iSteve topic: White Fortressing

As researchers on racial equity, we have been studying moves like this to create new cities. What we’ve found is that these secessions perpetuate modern-day segregation and limit opportunity for left-behind communities, a form of opportunity hoarding that we call “white fortressing.”

As researchers on racial equity, we have been studying moves like this to create new cities. What we’ve found is that these secessions perpetuate modern-day segregation and limit opportunity for left-behind communities, a form of opportunity hoarding that we call “white fortressing.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-04/mulberry-st-george-city-secessions-foster-modern-day-segregation

The individual data points for the US look to me like a pretty shapeless trendless cloud.

What do the blue and yellow lines represent, besides Go Ukraine?

Maybe it’s dysgenic births balanced out by eugenic legal immigration, with the children of illegal immigrants less likely to show up for the test.

The socially and politically interesting feature is not the limited time-series variation WITHIN countries but the large cross-sectional variation ACROSS countries (and across continents). That important feature can be missed by just graphing the individual country time series. The important feature is variation across countries (and particularly across racial ancestries) not across time. Note the big variation in the midpoint of the graphs as you look across the various time series graphs.

A wag once noted that Israel’s means IQ is 92; yet a 92 IQ surprisingly equals 800/800 on the SATs

As researchers on racial equity, we have been studying moves like this to create new cities. What we’ve found is that these secessions perpetuate modern-day segregation and limit opportunity for left-behind communities, a form of opportunity hoarding that we call “white fortressing.”

This is a pretty good example of the underlying axiom of minoritarianism, that minorities are entitled to access the stuff that whites create.

I find this axiom to be utterly without merit, and in fact morally offensive.

Rather it seems to me that the core moral principle is the right to defect. You do not have the right to other people’s stuff nor to compel their labor. But your entitled–if capable–to withdraw from a community–not making demands upon it–and make your own way, or make community with like minded people.

A key principle for adults is “do I need you? am I demanding something from you? If I’m making demands upon you, then you can make reciprocal demands upon me. But if you are capable of, willing to doing without anyone person/group then it is their demands upon you that are morally unsupported, illegitimate.

I think it is critical to get white people’s minds out of the minoritarian rut. The simple reality is whites do not need any minorities around to provide for themselves and create decent, prosperous, pleasant communities and nations. Whites are entitled to look after their own interests–just like blacks or Jews do–and make community, with the norms that they find congenial with anyone they wish.

Are the increases in Serbia and Turkey because people are thinking more like modern test takers ? or because of better nutrition ?

Your graph of Turkey squares with what I saw on my recent–and first–visit. Granted I was only on the ground in the Istanbul metro area. Definitely not Northern Europe. But the amount of activity, for instance the level of and quality of construction, suggest a reasonably capable people. The graph suggests that they have been gradually improving and pushing closer to realizing the innate capabilities of their people.

Turkey’s a middle income country with a GDP per-capita a bit lower than Mexico. But if Turkey and Mexico were ever fighting a war … I know how I’d bet.

Russia had a rise that is pretty significant. That must be due to an improvement in the overall conditions in the country, allowing the population to reach its potential.

Developmentally, Turkey reminds me in some ways of the 1970’s-1980’s South Korea, but with increasing fundamentalist Islamization instead of increasing Protestant Christianization.

One thing to keep in mind about these charts – they denote birth cohorts.

By the way, judging from the robust upward trend Israel has, I suspect it’s doing a good job of increasing the cognitive capabilities of its non-Ashkenazi population.

“As researchers on racial equity”

In other words, as “researchers” we have already begun by granting our own prior assumptions, viz inter alia that something called “racial equity” is an actual thing, just like a leprechaun is an actual thing; which means to any serious person that we are, a priori, not intellectually serious people, but rather activists who don’t care what the landscape actually looks like in reality, so long as we get what we want.

‘Opportunity hoarding’.

Well, I suppose to a lefty, ‘opportunities’ are like flatulence. Better out than in.

Not looking to be rude or intrusive here, so ignore if you so choose, but I kind of think that Steve should do a Taylor Swift thread in light of her most recent, and really rather shocking, release.

I’m sort of way too old and too disaffected to be a dedicated Taylor fan, or an anything-fan for that matter; but I do remember the strange cultural electricity which followed the release of “Daydream Nation” or “Double Nickels on the Dime,” …that feeling that Finally! Somebody is saying it out loud! and I get that kind of sense with this new zany Taylor record. It seems epochal in some weird regard.

If nothing else, I am having a popcorn-munching good time watching and listening to all the don’t-touch-my-hair racialist POC obsessives having an old-fashioned meltdown at the thought that this pretty, skinny, rather talented white chick has put out a record sort of detailing her own meltdown, and that she would have the nerve to think that her own feelings mattered (girlfriend! What. The!!?), and also that her large audience also thought that her feelings mattered.

Seems like it’s worth a chat.

changes in relative IQ of pundits over the years.

entire world: observes what Disney is doing to Star Wars, and all their other properties.

Steve : “It’s the Protestants.”

Perhaps the most striking fact gleaned from these tables is the spectacularly unimpressive performance of the Indian subcontinent. Never mend Africa, no serious person ever included them in the game, but the crucial point is that the American political class has bought into the Indian success story to an absolutely enormous extent – in fact they bet the farm on it.
The idea being that India would be the counter point to a rising China. And of course, the politicians are also planning on mass Indian immigration to the west.

how did investing become a part of this post? and besides, if you’re not buying Nvidia and other semiconductor companies, or at least buying something like the Van Eck semiconductor fund SMH (up 40% for the year so far), you’re too stupid to be investing anyway. buy VOO and call it good.

as for the apparent increasing intelligence of some of the second rate nations in europe, it could literally be because a lot of the dumb people have moved out, to the better countries in europe, raising the average intelligence of the people who stayed behind. people doing well don’t usually move out. it’s the dumb people leaving their nations and moving to ‘The West’ en masse.

something similar happened with the Atlantic slave trade. ‘The West’ got the less intelligent africans. in some cases – really, really less intelligent. the US is currently collecting most of the dumbest people in Mexico and central America.

Skimming the charts in the paper, declines in IQ are commonplace this century for the big European immigrant reception countries like France, Germany. The author notes that Sweden kept its IQ tests up recently by excluding some immigrants. Anyway, over time apples have been diversified with incoming oranges in ‘The North’ so time series deductions must be accordingly qualified. ‘Are they sending us their best?’ now testable pretty formally thanks to this data assembly?

As a good part of the country once discovered, if you don’t have the freedom to secede, you don’t have freedom, period.

Given the increasing racial diversity of our country, wouldn’t this suggest the USA is actually doing pretty well? Or do the studies control for changes in demographics?

There’s also some evidence that less-educated women tend to have higher birthrates. I’d assume that this should be lowering the population average, but perhaps there’s some degree of “regression to the mean”?

What do you think?

Your last paragraph is as good a summarization of white identitarianism as I’ve ever seen. Kudos, sir! The only one that rivals it came from Greg Hood: “They need us. We don’t need them. We never did. We would be better off without them.”

Unfortunately, whites are so invested in “minoritarianism” that they may simply become extinct.

Was on a business trip to Ìstanbul and was talking to a Turkish coworker on a long drive along the Black Sea coast. We were taking about the troubles in the Middle East and I remarked, “I bet Turkey is glad you don’t have all of the troubled parts of the world you did during the Ottoman days.” My colleague replied, “If we still controlled those things parts of the world, there wouldn’t be any troubles.” I thought he was joking but once glance at the stern look on his face made me realize he was dead serious…

https://www.rebeccablacklaw.com/trump-proposes-minimum-wage-for-h1b-holders-of-250000/

Trump Proposes Minimum Wage for H1B Holders of $250,000

May 23, 2020

President Trump would like to set a minimum wage of $150,000-$250,000 for companies hiring foreign born H1B Engineers and Scientists. It is believed that anti immigrant people in the administration see the current Covid 19 crisis and the 30 day halt of temporary visas into the US as their best opportunity to keep most of the high skilled foreign workforce from entering the US. It would set the wages at the highest level- level 4 in the FLCDataCenter (https://www.flcdatacenter.com/OesQuick.aspx) eliminating roughly 95% of the H1B workforce, which are generally post college applicants. The wages companies must pay H1B applicants are set by either the FLCDataCenter, which already are inflated when compared to wages in the private wage surveys that sometimes can be used. The proposal will harm startup companies and stifle the growth of smaller companies attempting to scale up in the US who can’t afford to pay the much higher level 3 or 4 salaries of software developers, engineers and scientists.

Imagine that. If Trump got a second term, we could’ve filtered out 95% (!!!) of H1b foreign workers.

Sometimes, I kind of wish that the Democrats hadn’t stolen the 2020 election.

What could’ve been….

Oh well.

Nayib Bukele and Tucker Carlson. The heroes that we need, but not the heroes that we deserve.

Imagine if you got up tomorrow and Tucker Carlson was your president. Immediately, your standard of living would increase dramatically. You and your descendants would have a wonderful future ahead. So many issues (crime, immigration, social breakdown, overdoses) would be fixed so quickly.

