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• jason says: |
Certainly no IQ selection in terms of national populations, but you could argue that there is a type of new globalised elite class, particularly in finance, whose membership is determined by academic ability and which to a large extent finds mates among colleagues, or colleagues’ sisters, or former classmates. ... |
• Toad says: |
You’re going to need a few more cc of brain volume to get those iq points. And that bigger brain is going to need a bigger skull to house it. So a long time. |
• gcochran says: |
You’re wrong. |
• Discard says: |
Toad: Yeah, I’m late and you won’t see this most likely, but the exercise is good for me. |
Since you’re breeding already existing big brains, they’ve already got the big skulls. |
• The fastest kind of selection for a quantitative trait is truncation selection in which everyone on one side of a threshold reproduces. Problem is that we have to (rather, I have to) look up numbers in a table or compute them since there aren’t simple closed forms for the numbers we need. |
If you don’t have Mathematica handy a quick free way to find the numbers is with python and the scipy module. Linux distributions keep their libraries synced and everything can be gotten from their repositories. On Windows or Mac do not try to do it yourself: you will end up in version hell. The enthought python ... |
Back to the issue of our IQ 85 population. In order to boost the mean IQ to 100, i.e. a response of 15 points or 1 standard deviation, the selective differential must be about 19 IQ points since 15/0.8 is about 19. We (read our new Chinese eugenics masters) need to truncate reproduction so that the mean of parent... |
in python: |
% from scipy import truncnorm |
% truncnorm.mean(.65,Inf) |
Here, .65 was a guess and the output is pretty close. Actually I sat and tried different values and found .65 to be close enough. |
Now the overlords issue reproduction permits to everyone with an IQ test score greater than .65 standard deviations over the mean of 85, that is about 95. What fraction of the population gets a permit? |
% from scipy.stats import norm |
sf here is “survivor function”. Our overlords would allow breeding only among the top quartile of the population, i.e. with an IQ of 95 or greater. |
• Greying Wanderer says: |
Not all criminals are dumb but at least 2/3 of them are so a strict criminal justice system designed to keep criminals locked up during their prime reproductive years ought to have an effect over time. |
5. NotEntirelyJoking says: |
So, are you saying that you want to see my slash fiction of you and Harpending, or not? |
6. Kiwi Observer says: |
***Intelligent women should eschew reproduction – that’s something poor people can do just as well*** |
I have posted this before, but Professor Jim Flynn of all people burst this little bubble a few years ago in NZ. He created a bit of a stir from memory. Some people thought he was being serious about a contraceptive in the water and were outraged. The Children’s Commissioner came out to re-assure people that intell... |
“Everyone knows if we only allowed short people to reproduce there would be a tendency in terms of genes for height to diminish. Intelligence is no different from other human traits,” he told the Sunday Star-Times. |
“A persistent genetic trend which lowered the genetic quality for brain physiology would have some effect eventually.” |
Dr Flynn said at 73 he was too old to worry about offending anyone. .. |
Commissioner for Children Cindy Kiro said Dr Flynn was getting into “dangerous territory”. |
7. Greying Wanderer says: |
Maybe peak insanity will come just before it all pops. |
8. A Erickson Cornish says: |
Speaking of third and especially second moments, it has been mentioned around these parts that the widely observed (by those who care to see) greater variance in various traits in human males is at least partially due to men being the heterogametic sex. This is of course most pronounced in traits for which the X ch... |
Despite what you may have been told about the birds and the bees, sex determination in birds is quite different than in humans: males are homogametic with two Z chromosomes, and females heterogametic with one Z chromosome and one W chromosome. My question is whether there is greater observed variance in females in ... |
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10. Noname says: |
Dear Cochran the most important is political Correctness. :-P |
11. This is very odd, in that I just now posted an essay on what the elites think about IQ and education. |
• Mitchell Porter says: |
Is there an intelligent discussion somewhere of the relationship between IQ and more down-to-earth properties? What I mean is that “IQ of 85″ is rather different to “being 6 foot tall” or “having a vocabulary of 2000 words”; it’s a metric of how well you perform on a highly heterogeneous set of tasks (the IQ test... |
In a civilization which truly understood cognitive neuroscience, the primary data might be neurobiological (e.g. density of glial cells, size and efficiency of various brain regions) and cognitive (e.g. range of personal heuristics used, degree of self-awareness), and this would furnish the basis of a more object... |
