tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post1834044420665277709..comments2024-01-13T18:57:18.243-05:00Comments on Information Processing: Common variants vs mutational loadSteve Hsuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-1854599328778843892013-05-10T22:43:56.883-04:002013-05-10T22:43:56.883-04:00Nothing you said can be refuted, because you said ...Nothing you said can be refuted, because you said nothing. If it matters, I am not in the Jewish camp of Lewontin and Gould or the Afghani camp of Shalizi. All prominent, public sides in this matter are f---ing retards. I am a very firm believer in eugenics and ZPG.HughLygonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-59028670467057368422013-05-04T09:37:40.775-04:002013-05-04T09:37:40.775-04:00Are you going to refute anthing I have said, or no...Are you going to refute anthing I have said, or not?misdreavushttp://twitter.com/HellfireAwaitsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-10031391428833437012013-04-28T23:16:33.157-04:002013-04-28T23:16:33.157-04:00too dumb to respond to.too dumb to respond to.HughLygonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-42224922482269450902013-04-25T00:44:14.603-04:002013-04-25T00:44:14.603-04:00One theory is that the more male fetuses a woman g...One theory is that the more male fetuses a woman gestates, the more likely hormonal reaction problems are to crop up in the next male baby. Ray Blanchard estimated about 15 years ago that this could account for about 1/7th of all cases of male homosexuality.<br /><br /><br />But, if the Nordics keep records as well as I assume they do, I bet we could tease out birth order effects from paternal stevesailernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-29430927284611281502013-04-23T13:07:43.185-04:002013-04-23T13:07:43.185-04:00It's well known that birth order negatively co...It's well known that birth order negatively correlates with IQ and fraternal birth order positively correlates with homosexuality and homosexual pedophilia and pedophilia negatively correlates with heightIamexpertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-37794090619705843242013-04-23T10:28:11.971-04:002013-04-23T10:28:11.971-04:00This is an interesting take on studies that show b...This is an interesting take on studies that show birth order is correlated with success. I have always assumed the reasons were a combination of social effects and maternal nutritional status deteriorating over time. Does anyone know of a birth order study that included parental ages as variables and also measured height and IQ?Richard Seiternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-39541200631385783792013-04-23T02:40:13.266-04:002013-04-23T02:40:13.266-04:00If Cochran's theory that mutational load is as...If Cochran's theory that mutational load is associated with paternal age, we should be able to check if younger brothers are shorter or dumber than older brothers using one of those Scandinavian conscript databases.stevesailernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-64072097129483039012013-04-22T23:15:11.613-04:002013-04-22T23:15:11.613-04:001) You, like many a mortally confused but well mea...1) You, like many a mortally confused but well meaning skeptic, make the classic error of conflating learned knowledge with the ability to think and reason. (Raymond Cattell took pains to distinguish between the two through his "fluid" and "crystallized" intelligences, but that is a different matter entirely.) To illustrate the folly of your reasoning via reductio ad absurdum,misdreavushttp://twitter.com/HellfireAwaitsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-63200208585446888342013-04-22T19:22:10.176-04:002013-04-22T19:22:10.176-04:00"IQ is like height", Steve "thinks&..."IQ is like height", Steve "thinks". But does Steve think?<br /><br />From one of his posts, "the fact that cognitive abilities reliably have positive correlation is highly nontrivial".<br />Those who can do the Rubic's cube without help are likely to have larger vocabularies than those who can't. This is "highly non trivial"? What does an RC know HughLygonnoreply@blogger.com