Tag: IQ

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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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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…)

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Psychopathy is part of an r-selected strategy involving bearing many offspring but investing little effort in raising them. (more…)

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.

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Case Studies of Polygamous White Men

Although white men have probably been the most monogamous historically, not all exhibit the phenotype:

1. Charles Lindbergh, the first man to fly an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean, sired six children with his American wife, Anne Morrow, in addition to a combined five children to two women from Bavaria, as well as two with Valeska, an East Prussian aristocrat who was his private secretary in Europe. (more…)

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Jeremy and Chet are two brothers who live in the Midwest in the suburb of Whitown, USA. Chet is a few years older than Jeremy and graduated from college a few years before, while Jeremy is in his junior year at a college on the East Coast. (more…)

Career Opportunities

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We’ve all seen sci-fi movies where an attractive woman gets stuck alone with a guy she normally wouldn’t consider, gets to know “the real him,” something threatens her, he rescues or protects her, and they pair up in the end. (more…)

Justus Sustermans, Galileo Galilei, 1636.

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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…)

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Richard Haier begins his fascinating 2017 work The Neuroscience of Intelligence with a question: Why are some people smarter than others? From this he brings the reader up to speed on what neuroscientists have discovered about the genetic and physiological underpinnings of intelligence. This seems like a vast topic, but it really isn’t given how many neuroscientists shy away from the “controversial” topic of intelligence. (more…)

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While doing a deep dive into Richard Haier’s illuminating textbook, The Neuroscience of Intelligence, I was reminded of something Academic Agent said during a particularly interesting episode of Millenniyule 2021: (more…)

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On last Saturday’s episode of Counter-Currents Radio, Greg Johnson was joined by Counter-Currents authors Richard Houck and Thomas Steuben, as well as voice performer Gaddius Maximus, to hold an “argument clinic” on how to respond to the charge of “racism.” (more…)