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In the followup

One possible answer is that the causal pathway is high GDP → lots of education → lots of practice with abstract reasoning → high abstract/symbolic IQ. I don’t think this can be the whole story, because some countries that “cheated” to get high GDP (eg oil sheikhdoms) can’t translate it into IQ points at the same rate as everyone else. I’m stuck with the boring basic explanation that maybe you need to do a lot of abstract reasoning tasks to get high GDP.

You can't possibly be this dumb. Tfw you're so blinded by racism you transfer yourself to the platonic realm where numbers are things in themselves.

Awesome, I no longer have to link to leaked emails to convince people he's a phrenologist, he just went and wrote a nice succinct article laying it out.

Why are these people obsessed with a measurement of people that has the worst statistical validity known to mankind? IIRC Taleb ripped IQ-obsessives to shit a couple of years ago with an extended rant / published paper on the various flaws, but even from a non-stats nerd perspective the idea that you can infer the “IQ” of an entire country from the studies that these people quote is absurd. We’re talking “I measured the IQ of a bunch of kids in an orphanage in 1968, so obviously I can infer from this the value of the entire nation” levels of absurd here. Even taking their words at face value (lol) the entire endeavour is ludicrous.

The whole thing just seems completely pointless: what’s the end goal here? Being able to line people up like trading cards achieves what exactly?

(Which leads inevitably to the depressing reality that the “why” is obvious, but unspoken of course: They just don’t want to come out and say it.)

The follow up article where normally he retreats to the motte and cherry picks comments from the previous one is somehow worse, we're now treating Lynn as obviously correct as "has been confirmed by later research which is harder to bias."

Yeah, many people tried to gotcha me with claims that Lynn did this or that or the other thing wrong. Lynn tries to defend his methodology here, but I think (and tried to argue in the post) that at this point, that debate is of historical interest only - there’s too much confirmation now. One commenter brings up World Bank Harmonized Learning Outcomes as an example. Another points me to this preprint, which tries to update Lynn’s numbers using all modern standardized testing data and correlations with social development index and GDP. They find mostly similar numbers to Lynn: Malawi goes from 60 → 66, and new last place goes to Sao Tome & Principe at 62. This is by people affiliated with Lynn and scientific racism, and you can choose not to trust their judgment either, but I think at least the SDI correlations are an extremely simple regression that it would be hard to fake.

I hate that I read this. This kind of thing only seems convincing to someone who already believes the core hypothesis (IQ and race science real), but for someone of the correct opinion (IQ and race science not real), it's total garbage.

did scoot at one time have the mask on

no, he scooted by on people's good faith

it's a bloody biweekly caliper gentlemen's club meeting in the replies there

E. Kirkegaard and his shitrag appear to be the sum total of his sources and he's still trying to do the enlightened centrist thing of couching everything in 'this is what people (who I implicitly consider qualified) have come up with to explain Lynn's {absurd bullshit}', which I guess at this point might possibly fool some of his Nepal-based readers (average IQ of 42 according to Lynn).

Uncharacteristically short post by slatescott, best he could come up with to explain how Lynn's results are worth considering once we choose to ignore his vibe based research methodology and how he's downstream of nazi money appears to be that:

• Lynn's research is in fact anti-racist because US blacks not being uniformly mentally disabled supports nurture over genetics wrt IQ and
• really low IQ scores achktually fail to capture mental disability because it is comorbid with all sorts of impairments besides low IQ, and it's really surely entirely possible to have a chat with a person who scored 60 on an IQ test and only realize something's off when you try to discuss the finer points of HPATMOR with them, so having a functional country where the median IQ is several standard deviations below normal shouldn't be out of the question.

Siskind doesn't give a shit. If we take the above at face value the obvious conclusion is that IQ is garbage at what it's supposed to be useful for, but the comment sections is currently full of HBD enthusiasts excited to finally be feeling seen and probably eager to send subscription money his way.

I definitely don't have the spoons to read this most recent of his emanations (yes, I am picking that word), but from just the start of it alone... god

the orange man isn't even in the seat yet and all these motherfuckers are loudly shouting who they are

I'll admit, even I was not bold enough to simulate this one.

I see the title and thought you were referring to Big Cat Scott “Scoot” Henson (Rest in Power, beautiful tiger)

I suppose the grey tribe pride parade is imminent.

Wow. Just, wow. (I actually clicked on the link to see if the title was accurate, and not just snark.)

To paraphrase one of South Park's more infamous jokes (because I'm not giving this shit any dignity):

Looks like we're getting a lotta sneer material here! The topic is "People Who Annoy Scoot".