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Steve
Sailer
Live
not by lies. - Solzhenitsyn
To see what is in front of one's
nose needs a constant
struggle. - Orwell
Knowledge
is good. - Animal
House
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Articles
on IQ
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Who
is Steve Sailer? I'm
a reporter,
movie
critic for The American Conservative, VDARE.com columnist, and founder
of the Human Biodiversity Institute, which runs the invitation-only Human
Biodiversity discussion group for top scientists and public intellectuals.
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Nicholas
Wade's Before
the Dawn
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VDARE.com
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5/07/06
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Although he's not a scientist, NYT
genetics reporter Nicholas Wade may be the single most invaluable figure
in the human sciences today.
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Richard
Lynn's Race Differences in Intelligence
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VDARE.com
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4/23/06
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A common stratagem, I've found, is to assume that IQ differences matter
only if they are genetic in origin. Since no decent, civilized,
right-thinking person could possibly believe that racial differences in IQ
have any genetic basis, then racial and national differences in average IQ
can't possibly exist. Except — whatever their cause, they do exist and
do matter.
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Mike
Judge and King of the Hill
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VDARE.com
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3/26/06
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Judge, who lives in Texas, is that rarity in the entertainment business:
an unabashed populist conservative.
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Undercover
Economist Underperforms on Why Poor Countries Are Poor
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VDARE.com
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3/19/06
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The fundamental problem is that it doesn't really pay in Africa to be a
good ruler.
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Winter
Olympics
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VDARE.com
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2/19/06
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"So try not to laugh when someone says these are the world’s
greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the Winter Games
look like a GOP convention."–Bryant Gumbel on HBO’s Real
Sports
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Americans
First
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American Conservative
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2/13/06
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In devising immigration policy, the question should be: what’s best for the citizens we already have?
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"It's
the End of the World as We Know It"
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VDARE.com
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1/15/06
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What the DNA researchers are uncovering as they scrape away the blather of
the Goulds and Diamonds is a world we already more or less know, the one
we all live in every day. The human race has its flaws. But the truth
about ourselves is not so horrible that we must be shielded from it by
self-appointed sages who get rich fabricating falsehoods.
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France
in Flames: Immigration, Not “Discrimination,” Is the Problem
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VDARE.com
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11/9/05
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The brutal fact is that the economic failings of France's Muslim and
African immigrants stem in large measure from their low average IQ.
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New
Orleans, Race, and IQ,
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VDARE.com
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9/11/05
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The tragic conundrum is that the young men who could most benefit from serving a hitch in the Army, the decent but not too bright 18-year-olds who are on the knife-edge between getting their act together and falling into a lifetime of drugs and crime, are the ones least likely to
make Armed Forces' cognitive cutoff of having an IQ of 92 or above.
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The
New Orleans Nightmare and Racial Reality
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VDARE.com
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9/3/05
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New Orleans should remind us that we still live in a harsh world. The make-believe that passes for public discourse, even at the elite level, simply isn't adequate for protecting American citizens.
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Charles
Murray's "Inequality Taboo"
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VDARE.com
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8/28/05
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The great thing about truths is that they are causally connected to all
the other truths in the world. If you follow one truth bravely, it will
lead you to another. In contrast, lies, ignorance, and wishful thinking
are dead ends.
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Free
to Choose: The Genius Factory
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VDARE.com
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7/5/05
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Sperm banking may sound derisible. But it's a heartrendingly serious
matter to those who have the misfortune to need the industry's services.
About one million Americans alive today were conceived with donor sperm.
Another 30,000 are born every year.
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"The
Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence" by Cochran, Hardy, and Harpending
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VDARE.com
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6/5/05
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"'It would be hard to overstate how politically incorrect this paper
is,' said Steven Pinker, a cognitive scientist at Harvard, noting that it
argues for an inherited difference in intelligence between groups. Still,
he said, 'it's certainly a thorough and well-argued paper, not one that
can easily be dismissed outright.'"
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Genetic
Engineering: How to Find Out What It Portends
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VDARE.com
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5/1/05
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Before bioengineering fully arrives, we still have time to figure out what we want to do and what we don't.
But how? Answer: By studying honestly the human genetic diversity we see all around us - and learning how it already affects society.
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The
Freakonomics of Race and IQ
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VDARE.com
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4/24/05
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Freakonomics is a valuable book—because Levitt cautiously presses the envelope
of what you are allowed to say in American mainstream discourse about IQ and race.
