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@eyeslasho

Nov 14

No person has ever brought ignominy and disrepute upon a once-respected publication as quickly and decisively as this ridiculous woman.

No, women aren't as fast as men. No, racism doesn't explain the near-complete absence of blacks in scientific innovation. No, EO Wilson wasn't a white supremacist. No, the lab-leak theory for COVID origins isn't a "rightwing hoax." And on and on.

Science.

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@eyeslasho

Oct 7

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1/ At a South African university, an argument is made to eliminate science from study (because it's a "product of Western modernity) and to "restart [it] from an African perspective."

What should be studied? The speaker suggests "black magic."

2/ When a "science person" objects, he is scolded by the organizer for "disrespecting the sacredness of this space," and asked to apologize, which he does. But that doesn't stop the scolding. Opinions can only be expressed under rules that appear to guide outcomes.

3/ The "black magic" advocate then adds that, despite the fact that she took some science in high school, she decided to not be on the science faculty because science stands in the way of "decolonization."

(Note: Africa was decolonized over 50 years ago.)

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@eyeslasho

Sep 5

Sex offending rate of women: 3 per one million

Sex offending rate of men: 395 per million

Sex offending rates of transwomen: 1,916 per million

Conviction/incarceration claim:

Population claim:

archive.is/5bIVF
ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…

"In 2018, the BBC Reality Check team found that 48 per cent of transgender offenders were serving time for a sexual offence."

2023 data on trans incarcerated population in UK:

crimeandjustice.org.uk/resources/pris…
crimeandjustice.org.uk/resources/pris…

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@eyeslasho

Mar 30

"Intelligence has been the primary evolutionary vector for humans. What is underappreciated is how much happened in the last 10k years. There was an intelligence explosion ~6k years ago with sudden development of writing, agriculture, elementary math, etc."

[Italics mine]

@EPoe187 @Russwarne @Steve_Sailer @AporiaMagazine

In other words: Evolution didn't magically stop when humans exited Africa, and the most important evolutionary adaptation to the novel environments encountered by humans occurred not below the neck, but above it.

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@eyeslasho

Mar 7

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1/ This is fascinating.

Women of which race/ethnicity are most likely overall to receive a response from a man (across all ethnicities) to a message they send on a dating app?

Answer: Middle Eastern women.

Almost 1/2 of men will respond to a Middle Eastern woman.

2/ By contrast, only about 1/3 of all men overall will respond to a black woman— the only female demographic with less than a 40% overall response rate.

3/ The results below show how different ethnicities rate each other on attractiveness on OK Cupid.

Overall, women find white men to be the most attractive and Asian men the least attractive. Men find Asian women to be the most attractive overall and black women the least.

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@eyeslasho

Jan 13

How do we know that blacks were admitted to Harvard at about 20 times the rate they would have been admitted had admissions been based solely on academic performance?

Because the consultant to the plaintiffs in the Harvard lawsuit (a Duke professor) found that if Harvard had admitted only those students in the top academic performance decile of applicants, the percentage of those admitted who were black would have been 0.9%, not the 15.8% which were actually admitted — in other words, with a 10% admissions rate, and using academic merit as the only admissions criterion, black applicants would have had their chance of admission reduced by about 16 times.

But Harvard's admission rate isn't 10%. It's about 3%. So what would have happened if Harvard had only admitted the top 3% of the applicants solely on academic merit?

I don't have the raw data set, so I can't use it to estimate whether the 16 times preference accorded blacks would have increased or decreased, but I don't need it because we know that EVERY large-sample data set of group cognitive performance in the US has shown the same thing: As one approaches the far right-tails of the group cognitive distribution curves, black representation (compared to whites and especially Asians) almost vanishes. We see this with both standardized college admissions testing and with IQ testing.

This means that an admissions policy looking only at high school GPA and standardized test performance, when combined with a 3% admissions rate, would have produced a percentage of admitted blacks that was even less than 0.9%. Extrapolating from what see in standard group cognitive testing distributions, I estimate that the black percentage of admits would have shrunk from 0.9% to about 0.4-0.6%.

That 20 times advantage for blacks that I referenced earlier is a very conservative estimate. It's likely that blacks applying to Harvard under the previous institutionally-racist admissions policies enjoyed an advantage in excess of that.

OK, I can see that some repliers are confused, and perhaps I contributed to this confusion.

I use the term "admission rate" above, not "enrollment rate." In other words, I'm referring to those students who were offered admission to Harvard, not those who actually enrolled.

It occurs to me that a less confusing term might have been "acceptance rate."

The black enrollment rate at undergrad Harvard (which has typically been in the upper single-digits) has always less than the black admissions rate because many blacks accepted at Harvard decide to enroll at another school.

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