There are many types of personality, but only one type of intelligence
What would it be like to live in a world reversed: a single personality, but many intelligences?
I still see modish pieces about "fluid" vs "crystallized" intelligence. Apparently fluid intelligence is just g in disguise, and crystallized is just picked up by culture loaded tests?
Carl Friedrich Gout?
Like so much suppressed folk knowledge, "Nerdy Four Eyes" is accurate:
Head size appears causally related to intelligence, but the link between height and intelligence probably just reflects assortative mating; both traits are highly sought in mates
Intelligence appears to cause happiness, and much more so than socioeconomic status does
Yet we spend trillions on demonstrably useless "anti poverty" programs. If we eliminated taxes, more parents could afford embryo selection for smarter kids.
Libet's experimental "disproofs" of free will are open to all kinds of criticism, but this experiment from Jensen seems more watertight:
One of the findings that surprised me most from the field of intelligence research is that reaction times are a good reflection of cognitive ability.
And it's hard to see how culture could affect reaction times. It suggests IQ differences reflect neurological differences.
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The Boer's ability to stand up to the British makes sense when you meet proper South African dutchmen. In the US, survivalism/DIY/prepper guys come across as LARPers; there's that gleam in the eye as they wait for your reaction to hearing that they retread their own tires. But...
..in the African dutchman you get this childish diffidence paired with Scandinavian literalness. Guy will talk about building his own house the way you talk about going to the store for bananas. "Sure I make my own knives, nothing fancy, but I had those leaf springs lying around"
And Saffas of British descent talk about them the way you might talk about the Borg, kind of a grudging awe. "Yeah, that town was all right once the Dutch boys showed up, you know they'll just do their own civils, put in their own sewerage and so on..."
A sample of white Rhodesians in the 1960s suggested a mean IQ of 108. From personal experience in that part of the world, I find this believable. South Africans laugh when I tell them that Saffas are the most impressive whites I've met anywhere.
The first thing you notice in English southern Africa is the physical robustness of the whites. The second thing you notice is the entrepreneurial spirit. In Rhodesia, maybe it was selection from among competent and bellicose Scots.
Pakistanis are not weird, Europeans are weird. Australian aboriginals ritually gang rape prepubescent girls, 30% of Africans in convenience surveys *admit* to having raped, Amerindians set records for child pregnancies, Gazan civilians came through the fences to join the raping
Bus just disgorged 50 "inner city" youth onto quiet exurb playground, 17yos now brachiating over play equipment, yuppie parents scattering with toddlers like leaves before a sudden wind
This is the noise from 110 yards away
We are waiting for 20-something scholar to finish using the swing as some sort of surfboard