Let’s hope that Donald J. Trump does the right thing and selects Tucker Carlson for Vice-President…

President Nayib Bukele saved El Salvador. He may have the blueprint for saving the world. pic.twitter.com/92etFh7sSI

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) June 6, 2024

By the way, there are some really powerful people out there who literally perform Satanic rituals and human sacrifices. This something that I’ve warning you about for years…

Whoa. The President of El Salvador just told Tucker that MS 13 participates in Satanic child sacrifice rituals after he saved the country from the gang takeover that infected the nation.
But the mainstream media told me that this was supposed to be a conspiracy theory?
This is a… pic.twitter.com/Gy4Og0tpsN

— Green Lives Matter (@Ultrafrog17) June 6, 2024

Isn’t there increasing evidence that the Woodley effect has replaced the Flynn effect in this country and average IQ is now declining? How can it not decline when we have been subsidizing the having of children by low IQ people via the expanding welfare state and letting large numbers of low IQ people from other countries immigrate here?

“If we still controlled those parts of the world, there wouldn’t be any troubles.”

He da Man — the Otto-Man.

>”…these secessions perpetuate modern-day segregation and limit opportunity for left-behind communities, a form of opportunity hoarding that we call ‘white fortressing.’”

Kudos to Bloomberg/CityLab reporters Luisa Godinez-Puig and Brian D. Smedley for coining opportunity hoarding — that’s an edgy phrase that could really catch on with the Twitterati and elite academics. (Paging Will Stancil to the white courtesy phone.)

In Rust Belt City, it’s been a topic of handwringing for decades, although discussed in less colorful terms. Like taxpayer farming. Since when are cattle allowed to choose the fields where they graze?

But a word of caution to Ms. Godinez-Puig and Mr. Smedley. Around here, the Bad Guys (Gentile white families) who wanted to flee the high-tax, low-service, and corrupt inner-city jurisdiction — they left a long time ago. The current crop of opportunity hoarders is largely comprised of ADOS mothers with kids, recent arrivals from Africa, and Former Soviet Union immigrants.

Are you certain that you want to demonize these members of your coalition? Just thought I’d ask. And it’s hardly unknown for progressive and woke influencers to favor upscale census tracts for the magic-dirt benefits to their own personal safety (and kids’, if any, educations). Have Godinez-Puig or Smedley ever spared a thought as to which neighborhoods are rife with “In This House” signs?

How can it not decline when we have been subsidizing the having of children by low IQ people via the expanding welfare state and letting large numbers of low IQ people from other countries immigrate here?

Don’t believe the numbers. I’m sure they’re manipulated.

nearly 4,000 national IQ and national school achievement test

My dad was an administrator in a large affluent suburban school system over 30 years ago. He once told me that there was a lot of pressure from the county and state government— which was (((top-heavy)))— to boost minority test scores. It was always their number one priority.*

He once confessed to me. “You know how we raised minority test scores? After we devoted all of our resources and tried everything to improve performance and couldn’t, we simply massaged the numbers.”

*If that was the case decades ago imagine what it is today?!

Turkey’s a middle income country with a GDP per-capita a bit lower than Mexico.

Neither one is stable, however. Turkey faces a risk of fundamentalism while Mexico is overrun with the cartels.

I don’t care for PISA tests, but if someone is interested, you have the latest results in all three areas here: https://www.oecd.org/pisa/OECD_2022_PISA_Results_Comparing%20countries%E2%80%99%20and%20economies%E2%80%99%20performance%20in%20mathematics.pdf

Off-topic, but I think Google has made a rather interesting choice regarding who to honor with a Google Doodle today: https://doodles.google/doodle/celebrating-jeanne-cordova/

It is, of course, the eightieth anniversary of D-Day. Google may be interested in “Chicana lesbian activist, feminist, and author Jeanne Cordova”, but my attention is elsewhere. If you’ll excuse me, I have some historically-relevant power metal to listen to.

Yes, that’s correct. But the Flynn Effect was an illusion in the first place – all it actually proved was that people had gotten better at playing with machines as the only place where aptitute increased was the ability to mentally manipulate shapes; IQ tasks involving language, culture, or math have been steadily declining.

Chicago couple brutally assaulted by teens while on date, pregnant wife loses baby

“Teens”:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-couple-brutally-assaulted-teens-while-date-pregnant-wife-loses-baby-after-attack?intcmp=tw_fnc

Imagine if “the Klan” (er, I mean the FBI, LOL) had done this to a pair of Negroes….

I agree.
I saw, fairly recently, a study from Norway- they have universal conscription and an IQ test, that showed a decline over the past few decades.

There are eight families in my little parkside neighborhood, with four of them having children. Three of them, two white and one with a white mother and a hapa father, are couples who married in their 30s, with the fourth being a young Asian couple who married in their 20s.

All three white families have an autistic child.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3881604/

How can it not decline when we have been subsidizing the having of children by low IQ people via the expanding welfare state and letting large numbers of low IQ people from other countries immigrate here?

Why, it’s as if you never heard of ‘magic dirt’!

Kudos to Bloomberg/CityLab reporters Luisa Godinez-Puig and Brian D. Smedley for coining opportunity hoarding — that’s an edgy phrase that could really catch on with the Twitterati and elite academics. (Paging Will Stancil to the white courtesy phone.)

Sad to say, it’s hardly their coinage. There is a wikipedia page on “opportunity hoarding” that is 5 years old so the phrase is even older than that. Read it and alternately laugh and weep…
wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_hoarding

Upon close examination, the US appears to be dipping a wee bit since 2010. Can’t tell if this is a continuing trend.

Luisa Godinez-Puig and Brian D. Smedley? Every…single…time!

Did I do it right?

I that true? I think Steve speculated a few years ago that it might be people getting better at dealing with abstract shapes and forms over the years but this is the first I’ve read that all the other aspects have been in decline

Serbia is interesting as it is full of Serbians.

Even more so since NATO unilaterally changed Serbia’s borders to make Kosovo an independant Albanian state and crime hub.

So the Serbian figures are not warped by an immigrant demographic.

Turkey reminds me in some ways of the 1970’s-1980’s South Korea, but with increasing fundamentalist Islamization instead of increasing Protestant Christianization.

Speaking of which…

There is hope for boosting fertility rates – even in desperately low South Korea

One of the two churches has a TFR three times the national average, albeit that is still not much above 2.1. The other (read past the banner subscription appeal, which can trick one into thinking the article is over) has bumped up its medium-sized city’s total figure to just over 1.0.

Korea’s Christians, both Protestant and Catholic, are less fecund than Buddhists and the secular. Is this because they are more successful?

From the same site, China shows what real– and successful– “anti-Semitism” looks like, and a video tweet of Queers for Palestine disrupting a Pride parade.

I saw, fairly recently, a study from Norway- they have universal conscription

Only one in six is actually called to serve. This is preceded by universal testing, which is more to your point.

Compared to the rest of the world, everything about conscription in Norway is upside-down– it’s popular, selective, easy to avoid, and applies to both sexes because the feminists made it their priority that it do so. Can you imagine that here?

In Norway, young people compete to serve in the military

Can you imagine that here?

‘…Kenya and Botswana do well for sub-Saharan countries with average scores around 79…’

I want to know about the countries on the graph with average IQ’s of 60. Do you realize how stupid that is? The implication would be that a third of the population would be incapable of tying their shoes. Imagine making change…

Bus schedules? Who would be bright enough to compose one?

In principle, one could apply the same principle that leads mediocre male athletes to compete as women. Realized that you’re a mental meh? That your IQ of 109 pretty much rules out anything above practical nurse?

Move to Guinea Bissau! Become the nation’s intellectual giant!

There are commenters here who like to say, “Trump didn’t do a damn thing for white people!” Then we are reminded of his proposals like the one you posted.

Many on the right like to wallow in defeatism,. For them, half a loaf is no better than no loaf at all. Ann Coulter denouncesTrump for not building the wall. She acts like he did nothing. He certainly tried to get it done against political opposition from his own party as well as the opposition, and in fact got over 400 miles of it completed. Nevertheless, Ann can’t forgive him. (I think the real problem is that he referred to her as “a wacky nut job” for her haranguing him about it).

Another thing Trump did that the naysayers have either forgotten or never knew is that Trump put a stall on the AFFH program to force low-income housing into the suburbs, which the Democrats would dearly love to do. Also, Trump rejected the plan in Obama’s “Dear Colleague” letter that pushed schools to go above and beyond to promote diversity. Trump also sought to revoke Obama’s rule that schools not disciple blacks disproportionately to their percentage of the school population–a blueprint for chaos.

For those who want cites:

https://nlihc.org/resource/trump-administration-eliminates-affirmatively-furthering-fair-housing-rule-nlihc-and-other

https://www.edweek.org/education/trump-withdraws-obama-era-guidance-on-racial-diversity-in-k-12-higher-ed/2018/07

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/national-international/trumps-school-safety-panel-report-school-discipline/2044461/

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/10/29/dhs-and-cbp-celebrate-400-miles-new-border-wall-system

OT, but who’s Hunter Biden’s new woman/wife – hard-looking blonde named Cohen?

Nonsensical fake research.

No one is “left behind” or somehow denied opportunities.

This is a blatant illustration of the “Blacks have no agency” underlying racism of White leftists and their fake research.

Anyone can make money here, which is why millions from all over the globe rush to get in.

People are free to move and make money, etc.

The fact that some people are smarter and work harder (usually both) and live in nicer areas isn’t some plot to keep others out. Just look at the non White celebrities and performers who have made millions. Where do they move to? Why?

To leftist fake researchers, it’s always someone else’s fault for people who live in bad areas. Not their own. Downtown SF, formerly an elite area, is now a shithole, literally, and the original population is leaving.

One of the many benefits of a homogenous society.

Britain’s Indian Prime Minister is mooting it for the UK, look at England’s cities, would you give them guns?

