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Part 5 of 5 (Part 1 here, Part 4 here)
Transcript by Hyacinth Bouquet. The following is a transcript of the fifth and final part of Marian Van Court and Arthur Jensen’s conversation, which can be heard here, or using the player below.
There are a few places where the recording is inaudible, and have been marked as such. If you can figure out what is being said, or if you have other corrections, please offer them in the comments below. (more…)
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Part 4 of 5 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here, Part 5 here)
Transcript by Hyacinth Bouquet. The following is a transcript of the fourth part of Marian Van Court and Arthur Jensen’s conversation, which can be heard here, or using the player below.
There are a few places where the recording is inaudible, and have been marked as such. If you can figure out what is being said, or if you have other corrections, please offer them in the comments below. (more…)
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Part 2 of 5 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here)
Transcript by Hyacinth Bouquet. The following is a transcript of the second part of Marian Van Court and Arthur Jensen’s conversation, which can be heard here, or using the player below.
Topics include:
IQ and common sense
Social intelligence as g + extraversion, or g + social experience (more…)
Arthur Jensen
Arthur Jensen
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Part 1 of 5 (Part 2 here)
Marian Van Court recorded four-and-a-half hours of interviews with Arthur Jensen (1923–2012), who was then a Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, in 1986. Jensen was one of the great pioneers in the science of human biological diversity. The following is a transcript of the first part of their conversation, which can be heard here, or using the player below. The other parts can be heard here: Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 (more…)
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Right-wingers are fascinated with IQ to the point that it’s a focal point of the ideological brand. It’s an unspoken credo that says, “We’re the smart ones.” And that’s fine. All movements have mantras. There’s certainly nothing unappealing about being “the smart ones.” But when was the last time you heard the Left discuss IQ? (more…)
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It’s hardly encouraging to read an article about declining American intelligence that features typos in both the headline and the first sentence, but I suppose it drives home the point.
“American IQ’s [sic] Are Dropping. Here’s Why It Might Not Be A Bad Thing,” reads the headline in something called fatherly.com. (more…)
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Even though it’s widely acknowledged in the scientific community that all personality traits are heritable, studying racial differences in intelligence is still a controversial matter. Some people worry that unpalatable findings may be employed by racists to justify black inferiority. Such concerns are misplaced, however. Though important, intelligence is not a measure of self-worth, and racists are in the minority.
According to researchers, IQ is highly heritable and genetic; thus, if blacks and whites pass on traits to children, why would some think that genes fail to even partially explain the black-white IQ gap? (more…)
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I have confidence in the Right as the political entity we know today largely because Right-wing extremism has proved to be less insidious, murderous, and destructive than Left-wing extremism. This has been the case for the last 250 years. Nothing can compare to the hideous wake left by the French Revolution, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Soviet terror famines and gulags, the mass starvations of Mao’s China, and the crimes committed by the North Vietnamese, among other atrocities. The Nazis at least waited until wartime to commit their acts of barbarism. The worst of the Left had no such compunctions, and were deadlier to boot. (more…)
Paul Popenoe
Paul Popenoe
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Foreword
James Dunphy
Paul Popenoe (1888-1979) was a leading figure in the American eugenics movement, publishing his book Applied Eugenics in 1918. The following chapter, “Religion and Eugenics,” is taken from it.
After writing Applied Eugenics, Popenoe noticed the rising divorce rates in his time and decided to work as a marriage counselor. (more…)
Karl Pearson
Karl Pearson
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To provide the analytical backbone for the much-needed revitalization of the study and practice of eugenics, one need only present a clear and stark dichotomy: If not eugenics, then dysgenics.
There is no stasis; there is no in-between. It truly is black and white. The fitness of human populations is a zero-sum game: the more eugenic one is, the less dysgenic it is, and vice versa. Because all human populations are finite in number, and because all people are born and eventually die, eugenics and dysgenics cannot both rise or sink with the tide within a single population. (more…)
Clockwise, from upper left: Clint Eastwood, Rod Stewart, Charles Lindbergh, and Elon Musk.
Clockwise, from upper left: Clint Eastwood, Rod Stewart, Charles Lindbergh, and Elon Musk.
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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)
Case Studies of Polygamous White Men
Although white men have probably been the most monogamous historically, not all exhibit the phenotype:
Justus Sustermans, Galileo Galilei, 1636.
Justus Sustermans, Galileo Galilei, 1636.
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English original here
Dokonce i mainstreamová média dnes začínají mluvit o tom, že inteligence, tak jak ji zachycují IQ testy, ve větší části světa upadá. Sám tuto vlastnost chápu jako částečně geneticky podmíněnou. Geny vaší inteligenci stanovují jakýsi strop: můžeme tak rozlišovat IQ potenciální a skutečné. Biologicky je podmíněno IQ potenciální, řekněme, že dosahuje výše 120. Při správné péči a výchově, tj. kvalitní stravě v dětství, dostatečnému cvičení a adekvátním množství mentálně podnětných aktivit dosáhne vaše IQ někdy kolem pětadvacátého roku – kdy je vývoj mozku dovršen – inteligence 120. (more…)
