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Jordan Peterson – IQ and The Job Market

Although this video was released just a day of writing this post, it has already gotten over 24,000 views and hundreds of votes and comments, guaranteeing it will be among his most popular videos ever. Why is this video so popular? Because it’s about IQ, automation, and their relation to job market, making it an… Continue reading Jordan Peterson – IQ and The Job Market

Biology, especially as it pertains to IQ, is still the ‘third rail’ of the social sciences.

Changed the theme…The old theme was too cluttered and looked too antiquated. All the navigation, archives, and pages have been pushed to the footer. Split testing revealed that the big banner magazine-style theme did better. This article is going viral: Americans Are Skeptical That Hard Work Will Pay Off Moving up the economic ladder relies… Continue reading Biology, especially as it pertains to IQ, is still the ‘third rail’ of the social sciences.

Implementation of HBD-based Policy

From Gwern on a Hacker News comment thread: I always regarded myself as being a left libertarian sort of type. My reaction to learning about individual differences being so profoundly driven by genetics – never mind racial differences – was simple: research and subsidize genetic engineering. For everyone. To the point of being free. Level… Continue reading Implementation of HBD-based Policy

Why it seems like many high-IQ people ‘underachieve’

As if their earlier article How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent In Math wasn’t bad enough, Nauseo.us magazine keeps raising the bar in demonstrating stupidity about all matters pertaining to IQ and intelligence, in their latest article If You Think You’re a Genius, You’re Crazy. We need to raise awareness about Nauseo.us magazine… Continue reading Why it seems like many high-IQ people ‘underachieve’

The Best of Times or The Worst of Times?

We have two contrasting opinions: From Bill ‘RamZPaul’ Gates: Warren Buffett’s Best Investment Bill: One of my favorite books is Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature. It shows how violence has dropped dramatically over time. That’s startling news to people, because they tend to think things are not improving as much as they… Continue reading The Best of Times or The Worst of Times?

Was Charles Darwin Slow-Witted?

This story went viral: The Darwinian Guide to Overachieving your IQ Darwin, however, was not a man of pure intellect. He was not Issac Newton, or Richard Feynman, or Albert Einstein — breezing through complex mathematical physics at a young age. Darwin and the aforementioned names were in totally different fields, Darwin being biology/anthropology and the others… Continue reading Was Charles Darwin Slow-Witted?