I'd kill for a @kunley_drukpa thread on "What scientists say Africa would look like if Lynn's data were accurate"
This is a funny argument. It misses the fact that you'd also have a small number of 100 IQ kleptocrats just competent enough to bring in oil and gas majors and then rug them once a cycle, while keeping the masses in squalor. Hey, wait a minute...
Guys who attempt this reductio ad absurdum have clearly never lived in Africa. There are a dozen guys within ten blocks of our house who live in *perpetual stupor*. Just...sitting on the ground and staring...for years.
Now, might the real number be closer to 70 than to 59? Of course. I'd bet on it. But these guys aren't mad about the difference between 59 and 70, they just want the topic to...go...away.
People so often misrepresent Lynn's data that I thought it would be worth checking the actual source for Swann's claim. Let's check Lynn's latest (2012) compilation of estimates. Oh, look, Equatorial Guinea estimated at 69, not 59 🙄
In addition to getting the national estimate wrong, Swann also acts like Lynn was unaware of Equatorial Guinea's large positive GDP residual. Actually, Lynn devoted entire chapters to these residuals
Lynn knew his lit reviews were imperfect and fragmentary, which is why they took up entire books. Anyone who cared to read them would learn that Lynn's estimates accord quite well with other indices of human development (here, Lynn 2012):
Weird week. Never would have imagined that a couple of midsized normie accounts would be inviting exegesis of Bryan Pesta admixture regressions and Richard Lynn IQ appendices. Maybe next week JoJoFromJerz will ask about Gray Wolf fixation index
This is another funny "gotcha". When a Census worker fails to survey a block in Camden, NJ, do they just say "Oh well!" & then it's anybody's guess as to whether that block might be full of hedge fund managers instead of people very like their neighbors?
Reading about Ram Air Turbines after the Air India 171 crash and came across this puzzling picture of Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303. How is the aircraft airborne after "both engines and generators failed due to a belly landing"?
Ok, they landed without landing gear, skidded for 18 seconds, and decided to take off again for a go around. How does that happen?
The aircraft was twice as high as it should have been for its approach, the pilots were making decisions without talking to each other, and in a weird show of braggadocio the Captain decided to "surprise" ATC by continuing to land rather than go around
Simultaneously across the West, "Mental health" has emerged as the free money glitch. Australia has free home retrofits for kids with "ADHD". The UK gives parents free cars. In the US there's a "1 in 5" mental health "crisis" conveniently tied to the employment of ed specialists
The private school in my neighborhood hired a woman to run it, acquired a DEI department, and abandoned all academic rigor. Preteen boys are soporized with schoolmarm slop, and when their marks suffer, they're "diagnosed" and referred to specialists
Basic school functions get outsourced to remedial programs at 10x the cost. E.g. a friend's kid has sloppy handwriting because drilling in class has been deemed declasse. So he's seeing a *physical therapist* who for $600/mo watches him practice his letters. It's an industry.
Some good descriptions of what today would be called "virtue signalling" in this chapter on Ursuline nuns. Previous passages also capture the sexual fantasies, somewhat adjacent to hybristophilia, that ironically attended chastity.
This sort of gal is instantly recognizable today, disowning MAGA family members or marching for tr*nnies
Extremely right wing friend talks about what it's like on the inside to be a successful Ashkenazi financier. Says that beyond the intelligence, the characteristic traits are a somewhat neurotic hyperactivity and a bit of disregard for social convention...
I watched him rise meteorically in his 20s, and it was true. He has a manic, self effacing good nature, and his days seem to be one long laugh. Twice he arrived in a new city, pressed bumptiously and good humoredly in every direction, and within months knew everyone
He thinks the key non-Gentile trait is a willingness to look foolish, to ask the possibly dumb question at a pitch dinner that nobody else will. Thinks a sort of dispositional gravity therefore leads Ashkenazim toward places where the *social* fabric of a market is broken...
It goes under remarked-upon that British colonial subjects were immediately granted civil rights
The British didn't know how to govern a possession (Ascension Island) of 380, so they declared it to be a ship and left it to the Admiralty
"How is it that these pale-cheeked exiles gave security to a race of another hue, other tongues, other religions which rulers of their own people have ever failed to give"