DOES ‘BIRTH LOTTERY’ TRUMP THE AMERICAN DREAM? There is a long-standing debate among economists and sociologists if the birth ‘lottery’ – factors outside of the control of the individual, such as parent’s income, IQ, and race, precludes the existence of the meritocracy. When a child wins the “birth lottery” by being born into a higher-income… Continue reading Birth ‘Lottery’ Does Not Preclude Meritocracy
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Brain Training Doesn’t Make You Smarter
This pretty much upends the left’s approach to education: Brain Training Doesn’t Make You Smarter. The left wants to believe that costly intervention can make kids smarter, and that everyone is blank slate, but the empirical evidence doesn’t bear itself out. It also agrees with my criticism of ‘cognitive enhancers’ Unfortunately, human biology restricts our… Continue reading Brain Training Doesn’t Make You Smarter
Nature Beats Nurture
An interesting post from Vox Nature beats nurture The “Blank Slate” theory is dead. It was never anything but political philosophy and science killed it. Every nominal justification for human equality is being gradually eliminated, one by one, as scientists revisit hypotheses that have long been passed off as pseudoscientific facts. This is true. The… Continue reading Nature Beats Nurture
Free Will – Welfare Liberals vs. Neo Liberals and HBD Conservatives
From Sam Harris’ “Free Will” says liberals understand role of luck It’s pleasing to my progressive self when modern science confirms one of the foundations of Democratic/liberal political philosophy. Such as, that we humans don’t have free will. It’s an illusion. Such is the message of Sam Harris’ captivating new book, the pleasingly short (66… Continue reading Free Will – Welfare Liberals vs. Neo Liberals and HBD Conservatives
The Truth? They Can’t Handle The Truth
As evidenced by the down-votes for this Quora answer to the question How Does One Become a Mathematical Genius, many people wish to live in a world where either IQ does not exist or, if it does, it doesn’t measure anything important and is of no predictive value for success at life. It’s easier, perhaps… Continue reading The Truth? They Can’t Handle The Truth
No Love For The High-IQ Basic Income
Yesterday I wrote an article defending MGTOW, which I later re-wrote because the original didn’t meet my quality standards. It’s funny but not too surprising how some people get worked-up about the idea of a high-IQ basic income (and the topic of IQ in general), so much so that facts and logic go out the… Continue reading No Love For The High-IQ Basic Income
Superior vs. Inferior People
I agree that egalitarianism and fat acceptance is bad, but ‘superior’ people are not those who try to specialize, but those who have the innate biological gifts to specialize in fields that pay money and garner recognition, such as specializing in mathematics, physics, coding, and stock trading. Yeah, if you have an IQ of 90… Continue reading Superior vs. Inferior People
The Left’s Problem With Science
In an article for Taki Magazine, Jim Goad knocks it out of the park, especially with this paragraph: They want to eat their Darwin Fish—or, rather, they want to dispose of it and hide all evidence that it ever existed—when faced with the sheer preposterousness of what they’re proposing, which is that human evolution magically… Continue reading The Left’s Problem With Science
Steven Levitt is Right, Not All Life is Sacred
From the Freakanomics Blog, This Idea Must Die … So it’s an area, it’s a dimension in which we have a lot of power. We’re good at it, but the problem with this idea that every last life is valuable and every life should be saved, essentially at any cost, is that the kind of… Continue reading Steven Levitt is Right, Not All Life is Sacred
In Defense of MGTOW
A video by Aaron critical of MGTOW I agree with 90% of what Aaron writes, including his views on STEM, free market capitalism, feminism, SJWs, religion, etc – but disagree with his opinions on MGTOW, about how he says the stock market is a bubble inflated by QE, and about the fed. But 90% is… Continue reading In Defense of MGTOW