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How to Ease
the College Admissions Arms Race
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VDARE.com
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4/17/05
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Ironically, our pretence that we believe in empirical egalitarianism leads to educational elitism of the crassest kind.
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WSJ's Wrong Answer
on UK Math Gender Gap
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VDARE.com
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4/3/05
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Britain’s overall crime rate is now substantially worse than that of the
U.S. Why?
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Why Some Men
Don't Support Larry Summers
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VDARE.com
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3/6/05
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The Education of Larry
Summers
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American Conservative
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2/28/05
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I tried to explain the Larry Summers brouhaha to my wife, but she stumped
me with a simple question: "Why did Summers give in so fast and
promise, in effect, to make it harder for our sons to someday get hired
there? What's the President of Harvard so scared of?"
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We're Different. Get Over
It.
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National Post
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2/24/05
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What Larry Summers actually said.
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The Larry Summers
Show Trial
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VDARE.com
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2/20/05
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Possibly the most prominent American female economist today is Deirdre
McCloskey—who, perhaps not coincidentally, used to be the prominent
American male economist Donald McCloskey.
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Richard
Florida's Cities and the Creative Class
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Washington Examiner
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2/14/05
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And, sure, booms and bohemians tend to correlate, but who really attracts whom to a
metroplex? Do the engineers and salesguys actually pursue the gay art dealers and immigrant restaurateurs, or are Dr. Florida's footloose favorites more likely to follow the money generated by the pocket-protector boys?
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Blue States More
Inegalitarian
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VDARE.com
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11/21/04
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Census Bureau figures show that California,
traditionally America's trendsetter, is pioneering a new kind of class
structure—ominously like that of highly unequal Latin American countries
like Brazil or Mexico.
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The 2004 IQ
Wars: Kerry, Bush, and Red vs. Blue States
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VDARE.com
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11/14/04
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Millions of Democrats have consoled
themselves with a chart claiming to show that the average IQ in Kerry
states is much higher than in Bush states. It's the same hoax I exposed
last May, but now I have a new table
of honest data on average IQ by state. Unfortunately, it's outdated, but
it's still interesting.
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Bush's Brain
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American Conservative
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11/13/04
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For a moment, I thought
Sen. John F. Kerry was the exception to the rule that all liberals are
secretly obsessed—even though they tell each other they don’t believe
in it—with IQ.
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Does IQ Matter in a
President?
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VDARE.com
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10/28/04
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This is a more philosophical follow-up to
last week's investigative report
This Just In:
Kerry's IQ Likely Lower than Bush's!"
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This Just In:
Kerry's IQ Likely Lower than Bush's!
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VDARE.com
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10/21/04
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Bush's scores on the Air Force Officer
Qualifying Test have been briefly mentioned in the press. But nobody
before now has fully explained what they mean. And, even more important,
this is first article to publish Kerry's score on the Navy's Officer
Qualification Test. The two tests aren't perfectly comparable. But they
provide no evidence that Kerry is smarter. If anything, Bush is smarter
than Kerry.
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"You
have to tell the truth:" The Bell Curve after 10 years
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VDARE.com
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10/10/04
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It’s constantly said in the Establishment
Media that IQ and IQ tests have been "discredited." But the
institution that has studied IQ testing in the greatest detail over the
last 87 years—the U.S. military—remains utterly devoted to the value
of cognitive tests.
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Opening the Black
Box of IQ and the Wealth of Nations
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VDARE.com
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8/29/04
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To open up the black box, I've created a table
displaying virtually all the information Lynn and Vanhanen provide on each
IQ study they used—not just the overall national IQ averages you've seen
so far.
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Importing a New
Underclass: More Evidence
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VDARE.com
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8/22/04
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For American-born Hispanic children (not
just second generation, as many might assume, but the second up through
the seventh generation), the school achievement gap, as measured by the
federal NAEP tests, is 67% as large as the notoriously big white-black
difference.
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Thinking more about
the unthinkable: The white-black IQ gap
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VDARE.com
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7/4/04
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Blogger Tacitus
has been working himself up into a fine lather lately over the
always-fascinating question of Steve Sailer: Evil or Vile?
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"Copenhagen
Consensus:" Help the Tired, Poor, and Dispossessed to Stay Home
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VDARE.com
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6/6/04
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Are there more cost-effective methods of
helping Third World countries—and thus reducing emigration—than
invading and occupying them?
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Interesting India,
Competitive China
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VDARE.com
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5/23/04
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A frank comparison of the peoples of the
two giga-countries: India and China.