12. JayMan says: |
Here you go: |
CyberTracker GPS Field Data Collection System – The Origin of Science |
The Origin of Science solves one of the great mysteries of human evolution: How did the human mind evolve the ability to develop science? |
The art of tracking may well be the origin of science. Science may have evolved more than a hundred thousand years ago with the evolution of modern hunter-gatherers. Scientific reasoning may therefore be an innate ability of the human mind. This may have far-reaching consequences for self-education and citizen scie... |
The implication of this theory is that anyone, regardless of their level of education, whether or not they can read or write, regardless of their cultural background, can make a contribution to science. Kalahari Bushmen trackers have been employed in modern scientific research using GPS-enabled handheld computers a... |
Now, while I can tease out the grains of sense that are mashed together into a mass of PC-hype rubbish here, I’m sure most people who read it won’t. Tweeted by Steven Pinker of all people… |
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I've historically been neutral at best on gun laws. Coming from Texas it's such a cultural loser with so many voters who ought to be voting Democrat that I haven't even tried to fight that fight. |
That has changed since I got older, became a parent and started having to go to so many funerals. |
There's no reason we need to allow crazy people to own guns. A group of Mayors has launched a new initiative to close the biggest loopholes in the background checks law. Here's NYC Mayor Bloomberg at Huff Po: |
Today, I joined Martin Luther King III and survivors, family members and friends of the victims of the shootings in Tucson, Virginia Tech, and Columbine and other incidents of gun violence that happen every day but never make the headlines. We launched a national campaign urging Congress to take two simple but critical... |
Mayor Bloomberg's speech is in the full entry. |
Here's Cliff Schecter explaining some of the background behind our insane approach to gun laws: |
Mayor Michael Bloomberg: |
"Good morning, and welcome to City Hall. |
"We gather here this morning in the spirit of Bobby Kennedy, who saw wrong and tried to right it, and in the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who saw hate and tried to heal it. Two giants in American history. Two fighters for peace and justice. Two champions of the poor and powerless. Two victims of gun violence. |
"In the spring of 1968, in the span of two months, two of America's most inspiring leaders were shot and killed. Martin was 39. Bobby was 42. They had wives and young children. They had dreams for their future. They had dreams for their country. |
"That was 43 years ago. Since then, we have made so much progress on so many of the causes they championed: securing civil rights, fighting poverty, advancing opportunity. But there is one major area where we have gone backwards: Gun violence. Since 1968, more than 400,000 Americans have been murdered with guns - about... |
"Today, I'm honored to be joined by Dr. King's son, Martin Luther King III. We are standing just steps away from where another public servant who was struck down by gunfire - Abraham Lincoln - lay in state after his assassination. Marin Luther King III knows the horror and heartbreak of gun violence. It has been part o... |
"Unfortunately, he is far from alone. Also standing with us today are people from all over the country who have lost friends and family members to gun violence. Every day in America, 34 people are murdered with guns. 34. 34 yesterday, 34 today and 34 tomorrow. And in most cases, we never hear about them. They don't mak... |
"Since I've been mayor, nine members of the NYPD have been killed by gun-toting criminals. I've said before that the toughest part of my job happens on those terrible nights when I'm called to the hospital to meet with the family and break the news that will break their hearts. And I always say that if more legislators... |
"Behind me, you see some of those faces. You see the face of Omar Samaha, who lost his sister Reema, when a madman opened fire on the campus of Virginia Tech. You see the face of Toby Hoover, whose husband, Dale, was shot to death during the robbery of a hardware store in Ohio. You see the face of Tom Mauser, who lost ... |
"Together, they stand in for the families of 34 people who will be murdered today. And together, we are here to say: We cannot wait any longer to act. We cannot turn our backs on this national calamity any longer. We cannot accept that 34 Americans will be murdered with guns in all of our tomorrows. |
"Dr. King spoke of 'the fierce urgency of now.' You see the fierce urgency of now in these faces. You see it in faces of police chiefs across the country. You see it in faces of family members and friends, from small towns and big cities, who have lost loved ones to gun violence. You see the fierce urgency of now every... |
"It was not always this way. In the wake of the assassinations of Dr. King and Senator Kennedy, Congress was forced into action. Of course, even then, there was contentious debate about what kind of action that should be. But in October 1968, after impassioned pleas from President Johnson, Congress passed historic legi... |
"While noble in purpose, the act was flawed in design. Because no system was created for actually translating its intent into reality. It was not until 1993, 25 years later, when President Clinton signed the Brady Bill, that the country created a background check system that could enforce the 1968 law. That bill was ch... |
"The Brady Bill established, for the first time, a national, instant background check system, designed to prevent mentally unbalanced people - like John Hinckley, who came within an inch of taking a President's life - from obtaining firearms. But again, there were flaws in the design. |
"The tragic fact is that often background checks just don't happen - or they don't work. They often don't take place at gun shows, where any criminal can buy a gun. If they had, the Columbine killers may not have gotten access to guns. Too often, the information that should be in the background check system isn't. If i... |
"As of December 31st of last year, only 2,092 people were listed in the background check system as 'drug addicts or abusers.' That's just preposterous. We all know it. And unfortunately, one of the missing names was that of Jared Loughner. |
"The time has clearly come to finally fulfill the intent of the 1968 law and the Brady Bill, by creating a genuine, credible background check system for the sale of firearms. |
"Two basic steps will get us there. First, let's finally fulfill the intent of the 1968 law, by fixing the broken background check system. It should contain all the records of felony convictions, domestic violence misdemeanors and protective orders, drug use and addiction, and determinations of mental illness that woul... |
"Almost four years ago, in the wake of the Virginia Tech killings, both Houses of Congress unanimously passed a law with that intent. Some progress was made as a result. The number of health records in the background check database, for example, has risen from 300,000 before Virginia Tech to some 1.1 million today. But... |
"Why? Because as is so often the case in Washington, actions didn't keep pace with rhetoric. So far, only 5 percent - that's right, 5 percent - of the funds deemed necessary to collect and enter this data has been appropriated to actually do the work. And there are also no real repercussions for states who fail to subm... |
"We have to put more at stake if this is going to be the national priority it must be. The new Congress should set a goal of getting this job finished within three years. And it should enact the necessary legislation, and appropriation, to make that happen. |
"Second, we should close the loopholes that permit guns to be sold without background checks. Because there are far too many such sales to the wrong people. In a 2009 investigation by New York City, 63 percent of private sellers approached by investigators sold a gun to a purchaser who said he probably couldn't pass a ... |
"Our bi-partisan coalition of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, has called for ensuring that at least at gun shows, every sale involves a background check. That's an important change, because it's the worst and most dangerous example of no background check on sales. And all Americans can join our nation's mayors by taking a... |
"But I believe it is time to go further, with a very simple idea: Every gun sale should go through a background check. Of course, there should be reasonable exceptions - and they would include, for example, transfers of guns within families, or by wills, or to people who have a valid State-issued gun permit that meets ... |
"But if we're going to prevent guns from falling into the hands of violent criminals, the mentally unstable, and other already prohibited dangerous persons, we need a comprehensive national background check system with no loopholes. That can be accomplished by requiring that gun sales be checked by licensed gun dealers... |
"At the same time, Congress should get behind the bill introduced by Representative Carolyn McCarthy that would ban high-capacity ammunition magazines. It's hard to find a rational reason for why extended magazines should be sold to the public at large. It just makes it easier for a lunatic like Jared Loughner to kill ... |
"Tomorrow night, President Obama will speak to the nation in his third State of the Union address. With our country still mourning the victims of Tucson, we believe it's an opportunity for our President to make a strong pledge to fix our gun laws and shore up our background check system. Because the 'State of our Union... |
"Last Monday, when we celebrated Dr. King's birthday, we honored his life and his legacy. Given the toll that gun violence takes in our communities, especially minority communities, I'm not sure there's a better way to honor him than to take basic actions that could save thousands of lives every single year." |
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