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Thos needs a better title. Suggest "Support Data Colada' legal defence fund. Blogger's rigorously investigate academic fraud, sued by fraudster."

9% decrease in response time would be pretty significant for gamers. Look out for LED illuminated gamer branded helium tanks.... and if you think online gamer chat is annoying now,…

If someone asks about how to read sheet music faster, and you can't read it, it's ok to just not say anything

Why does everyone find much stronger genetic effects than parental in adoption studies? “Little intergenerational correlation in education was observed in the absence of genetic si…

What's your explanation for the over-performance of the Ashkenazi and Chinese vs US whites? (The comment you replied to)

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I doubt matching for education matches for potential. An American who drops out of highschool is not the same as a malnourished African who never had the chance

It's going to almost impossible to match backgrounds between the two groups and selection effects are huge. Another question is what are people owed if someone's ancestors were und…

The white admixture could allow you to do admixture studies. Ie examine the inherited white regions see how white polygenic educational attainment scores vs pigmentation scores aff…

There are also cultural differences, I would bet they have different mindsets of 'grievance' vs 'opportunity' towards the USA It would also be hard to not be affected by selection …

Nobody has ever claimed a 100% genetic basis of difference. The individual heritability of IQ is .5 to .8 for example Sub-Saharan diversity is a real thing, eg Bantu, Nilotic, Pygm…

It also relies on blank slate theory - ie that all groups should perform equally, and if they don't, that's evidence enough that there is a conspiracy against them. Perhaps a way t…

Thanks for pointing out the date, I was shocked at how un-woke it was for a mainstream news article.

Inner critic can also chill via the famous advice: "write drunk, edit sober"

The mRNA vaccine took only a few days to design. So you'd save a few days, if the GoF virus happened to be exactly the same as the wild type. There is no way to rush the rest of th…

Gerald Weinberg put it better: "If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization."

> My point was that people have different cultural backgrounds, and with that different expectations from academic degree No. Read again what you wrote. It wasn't a qualified state…

> Also, you'll realise that Australia/New Zealand have the highest HDI indicators of any nation globally with mean winter temperatures above 10 degree Celsius. Why? .... culture If…

Instead of sweeping generalisations you should qualify statements if it only applies to long ago in a small non English speaking country. > I'm not familiar with the job market rel…

They've already done loads of twin studies. IQ is 50-80% heritable.

> Number of children chosen is not genetically heritable You mean it's not 100% genetic... very little is. But very little is 0% genetic Twin study has .35 correlation between iden…

It's worth noting that this class was admitting with NYUs test optional admissions. (No SAT during COVID)

Cheap* *To produce the raw data, and does not include analysis It's likely the bill for a consultant (senior doctor) to examine a patient, order a test then read and sign off on a …

China has vast resources and every reason to try and track down the natural source. But yes, you're right, it's possible we can never know. And thus we should act upon the probabil…