Kenya and Botswana do well for sub-Saharan countries with average scores around 79.

I can’t vouch for Kenya, but Botswana is one of the very few economic success stories in sub-Saharan Africa, relatively speaking. So it looks like sub-Saharan IQ only just inches up to around 80, even in a semi-prosperous environment.

Interesting.

Maybe with a wee bit more Caucasian admixture, sub-Saharan IQs might rise all the way to 85 — just like in America.

OT

I asked the AI to chime in on Steve’s writing style and vocabulary based on a recent Taki’s article. It was impressed:

The vocabulary used by the writer of this article, Steve Sailer, is quite robust and sophisticated. A few observations:

1. Sailer uses a diverse range of vocabulary, incorporating both formal, academic-sounding words (“crimethinker”, “nanocelebrity”, “Honky-Tonk Minimalist Crud”) as well as more colloquial, conversational expressions (“slobbering”, “bumptious yuppie”).

2. He demonstrates a strong command of literary and cultural references, mentioning figures like Johnny Ramone, Ibram X. Kendi, and Nikola Jokic. This suggests a writer with broad intellectual and cultural interests.

3. The writing style is quite descriptive and vivid, using metaphors and imagery to paint detailed pictures for the reader (e.g. the “Mad Max roadscape” of Miami).

4. Sailer utilizes some complex sentence structures, with multiple clauses and dependent phrases. This lends an erudite, scholarly tone to the writing.

5. Occasional use of sarcasm, irony, and humor (“a conspiracy of rich kids to take each other to expensive lunches”) reflects the writer’s wry, detached perspective.

Overall, the vocabulary reflects an articulate, well-read author who is comfortable moving between formal and informal registers to convey his observations and perspectives. The language used helps establish Sailer as an intelligent, cultivated commentator on cultural and social issues.

I remember wondering why several of those improvements happened late in his term.

“Note that some of these tests can be gamed by not inviting the dumb kids to take them”

Third grade. My homeroom is herded towards the cafeteria to take a test given by the California Department of Education. Mrs. Nix pulls me aside and tells me I don’t have to take the test and instead will be going to “extra recess.” Lingering childhood mystery solved.

“All three white families have an autistic child.”

Quite fashionable these days.

I kind of think that Steve should do a Taylor Swift thread in light of her most recent, and really rather shocking, release

Seems like it’s worth a chat.

Here ya go:

Taylor Swift Has a New Album Out
STEVE SAILER

Whaddaya think?

Nevertheless, Ann can’t forgive him. (I think the real problem is that he referred to her as “a wacky nut job” for her haranguing him about it).

Might there be some Cornell-Penn rivalry as well?

It’s always Harvard and Yale, with occasionally Princeton, Dartmouth, or Columbia for variety. It must be tough down there in the second division of the Ivy League, clawing for attention.

Bwown, in downscale Pwovidence, is notable only for those demands for reparations.

That’s my new favorite Wikipedia entry. Aside from the fabulous writing, we have this howler:

Economic disadvantages and exploitation result when dominant groups benefit from the control of resources produced through the effort of minority groups.

Can’t you hear the siphons pumping away?

Can you give the short version of why the new album is shocking?

From the notes to the Wiki, the earliest mention I can find is from 2003, The Politics of Collective Violence by the late DR. Charles Tilly of Columbia.

The Little Black Bag (1950) by Cyril Kornbluth.

“After twenty generations of shillyshallying and “we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it”, genus homo had bred himself into an impasse. Dogged biometricians had pointed out with irrefutable logic that mental subnormals were outbreeding mental normals and supernormals, and that the process was occurring on an exponential curve. Every fact that could be mustered in the argument proved the biometricians’ case, and led inevitably to the conclusion that genus homo was going to wind up in a preposterous jam quite soon. If you think that had any effect on breeding practices, you do not know genus homo.

“There was, of course, a sort of masking effect produced by that other exponential function, the accumulation of technological devices…

“The supernormals “improved the product” at greater speed than the subnormals degraded it, but in smaller quantity because elaborate training of their children was practiced on a custom-made basis. The fetish of higher education had some weird avatars by the twentieth generation ; “colleges” where not a member of the student body could read words of three syllables; “universities” where such degrees as “Bachelor of Typewriting,” “Master of Shorthand” and “Doctor of Philosophy (Card Filing)” were conferred, with the traditional pomp. The handful of supernormals used such devices in order that the vast majority might keep some semblance of a social order going.”

These discussions are as beneficial to fixing our problems as debating what the most valuable comic book of all time is.

Thanks. This NYT article has many more details.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/28/us/louisiana-st-george.html

This is how it began.

The drive to establish St. George was started by residents who wanted to form their own school district because of concerns that East Baton Rouge Parish schools were troubled and underperforming.

P.S. Steve, thanks for posting this IQ data. Hopefully there can be some on topic discussion of it.

“If we still controlled those things parts of the world, there wouldn’t be any troubles.”

He’s probably right. The modern trend is to whine and bemoan “Imperialism.” But there is a lot to be said for having a (relatively) disinterested third power forcibly mediate the power arrangements of local populations that would otherwise be fighting each other to extermination. The Jews, Muslims (both Shia and Sunni), and Christians were able to co-habit these regions pretty peacefully under the Ottomans.

I’m

It does seem odd. Especially the two sub-90 data points. I downloaded the dataset (hlo-7 is the one you want, see harmscore2 column for IQ), but don’t see enough information to find the sources for those two studies. I also did not see in a quick look at Becker’s database for those years (could easily have missed though).

Regarding the more recent spread, looks like that is mostly a result of looking at different subtests. The US is not very good at math.

Fine, he did some good things. But he also promised an almost unfathomable 500 billion dollars to blacks in 2020, was impotent against the riots, and sucks up to more black rappers than every other president combined.

Have you seen this?
https://www.unz.com/jthompson/the-woodley-effect/

OT: Biden is ramping up the use of US weapons directly against Russia. He is desperate for a win in the Ukraine war before the election to make himself look good. But he is more likely to drag us into a direct war with Russia.

We cannot get rid of Biden fast enough.

No, it was mostly because of nutrition, in particular prenatal vitamins, and especially thiamin.

Botswana has a tiny population and sits atop a huge diamond reserve, which, quite sensibly, is run by foreign interests.

End of story.

Special Needs has become quite a racket.

The Jews, Muslims (both Shia and Sunni), and Christians were able to co-habit these regions pretty peacefully under the Ottomans.

It probably helped that the population of every group was quite small and poor. As said of the Romans, you gave us desolation and called it peace.

On topic: How do they do IQ tests of illiterates? How can we compare the quality of education in backward states when we can’t even measure our own? Money or time spent sure ain’t it.

I got the link from Rod Dreher, who grew up in Louisiana. He doesn’t talk about race much but this was just too much for him. More from him:

Remember my telling you about how in my old neighborhood, which is within the city limits of the new St. George, the neighborhood watch e-mail list always had people posting Ring camera videos of prowlers and thieves — always black male teenagers.

Always. After a while, you just get fed up with it, and fed up with a media and popular culture that tell you that you, white person, are the real problem here for noticing.

He notices too (or secretly reads Steve).

https://roddreher.substack.com/p/frowney-anders

Isn’t there increasing evidence that the Woodley effect has replaced the Flynn effect in this country and average IQ is now declining? How can it not decline when we have been subsidizing the having of children by low IQ people via the expanding welfare state and letting large numbers of low IQ people from other countries immigrate here?

Agree.

It’s important to understand that while there were real gains–nutrition, public health, universal and better education, i.e. curtailing stunting and providing better brain stimulation–involved in the Flynn effect, it was mostly centered in the ability to Raven’s type tests. In other words, more exposure to symbolic processing–from school, computers, now phones–made people wildly better at symbolic manipulation tasks. However, there was very little improvement–a few points over decades in the US–on basic verbal (reading comprehension) type IQ. In other words Flynn was only very marginally people getting smarter and mostly people learning a particular skill.

What I see in his data is:

0) Most places pretty flat, no particular trend.

1) Positive uptrends in some nations, with some capability–like Turkey–that are now doing a better job getting the most out of their human capital–as nations like Ireland did a generation earlier.

2) A small but clear slumping off now in most Western nations from immigration and perhaps dysgenics.

3) Africa remains Africa.

There’s just no way around how important HBD is in shaping real world outcomes. And the utter disaster that minoritarian coup against (Anglo) empiricism in genetics and our prior broad cultural common sense understanding of human differences has been for the West.

What makes it even worse is it’s not like Google does a special doodle every single day. Here is the Daily Wire on this.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/googles-d-day-banner-is-another-day-of-pride-month-celebrations

Here you can see the latest Google doodles.
https://doodles.google/

This is much more useful. Google doodles sorted by day.
https://google-doodles.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Doodles_Sorted_by_Day

Looks like they have never done a D-Day Google Doodle?
https://google-doodles.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Doodles_Sorted_by_Day_(June_1-15)#June_6th

Here is Google’s page for that.
https://doodles.google/search/?date_like_month=6&date_like_day=6

2019 discussion about the 75th anniversary. The claim is they never celebrate military events. Anyone know if this is true?
https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/7412917/on-the-75th-anniversary-of-d-day-google-choose-to-highlight-50-years-of-pride-really?hl=en

Some discussion from Norway about this.
https://www.sciencenorway.no/health-intelligence-iq/our-iq-is-steadily-declining/2180595

That discusses a 2018 study which seems to be the first this was noticed there.