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The Brown
discussion's two missing letters: IQ
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VDARE.com
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5/16/04
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Writing about IQ, however, is wildly
popular among Democrats … for the sole purpose of asserting mental
superiority over Republicans, as shown by the table headlined "So
Democrats really are smarter," which appeared on hundreds of blogs,
and even was printed in The Economist.
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IQ: Truth can
set us (and Africa) free
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VDARE.com
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4/4/04
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The UN reported on 3/25/04: "Few
outside specialist circles are aware of the scale and severity of vitamin
and mineral deficiency, or of what it means for individuals and for
nations. It means the impairment of hundreds of millions of growing minds
and the lowering of national IQs… And it means the large-scale loss of
national energies, intellects, productivity, and growth."
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March
Madness on Campus: Basketball Graduation Rates
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VDARE.com
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3/28/04
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A
kid who inherits a 36" vertical leap and a 72 IQ didn't ask for that
combination. That's just what he was handed in the genetic lottery.
Playing college basketball would probably be the best thing he ever does
in his life. It would be cruel to deny him all opportunity to play.
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Profile
in Billionaire Courage
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VDARE.com
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3/28/04
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Perhaps even more heretically, UC Board of
Regents Chairman John J. Moores thinks the academic-industrial complex
should keep its mitts off the less bright half of the population.
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Occam's Claw: The
Zorro of Statisticians
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VDARE.com
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3/7/04
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Occam's Razor, the scientific imperative to
prefer the simplest explanation, has few more productive fans than the
elegant and mysterious academic who writes under the pen name La
Griffe du Lion..
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"Stereotype
Threat" (a.k.a. Occam's Butterknife)
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VDARE.com
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2/22/04
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The identical twin brothers Claude M.
Steele and Shelby Steele offer a fascinating living experiment in the
effects of nature and nurture.
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Culture's
Bell Curve: Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment
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American Conservative
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11/17/03
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In
1997, Murray quietly began a huge project to rank objectively history’s
most important discoverers and creators so that he could examine the
causes and correlates of greatness. The result is his gracefully written
and enthralling Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the
Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950.
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No Excuses for
Thernstroms' No Excuses
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VDARE.com
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10/26/03
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Our society suffers from the "Yale or
jail" myth. We tell all American kids that if they don't graduate
from college, they are doomed. They too often take that to mean they might
as well start dealing crack right now.
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Rush was right
about black QBs. Here's why.
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VDARE.com
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10/5/03
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White sportswriters immediately dusted off
their pitchforks and torches. Nobody is more hysterical about denying
racial differences than the typical sportswriter—precisely because
racial differences are so blatantly obvious in sports.
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The
Not-So-Secret Cause of Bad Schools: Bad Students
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VDARE.com
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9/28/03
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“Bad schools impose indirect -- but huge
-- costs on millions of middle-class families. In their desperate rush to
save their children from failing schools, families are literally spending
themselves into bankruptcy." -- from The Two-Income Trap
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Cognitive
Dissidence on Quotas
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VDARE.com
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6/29/03
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The essence of statesmanship is heading off
dangers before they become acute. Obviously, we can't rely on the Supreme
Court (average age 69) to protect us from perils that will hit hardest
after they have gone fully senile.
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The
Army's Race Relations Secret Weapon
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VDARE.com
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1/26/03
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It
would be wonderful if society's racial gaps could be made to disappear
with just a little military discipline. But the Army has a secret weapon:
it carefully selects which
applicants it accepts. Black and white recruits are quite equal even
before they join up.
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Bush's
Bakke II Brief: It's Déjà vu All Over Again
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VDARE.com
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1/16/03
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Many
on the Naïve Right are exulting over the first paragraphs in President
Bush's remarks on Wednesday siding against the University of Michigan for
using a racial quota admissions system. But (ahem!) didn't the Supreme
Court already outlaw "quotas" 25 years ago in the Bakke
decision? Fat lot of good that did. And fat lot of good the
Administration's "very narrowly tailored" brief to the Supreme
Court will do either.
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Diversicrats
on Collision Course with Court - and Reality
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VDARE.com
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12/8/02
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The Supreme Court has announced it's going
to rule on the constitutionality of the University of Michigan's racial
preference system. A few observations ...
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"A
King Among Men: Arthur Jensen"
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VDARE.com
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12/1/02
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In an era of 900 page biographies, Frank
Miele's short new book on IQ scientist Arthur Jensen has a highly readable
format: it consists mostly of Q&A sessions.
