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Your #1 source for my random thoughts. Find me also at: https://t.co/jvR6PrKMWx

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The Matthew Principle@MattPrinciple·
THREAD OF THREADS A majority will be about history, but a few will be about politics, art, and other random topics:
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Daniel Tyrie
Daniel Tyrie@DanielTyrie·
Poilievre is living in denial. Multiculturalism and tearing Canada apart.
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Vicky Richter🇩🇪🇺🇸🇧🇷🇬🇧
Brilliant. Just brilliant. A Syrian, an Iranian and a Dutch teenager aged 14 to 16 pinned down a 14-year-old German girl on a sofa and gang-raped her in turns. Door locked, music blaring, video filmed and happily shared around the village. The church deacon who knew all about it kept his mouth shut, hiding behind “confidentiality” instead of calling the girl’s mother or the police. The congregation closed ranks to bury the whole thing, while the mayor simply vanished. The victim is now too terrified to step outside her own front door. The attackers? Still strolling around scot-free. This is the migrant crisis rotting Germany from the inside. Young German girls are paying the price for these imported gang-rape “traditions” – and the politicians are too spineless to even look. I despise this government – and I’ve got every right to say so.
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Sasha Gusev
Sasha Gusev@SashaGusevPosts·
This is a good letter. Cofnas shouldn't be fired (and it appears he will not be). Cofnas is a deeply unoriginal thinker and a sloppy researcher; his recruitment is an embarrassment. But once hired, he has a right to academic freedom of expression.
Committee for Academic Freedom@ComAcFreedom

Dr @nathancofnas’s appointment at Ghent University has prompted a campaign by members of the institution calling on the university to reverse course, citing his published work on race, heredity and intelligence. In response, CAF Advisory Board member Professor Abhishek Saha helped organised a counter-petition in support of Cofnas’s right to #academicfreedom of expression. CAF Director Dr Edward Skidelsky is among the signatories, alongside a number of senior academics from leading universities. This is not about endorsing Cofnas’s views, but about defending the principle that disagreements of this kind should be addressed through open inquiry, criticism, and civil debate. Of course, academics must be free to strongly contest ideas they regard as deeply objectionable. But that does not extend to a veto over appointments. Universities cannot function if controversial or provocative lines of research are treated as grounds for exclusion rather than argument. You can read the statement and sign the counter-petition here: drive.google.com/file/d/1RRsGma… @ObhishekSaha @ProfDHayes @epkaufm @Furedibyte @HJoyceGender @drianpace @aytchellesse @JoPhoenix1 @sapinker

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Timothy Bates
Timothy Bates@timothycbates·
In 100 years, this era will be seen the way we used to see the era of Galileo: The consequence of weird ideas becoming a legally-enforced signals of system loyalty with life-destroying results until overthrown. For Rome, the incorrect but mandatory beliefs were the earth being the centre of the universe and all that flowed from that. For us, it is the blank slate: The belief that people are fungible: identical and equal in all but the most superficial ways, and all that flows from that. Arguably the most toxic meme in history.
Nathan Cofnas@nathancofnas

Pierre Thiriar—a Justice on the Court of Appeal in Antwerp—wants me in handcuffs "When he states that genetic variants influencing intelligence may be unevenly distributed across populations and that this can explain differences in cognitive performance, this constitutes not merely a neutral hypothesis, but the empirical basis for a hierarchical view of human nature....the boundaries of Article 21 have been manifestly crossed." "Belgian case law has made it clear that packaging a discourse as 'scientific', 'philosophical', or 'critical' does not prevent it from being punishable when it objectively incites discrimination or propagates ideas of racial superiority."