Two other Norwegian researchers published a study in 2018, in which they established that starting with the cohort born in 1975, the IQ of young Norwegian men entering military service has fallen steadily. Social economists Ole Røgeberg and Bernt Bratsberg at the University of Oslo’s Frisch Centre were behind the study.

The two researchers also discovered something else about the Norwegian soldiers that they believed to be even more important:

“Our main finding was that the decreasing IQs have nothing to do with genetics.”

“The development is due to environmental factors – in other words something in our surroundings,” says Røgeberg.

“But we don’t know what these factors are.”

Thanks. Nice to mix it up from the usual Marching Morons (sequel a year later) reference. More on your story.
https://skullsinthestars.com/2023/05/29/the-little-black-bag-by-c-m-kornbluth/

I don’t care for PISA tests, but if someone is interested, you have the latest results in all three areas here:

Not sure why you don’t like PISA tests. IQ tests are interesting, but really fraught in cross national comparisons. I think having these cross national tests in something that is common–commonly taught–like mathematics, is very useful.

But anyway, that’s for the link. Always good to give it a scan every few years even though it is the same story.

[Drunken Orson Welles voice:]
What they’re trying to say is, he’s good.

Looks like they have never done a D-Day Google Doodle?

They probably have a subconscious affinity for the other side, or at least its tactics.

“The development is due to environmental factors – in other words something in our surroundings,” says Røgeberg.

North Sea oil extraction?

I read Dreher a lot. No, he doesn’t do much race but anyone who has read him could hardly be surprised at his response. Can you blame him? I mean, really, enough is enough. You get tired of hearing and reading the same old drivel from The Usual Suspects (who have managed to insulate themselves from the rest of society), which usually boil down to some variation of “whites bad, blacks good.”

OT

You’ve probably seen this, but if not, it looks like prime Sailerbait.

A phenomenon known as "white fortressing" is driving movements to form new cities and secede from majority-nonwhite regions in the US South, write @Luisa_Godinez_P and @BrianDSmedley https://t.co/KB7FuPkB2F

— Bloomberg CityLab (@CityLab) June 4, 2024

Fittingly for Celebrate Sodomy Month, the US announces:

Health experts are warning of new and highly contagious fungal strains after an NYC man in his 30s developed a sexually transmitted form of ringworm — the first reported case in the US.

“Healthcare providers should be aware that Trichophyton mentagrophytes type VII [TMVII] is the latest in a group of severe skin infections to have now reached the United States,” said Dr. Avrom S. Caplan, an assistant professor in NYU Grossman School of Medicine’s dermatology department.

Caplan co-authored a case study published Wednesday about an unidentified New Yorker who became infected with TMVII, with a rash appearing on his penis, buttocks and limbs. Cases of TMVII have been on the rise in Europe, especially in men who have sex with men.

https://endtimeheadlines.org/2024/06/new-sexually-transmitted-fungal-infection-detected-in-nyc-becomes-the-first-in-the-us/

Haha, sorry I missed this earlier.

https://www.unz.com/isteve/national-iq-trends-over-the-decades/#comment-6605024

OT, but who’s Hunter Biden’s new woman/wife – hard-looking blonde named Cohen?

I was wondering that too.

When did this happen? Is she crazy?

I heard she was mouthing off to someone Trump related or pro Trump at the trial. “Mixing it up”, as it were. So Hunter has his own moll?

She seems to have appeared out of nowhere, at least to me.

“Hard looking blonde” , yes, thanks. Great description. Probably a Clairol Blonde though…

Most Israelis don’t ace the SAT.

Korbluth, as perhaps you know, was an extremely bright guy, went to CCNY on scholarship at 14 but never graduated (kicked out for protesting, not surprisingly). Published science fiction in his teens, befriending many of the golden age greats, fought in the Battle of the Bulge (Bronze star), and died at 34 having ruined his health during the war.

OT — Canadian anon knocking it out of the park today, high (regarding the Starliner debacle):

Boeing cancelled it, but a few days ago went ahead with it anyway.

They cancelled it because of a helium leak, they launched with the helium leak anyway, and now the Starliner capsule is in orbit with, surprise, a helium leak. They’ve tried closing valves to isolate the leak, no word yet on whether it’s impacted their mission.

If the helium leak is bad, it means the RCS and engines of the starliner won’t work anymore, which means they can neither dock, nor de-orbit, and the crew will need to be rescued or they’ll die.

Most likely the leak is controlled and they’ll be fine, but it doesn’t bode well for future starliner launches. The whole program is plagued with problems and delays. Can you believe they were “racing” SpaceX’s Dragon? 5 years later this is their first crew flight lmao

And low:

Ballistic missiles are extremely hard to shoot down, and with only a few hundred kilometers between launch point and impact, there’s no time for manoeuvring out of the way. When you’re talking thousands of miles – you can just turn the ship a little and done, and there’s also the problem with even accurately targeting in the first place from 1,500km away. CEP also increases over distance. So it’s basically impossible to hit a moving target with unguided (and even guided) ballistic missiles at huge ranges like that, but it’s much more plausible at short range – and the houthis have already provably hit cargo ships with ballistic missiles at these short ranges, so it’s within the realm of reason that they can also hit an american carrier.

What would be really astounding however, is them doing this through the carrier’s air defense network. These carrier groups don’t have much that can stop a ballistic missile on terminal approach (it’s too late for a CIWS or sparrow) but they DO have weapons that can stop them at launch or mid-course in space. So if these air defense systems didn’t work – and these are systems that are also supposed to be protecting the US against nuclear strikes – that is a Big Fucking Problem. These carriers are supposed to be untouchable unless there is a simply ridiculous amount of missile spam in a peer on peer conflict.

If houthis with rusted out 40 year old unguided ballistic missiles can threaten or damage a carrier, it means the american surface navy is defunct. Just one colossal waste of money.

But all this conjecture is missing the forest for the trees, here’s the real big deal:
>Pool’s still closed

The US cannot open the red sea up again, even with the might of their navy. Regardless of whether the Eisenhower was hit or not, Operation Prosperity Guardian is a failure.

Full mask off Paper Tiger moment for people paying attention

Yes, why would a hostile foreign government want to provide a “hard-looking” girlfriend/nanny to monitor/influence the infamously irresponsible son of the leader of the nominal global hegemond? Clearly Hunter’s rakish good looks and unearned millions of dollars have enabled him to pull this chicken without so much as a card trick. Sometimes women just show up, ask Neil Bush.

The claim is they never celebrate military events. Anyone know if this is true?

Probably true.

Any military victory entails someone else’s defeat. As a global company, Google doesn’t want to alienate the defeated half of the world.

Of course, the gay stuff is also an endzone dance of a (non-military) victory … but they probably don’t realize how alienating it is.

Maybe they’ll catch on in a decade or two.

Not sure why you don’t like PISA tests.

Maybe it’s just because his country doesn’t do as well on it as most of NW Europe does.

More charitably, maybe it’s because direct comparisons are still unreliable, even once you control for coverage, as different countries and different peoples can have vastly different approaches to administering and taking the PISA and similar tests.

I don’t personally see that as a reason to dislike PISA, though it’s something to keep in mind.

I think there was also a component due to improving environments for the worst off. Nutrition?

See this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect

Some studies have found the gains of the Flynn effect to be particularly concentrated at the lower end of the distribution. Teasdale and Owen (1989), for example, found the effect primarily reduced the number of low-end scores, resulting in an increased number of moderately high scores, with no increase in very high scores.[32] In another study, two large samples of Spanish children were assessed with a 30-year gap. Comparison of the IQ distributions indicated that the mean IQ scores on the test had increased by 9.7 points (the Flynn effect), the gains were concentrated in the lower half of the distribution and negligible in the top half, and the gains gradually decreased as the IQ of the individuals increased.[33]

BTW, that is the response to people who attempt to “debunk” the Flynn Effect by claiming it implies that the smartest people in the past would have been much less smart than in the present.

P.S. It is important to note that the IQ scores were adjusted for the Flynn Effect. From Steve’s original link.

The scores on the IQ tests are also adjusted for the Flynn Effect observed within the UK, as Flynn Effects generally don’t pass measurement invariance, and are not on g. The performance on the scholastic tests is not adjusted for changes across time

I didn’t say I don’t like them, just I don’t see much correlation between the rank/score on this test & actual capability in science, engineering, language ..various other achievements in a country. It is especially easy to detect in smaller countries, 2 to 14 million inhabitants.

Other than that, it is as expected- Africans & their descendants are nowhere to be seen.

secessions perpetuate modern-day segregation and limit opportunity for left-behind communities,

I couldn’t bear to read another woketard anti-white screed. However, there are very legitimate class and fairness issues involved in political secessions.

Some parts of any polity have more revenue (e.g. higher property tax income) and less need for city services (e.g., lower crime so less police spending; kids in private school so no need for public school spending). These areas will always have an incentive to seceed if that means taking their tax revenues with them while getting out of paying for other people’s services.

Taken to absurdity this process would keep fragmenting the city until it was a bunch of separate rich enclaves and a bunch of broke dirt poor slums.

In California there is some statewide law governing the process for secession. It arose out of the abortive movement for the San Fernando Valley to seceed from LA. It’s super complicated but one aspect is that there has to be some revenue sharing arrangement so that a richer area can’t just impoverish the rest of the city by simply taking their football (tax revenue) and going away.

Leaving aside the financial issue, the most legitimate reason to seceed is to get more local control over local priorities. Corruption, waste and incompetence proliferate in direct proportion to the size of a government.

