Fred
Explains Brains
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Thinking About Intelligence -More Trouble Than It's Worth
I have decided that intelligence is pernicious, and should be extirpated. It
just causes trouble. Practically every damn fool, deleterious thing our sorry
race has done can be traced to intelligence. It is a bad idea. When it is not
merely a bad idea, it is usually a waste of time.....
Pick your subject—economics, say, or foreign policy, or
crime. You will find brilliant men on Left and Right, each arguing intricately
to a bellowing claque of witless followers who don’t know anything about it
either. You can tell where they will come out by seeing where they went in—on
the Left or on the Right. Generally intelligence has no effect on conclusions, which
are glandularly determined. It just rationalizes hormonal inevitabilities. [
So true - Editor ]..... Where intelligence unfortunately does work reasonably well is
in the sciences. Really smart men have ideas; lesser men, usually engineers,
make them explode; the least men get the triggers. This suggests that we ought
to put a bounty on engineers.
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Fault Fred if you can or want but at least enjoy his writing. There aren't many that
good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_the_International_Assessment_of_Adult_Competencies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_the_International_Assessment_of_Adult_Competencies
#Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies ex Wiki
Is about IQ but withou mentioning it.
Why Do Ashkenazi Jews Have High IQs?
They do have high IQs.
The explanations are various.
Racial Differences In
Intelligence
Intelligence gets measured. It gets compared with race. Propagandists do not
like honest answers so they claim that intelligence can not be measured and that
race does not exist. They lie on both counts. This article is rather long but
has value.
Affirmative Action
Hoax
It is run by liars. Stephen Gould, the author of
Mismeasure of Man is one of the most effective.
Ancient Wisdom
Is highly valuable. We have lost out in a big way by not
remembering it. It sounds plausible but ask why it was forgotten in the first
place. Then ask who resurrected these stories and whence. It is not always an
excuse for making up stories for credulous mug punters. It needs a calm look
before being taken seriously.
Ashkenazi Jews and
Intelligence
A medic tells us that evolution and inbreeding produced
intelligence and some fairly nasty diseases.
BELL
CURVE : Intelligence and Class Structure in American
Life
Intelligence is what makes us
different from other animals. Measuring it is worthwhile.
Psychologists did then found that they did not like the answers and
their implications so they pretend that measuring IQ is
impossible or irrelevant. This is a standard method in the soft
sciences. The fact that they dislike is that intelligence is
different in different races. It is not politically correct to say
this. Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein did, in detail, with the
facts, with the evidence. This has made them unpopular in some
circles. It is well written and an easy read in what can be a
difficult area.
Darwin Awards
Are about stupidity and survival. They tend to be opposites.
Origins Of Human Intelligence
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Human
evolution presents a puzzle. Nothing seems to explain the sudden takeoff of the
last 45,000 years—the conversion of just another rare predatory ape into a
planet dominator with rapidly progressing technologies. Once "progress" started
to produce new tools, different ways of life and burgeoning populations, it
accelerated all over the world, culminating in agriculture, cities, literacy and
all the rest. Yet all the ingredients of human success—tool making, big brains,
culture, fire, even language—seem to have been in place half a million years
before and nothing happened. Tools were made to the same monotonous design for
hundreds of thousands of years and the ecological impact of people was minimal.
Then suddenly—bang!—culture exploded, starting in Africa. Why then, why there?
The answer lies in a new idea, borrowed from
economics, known as collective intelligence: the notion that what determines the
inventiveness and rate of cultural change of a population is the amount of
interaction between individuals. Even as it explains very old patterns in
prehistory, this idea holds out hope that the human race will prosper mightily
in the years ahead—because ideas are having sex with each other as never before.
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I am not entirely convinced but it has a degree of plausibility. It does not
cover the fact that people who moved north had to develop methods for dealing
with harsh winters which means intelligence was a survival characteristic.
Harvesting in autumn to survive winter means using foresight.