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The Matthew Principle
The Matthew Principle@MattPrinciple·
Also, you could literally just eyeball any chart in which the black and white iq distributions are superimposed on each other. For instance throw one. If you go to the level of 70 you will see that the number of black people at that level is five or six times as great, relative to the size of the population, as 70 IQ white people.
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The Matthew Principle@MattPrinciple·
You’re falling into the trap of thinking that an iq of 70 is the same actual intellectual level regardless of which population the scale is normed to. This is a fundamental error. The actual intellectual we are talking about is 70 within the current framework (ie normed) to the while population. That number is not the same actual intellectual level as 79 normed to just whit people or just black people. I thought we had gotten past that confusion but you seem to have fallen right back into it. So here we are. In the current whole-population framework, whites have an average iq of 105 and blacks of 85. If we want to separate them out, we can therefore add fifteen to value of every current black score and subtract 5 from every white score. This the 105 white average will become the new mean of 100, the 85 average black score will become the new black mean of 100. A quote person scoring 70 in the current system would score 65 in the new white-only norm, and a black person scoring 70 in the current system will score 85 in the black-only norm. A score of 70 in the all-population distribution will be the same actual intellectual level as a score of 65 in the all-white distribution, and the same as 85 in the all-black distribution. Based on the standard deviations, we know that a black 85 iq person will occur about 16x more frequently relative to the population than a 65 iq white person. This tells us that most of the scoring 70 in the mixed distribution are black. The remaining few white 70 iq people will be almost exclusively literal retards.
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RAW EGG NATIONALIST
RAW EGG NATIONALIST@Babygravy9·
This is a trend that’s repeated throughout the West. There is clearly a demographic threshold beyond which immigrant populations feel confident in asserting their real identities and abandoning any pretence of integration.
White Papers Policy Institute@WhitePapersPol

Reminder that post-1965 immigrant integration is a myth. In 2013 roughly 23% of Hispanics identified as American. In 2020 this had fallen to 14%. It has fallen among 2nd and 3rd gen migrants as well. The immigrant descended populations have become too large to integration.

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The Matthew Principle
The Matthew Principle@MattPrinciple·
Not necessarily—because the standard deviation among black people might be substantially different from what it is among white people. But hypothetically, let’s suppose that what’s now 70 falls to 65 among whites and increases to 85 among blacks. That means that 1% of whites will be iq 65 or lower and 16% of blacks will be IQ 86 or lower. That’s a 16-to-1 ratio relative to population. So blacks at that level will be 16x as common as their overall proportion of the population. Do you see now how the left tail was being massively distorted by the 14% of plank people in the population?
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The Matthew Principle@MattPrinciple·
Yes, it absolutely will. If whites have a higher mean intelligence than a mixed white-black group, then then normed equivalent for any given intelligence level will drop when the figures are reformed for whites only. Thus what’s now 105 will become 100, what’s now 85 will become something lower then 85, what’s now 70 will become something lower than 70. This is a basic test of choir comprehension of statistical methods.
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The Matthew Principle@MattPrinciple·
No, you’re confused. 70 is the mean by definition when it’s burned, but it does not follow that 70 in every burned distribution will be the equivalent in actual intelligence level. A 70 in a distribution normed to where people will be much higher then a 70 in a distribution normed to black people. The 70 we are currently discussing is the norm of the overall population, including both black and white peoples that same intelligence level would be about 80 in a distribution normed to black people and 60 in a distribution normed to white people.
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The Matthew Principle@MattPrinciple·
I just gave you calculations demonstrating that the vast majority of people at IQ 70’or lower will be black. Yes, 14% of the population can easily shift the distribution at the tail dramatically, if their mean is substantially different from the rest of the population. That is exactly what’s happening here. Note: 14% won’t shift the “hump” much but can dramatically affect the tails. You need to consider these two things separately.
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The Matthew Principle@MattPrinciple·
Yes, they will shift it dramatically. I’d be very surprised if black people don’t account for at least 50% of the people with an in of 70 or lower. Just consider: among whites, people of IQ 70 or below will be about 2.5 standard deviations below the mean. That’s about 0.5-%. Among blacks, people who are 70 or below will be about 1.5 standard deviations below the mean. That’s about 13%. In other words, blacks relative to their share of the population will be about 26x their share of people with an IQ of 70 or below. Those are very crude figures but the point is the share will be *much* higher than their overall share of the population. It will be many multiples of this.
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The Matthew Principle@MattPrinciple·
Black people are 14% of the population. They will make up a much larger percentage of people in the left tail the IQ distribution—easily enough to skew the figures. It’s just like how Jewish people, even though they are a tiny share of the population, make up a vastly disproportionate percentage of people none right tail—a percentage that rises the further to the right you go. Hence the statistics in that screen shot you provided are useless for our present purpose.
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