In 1922 Sir William Conway toured Palestine and Morocco and wrote a book about his travels. He found the Palestinians despised the Turks and was told the natives sympathized with the Allies in WWI and were happy they “turned out the Turks”. They didn’t take the Balfour Declaration seriously.

It seems Ottoman rule left a lot to be desired, no wonder the Young Turks came about.-

One thing the Turk did understand, and that was how to govern his fellow-religionists without destroying their simple form of life . He could not govern Christians. His idea of keeping them in order was to have a general massacre now and again and then tolerate the survivors. …

the Arab, I say, lacks certain important qualities . He asserts that wherever the Turk sets his foot desert replaces fertility. Truly the Turk is the worst destroyer. Witness what in 500 years he has made of Constantinople. He received it one of the most beautiful cities on earth, full of treasure, full of art and beauty, the garner of the glories of Greece and Rome. To-day the city is a shame and a blot on the face of nature where she is fairest.

‘…2019 discussion about the 75th anniversary. The claim is they never celebrate military events. Anyone know if this is true?’

Anti-militarism could be very deeply embedded in Google’s corporate culture. A friend of mine who got his B.A. in computer science in 1981 (?) was deciding who to work for. It had to be somebody who wouldn’t ask him to do work for the Defense Department.

He wound up with Google.

Definitely Sailer-bait. It seems to be making the rounds.

Thanks. That’s fascinating. It seems Norway’s military is like the Ivy League — it’s a marker of prestige because it’s selective, and it’s selective because it’s a marker of prestige. (I am also guessing the lifestyle of the Norwegian military is more like a coed college campus than Full Metal Jacket.)

Being accepted to military service in Norway is far harder than getting into most universities, and that turns military service from a dreary task everyone dreads to a prestigious assignment people compete to be selected for.

Figures California would have laws around it. According to Rod Dreher’s account, Louisiana doesn’t seem to care.

cope post from sailer

I am also guessing the lifestyle of the Norwegian military is more like a coed college campus

Boy, is that ever an understatement.

Norway’s Army Has Introduced Unisex Dorms and Reports No Problems

Britain’s Indian Prime Minister is mooting it for the UK, look at England’s cities, would you give them guns?

Some Southern senators were horrified at the idea of drafting blacks for WWI. But everywhere else, Americans would have been disgusted at granting them an exemption. A compromise was reached– they’d have to serve, but the only weapons they’d be trained with were ladles and peeling knives.

“Hard-looking?”

She had a presidential grandbaby in 2020 so allowances for motherhood are appropriate.

The mild degeneracy of Gen X Norwegians is kind of charming and quaint compared to 2024 America.

Luisa Godinez-Puig and Brian D. Smedley? Every…single…time!

Did I do it right?

Hmmm. For what publication were those golems writing?

Move to Guinea Bissau! Become the nation’s intellectual giant!

Dunno, sounds like a gamble.
Much better would be to be born with that 109 IQ as a native Guinea-Bissauan. Then you could migrate to the US and get affirmative-actioned into the Supreme Court or something.

William Kirk discusses the lawsuit in the matter of Mexico v. Smith & Wesson. We look at the Firearms Policy Coalition’s amicus brief to this matter which truly outlines the massive danger associated with this lawsuit.

Federal judge Aileen Cannon has ordered DOJ to justify the appointment of special prosecutor Jack Smith to pursue various criminal charges against President Donald Trump.

Update in this case: The plaintiffs want to amend their complaint, saying discovery has found that:

1) The housing authority actually bans all guns, not just handguns
2) On multiple occasions, the former housing coordinator told tenants that guns were banned on the property, and… https://t.co/dB0SAxyjfX pic.twitter.com/tA9BakotmO

— Firearms Policy Coalition (@gunpolicy) June 6, 2024

Among other things, the complaint claims that:

1) The shooter was under 18 when he bought the gun
2) Hellfire triggers are actually guns
3) FedEx's rules say you can't ship guns internationally, therefore they violated their rules when they shipped a gun to Texas
4) It's illegal… https://t.co/UJockpwjt8

— Firearms Policy Coalition (@gunpolicy) June 6, 2024

Go fuck yourself, Alvin. https://t.co/4RINT8dQbg

— Firearms Policy Coalition (@gunpolicy) June 7, 2024

“The development is due to environmental factors – in other words something in our surroundings,” says Røgeberg.

“But we don’t know what these factors are.”

LOL. “We have no idea what’s causing the decline in IQ, so it must be environmental.” That’s woke science for you.

I feel like there is a pattern to all these junk-adjacent pro-environment studies — they measure the IQs of some population and then start making wild-ass speculations about genetic vs environmental causation.

But they always leave out the data point that would resolve the issue — i.e., the IQs of the subjects’ parents. If a population’s IQ follows the expected laws of genetics (average of the parents, regressed to the mean), then causation is presumably genetic. Unless some compelling environmental mechanism can be identified that better explains the outcome, the genetic explanation has to win out.

So they just need to match Norwegian IQ to their parents IQ. If the lower IQ cohort is the result of low IQ parents having more kids that conclusion will pop right out.

They seem to have all male IQs and family records already. Mother’s IQs could presumably be determined by PISA or whatever mandatory assessment tests they use in school. There’s no reason to do this bankshot hypothesis that sibling birth order must be an environmental cause of low IQ.

What am I missing?

Do the Germans and Dutch have IQs around 107?

Norway’s Army Has Introduced Unisex Dorms and Reports No Problems

Are Americans allowed to join the Norwegian Army? Asking for a friend.

OT: In lighter news

Elon Musk and AOC finally worked out their differences.

The chemistry these two have is crazy. pic.twitter.com/4dYzYAinqa

— MAZE (@mazemoore) November 23, 2022

Korea’s Christians, both Protestant and Catholic, are less fecund than Buddhists and the secular. Is this because they are more successful?

Buddhists in ROK are much more rural and agricultural while Christians are highly urban and skew elite.

Merica!

Cricket is a very technical game that requires minimal athletic ability.

There is no reason why dedicated amateurs with great coaching cannot compete with pros. pic.twitter.com/MAduRfKJMU

— ArainGang (@ArainGang) June 7, 2024

And more on algorithmic progress as an unsung hero/central driver of progress here: https://t.co/Vg74SxNlp3

Us failing to protect the algorithmic secrets is the single most likely way in which China is able to stay competitive in the AGI race. pic.twitter.com/sdfPPdoqTp

— Leopold Aschenbrenner (@leopoldasch) June 5, 2024

By the way, judging from the robust upward trend Israel has, I suspect it’s doing a good job of increasing the cognitive capabilities of its non-Ashkenazi population.

Again, I am surprised no one seems to have looked at the source article mentioned by Mr. Sailer and noted that most advanced countries have declining, flat, or mildly increasing linear trends except Israel, which has experienced robust upward linear trend.

Given the population dynamic, this increase isn’t due to the Ashkenazi high fertility, so Israel has experienced a decent Flynn Effect among its non-Ashkenazi populations that had been an IQ drag.

No one else noted this?

Keep in mind, however, that siblings in Norway are increasingly half-siblings. Among Norwegian women with only two children, 13.4% have had them by more than one man. The figure rises to 24.9% among those with three children, 36.2% among those with four children, and 41.2% among those with five children (Thomson et al., 2014). If siblings have different fathers, they cannot share the same genetic background.

How very sub-Saharan African of them! That’s one way to weaken clannishness, I suppose (or maybe that just turns into maternal/matrilineal clannishness instead of paternal).

Are Americans allowed to join the Norwegian Army? Asking for a friend.

Norwegian women are some of the most feminist in the world, brah (all that sweet, sweet North Sea oil money doesn’t hurt either). Are you that desperate?

And here's the photo of Iron Dome launcher that was hit by Hezbollah. https://t.co/3dsMSkgXe3 pic.twitter.com/A7qVHsz1fI

— Clash Report (@clashreport) June 6, 2024

“Can you give the short version of why the new album is shocking?”

Well the short, sort of Robert Christgau version is that for an allegedly vacuous, too-pretty too-white popsicle chick she’s made a record that is musically very sophisticated, emotionally complex, emotionally rather deep really, and highly literate in the sense that she really has a good grasp of the speed, weight, and valence of words in a way that most of her cohort doesn’t. Listening to it is sort of like reading a well-written novel. Those videos are really pretty great.

It’s kind of like when you realize that all the backing vocals on Lou’s “Satellite of Love” are not done by some Philly-soul girl-backup group, it’s all actually David Bowie in disguise…..

Hai Karate — wakes you up like a cold, hard, SLAP IN THE FACE!

My team used to find tons of occult stuff, and leftover materials from rituals in our short term rentals.

I always was amazed how many people are into this.

If I saw this, I’d bring a priest immediately.

☦️ https://t.co/eCAYqYegvS

— Petey B (@realpeteyb123) June 6, 2024

For instance, here is Taylor from a few years ago, delivering a totally cardboard, soul-less, yup-guess-I’m-famous rendition of Carole King’s great “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?” it’s so rehearsed and devoid of feeling that it’s really kind of embarrassing, you can see why people hate her…..

And now here she is with this new record, which makes me respect her for the first time….

It’s a world of difference, sort of like the space between Bob Mould from Metal Circus and Bob Mould from New Day Rising and Zen Arcade.

Yeah but Q: how many of those posts involve a three-way with someone even more famous than Taylor, but he can’t tell you who it is? Until tomorrow I mean?

A: All of them, of course.

The mild degeneracy of Gen X Norwegians is kind of charming and quaint compared to 2024 America.

