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So are the 52 psychologists who signed this scientific consensus about the bell curve all KKK-types -- https://www.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/reprints/1997mainstrea... ? Guess there…

With reference to Africa, you can define the Cathedral as the permanent staff of the U.S. State Department, the universities and think tanks that operate with a revolving door with…

At exactly the point where you think this actually fucking matters when evaluating the value of those people. Well I certainly would wish that the entire issue of the racial test s…

You know, that there actually really were/are actually people who actually thought black/latino/etc. people were actually inferior... actually. For Real. Historical Fact. Period. T…

Take away? I have no takeaway. I have no idea how to fix things. But the first step to any solution is recognizing what actually happened.

Does free speech have the power to corrupt other minds at a level that that free speech should instead be controlled? Yes. And ironically, the one who convinced me of that point is…

I think people who disagree that MM's writing is racist are mostly just hoodwinked by the above rhetorical ploy I think MM's answer to the racism charge was much better here - http…

For example, in one comment he rambles on about colonialism being not-so-impeachable because those Africans were brutes prior to and after colonization. The problems with a stateme…

All human fields of study are very messy, they are not precise sciences in the way that Newton's laws are. IQ tests are designed to be excellent proxies for what we generally under…

If the top article on the Hacker News home page contradicts the evidence and the data that I have read, what am I supposed to do? I did not paste in a pre-written screed. I have re…

I gave a link to stereotype threat earlier - http://isteve.blogspot.com/2012/10/john-list-on-virtual-none... And keep in mind, even if the studies were replicable, the studies did …

The imgur photo came from the Bell Curve by Charles Murray. There was some controversy about parts of the book, but the fact that blacks score one standard deviation lower on IQ te…

Computer programming is one of the most cognitively demanding professions in existence. Ability to program correlates pretty highly with cognitive test scores, such as the SAT Math…

I hope the mods don't mind that I wrote my own title, as the original title of the article was not at all descriptive.

This idea that statistics can only confirm and supplement "qualitative observations" (I.e. my priors) is completely unscientific and anti-intellectual. Since when is investing in s…

This may be a better place to start -- https://jaymans.wordpress.com/jaymans-race-inheritance-and-i... and https://jaymans.wordpress.com/about/ . VDare tends to preach and agitate …

OK I missed that you meant "easily fixed" in the strictly mathematical sense, not in the practical, real-world application sense. With statistics on human affairs, 99% of the hard …

A charitable interpretation of what he or she said is this: don't evaluate bias by looking at outcomes of the average applicant, look at the outcomes of the borderline applicants. …

B. The uterus and melanin both inhibit programming ability, interviewers are perfect judges of programming ability, therefore most hires are white men. Serious question: can you at…

Compute min(accepted a) and min(accepted B) instead of the means. Dude, your comments are normally smarter than this. Yeah, you can easily fix Grahams's test -- all you need are so…

So in this particular case, assuming that First Round's sample size is significant, it may just be that the female founders who seek them out are just on average better than the ma…

Fortunately there's a way to measure bias that's much more reliable, when it can be used....A couple months ago, one VC firm (almost certainly unintentionally) published a study sh…

Simply asking the same set of questions to all candidates won't fix it, if the questions themselves have the effect of weeding out women. The questions I asked were representative …

Let's assume tall people and short people are equally good at cracking eggs. Umm, in the actual example we are talking about, the evidence is on the side of that assumption being f…