Ig Nobel Prizes
Are on the same lines and definitely not the Nobel Prizes.
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The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.
The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative
-- and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology.
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Inequality Taboo
It is taboo to talk about racial differences for example. This
leads to bad policy decisions. An important article by
Charles Murray,
the author of The Bell Curve
Nobel Prizes
Have a degree of interest. To some extent they tell us where the
brains are. The answer is America, England and Europe - make that Europeans.
Some of the awards are down right silly. Filtering them out would make some
difference but it would still be white men at the forefront. Actually Jews
do even better. The scientific awards are on the right lines. The peace prize
committee are ridiculous.
IQ
Is short for Intelligence Quota. It was something psychologists
tried to measure. They gave up when they found that they did not like the
results.
IQ Will Put You In Your Place
Charles Murray, a sociologist explains what the data tells us.
Griffe du Lion
Is an academic and a sociologist. He looks at statistics and tells us about
the effects of intelligence and heredity. Psychologists started measuring it
then decided that they did not like the results. Now they pretend that it
cannot be measured and that IQ is meaningless just as it becomes
more important than ever. His methodology and data have been severely criticized - see
the Metapedia on
the point. This does not mean that he is wrong.
Race differences in average IQ are largely genetic
The psychologists in the business agree about the difference and the evidence. Some tell the truth about it. Others suppress it.
Why Are Jews
So Smart?
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Jews comprise an amazing number of history’s most important figures, people who
have had a profound impact on humanity: the Patriarch Abraham, whose life and
teachings are considered sacred by Jews, Christians, and Moslems; Moses, the
lawgiver to Jews and Christians; Jesus and his disciple, Paul, who founded and
spread Christianity.... physicist Albert Einstein; the
father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud; Communism’s Karl Marx; developers of
the polio vaccine Dr’s Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin; and the leading developers
of the first atomic bomb, as inspired by Einstein’s theories – among them, Felix
Bloch, Niels Bohr, Otto Frisch, Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and Edward
Teller. Indeed, Jews were so dominant in the field of nuclear physics in Europe
throughout the 1930’s that it was often referred to as “Jewish physics.”
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Selection for intelligence is the obvious answer. This
article doesn't have one but here is an alternative.
Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies
ex Wiki
The Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies
(PIAAC) is a worldwide study by the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in 24
countries of cognitive and workplace skills. The main aim is to be able to
assess the skills of
literacy,
numeracy
and
problem solving in technology-rich environments, and use the collected
information to help countries develop ways to further improve these skills.
The focus is on the working-age population (between the ages of 16 and 65).
The first data was released on October 8, 2013.[1][2]
A new PIAAC survey is expected to be published in 2021/2022.[3]
Black
Congressman Worried About An Island Tipping Over
[ 16 March 2015 ]
The
Wikipedia does not give
us a link so that we can see it for ourselves. Someone else did - try
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150736693757578.
It seems that he is the 18th most effective Democratic congressman. Where does
that leave the rest? As candidates for care homes or worse. Can this comedian
dress himself? I doubt it.
Intelligence And
Cargo Cults
[
13 May 2022 ]
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Here’s an astonishing fact: the White mathematician
Claude Shannon (1916–2001) contributed more to STEM (Science,
Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) than all Blacks who have ever
lived. But then so did the Indian mathematician
Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887–1920). And the Jewish mathematician
Emmy Noether (1882–1935), which is even more astonishing. Jews have
always been a tiny minority of the world’s population and men have always
dominated mathematics, yet one Jewish woman in a short lifetime outperformed
the teeming masses of Africa and the Black-African Diaspora over millennia.
Blacks have never mattered in math or any other cognitively demanding field.
But Jews have mattered hugely, in both good and bad ways.
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I would have put Claude down as an engineer as well as a mathematician but
he really was important, a ground breaking intellectual.
Ramanujan & Emmy were also very special.