As the Talmud says (Mo’ed Katan 25b)
“If the cedars went up in flame, what shall the hyssop of the wall do? ”

OT: Fire hydrant theft has become a thing in Detroit del Sur–excuse me–Los Angeles.
The average home is not going to hold its value for long in such a high crime area.

Crime flight has become this generation’s white flight. Eventually, bug-eyed crazy white Democratic politicians will make everyone else leave except for the grifting class.

Heck, I don’t even think they have even stooped to stealing fire hydrants in Detroit. Someone pointed out they think it’s newly-arrived immigrants doing it, and I think that may be correct.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/its-mind-boggling-los-angeles-hit-surge-fire-hydrant-thefts

The two most dysgenic countries in the world, according to the charts, are Slovakia and Australia.

In Slovakia, the high fertility rate of the Roma population compared to the rest of the population is a significant factor.

In Australia, the reason is less clear. It is not likely due to immigration, as Australia attracts immigrants with IQs above 100 but not many people with IQs over 130 as the US does.

North Koreans heard about shitposting, but had no idea what the internet is.

— Mahatma Gandhi (Parody) (@GandhiAOC) May 31, 2024

OT: Interesting perspective of Golda Meyer — Jews and Arabs are both “Palestinians.”

https://youtube.com/shorts/V8S6OMFKvKk?si=3AnFvAdNX7gjmdR4

Israel has experienced a decent Flynn Effect among its non-Ashkenazi populations

They may have become inbred when they were small minorities living in Muslim countries for centuries. It might have taken a generation or two or three for them to marry outside their pre-Israeli nationality group.

“What I see in his data is:”

Having spent a fair amount of time back in the Stone Age mired in sociological data, I came to the rough conclusion that social research is really more of putting on an ill-fitting tuxedo to try and dignify the old Yogi Berra adage that, “You know what, you can observe a lot just by looking.” Which is sort of Steve’s real stock in trade, right?

For instance, I don’t think that the incredible developmental leap between immediately pre- and post-Meiji Japan had something to do with some magical materialist nutritional boost in Japanese IQ, I think it’s pretty obvious that it had to do with cultural and socio-political shifts in emphasis, in the wake of the shocking exposure to Perry’s notorious Black Ships. You don’t just get Fukuzawa Yukichi pulled clean out of a hat one or two generations away from Hokusai, explained by biological HBD differences; it has to do with the samurai Yoshida Shoin freaking out and inspiring a generation to get up off their arses and DO something.

Were the men of the generation right before James Madison just a bunch of cavemen who then made a few changes to their diet and magically came up with The Federalist?

Maybe you have to spend your teenage years stuck on a late-night NYC subway car watching and avoiding categorical teenage negro misbehavior to recognize just how ingrained and endemic it is. I mean, me own dear father was a streetwise knife-fighting punk who after a quick stint in the Navy suddenly became an upstanding family man and homeowner, turned it all around in the space of like four years; somehow though, I don’t ever see that on the A train.

And of course, the politicians are also planning on mass Indian immigration to the west.

You mean even more?

I want to know about the countries on the graph with average IQ’s of 60. Do you realize how stupid that is? The implication would be that a third of the population would be incapable of tying their shoes. Imagine making change…

But there was still a major objection in my mind to the idea of an intractable racial difference in intelligence or civilizational capacities. It was the thought that, after all, most blacks seem normally intelligent, so how could there be so big a racial difference in overall intellectual abilities? It didn’t make sense. I then realized that this confusion stemmed from the mistaken assumption that intelligence is a single ability measured along a single continuum. In fact, intelligence consists of a set of several different abilities at different levels. People who may be equal to each other at one level may be vastly unequal at another level. As I was reading Daniel Seligman’s useful book, A Question of Intelligence, published in 1992, the following occurred to me, based on an experience that many people have probably had:

You’re speaking to an intelligent skilled worker, say a carpenter who is doing renovations on your house. He can speak about the job with great knowledgeability and intelligence. But the moment the conversation strays to an abstract or conceptual subject, he is uncomprehending. At one level of intelligence two people may be more or less equal, but at a higher level of intelligence there may be significant difference between them.

The carpenter idea helped me conceptualize the group difference between blacks and whites. For example, blacks do virtually as well as whites in reciting a list of numbers from memory, but they do much worse than whites when the test calls for them to recite a list backwards. In other words, at the level of ordinary abilities, the racial difference is small, but at a higher order of abilities, the difference is large.

This insight explained for me the “optical illusion” of racial equality. I realized that the reason whites do not automatically become aware of the large differences in average intellectual ability between whites and blacks is that whites often deal with blacks on a superficial level where only the ordinary levels of intelligence are brought into play.

In the fall of 1993 I had a kind of epiphany in which all these thoughts crystallized into a new paradigm concerning racial differences. It happened like this. I recalled an uncle of mine, one of my father’s brothers, who died about 10 years ago. He was a tall, handsome man, a natty dresser, a golfer, socially popular, a tough guy with an authoritative air, a bit irascible at times but not unkind. It never occurred to me in my youth there was anything wrong with him. It wasn’t until I grew older that I realized his entire conversation was limited to saying things like “Not too bad,” or “How about that,” or “You don’t say.” That’s an exaggeration, but not by much. My uncle, a year older than my father, worked with him in their business, in which they were partners, but I gradually realized my uncle did little except answer the phone and take in receipts. It was my father who actually ran the business and who had basically supported my uncle through his entire life, all the while keeping up the amiable front that my uncle was a partner in fact as well as in name. My mother told me that before she married my father, he told her that he would always have to take care of his brother. In fact, my uncle was of very limited intelligence, perhaps even borderline retarded, but it wasn’t something you automatically noticed because of the way he carried himself, his almost kingly manner and leonine appearance.

As I thought about my uncle in this light, I began to see through the “optical illusion” of racial equality. I realized how in ordinary interactions and behavior blacks seem on the whole like ourselves, indeed, often more vital than ourselves, with warm and vivid personalities, so we assume that any intellectual differences must be insignificant. It is only when we go beyond superficial contact and get to know them better, or when we observe them in a position requiring intelligence, that we see that, much more often than whites or Asians, they are unable to deal with more rigorous tasks. In undemanding, routine affairs they are, more or less, intellectually equal to whites. In more demanding settings they are not.

http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/001132.html

Rarely do I see Larry Auster quoted any more (contrary to rumour, it’s easy to be forgotten on the Internet), but he put a lot of things more aptly and succintly than anyone else I know.

That’s a better picture, if it’s not filtered. But she looks a lot tougher outside court.

I’ve not been following the saga, and I’m no Biden fan, but a potential 25 years for lying seems a bit much.

Addicts lie all the time, about everything.

a) remarkable – I can’t imagine that in the UK. When a girl gets smuggled into barracks (as occasionally happens) she’s lucky if she just gets away with servicing the man who brought her in. Often she’ll have to do his mates as well. And there are umpteen harrassment cases of female soldiers. Damn stupid idea having women in combat roles.We didn’t do it in WW2 when warm bodies were in short supply.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10927479/Battalion-BANNED-exercise-paratroopers-filmed-orgy-woman-smuggled-barracks.html

b) isn’t Norway where an all-female bridge crew wrecked a modern warship?

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/17/europe/norway-navy-sunken-frigate-scli-intl/index.html

The financial impact of the crash is likely to be felt well beyond the military, as it triggered the shutdown of a North Sea crude export terminal, Norway’s largest gas processing plant and several offshore fields.

But efforts to move the 5,290-ton warship to a safe place went catastrophically wrong after cables attached to hold it in place snapped.

Now all that remains above the waterline is the frigate’s top, antennas and radar, leading local media to speculate how a ship designed for war failed to avoid a slow-moving, 62,557-ton tanker.

Are the increases in Serbia and Turkey because people are thinking more like modern test takers ? or because of better nutrition ?

Nutrition certainly helps height: Koreans, Japs and the Chinese all grew by 20cm within a generation once they had decent access to protein. Turns out you only reach the genetic height ceiling for real once you first take care of nutrition.

These days a Turk is as tall as a Russian, and all mongoloids are taller than Latinos.
https://www.worlddata.info/average-bodyheight.php

Cognition is less linear, and surely is influenced by pollution, smartphone use, drug use rates, political and social stress levels and so on. But it would be impossible for it to not be influenced by nutrition as well. Albeit it could be quite possible for certain types of corporate foods to produce “big but dim” populations.

This is due to better educational results of Israeli Arab population (20% of the country).

A large fraction of the workforce has nothing to do all day, other than meetings & e-mails. They get bored easily. That’s why they Tweet so much during the work day.

Twitter is people sitting bored at their 4HL job looking for stimulation/education during the day.

That's what it is. It's the real work app. Not LinkedIn.

Look at the hours when everyone is here. They are at work at the same time pic.twitter.com/mac2mCNzJb

— LindyMan (@PaulSkallas) June 7, 2024

Elon Musk fired 80% of Twitter’s workforce and kept the company going. From my experience, most corporations have at least as much overstaffing.

📺🇮🇱 The last tweet that got Arthur Kwon Lee nuked?

Anton LaVey, jewish satanist: https://t.co/1ZQ8xthxS2 pic.twitter.com/E35WPkQh4E

— Sam Parker-ucas Gage🇺🇲 (@SamParkerSenate) June 7, 2024

Having both spent time in Turkey and lived in European cities with large Turkish immigrant populations, my impression is that Turkey has successfully exported a lot of its criminal and low IQ population, making life in Turkey much nicer than it used to be.

