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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Reading about Ram Air Turbines after the Air India 171 crash and came across this puzzling picture of Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303. How is the aircraft airborne after "both engines and generators failed due to a belly landing"?
Ok, they landed without landing gear, skidded for 18 seconds, and decided to take off again for a go around. How does that happen?
The aircraft was twice as high as it should have been for its approach, the pilots were making decisions without talking to each other, and in a weird show of braggadocio the Captain decided to "surprise" ATC by continuing to land rather than go around
Simultaneously across the West, "Mental health" has emerged as the free money glitch. Australia has free home retrofits for kids with "ADHD". The UK gives parents free cars. In the US there's a "1 in 5" mental health "crisis" conveniently tied to the employment of ed specialists
The private school in my neighborhood hired a woman to run it, acquired a DEI department, and abandoned all academic rigor. Preteen boys are soporized with schoolmarm slop, and when their marks suffer, they're "diagnosed" and referred to specialists
Basic school functions get outsourced to remedial programs at 10x the cost. E.g. a friend's kid has sloppy handwriting because drilling in class has been deemed declasse. So he's seeing a *physical therapist* who for $600/mo watches him practice his letters. It's an industry.
Some good descriptions of what today would be called "virtue signalling" in this chapter on Ursuline nuns. Previous passages also capture the sexual fantasies, somewhat adjacent to hybristophilia, that ironically attended chastity.
This sort of gal is instantly recognizable today, disowning MAGA family members or marching for tr*nnies
Extremely right wing friend talks about what it's like on the inside to be a successful Ashkenazi financier. Says that beyond the intelligence, the characteristic traits are a somewhat neurotic hyperactivity and a bit of disregard for social convention...
I watched him rise meteorically in his 20s, and it was true. He has a manic, self effacing good nature, and his days seem to be one long laugh. Twice he arrived in a new city, pressed bumptiously and good humoredly in every direction, and within months knew everyone
He thinks the key non-Gentile trait is a willingness to look foolish, to ask the possibly dumb question at a pitch dinner that nobody else will. Thinks a sort of dispositional gravity therefore leads Ashkenazim toward places where the *social* fabric of a market is broken...
It goes under remarked-upon that British colonial subjects were immediately granted civil rights
The British didn't know how to govern a possession (Ascension Island) of 380, so they declared it to be a ship and left it to the Admiralty
"How is it that these pale-cheeked exiles gave security to a race of another hue, other tongues, other religions which rulers of their own people have ever failed to give"