US Air Force releases Racial Disparity Report (Dec 21, 2020)

>enlisted blacks were 72% more likely than enlisted whites to receive [formal punishment by a Commander], and 57% more likely to face courts-martial

>young enlisted blacks are almost twice as likely as whites to be involuntarily discharged based on misconduct

>military blacks are 1.64 times more likely to be suspects in OSI criminal cases, and twice as likely to be apprehended by Security Forces.

>black service members are the subject of substantiated sexual harassment allegations slightly over twice as often as white service members

>enlisted blacks are overrepresented in accessions when compared to their proportion of the eligible U.S. population

>enlisted blacks are underrepresented in operational career fields and overrepresented in support career fields
(Note: generally, enlisted members downgrade to support from operational when they fail initial skills training or cannot meet aptitude requirements for operational fields)

>since 2015, black officers have been overrepresented in [formal training] nominations, but underrepresented in designations to attend

>black service members are underrepresented in promotions to E5-E7 and O4-O6

>black officers are underrepresented in “Definitely Promote” allocations for O5 and O6

>black military civilians are underrepresented in [high ranking civilian] grades.

>across the enlisted population, the data revealed no consistent disparity in retention rates by race

>no inherent, systemic, or procedural biases were found in the twenty personnel guidance documents or the legal publications pertaining to discipline

>As the standard disciplinary action for a positive drug test for marijuana is an Article 15, the disparity between the numbers of Article 15s for drug use between white and black Active Duty Airmen E1s to E4s appears to be the result of a disparity in behavior rather than racial bias

Again “a disparity in behavior rather than racial bias”. This is the military officially associating behavior with race.

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One interesting comment i found awhile ago

"turks rebuilt Germany?

According to this biook:

Diplomatische Tauschgeschäfte: Gastarbeiter in der westdeutschen Diplomatie und Beschäftigungspolitik 1953-1973
https://www.amazon.de/Diplomatische-Tauschgeschäfte-Gastarbeiter-westdeutschen-Beschäftigungspolitik/dp/3412200743

Turks had nothing to do with rebuilding the country.
1.) They were too late to be involved in it. The "Gastarbeiter" during this time were primarily Italians.
2.) Gastarbeiter are primarily a mean to remove trade deficits and currency imbalances of countries that import German goods but don't sell to Germany. (Think Greece today)
3.) Germany did not want Turkish "Gastarbeiter" The response of the Politicians was, Nope too different culturally.
4.) The reason Turks were brought to Germany was US pressure to support the Turkish state, a NATO member, in order to keep it from collapsing and possibly turning communist.
5.) The original contract read: Only Turks from the European part of Turkey and only for a limited time, having to go back.


The Turkish state was in a financially very problematic situation at this time,
which made it necessary to send the jobless to Germany in order to support the finances.
And that Germany had a more than sufficient supply of European neighbors willing to send additional workers. (Germany was sending back Italians at the time)
Turkey was a NATO member before Germany, and is in a Strategically important position.
It's also interesting to note that later Gastarbeiter were also coming from financially instable countries closer to the borders of the Soviet block

Possible reason why turks were not send back was because the parties discovered Turks as potential voting block"

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Most people don't change their minds following exposure to arguments on the other side. Worth pointing out, though, that a significant minority do, even in the course of a very brief study and after a single exposure to the arguments

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-019-09526-z

Here’s an interesting related study:
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/6/e2008389118

One of the first studies about systemic discrimination against Whites by Blacks in jury (they found that racial resentment predicts their willingness to discriminate against Whites, giving them longer sentences). https://www.ljzigerell.com/?p=9934

Intelligence and General Psychopathology: A Closer Look
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JsqpUSHCWAM
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No surprise

"Using the Wayback Machine, The Western Journal obtained the apparently scrubbed list of chorus members and cross-referenced those names with a database of registered sex offenders in California.

While the matches could be coincidental — some offenders may just happen to have the same name as members of the choir — The Western Journal unearthed at least four credible matches: David Wallace, Lawrence Earl Friedberg, Luis Cuadra and Keith Pepper."

https://www.westernjournal.com/gay-mens-choir-said-coming-children-rushes-cover-pedophilia-accusations/

Do non-g gains from the Flynn effect matter? Yes and no

The Flynn effect is raising IQ without raising general intelligence. IQ scores from different eras measure different combinations of mental abilities.This is why comparing older generations’ IQs with later generations’ IQs produces nonsensical results.
https://russellwarne.com/2021/01/03/do-non-g-gains-from-the-flynn-effect-matter-yes-and-no/

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Does music training improve cognitive skills and academic achievement (math & literacy)? “Once the quality of study design is controlled for, the overall effect of music training programs is null (g¯¯ ≈ 0) and highly consistent across studies (τ2 ≈ 0).” https://bit.ly/3iDUm3l

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Molestations by Homosexual Foster Parents: Newspaper Accounts vs Official Records
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.2466/pr0.2003.93.3.793

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~90% of preprints have no changes in main conclusions upon publication. Their scientific value is thus comparable to the peer-reviewed literature.
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/opinion-the-rise-of-preprints-is-no-cause-for-alarm-68667

Heritable differences in dog behavior

https://archive.vn/AB0Ry

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Refuting Woke Science

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3822628

Article on Vietnam's IQ

https://archive.is/N7nW7

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Stereotype accuracy in the Netherlands: immigrant crime, occupational sex distribution, and provincial income inequality

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XIF_eoYRRYc&feature=youtu.be

Worse functioning democracy when you import people from countries with worse democracies: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261379417300811

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A massive analysis involving 193,518 twins and 16 countries finds "genetic factors explained the major part of individual differences in educational attainment," and this "did not differ between Europe, North America... and East Asia."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-69526-6

Thread:

Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Words in News Media Discourse
https://mobile.twitter.com/DavidRozado/status/1419983897895464966