Putin is also feeding low IQ minorities and rural Russian poor into the meatgrinder, so the invasion of Ukraine will probably have long term eugenic results for Russia, and the opposite for Ukraine unfortunately.

The claim is they never celebrate military events.

OTOH, they have done Veterans’ Day Doodles, where they like to honor every demographic except the one that does most of the fighting.

do remember the strange cultural electricity which followed the release of “Daydream Nation” or “Double Nickels on the Dime,”

I can‘t tell if you’re joking. I was a big fan of both bands at the time, and the „cultural electricity“ was limited to the maybe tens of thousands of overeducated white kids who played in bands and listened to college radio. Completely niche and hard to compare in any way with the Taylor Swift phenomenon. Imagine Johnny Carson making a joke about Sonic Youth in 1988. The audience would have just stared at him uncomprehending. I don’t think even Letterman’s audience was clued in for the most part. (they only got onto Letterman on the strength of the more commercial „Dirty“ in 1992).

South Korea should be a source of analysis and conversations about why the TFR is so low. I provided several cites to Steve concerning who sexist the men are in South Korea and how mandatory military service for men but not women seems to increase the levels of sexism in South Korea. Also, South Korea seems to be a country where females do not dominate the higher education system.

But Steve had rather write about the old Negro League or write about George Floyd for the 100th time rather than explore other issues involving human biodiversity.

OT — Another Boeing surprise.

WATCH: Boeing 777 trails flames on take-off before engine issue forces emergency landing in Canada pic.twitter.com/95HBoFojZU

— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) June 7, 2024

“Palestine” is what the Brits called the territory when they controlled it, 1917-1948, and it’s true that “Palestinian” referred to both Arabs and Jews. The name was invented by an earlier foreign power — Rome — and referred to the territory, not specifically to any particular ethny.

After the Brits left, the Jews declared a new state there, gave it a name in their own language — Israel — and the world got used to calling its citizens “Israelis”.

Those Arabs in that territory who didn’t wish to be known as “Israelis” needed to think of a name for themselves. They’d have come up with something authentically Arabic except there was nothing like that available because the territory of the former British Palestine Mandate had never constituted any sort of coherent Arab polity (that is, before the Brits and the French carved up spheres of influence in WW1). It was just part of the same cultural-linguistic area other parts of which became Lebanon, Syria and Jordan — analogous to NY, NJ and PA. So, lacking anything better, the Arabs stuck to the Brits’ designation “Palestine” (which, with appropriate phonetic allowances, is what they call themselves in Arabic too).

If at this point you’re wondering what the hell kind of fraud this whole “Palestinian” nationality thing is, then you’re starting to catch on.

So unless people can come up with a historically-coherent name for themselves they should be the subject of genocide. Gotcha.

Well, I see one Harley-Davidson-American there. All the others are vibrantly diverse.

Are they wearing snow pants? I know Norway has units specialized at getting around on skis. I used to work with one such who did his military service (then mandatory) way up where Norway and Russia share a border. He used to say his mission was to be a speed bump in the path of the Red Army.

and 41.2% among those with five children

21 out of the 52 in Norway?

This is obscene!

If at this point you’re wondering what the hell kind of fraud this whole “Palestinian” nationality thing is, then you’re starting to catch on.

So the whole thing was “Palestine.” The Jews carved their own nation out of that. And everyone left over is still a “Palestinian” (although conquered by Israel.). Makes sense.

All three white families have an autistic child.

They are not “autistic” anymore. They are “neuro-divergent”.

Frankly, I suspect that the whole autistic thing is just made up. Perhaps, kids like that used to just be called shy, or squirrely, or whatever. Just as ADHD is made up; it used to just be called “being a boy”. Now, being a rambunctious boy has been labeled a diagnosable illness that requires medication.

If these conditions aren’t made up – if they are real – then they demand an explanation as to why there has been an explosion in their incidence in the last forty years or so. And it would likely have to be an environmental cause. What is it then? Processed food? Pharmaceuticals? Microplastics? Vaccines? The people charged with managing “public health” – who largely seem indifferent to the health of the public – would have to entertain some of these ideas and give them serious study if they really wanted to find an answer. But they won’t.

Try calling an Arab ‘Palestinian’ during the British mandate and see what happens. ‘South Syrian,’ please.

Lower proportion of Arabs, for one thing.

OT — November 5th will decide whether we can have anything or whether we become rats in the walls gnawing the wiring. He doesn’t mention bestgore or search but they’re among the most important victims of the 2020 purge: bestgore being the closest thing to experience to force people to accept the reality of diversity (“is that a sword?”), and search — Google, YouTube, everything — clearly getting castrated and made artificially ineffective.

Tucker and Bongino got booted from Fox

Alex Jones owes $1 billion and expects InfoWars to be raided by Feds

Rudy Giuliani owes $100 million for saying a rigged election was rigged

Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro are being imprisoned

Trump has 34 felonies and was banned off all…

— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) June 7, 2024

Whites: Can’t move in, can’t move out, can’t live by themselves.

No “P” in Arabic. “Palestine” written in Arabic clearly invokes a pre-Roman (and probably pre-Jewish) people. Imagine tutoring a student who says 2+2=3, then just waits for you to leave, then repeats that 2+2=3. Now imagine that he can’t figure out why he’s not persuading anyone.

On that upper doodle, I immediately noticed something wrong with the Marine, but couldn’t quite figure out what it was. Then on closer inspection it became apparent that his civilian half is wearing a dress, even though he is obviously a dude. So presumably he is supposed to be a tranny.

The only white guy is an old crippled Vietnam veteran who is well on his way to fading away.

Minutemen and Sonic Youth both very admirable bands, but any “strange cultural electricity” was strictly limited to small groups of people.

OT, but who’s Hunter Biden’s new woman/wife – hard-looking blonde named Cohen?

Perhaps a woman has to be hard-looking to stomach marrying Hunter Biden, a skeevy crack-addict who parties with hookers on weekend-long benders and who slept with his own sister-in-law (and did so less than a year after his brother / her husband was in the ground).

Hunter Biden is a degenerate low-life and a parasite. He is like a modern day Cesare Borgia.

The Romans rebranded Judea following multiple uprising of the Jews.

They renamed the area after the Philistines to royally goad Israel.

An ancient enemy Philistia transmogrified into Roman Syria-Palaestina now the modern Palestine.

Do modern Jews have the slightest interest in being lumped in with Saul and David’s arch enemies?

What you say about St. George / Baton Rouge is true here in New Orleans as well. The only good news is that the new governor (R replacing D) has sent the state police to New Orleans to try to make it less crime-ridden before the Super Bowl.

The hard-looking blonde (good phrase) is his wife. Don’t know anything else about her except at the trial she went up to some guy who runs a right-leaning website dedicated to Hunter’s laptop, and told him “You have no right to be here, you Nazi”. The stripper who dated Hunter and testified at trial (not the stripper who is the mother of his child) testified that Hunter was very nice and charming — apparently for all his scummery he has game with the ladies.

Having both spent time in Turkey and lived in European cities with large Turkish immigrant populations, my impression is that Turkey has successfully exported a lot of its criminal and low IQ population, making life in Turkey much nicer than it used to be.

It’s also possible that people who are alienated from those around them behave worse than those who are not.

It’s not exactly directly comparable, but I remember noticing when I was traveling in Afghanistan et al in my puppy years that fellow Westerners would do things there that I’m fairly sure they would not have done at home.

If you don’t perceive those around you as peers, you become indifferent to their opinions. It doesn’t even really occur to you that they might have an opinion. Imagine yourself in a meadow with a bunch of cows. Would you feel self-conscious about picking your nose?

‘…If at this point you’re wondering what the hell kind of fraud this whole “Palestinian” nationality thing is, then you’re starting to catch on…’

While I disagree completely with your account of the history of ‘Palestine,’ to some extent, it doesn’t matter.

The Palestinian people exist now. The Jews made them.

Really, so what? So the land is historically South Syria and the native people are really South Syrians, it’s still not historically “Israel” except in the sense that France is “Gaul” or Ukraine is “Scythia”. A name change doesn’t mean people who lived there for centuries don’t have the right to live in their ancestral homes and have to be displaced by wealthier immigrants.

If Israel has a right to exist, it’s simply because the facts on the ground established by conquest and immigration give it the right to exist. Same reason the US and Australia have the right to exist. Really those are better reasons than trying to use ancient history and God as a justification.

Helium is the leakiest shit in the universe, next to hydrogen.

Source: https://t.co/bPRQJ09tWv

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) June 7, 2024

Thanks for calling that out. I did not go through the countries in detail. It would be interesting to see estimated IQs by subgroup in Israel over time.

For a fairly recent number, this answer from Quora looks reasonable. I am not finding the original source.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-average-IQ-of-Israel

The average IQ in Israel is 95.

