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1 Oct

We now have a polygenic score for predicting the highest level of education attained. In the latest iteration, with a 3 million sample size, the highest decile were 9x more likely to graduate from college than the lowest decile.
takimag.com/article/harden…

While the educational attainment polygenic score works pretty well for whites in the U.K., America, and New Zealand. It works less well for East Asians and worst of all for African-Americans. That's what you'd expect from sub-Saharans being virtually isolated for 60,000 years.

Although we are constantly lectured, even by KP Harden that Race Does Not Exist Scientifically, it turns out polygenic scores calculated from largely white samples don't work adequately for blacks...because race does exist.

takimag.com/article/harden…

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Steve Sailer

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10 Sep

I wrote late on 9/11/2001:

Bush Had Called for Laxer Airport Security

To appeal to the growing number of Arab-American and Muslim voters, exactly 11 months ago George W. Bush called for weakening airport security procedures aimed at deterring hijackers.

unz.com/isteve/lest-we…

"Bush said during the nationally televised debate, "Arab-Americans are racially profiled in what’s called secret evidence. People are stopped, and we got to do something about that. ... So racial profiling isn’t just an issue at the local police forces."

unz.com/isteve/lest-we…

In 2000, George W. Bush campaigned against racial profiling by U.S. airlines of Arab air travelers as potential terrorists in an attempt to win Arab voters in Michigan. In 2001, the Bush Administration strove to outlaw suspicion of airline customers who looked like Mohammed Atta:

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Steve Sailer

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6 Sep

@mattyglesias

@mattyglesias Where in the US are there:

- low land prices
- enough water
- sunny climate
- but with high enough latitude/altitude so it's not too hot so not too much electricity needed for A/C?

I'm guessing in the Columbia River watershed of the inland Pacific Northwest, a new Bend, OR?

@mattyglesias

@mattyglesias Bend, Oregon has quintupled in population since 1990, now up to 100k. It's in the sunny high desert, but right below the snowy Cascades Mts., so lots of water for lawns and golf courses. It appeals to Northerners who like a four season climate but with more sunshine than usual.

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@mattyglesias Downside is the inland Columbia River watershed, while a pleasant place to live (& cheap electricity), is a long way from economic centers.

West Virginia is much more conveniently located for air travel to the huge cities of the East, although road travel is slow due to hills.

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Steve Sailer

@Steve_Sailer

5 Sep

In other words, "Study shows Black offenders more likely to commit horrific crimes than whites, Latinos."

"Study says Black offenders more likely to get federal life sentences than whites, Latinos"

axios.com/study-black-of…

From "Criminology:"

"Life lessons: Examining sources of racial and ethnic disparity in federal life without parole sentences"

"Brian D. Johnson, Cassia Spohn, Anat Kimchi"

"This article is dedicated to Anat Kimchi, ... who tragically died"

unz.com/isteve/the-lat…

Here's the "Criminology" article deploring bias in sentencing of black criminals written by Anat Kimchi just before a black criminal murdered her:

"Life lessons: Examining sources of racial and ethnic disparity in federal life without parole sentences"

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

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Steve Sailer

@Steve_Sailer

1 Sep

Ivermectin is a wonder drug that won its inventors the Nobel Prize in 2015. Merck gives ivermectin away for free in tropical countries because it fights river blindness, a horrible disease.

None of that proves, tho, whether ivermectin works or not on covid.

Here's the 2015 Nobel Prize citation of the discoverers of ivermectin, a miracle drug that cures two scourges of tropical humans, river blindness and elephantiasis.

nobelprize.org/prizes/medicin…

Satoshi Omura discovered ivermectin through "Edisonian medicine:" like Edison trying 600 random materials in his lightbulb, Omura collects random life forms and tests them against diseases.

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Steve Sailer

@Steve_Sailer

18 Aug

The population of Afghanistan is 99.7% Muslim. A 2013 Pew poll of Afghan Muslims found:

- 99% want sharia to be the law of the land
- 85% want adulterers stoned
- 81% want thieves' hands chopped off
- 79% want apostates executed

unz.com/isteve/why-the…

In other words, the USA leapt first into the Modern Muslim Nation-Building Game not at some easy introductory setting like, say, Bosnia or Malaysia, but instead at the final, hardest level: Afghanistan, the human race’s most proudly knuckleheaded country.

unz.com/isteve/why-the…

What other countries compete with Afghanistan for the title of the human race's most proudly knuckleheaded country?

I'm guessing Somalia as Afghanistan's main competitor, then perhaps Niger, Yemen, Kyrgyzstan, Congo, Myanmar, and, relative to their region, Paraguay and Albania.

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