The NYT runs a "Those We've Lost" feature about all the famous people who have been struck down ... but, on average:
A. They aren't all that famous
B. Most were old and/or sickly and thus well-past their primes:
For example, here's the first name on the NYT's list:
Here's another name on the NYT's "Those We've Lost" list of famous people who have died of COVID:
The NYT tries to put younger people toward the top of its Those We've Lost list of COVID deaths. One obvious pattern is most seem overweight in their photos.
Why has there been no push to get Americans to lower the risk of the virus by losing weight?
If the media scared 50% of Americans into losing 10 pounds to reduce the risk from COVID, that would likely increase life expectancy for the whole country on average more than the virus reduces it.
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a strong believer in Affirmative Action for thee but not for me when it came to hiring her law clerks. She needed the best to outsmart Scalia.
So, she hired one black clerk, Paul Watford, out of her 159 clerks.
1 out of 159.
Should Supreme Court justices be as ruthlessly meritocratic and colorblind in hiring law clerks as Ruth Bader Ginsburg was, or should African-Americans be handed by quota, say, 5% representation in such an influential job?
This important question is seldom debated in the press because the thoroughly documented size of the racial gap at the far right edge of the intelligence bell curve is so so large, yet so unknown, that any expert who mentions the data sounds to normies like an insane racist.
One problem for American immigration policy is that India now has a massive and growing ethnocentric Hindu Nationalist movement, which has ruled India in recent years. This means that immigrants from India are no longer as assimilationist as they were two generations ago.
Indian immigrants in the 1970s-1980s tended to come from the Anglophile elites, who looked to the West for models (sometimes the wrong solutions, such as Fabian socialism). Recent Indian immigrants tend to be ethnocentric Hindu Nationalists who see little reason to assimilate.
It's like if the rare American immigrants to India used to be immigrating because of their deep interest in Hinduism and Indian art, but now instead India is being flooded by MAGA masses demanding more hamburger stands and that Indian colleges field tackle football teams.
@nntaleb You should inform the World Bank that their "Harmonized Learning Outcomes" database of national school achievement test scores, which correlate spectacularly with earlier national IQ test score databases must be Fake News because reasons:
@nntaleb Here's my essay explaining the World Bank's Harmonized Learning Outcomes" database for 174 countries, which correlates closely with the various national IQ score databases assembled by Lynn and Vanhanen plus others:
@nntaleb Here is the top third of my graph of World Bank Harmonized Learning Outcome test scores on an SAT-like 200 to 800 scale with, unsurprisingly, Singapore in the lead:
How dare the Trump Administration deport somebody with such kindly, innocent eyes back to Jamaica where he spent his first 23 years of his life just because he kidnapped somebody during his first year in the United States?
Look at what an unfashionable meal this convicted kidnapper is forced to have with his family back in Jamaica! It's a Human Rights Violation that's he's not eating sushi at Sushi Noz in Manhattan.
That living room paint job color the convicted kidnapper must endure back home with his family in Jamaica is a War Crime:
The single most useful thing Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson could do to get liberals back on a more realistic track would be to publicly point out what they privately know: "The race gap in intelligence? It's real, and we have no clue how to eliminate it, but we can live with it."
"What we can probably do is improve schooling somewhat for all races, but that would almost certainly boost Asians and whites as much as blacks and Hispanics. But that's okay. If everybody got better educated, that would make America better."
"And, we need to publicly admit that the race gap in crime rate isn't going away in this century. Asians are always going to be less crime-prone than blacks. What we can do, however, is lower everybody's crime rate. They did it in NYC by being tough on crime."
@burrrgers @wolfstrength I was a 6 year old at Heathrow Airport in 1965 when a young man with hair down to his collar, the average length in 1972, walked in. "Look, it's a Beatle!" screamed a girl.
The jet-setters surged toward him.
It turned out to be Peter Noone of Herman and the Hermits.
@burrrgers @wolfstrength I don't know anything about women's hairstyles, but I suspect men's hairstyles haven't been changing as fast anymore as they did between 1964 and 1974.
@burrrgers @wolfstrength The amount that people _cared_ about male hair length in the late 1960s sounds crazy to 21st Century people.