/Counter-Currents
Odysee: https://odysee.com/@countercurrents/ccradio
Send questions & donations to Entropy: entropystream.live/countercurrents
Thanks for your loyal readership and support!
Greg Johnson
7 comments
Sorry to tell I am one of the ones that did not finish the CC R Reader Survey. I remember getting as far as “The Meyers-Briggs Types” re: INTJ etc.. That stopped me cold. Never heard of it.
I have never had a formal IQ Test, but scored quite high on the “Iowa Tests” in high school in the early ’60’s. I had two scores of 99 in reading comprehension, but math score of 53 pulled me down to 92 overall. An online test gave me 110, but I think they just used my Anglo name.
I have a Master’s in Library Science from University of Denver, but when I went on job interviews, they wanted someone with management experience, which is not for me.
I have two Bachelor’s, one in Art History from UCLA in 1970, and the equivalent in Russian History at University of Washington in 1980. I studied that topic because I wanted to know why we were in an endless ‘cold war’ with Russia, etc. I learned a firm hatred of Communism while reading Solzhenitsyn and that brought me to Counter Currents somehow. I still have my notes and tests from those classes. I had great teachers then, and now at CC
I wish I could see the full survey, but it is correct to keep it hidden.
You know, I’ve always wanted to pretend to be an architect….
Nice Seinfeld reference. “Hi, I’m Art Vandelay!”
Was there an IQ test built into the survey? I think I took one back in the day but forgot what it was.
No, it simply asked if you’d ever taken an IQ test, and if so what the result was.
Pretty sure SAT score is being used as a proxy. It won’t be the most precise measure since those of us yungins who took it post-1996(?) took a less IQ-correlated version.
Education
36.2% have Bachelor’s degrees.
19.3% have Master’s degrees.
6.7% have PhDs.
6.1% completed law school.
1.3% completed medical school.
A BA is required for all of the higher degrees listed. So I interpret this data as saying that 36.2% of respondents have a Bachelor’s degree ONLY. Adding up the above (in my head), I get 69.6% of poll respondents have at least a BA. I’m surprised and a bit impressed that over 30% of readers (assuming the respondent group roughly matches actual annual readership) lack a college degree. I’d like to hear what others make of this.
CC seems to me to appeal to a fairly intelligent readership. That this is likely so is confirmed by the average respondent IQ of 130 (was there an IQ test embedded within the questionnaire? how was this number reached?). IQ 130 is way above the white American average of 100.
[For some anecdotal IQ correlation to the real world, in my presence at a conference in the 90s, the logician Michael Levin, author of the outstanding but not easy Why Race Matters, and an expert at that time on race and IQ (not sure if he’s still involved in that area), opined that he thought Newt Gingrich, then much in the news as House Speaker, had an IQ of 120-125 – something of a putdown, esp. as Newt has a doctorate.]
In the postwar era of mass education and, indeed, college attendance, most smart persons are identified, encouraged and ‘tracked’ to go to college. I don’t know if this has been the same overseas. I also don’t know what percentage of poll respondents (or CC readers generally) are not Americans.
But if these poll results are representative of CC’s readership, it would seem that CC attracts a disproportionate number of that small set of persons consisting of intelligent people who forewent college. What should we make of this? I’m not wholly sure, but for starters, it at least suggests that smart persons who do not attend college are likelier to become white nationalists than are whites generally, which in turn suggests, among other things, the racio-ideologically corrosive effects of attending college.
But I think there’s potentially a lot more of interest here. I need to ruminate a bit over this.
The readership skews older. In older generations, Gen X and particularly boomers, a lot of people did not have college degrees and a lot of people went to college, but did not finish it, especially in Vietnam era when people were drafted. The average IQ of college grads these days, I recently read, is not much above the average IQ. Everybody goes to college. Disparate impact sort of made college degrees necessary because they couldn’t give the little knowledge or intelligence tests for hiring anymore. As a result, what do they do? They dumb down the college degrees so the people who had trouble with those employment tests can get the college degrees. They are going to give them our jobs, one way or another.
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