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Diversity vs. Freedom:
The Truth-Telling Teacher Wins
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VDARE.com
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11/3/02
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Thanks
to a public outcry
in which my previous article played a small role, Pasadena science teacher
Scott Phelps, who had been suspended for pointing
out that black students tended to behave worse in class and score
worse on tests than other students—has been reinstated.
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The Truth-Telling
Teacher
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VDARE.com
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10/27/02
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You seldom
find Caltech grads teaching at tough urban high schools. But for twelve
years, Scott Phelps has fought the good fight at Muir High in Pasadena,
California. "He is one of the few teachers I believe went to school
every day for something other than a paycheck," said Aundre Mathews,
a recent graduate who took science from Phelps. Today,
though, Scott Phelps is suspended and in danger of losing his job. His
crime ...
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Iraq,
Israel, Invasion, Immigration – And IQ
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VDARE.com
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9/26/02
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Some
common sense on the Middle East.
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Thoughts on IQ
and the Wealth of Nations
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VDARE.com
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4/14/02
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The
strong correlation between IQ and the wealth of nations demonstrated by
Lynn & Vanhanen is of world-historical importance. From now on, no
public intellectual can seriously claim to be trying to understand how the
world works unless he takes IQ into account.
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Pioneer
Fundophobia
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VDARE.com
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12/12/01
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Twin studies
go back to St. Augustine. He pointed to the differences between fraternal
twins, such as Jacob and Esau in the Old Testament, to disprove the
central tenet of astrology - that time of birth determines personality and
fate.
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Florida Foul-Up
Spotlights America's Huge but Hidden Minority: The Easily Confused
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VDARE.com
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11/14/00
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It's
time to start thinking about how to help our cerebrally limited fellow
citizens. There are tens of millions of Americans out there who were born
as clueless as those Palm Beach retirees took 80 years to become. It will
never be easy to make things easier for the unintelligent. But it's time
we at least thought about it. And the single most obvious way to help our
fellow Americans who lost out in the genetic IQ lottery is to not import
unskilled immigrants to compete against them and drive down their wages.
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Bilingual Ed's
Next Big Thing
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VDARE.com
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11/12/00
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I
spoke with a federally-funded bilingual researcher who assured me that
immigrant kids in the dual-language program score at the 50th percentile
or better in tests given in English. I thought that seemed exaggerated. I
noted that on any test, half the kids must score under the 50th
percentile. She took strong exception to this.
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How
to Help the
Left Half of the Bell Curve
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1. Why
We Aren't Supposed to Write about IQ
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VDARE.com
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7/15/00
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| Almost all
politicians and pundits have become comfortable offering policy
prescriptions for Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon - "where all the
children are above average." In the real world, however, half the
school kids are always going to be lower than the median. Nor have many
mentioned lately that this mathematical fact imposes upon the rest of us
ethical obligations not to use complex laws, like our immigration
policies, to exploit our less acute fellow citizens for our own benefit. |
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2. How the Other Half of the Bell Curve Lives
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VDARE.com
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7/18/00
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| Nobody is
willing to publicly admit that a whole lot of young people just didn't
draw winning hands in the genetic lottery for intelligence. To state this
fact is considered insensitive and, horrors, bad for self-esteem. Maybe,
but to ignore it is to acquiesce in the IQ elite setting policies that are
starkly self-interested and uncharitable. |
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3. IQ & the Class
Struggle
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VDARE.com
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8/25/00
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| The
assumption that all men are created empirically equal lets Stanford MBAs
blame growing economic inequality on the laziness of the lower orders,
although the scientifically accurate response would be "There but for
the grace of God, go I." |
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4. Not So Hot Ideas for
Helping the Left Half
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VDARE.com
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9/2/00
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| When
American intellectuals imported the idea of welfare for single mothers
from Sweden in the Sixties, they expected Americans to respond like
Swedes. That was like expecting Jimi Hendrix to sound like ABBA. |
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5. Seven Ways to Help Our
Fellow Citizens
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VDARE.com
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9/7/00
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| It can
be painful to speak honestly about such a sensitive topic as IQ. But only
realism will allow us to do anything beneficial about it. |
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Eugenics,
Feminist Celebrity-Style & Its
Lessons for Immigration
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#1 Jodie Foster's
Baby
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VDARE.com
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6/19/00
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| "For
Father's Day, we'll consider some of the fascinating
implications surrounding a special kind of father, one that's increasingly in
demand in Hollywood: the Sperm Donor Dad. Lesbian rock star Melissa Etheridge recently
revealed who provided the DNA for her girlfriend's two children: David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, Nash and
sometimes Young. According to numerous (if unconfirmed) reports in the British press,
feminist heroine/glamour queen/single mother Jodie Foster had herself
artificially inseminated with the
gametes of a tall, dark, handsome scientist with an IQ of 160." |
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#2 The Achilles Heel of Eugenics & Immigration
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VDARE.com
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6/19/00
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| "The
extremely smart are to America's high-tech economy what seven foot tall
men are to the National Basketball Association: highly useful freaks of
nature." |
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Are Caublinasians Genetically
Superior?
