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"You are aware that the very definition of a fact precludes it from having exceptions, right?" He's talking about statistical distributions. "It's an established fact that six-year…

I know. I often fear a nightmarish reality in which women spend minutes or even hours per day carefully disguising natural facial features, odors, and hair--or even exercising at a…

I recommend The Red Queen if you want to start learning about this. The short answer: men largely choose mates based on looks; women choose based more on social status. Signalling …

It is odd that you're demonizing Malcolm X and Steve Sailer, while refusing to address their arguments. Apparently they are "clumsy," "racist," and "grotesque," producing "simplifi…

It's still ad hominem , even if it's also inductive reasoning. I'm still hoping for a follow-up addressing the claims, rather than the person making those claims.

Has anyone disputed them? This seems like a great example of an ad hominem attack--you haven't had to question their data, or their logic, just the fact that they've found an argum…

There is a big difference. You're a "supremacist" if you think one group is better. You're a "nationalist" if you think these groups should be separate. Many white nationalists wil…

Would you laugh at someone who thought that it was a good thing for humans to selectively breed plants and animals? We certainly couldn't maintain our population without them. Woul…

Okay, that's what I suspected. At the right level of abstraction, you can certainly find non-selfish activities. But a gene's-eye-view is the most significant view, because in the …

Define "Selfishness" in this context. In a broad sense, it's very hard to argue that selfish genes don't explain most human behavior. Certainly, I would spend my time differently i…

Conservatives say they don't believe in evolution, but act like they do (in the sense they tolerate "animal spirits" in economics, a sexual division of labor, and racial disparitie…

That is definitely not an answer. Grandparent suggested that genetics plays a role in why people in one country are different from people in another. And you respond by saying that…

You don't need to get drunk. Alcohol gradually reduces inhibitions, so if everyone has had a few drinks, they'll be able to sustain a conversation about, e.g., which project is act…

Then you're not drinking enough. Seriously. Alcohol is a great evolutionary adaptation, since it allows people to be extremely dour and responsible most of the time, while being ab…

I don't understand. That Time article is very clear about how beneficial European rule was. It goes on and on--about the mines and the industries and the shops and the general sens…

If the smartest non-C programmers all started programming in C, and the C programmers never switched to something else, you could make that judgment. What's interesting is that I a…

You know, their crime rate is amazingly low. Seriously, if you compare their numbers to the US, your first instinct is to assume that they moved the decimal point over. So it seems…

The third-world isn't some laggard full of overbreeding simpletons. Any concrete reason for that belief? It looks like the "overbreeding" is objectively true: http://en.wikipedia.o…

I recommend getting over it. You are almost certainly the descendants murderers and conquerors. http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=7819&... That's just how humans r…

Of course technical people would be the ones you find behind successful acts of destruction. But that does not mean that all engineering and hard-science types are more likely to b…

This seems like an incredibly poor idea. For whatever reason, people with engineering and hard-science backgrounds are much more likely to become terrorists ( http://www.theregiste…

(Based on my own anecdotal experience, rich people are not especially smarter than the poor or middle-class) IQ correlates better that parental socio-economic standing. But there a…

My impression was that it's pretty rare to move more than half a standard deviation by using test prep. And that median is skewed by the fact that scores fluctuate from one session…

Right. If you're okay with selling it in increments, but not selling all of it, there's probably a cutoff. And your cutoff is probably lower than 99%.

Of course it can be beneficial to slaves. If they're an asset, and the appreciation in that asset's value accrues mostly to the owner, that owner has every incentive to maximize th…