So interesting. My cousin shared with me that he knew Terman at Stanford. My cousin was a founder of HP Labs in Palo Alto. In 2nd grade I was identified gifted in the 70s. I found a letter from the school district recommending I enter a gifted program at a different school. My father never showed me the letter or told me… I did skip third grade at that school.. but the tragedy was we moved our family. I went to a new school and they told me that you have to go to school with people your age and they put me back and I ended up with clinical depression in fourth grade. I maintained that depression until I was 21 and had a spiritual experience. When I was in college at 18, I was able to take tests and not study for them and just know the answers. In my own words I was grabbing the answers from the morphogenic field. I just knew them, the test answers in any field, either would hear a voice in my mind or see a picture of the answer or just understand naturally the gestalt of the subject matter and question.
I can tell you intelligence is vastly misunderstood. All under the false premises that we’re all equal, we’re not. We have equal inherent value as God‘s children only. Today there are false manufactured social pressures to focus on the least among us and forget about the rest.
It's tragic that HBD has been known for the last hundred years but it's still not accepted. On the contrary the penalties for talking about this well proven stuff are getting harsher and harsher.
Indeed..I have analyzed in a somewhat crude fashion, the SAT scores for the last 60 years, mostly taken by college bound high school juniors and seniors, which can be found on College Board's website..While steadily declining overall, the differential between boys and girls' scores has remained more or less constant..On average, Boys are very slightly higher than Girls on the verbal portion, but about 40 points higher on the math portion...This explains why only 1-2% of programmers (code writers) are female...(Our kids have made careers in IT)...That is likely just an intrinsic evolutionary difference between the male and female brains...
Much more concerning is the steady decline in the scores of both sexes, despite attempts by the College Board to beef them up by awarding bonus points in 1995...In my experience teaching chess to kids from largely professional families, there are still some extremely smart kids out there...but those families, reflecting the trend, don't have as many kids...
Perplexity.ai points to (inconsistent) evidence that males show greater dispersion in measured IQ, which could give a superficial impression of males having higher average IQ if the lowest IQs are excluded from comparisons. ie the difference you observe could be a product of sorting (not measuring the left side of the IQ curve).
"It's not nice to tell people that their place in life is roughly where their genetics has placed them in the initial lottery, but a cynic might suspect this conclusion from seeing enough failures."
Reality is not always pleasant.
"What about the reality of the intelligence differences and democracy with universal voting?"
Democracy - That form of government that allows idiots to elect idiots. A meritocracy is far superior.
Emil's last paragraph implying a difference in IQ between men and woman: Perplexity.ai informs me there is none so I'm interested to learn more.
DNA studies suggest that locii influencing IQ are widely dispersed and not localised to the X or Y chromosomes. Though, certainly there are differences in behaviour between the sexes so, by implication, the differential expression of sex hormones affects brain development and thus might effect g. However without a direct measure of g, how can the comparison be made?
Perplexity.ai does point to (inconsistent) evidence that males show greater dispersion in measured IQ, which could give a superficial impression of males having higher average IQ if the lowest IQs are excluded from comparisons.
Interesting that people from Uganda and South Africa are so willing to believe that intelligence differences are genetic. Some Youtuber should walk around Uganda asking people about this topic.
An interesting thing, my father received a DNA test before he died and his DNA was 28% Scandinavian, we did not know that until that time. The rest of his DNA was fully Western European, fully, 100%.
"The rest of his DNA was fully Western European, fully, 100%."
I also took a DNA test, with similar results: 25% Scandinavian and the rest Northwestern Europe. But I already knew that before the test, from my genealogy. The reason I took the DNA test was to expand my ancestral knowledge, specifically to discover cousins and thereby identify ancestors further back in time.
So interesting. My cousin shared with me that he knew Terman at Stanford. My cousin was a founder of HP Labs in Palo Alto. In 2nd grade I was identified gifted in the 70s. I found a letter from the school district recommending I enter a gifted program at a different school. My father never showed me the letter or told me… I did skip third grade at that school.. but the tragedy was we moved our family. I went to a new school and they told me that you have to go to school with people your age and they put me back and I ended up with clinical depression in fourth grade. I maintained that depression until I was 21 and had a spiritual experience. When I was in college at 18, I was able to take tests and not study for them and just know the answers. In my own words I was grabbing the answers from the morphogenic field. I just knew them, the test answers in any field, either would hear a voice in my mind or see a picture of the answer or just understand naturally the gestalt of the subject matter and question.
I can tell you intelligence is vastly misunderstood. All under the false premises that we’re all equal, we’re not. We have equal inherent value as God‘s children only. Today there are false manufactured social pressures to focus on the least among us and forget about the rest.
It's tragic that HBD has been known for the last hundred years but it's still not accepted. On the contrary the penalties for talking about this well proven stuff are getting harsher and harsher.
Thank you for providing such an interesting and illuminating article.
Indeed..I have analyzed in a somewhat crude fashion, the SAT scores for the last 60 years, mostly taken by college bound high school juniors and seniors, which can be found on College Board's website..While steadily declining overall, the differential between boys and girls' scores has remained more or less constant..On average, Boys are very slightly higher than Girls on the verbal portion, but about 40 points higher on the math portion...This explains why only 1-2% of programmers (code writers) are female...(Our kids have made careers in IT)...That is likely just an intrinsic evolutionary difference between the male and female brains...
Much more concerning is the steady decline in the scores of both sexes, despite attempts by the College Board to beef them up by awarding bonus points in 1995...In my experience teaching chess to kids from largely professional families, there are still some extremely smart kids out there...but those families, reflecting the trend, don't have as many kids...
re SAT scores:
Perplexity.ai points to (inconsistent) evidence that males show greater dispersion in measured IQ, which could give a superficial impression of males having higher average IQ if the lowest IQs are excluded from comparisons. ie the difference you observe could be a product of sorting (not measuring the left side of the IQ curve).
Thanks for an informative article.
"It's not nice to tell people that their place in life is roughly where their genetics has placed them in the initial lottery, but a cynic might suspect this conclusion from seeing enough failures."
Reality is not always pleasant.
"What about the reality of the intelligence differences and democracy with universal voting?"
Democracy - That form of government that allows idiots to elect idiots. A meritocracy is far superior.
Emil's last paragraph implying a difference in IQ between men and woman: Perplexity.ai informs me there is none so I'm interested to learn more.
DNA studies suggest that locii influencing IQ are widely dispersed and not localised to the X or Y chromosomes. Though, certainly there are differences in behaviour between the sexes so, by implication, the differential expression of sex hormones affects brain development and thus might effect g. However without a direct measure of g, how can the comparison be made?
Perplexity.ai does point to (inconsistent) evidence that males show greater dispersion in measured IQ, which could give a superficial impression of males having higher average IQ if the lowest IQs are excluded from comparisons.
Interesting that people from Uganda and South Africa are so willing to believe that intelligence differences are genetic. Some Youtuber should walk around Uganda asking people about this topic.
An interesting thing, my father received a DNA test before he died and his DNA was 28% Scandinavian, we did not know that until that time. The rest of his DNA was fully Western European, fully, 100%.
"The rest of his DNA was fully Western European, fully, 100%."
I also took a DNA test, with similar results: 25% Scandinavian and the rest Northwestern Europe. But I already knew that before the test, from my genealogy. The reason I took the DNA test was to expand my ancestral knowledge, specifically to discover cousins and thereby identify ancestors further back in time.