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National
Post
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2/10/00
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| "It's
time to confront the question that's been whispered about Tiger Woods ever
since this Mozart-like prodigy first appeared on television as a three
year old playing golf with Bob Hope: Are multiracial people like Tiger
genetically better than the rest of us? Until recent decades, that query
was unthinkable: "miscegenation" was assumed to be the royal
road to racial ruin. But, now we have enough scientific evidence to answer
with a resounding ..." |
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The Future of Human Nature
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National
Post
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1/29/00
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 "As
we all know from watching old science fiction movies, humans will evolve
into hyper-intelligent, 97 pound weaklings. Our descendents will mutate
into androgynous pencil-necked geeks barely able to hold up their
basketball-sized brains. And as Steven Spielberg demonstrated in Close
Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T., highly evolved species
are also altruistic pacifists. Of course, the same sort of movies
forecasted that in the year 2000 we'd all helicopter to work in our
one-man autogyros. So, we know the future ain't what it used to be, but
what will it be?" |
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Equality
v. Truth: Darwin's Enemies on the Left
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National
Post
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11/29/99
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| "Stephen Jay Gould, a famous sports nut, cannot even
turn on his TV without being confronted by lean East Africans outdistancing
the world's runners, massive Samoans flattening quarterbacks, lithe Chinese
diving and tumbling for gold medals, or muscular athletes of West African
descent out-sprinting, out-jumping, and out-hitting all comers. No wonder
Gould is reduced to insisting we chant 'Say it five times before breakfast
tomorrow: … Human equality is a contingent fact of history,' like Dorothy
trying to get home from Oz." |
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Is
George W. Bush a Moron?
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Intellectual
Capital
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11/18/99
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| "Does Gov. Bush's 1206 SAT
score (566 Verbal, 640 Math) truly mean he's as dumb as a box of rocks?" |
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Flunking The Big
Test: Nicholas Lemann's book on
the SAT fails to make the grade for moral seriousness.
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National
Post
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10/8/99
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| "How can you, he asks, "create a classless society
by establishing a system that relentlessly classifies people"? But the bigger
question is one Lemann relentlessly dodges: Can you create a classless society
at all? The Khmer Rouge came closest, but to enforce classlessness, they
still had to have two classes: the killers and the killees." |
| Elegy for MJ:
Essays on Michael Jordan's
Retirement |
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The Epitome
of the Black Genius for Basketball: from the national newspaper
of Canada
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National
Post
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1/14/99
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"A Sense of
Where Everyone Is" -- too hot for NR!
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Spiked by NR
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2/8/99
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The Half Full
glass
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| The g Factor: The Science of Mental
Ability by Arthur Jensen |
| "Denouncing Jensen proclaims one's faith in empirical
egalitarianism, which serves as the perfect excuse for ignoring the irksome
demands of moral egalitarianism. By declaring that everyone could Be Like
Me (if only they were properly socialized), the clever can, with clear
conscience, continue to surreptitiously wage class war against the clueless."
This is a hugely important, and shamefully neglected book, and my review
offers a new perspective on the IQ wars. |
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Nerdishness:
The Great Unexplored Topic
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Unpublished
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4/17/98
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| Nerdishness is of great interest to the public today;
after all, the richest man in the world is a nerd. Yet, the human sciences
have never touched the subject: possibly, there's a certain self-blindness
in scientists' world-view? |
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Great Black
Hopes
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National
Review
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8/12/96
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| Black Athletes triumph by toiling intensely at those
games where they tend to enjoy not just cultural, but also physical and mental
edges over whites. This suggests a new, pragmatic view of racial differences.
(This was probably my most important early article.) |
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Where the
Races Relate
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National
Review
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11/27/95
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| Why do the U.S. Army and college sports teams
do so much of a better job at managing race relations than elite
colleges? |
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