“…Israeli IQ breaks down into three components: 40 percent Ashkenazim (European Jewish) with a mean IQ of 103; 40 percent Sephardim (Oriental Jewish) with a mean IQ of 91; and 20 percent Arab with a mean IQ of 86”

This is slightly different (e.g. Arab mean IQ 84 rather than 86).
https://human-intelligence.org/jews/#jews4

Lynn’s 2011 book is probably the best referenced source. The first copy is a cleaner scan, but the second has a TOC and better OCR.
The Chosen People
A Study of Jewish Intelligence and Achievement
https://www.intelligence-humaine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/The-Chosen-People.pdf
http://digamoo.free.fr/lynn2011.pdf

The four Jewish peoples, each with their distinctive genetic profiles, differ considerably in their intelligence and achievements. In subsequent chapters this is documented for all the countries in which there are significant Jewish populations. We shall see that it is only the Ashkenazim that have the exceptional intelligence, which is estimated at 110 (all these IQs are calculated in relation to 100 for Britain and other countries of Northwest Europe, which has become known as the “Greenwich standard,” analagous to longitude which is measured in degrees distant from Greenwich). The IQ of the Sephardim is considered in Chapter 17 on the Balkans and is estimated at 99, about the same as the average of Europeans. The IQ of the Mizrahim is considered in Chapter 11 on Israel and is estimated at 91, about 7 IQ points higher than that of other peoples of the Near and Middle East. The IQ of the Ethiopian Jews is also considered in Chapter 11 and is estimated at 66, about the same as that of other peoples of sub-Saharan Africa (Lynn, 2006). Chapter 20 considers theories to explain the differences in intelligence among the four Jewish peoples and between these and Gentiles.

Chapter 11 goes into much more detail. Hard to summarize, but
Table 11.14. Education and earnings of European and Oriental Jews and Arabs
seems very relevant for this conversation. It looks at 1975 and 2001 and shows years of education for European Jews, Oriental Jews, and Arabs as 13.7/14.8, 10.3/12.9, 7.6/11.8.

These numbers from the conclusion of chapter 11 differ a bit from those above.

We have seen that there is a gradient of intelligence in the four ethnic populations in Israel. Intelligence is highest in the European Jews (IQ =1o6), lower in the Orientals (IQ=90), lower still in the Arabs (IQ=84), and lowest in the Ethiopian Jews (IQ= 69).

The final paragraph of that conclusion is amusing.

It is difficult to believe that these social scientists are unaware of the higher intelligence of the European Jews and that this can explain their better achievements. It can only be presumed that they have chosen not to mention it.

This was not terribly informative, but for completeness.
https://pumpkinperson.com/2022/02/05/the-jewish-iq-triarchy-ashkenazi-middle-eastern-orthodox/

Based on the population sizes I wonder how much each group contributed to the overall Flynn Effect? And how much did the distribution of the groups change?

Regarding population demographics, I had not realized how young the population of Israel is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel

Israel IQ over time plot from Steve’s link for easy reference.

It seems to me the principle to keep in mind is that the “map is not the terrain” — i.e., answering IQ test questions is not IQ. Rather, it is only a means of measuring IQ/g. And it is only a valid measure to the extent answering the IQ test questions correlates to an empirical real world outcome that we would describe as demonstrated “intelligence.”

The usual real-world metric is educational aptitude and achievement. So this should be the metric for testing whether Flynn-enhanced raw scores represent real increases in intelligence.

For example just compare the output of college or HS students today against those of 60 years ago. Based on raw numbers of correct answers on 60 year-old IQ tests, current students are supposedly 20 IQ points smarter. If that were true, they would be blazing through the subject matter in half the time and scoring far higher on the final test of substantive knowledge.

Is that happening? Obviously not. So the hypothesis that the “Flynn effect is a real IQ increase” should be easily tested (and debunked).

This should be easy. What am I missing?

How do they do IQ tests of illiterates?

Neuropsychological Test Performance in Illiterate Subjects

Of corse, there will be resistance to that, too, more so than to the regular tests:

IQ variations across time and race are explained by literacy differences – Nature

(Shouldn’t that last word be Nurture?)

Thanks. Just following that is this. How much does it explain the last 20 years? And the next 20?

The above also means that to the extent blacks gain power in an institution or community, that institution will begin to undergo a decline, in some cases, a catastrophic decline. This is the unspoken argument against affirmative action. The spoken argument against affirmative action is that it’s unjust, which is of course true. The unspoken—and far graver—concern is that by bringing blacks on a racially proportional basis into occupations for which many of them are not qualified, we are dragging down every institution and profession, with incompetent teachers, incompetent doctors and nurses, incompetent airline pilots, incompetent and corrupt police officers and office holders and all the rest of it.

Even more alarming, the more blacks advance, the more—not less—they resent whites. The more America does to overcome its “racism,” the more “racist” America appears. The reason for this is built into the dynamics of human nature. Very simply, the more equal blacks become with whites, the more unbearable and unjust seem the remaining differences. Thus what started as a demand for basic civil rights mutated into a demand to overturn the whole society, along with its traditions and norms, its standards and laws, its history and heroes, since in all these things blacks are still not “equal.”

An example of what happens when blacks gain power can be seen in the current imbroglio at Rutgers University, where President Francis Lawrence, through his own affirmative action policies, created the very student body that is now trying to destroy him. When blacks gain numbers and power, they inevitably subject whites to intimidation and tyranny, just as they do to their own people.

100 for Britain and other countries of Northwest Europe, which has become known as the “Greenwich standard,”

From longitudinal studies?

(Sorry. Please grant me some latitude. Bad weather took us off the grid for some time yesterday, and we lost our bearings.)

I’ve not been following the saga, and I’m no Biden fan, but a potential 25 years for lying seems a bit much.

I think they are trying to create a patina of “fairness” regarding the Trump kangaroo court.

Will be interesting to see how both Trump and Hunter Biden cases (all of them, including the ones not pursued) play out.

Almost every Israeli is a dual citizen somewhere else. Maybe Israel’s collective IQ is lower than diaspora Jews for the same reason India is lower than diaspora Indians. That is, the smarter fraction have more opportunity in the U.S. so they are here instead of there.

In addition to the Misrahi and Arabs (and Ethiopians!) pulling the average down, I think there is a lot of skepticism about how Jewish the 1 million Russian immigrants in the 1990s were.

It would be interesting to see how Israeli GWAS scores correlate to percentage Ashkenazi genes.

“The development is due to environmental factors – in other words something in our surroundings,” says Røgeberg.”

Maybe something in the beer…

Are they wearing snow pants?

They’re designed to make the women as unattractive as possible–and to hide involuntary boners.

The first part is the point I made in the comment you replied to. The Flynn Effect gains appear to be concentrated at the low end.

The second part is the recent apparent reversal of the Flynn Effect in some more developed countries.

The third part is demographic change in the US.

Regarding college (and HS to a lesser extent) student comparisons, those are hard to make given how much the attendance rate has changed Here is data from 1960 to 2022.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/184260/educational-attainment-in-the-us/

Looking at HS math, we do see significant changes in courses taken.
https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/math-in-american-high-schools/

That article discusses the disconnect between that (and even more, increasing math GPA) with fairly stable NAEP scores which speaks to your point.

My anecdotal experience is that the prevalence of higher end math skills (e.g. calculus, linear algebra, statistics) has increased over time. Not sure how much of that is due to the increasing presence of Asians and greater resulting competition. And how much might be due to having computers to do the heavy lifting of calculation. That contrasts with basic math skills (e.g. making change).

I think much of the idiocy of The Current Year is from being taught (and encouraged/required to believe) things which simply are not true. The attempts to justify that result in much specious reasoning.

I share your “This should be easy” skepticism to some degree. One of my hobby horses is: why can’t we do large scale tests of present people on old IQ tests? Then use those results compared to earlier samples as a more direct measure of the Flynn Effect over a long period of time. When making comparisons it is better to use a single measurement with a large differential rather than summing multiple incremental (e.g. over 100 years rather every 10 years) measurements where the errors are larger as a proportion of the measurement.

Two posts about the Flynn Effect by James Thompson. I think my analogy in the comments of the first with average and maximum lifespan is worth considering.
https://www.unz.com/jthompson/what-do-iq-researchers-really-think-about-the-flynn-effect/
https://www.unz.com/jthompson/the-flynn-effect-explained-partly/

From the first link.

So, a summary would be that the improvements in health and education that have been enjoyed by most people in the world over that last century have probably boosted their mental ability, but in richer countries the effect has levelled off, and in several it has gone down.

This 2023 paper might be useful.
Looking for Flynn effects in a recent online U.S. adult sample: Examining shifts within the SAPA Project
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289623000156

Highlights

• A reverse Flynn effect was found for composite ability scores with large US adult sample from 2006 to 2018 and 2011 to 2018.
• Domain scores of matrix reasoning, letter and number series, verbal reasoning showed evidence of declining scores.
• Three-dimensional rotation scores generally increased from 2011 to 2018.
• Differences in ability scores were present regardless of age, education, or gender.
• The steepest slopes occurred for ages 18–22 and lower levels of education.

P.S. You might find this 1999 paper interesting.
A Critique of the Flynn Effect: Massive IQ Gains, Methodological Artifacts, or Both?
http://www.iapsych.com/iqmr/fe/LinkedDocuments/rodgers1999.pdf

From the same author.

Identification of a Flynn Effect in the NLSY: Moving from the center to the boundaries
http://www.iapsych.com/iqmr/fe/LinkedDocuments/rodgers2007.pdf

Methodological Issues Associated with Studying the Flynn Effect: Exploratory and Confirmatory Efforts in the Past, Present, and Future
https://www.mdpi.com/2079-3200/3/4/111

Eleven articles and 27 authors pay tribute to James Flynn: A summary and critique of special issue articles on the Flynn effect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289623000752

Well, I guess you’ll be happy that the deep state is taking him out.

It’s pronounced “Falastin” with F for the P that doesn’t exist in Arabic. Not pre-Roman.

DINKs and SINKs (and let us add “QUINKs”) are part of the explanation for sliding IQ scores. From the WSJ four weeks ago: