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Believer in capitalism and individual rights. Classical liberal. Minnesotan Norwegian.

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It’s gonna be crazy when Trump wins the election in November then Dems refuse to accept the election results because he’s a “convicted felon”.
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@AdamRutherford @nathancofnas @melissasigodo This is what happens when you are committed to a 0% genetic explanation for group differences: you lose all credibility on the subject.
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@jburnmurdoch It emerged because women are finally free to express their real preferences. It will probably now never go away.
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“Systemic racism” and “structural racism” are linguistic tools to change the framing of racism from ‘equal opportunity’ to ‘equal outcomes’. The ‘Great Awokening’ is really just people figuring out Blacks will never achieve equality in an equal opportunity regime.
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#4 Between 2013 and 2019, the New York Times and the Washington Post increased their usage of the terms "systemic racism," "structural racism," and "institutional racism" by roughly 1,000%.
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It truly boggles how little Blank Slaters have considered the way the world would look it they were right: -We would see variance between families, none between siblings. -We would see variance between schools, none within. -We would see variance between teachers, not within…
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@_celia_bedelia_ It’s manipulative of her to post this publicly.
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@MattBruenig @chrislhayes Because they kill non-owners.
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This is an amazing natural experiment.
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@jonatanpallesen @CovfefeAnon Women in the workplace are the cause of this dynamic in the first place.
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@RichardHanania Has anybody ever studied suspensions vs. IQ? (Race is just a proxy for this.)
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Steve Levitt showed in 1995 that each incarceration prevented *15* crimes/year. There is nothing new in social science; we just ignore things we’ve known for years.
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@plzbepatient "Mass incarceration" was at it's highest from ~2000-2010. Crime was at its lowest during that time. At its height in 2000, ~3.5% of all black males were imprisoned.
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Whitepill: this is the top comment. All the top comments are in this vein. Readers just not having it.
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About 10% of offers to New York City’s most elite public high schools went to Black and Latino students this year, education officials announced on Thursday, in a school system where they make up more than two-thirds of the student population overall.
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The path that Richard took is in some ways inevitable: 1. Learn the facts of HBD. 2. Get angry and upset about it (more likely if you are young). 3. Realize after countless arguments you will never change the consensus. 4. Tone it down to something realistic.
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I wrote something.
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@arghavan_salles Explain this then:
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I know this is a joke, but I’ve searched for a good, cogent, steelmanned environmentalist explanation for Jewish outperformance and I’ve never found one. On the other hand…
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@whstancil Notice that you're being so careful that you're not answering at all Stancil thinking process: "If I say they're *not* disproportionately represented compared to their population numbers, I deny the basis of the 'racism' racket but if I say they're over-represented due to
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@uahikea This is like supporting the nazis after Kristallnacht.
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@mythical_meier @jburnmurdoch They are unhappy because it’s impossible to be a successful career woman, wife and mother all at the same time - and this is the expectation for women now.
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@JoshEakle Multiculturalism never existed until 20-30 years ago and it’s been all downhill since.
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@AdamRutherford @nathancofnas @melissasigodo You believe that group differences in behavior and physicality are partially genetic?
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@tribelaw You literally just tweeted this: “the Court should avoid deciding any more than it needs to decide when ruling on a case.” There clearly was no reason to rule on insurrection!
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@monitoringbias Curriculum control in public universities is not “censoring”.
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@razibkhan The real reason: having kids is no longer high status for women.
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Cochran on Clark. The genetic transmission of skills and status is so obvious and so easily shown that you have to assume there is a motive for suppressing it. We are just not morally comfortable with it; we want free will and our actions to matter.
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a class. -We would see racial and familial differences dissipate between kindergarten and senior year. -We would see the best and worst students regress to the mean between kindergarten and senior year. -We would see Harvard students do demonstrably better on MCAT/LSAT/GMAT…
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@BruceBartlett @tom_hynes But the Left is no longer classically liberal.
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@esaagar Krystal is destroying your brand with conspiracy theories.
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Here’s more: -We would never see geniuses from poor families or dunces from rich ones. -We would see Harvard students dramatically outperfrom Penn State students in IQ gains between high school and college graduation. -We would see massive regression to the mean in group IQ…
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@Dezinuh Well it sucked. So maybe go back to hiring qualified people.
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compared to their SAT/ACT. -We would see test prep cause massive reversion to the mean and increase scores dramatically. -We would see a strong correlation between school spending and test scores. Drives me nuts they never consider the counter-factual.
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@kareem_carr The problem is that you made basic errors in logic in that thread.
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@kareem_carr Do you realize this logic implies only 14.6% of black homicides should be from blacks?
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@whstancil 1). Race differences admissions tests for professional training
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Notice how they don’t identify specific examples of people who are supposedly incompetent. They’re arguing that any black person flying a plane, working in medicine, attending law school is per se suspicious. They want to get rid of these people, totally segregate society again.
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@thephysicsgirl Charlie will win that golden ticket!
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..differences during the course of college. -We would see adoptees have very strong correlations with siblings and none with biological parents. -Siblings would be more similar to each other than to either parent. -People’s personalities would change dramatically over time.
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@nicholaraihani @HermanPontzer Michael Phelps ate 10,000 calories a day during training. Or look at Tour de France riders. This is just not true.
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@Noahpinion You forgot this:
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Jeremy 'adjusted for inflation' Horpedahl 📈
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@Noahpinion Here's one estimate including taxes and transfers from @TaxFoundation
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@whstancil Why is the FT saying this? It’s just not true.
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@CJFerguson1111 @CharlesNegy All these are arguably proxies for race. Including “Percent Black”. I don’t understand how you can make this claim when you have “percent Black” as a variable. @eyeslasho
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@ryanburge @razibkhan Libertarians won, not liberals.
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@GidMK @JayMan471 1/3 of the US doesn’t need to. I took it, but I’m old. Kids have no need.
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@RichardHanania Well one is institutionalized and practiced openly. The other one is illegal.
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@RealDianeYap Get them to release hostages.
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-Saudi Arabia would be the tech giant of the world, kicking out patent after patent and leading the colonization of Mars. -We would still have wolves as pets, not dogs. And there would be no breeds. -There would be lots of women in STEM - all from wealthy families.
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@jsmooth995 So hilarious that neither the writer nor the boy understands this implicates him.
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-There would be bidding wars for the best teachers. And the very best would be private tutors for wealthy families. -Good Will Hunting would be seen as laughably preposterous. -Sheldon from Big Bang Theory would come from a wealthy tech family, not a single mama
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@dlknowles Facts don’t match your theory:
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@Esqueer_ Why do people protesting in a public square believe they have an expectation of privacy?
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@lefineder @hbdchick Duh. How do you think they became common?
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@RichardHanania Simple math shows you that our homocide rate would be 56% lower if you exclude blacks. It you want to focus on the secondary reasons, by all means go ahead.
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This is so true. I remember a time when all our fruit and vegetables were canned or frozen, for example (the 1970s). Then slowly we got massive produce departments. People have a very warped sense of history.
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In the 1950s there were three cars for every 10 Americans (compared to 9 cars for every 10 today), the homeownership rate was 55% (66% today), and 6% of Americans had a college degree (38% today)
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@monitoringbias Curriculum and speech are not the same thing; you appear to think they are. They are not banning CRT-related discussion or CRT-related speech. They are banning CRT-based curriculum.
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-The tech industry would be dominated by wealthy families from the northeast and aristocrats from Europe. -The Indian Institue of Technology would not exist and there would be no tech immigrants from India. -South Korea would be dirt poor and North Korea would not have nukes.
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@JaclynPMoore @RichardHanania Textbook autogynephilia.
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@drvolts Kavanaugh, Covington, Russiagate, George Floyd, Jan. 6th. These are all the Left-manufactured controversies you somehow missed.
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-Norway would have used its oil money to pull way ahead of Finland in PISA scores, instead of the other way around. -Everyone in the US would be smarter than everyone in China. -Hispanic kids in San Diego would be dramatically smarter than hispanic kids in Tijiuana.
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@debarghya_das You specifically can't ask for a non-diverse set of images.
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@PaoloShirasi @KirkegaardEmil “Subjects’ sex could also be predicted at very high ac- curacy with mean AUC of 0.98 (and standard deviation of 0.016).”
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@kareem_carr Do you realize this logic implies only 14.6% of black homicides should be from blacks?
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@ellegist It’s not the body count per se. It’s the behaviors / psychology correlated with the body count.
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@monitoringbias Curriculum is not “free speech”.
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@whstancil This you?
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@monitoringbias No. There is a long history of jurisprudence of firing teachers who don't go along with the curriculum. Teachers do not in fact have full free speech rights in the classroom; You don't have freedom, for instance, to teach an alternative history of WWII. We don't consider it
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@SimonWDC The jury did not find him guilty of rape.
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@MinneapolisDFL Supply and demand as a concept is lost on you.
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@Noahpinion Nah. It was more people finally realizing that infinite resources to black kids still won’t close the gap. Sandra Day O’Connor and the rest were just flat out wrong.
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@TheRabbitHole84 Best part was him deleting the tweet when he realized too late it was a self-own.
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Arguably the most important table in American politcs. Of which probably 10% of Americans are aware.
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@ibramxk Dr. Kendi, this table showing group IQ distributions from a large sample set of Americans explains most of why we observe racial disparities in those positions that require a high level of cognitive ability.
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@phl43 “Calling for genocide” is the phrase she used. A “call for gencocide” is a direct threat of violence. Direct threats of violence are not free speech.
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@PrestonIgweMD Or the exact opposite.
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@monitoringbias Makes sense. Leftists are driven by envy.
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@Mendelpol @jk_rowling Other way around. We need to engrain this in our memories. Never forget.
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@monitoringbias None of these things are precisely true; but all of them are true to an extent. Do they qualify as “viruses”? -The home for communists in the US is certainly academia. -The rate of sexual abuse of minors is higher in education than any other field. -Etc.
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@CovfefeAnon Yes. Real high achievers are bored in school and can’t wait to get away.
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@whstancil Do you have any idea what “free speech” means? It means free speech.
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There can’t really be any more clear signs that everyone basically agrees that the achievement gap is impossible to eliminate.
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Cambridge Public Schools eliminated advanced math in middle school with the aim of reducing disparities between low-income children of color and their more affluent peers. But some families and educators argue the decision has had the opposite effect.
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@RichardHanania What word describes this: “a large number of people crossing illegally over a border into another.” Invasion seems apt.
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The reasons for the fertility crisis is the most Occam’s Razor answer ever: 1). Birth control. 2). Women in the workforce. 3). Internet porn. It’s really that simple. Any solution that doesn’t address these will fail.
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This is exactly right. It’s my contention that wokeism is the Left throwing in the towel on the Great Society and all the attempts over the last 60 years to give equal opportunity. They got equal opportunity and it still didn’t work.
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In the background of left and right, however, is an unstated shift in assumptions: they de facto seem to no longer believe education reform ("no child left behind" type thinking) is possible because they've come to believe that the genetic hypothesis is true.
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@Steve_Sailer @whstancil It’s fun to watch wil unwittingly stumble upon the Default Hypothesis.
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@BMeiselas @RichardHanania So…a group = Laura Loomer?
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@ravedon @RichardHanania NYT implicitly endorses guest essays or do you not remember the famous Tom Cotton blow-up where they fired the editor who allowed Cotton to do a guest essay?!
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@VDAREJamesK @Explicatur1 Literally nothing they won’t defend if the identity is right.
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“We spent years denying that there is a tradeoff between diversity and performance…and the FAA just came out and said it.”
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Interesting questions being posed by the FAA in 2013
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@UtsuroBune66 @paul_hundred @Aristos_Revenge They also excluded this fact from the trial.
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@monitoringbias Then by that definition every school censors when they establish a curriculum.
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@phl43 The idea that someone can walk down a hallway shouting “death to jews” to no one in particular then argue it isn’t targeted towards anyone and thus OK is ridiculous.
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@GratefullyNick @EthanZ I’m not blaming anybody. The OP thinks this red/blue state - that is just blatanty untrue. You would see the same thing within cities if you dug down to block-by-block detail. It’s demographics, not politics.
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@whstancil I think you’ve done more to spread HBD arguments than really anyone else in years.
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@ZMcbrainy @cremieuxrecueil @monitoringbias Culture/study habits has never been shown to have any effect on IQ.
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@GovTimWalz You are brutally dishonest.
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@melissasigodo @mikecmorgan Gone quiet?!? He’s been very actively re-tweeting the articles about him. He has nothing to respond to because nobody *disputed* his claims.
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@RichardHanania This idea that all ethnic groups are identical is so bizarre.
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@TomBevanRCP It shouldn’t be easy.
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Should be if you don’t build mental hospitals or enforce drug laws instead.
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in cities skylines 2, if you don't build enough low-income housing, people start moving into tents
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“Diversity and credentialism are intimately related.” 100%. Hanania is spot on. All the women on here with PhD in their handle screaming Cartman-like into the wind “Respect my authoritah!”
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I recommend this article. It provides a great example of the sort of fascistic, profoundly overconfident, stunningly arrogant white dude who's attracted to Rationalism and Effective Altruism. I promise you this paragraph gets worse the more you read:
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