A nation's average IQ helps predict wages of immigrants from that country to the US, even adjusting for migrant education levels. Jones/Schneider 2010, Ec Inquiry
http://mason.gmu.edu/~gjonesb/Immigrant%20IQ
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http://mason.gmu.edu/~gjonesb/Immigrant%20IQ
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Addressing Undergraduate Content on Race and Healthcare
https://the-boomer-tribune.medium.com/what-undergraduate-classrooms-say-about-race-and-health-risks-55a7ee165b87
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https://the-boomer-tribune.medium.com/what-undergraduate-classrooms-say-about-race-and-health-risks-55a7ee165b87
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Medium
Addressing Undergraduate Content on Race and Healthcare
I had a professor say that group differences in health outcomes are not due to genetics because race is a social construct. This is false and purely an ideological assertion that is scientifically…
Should you get off Twitbookgram?
https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/should-you-get-off-twitbookgram?s=r
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https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/should-you-get-off-twitbookgram?s=r
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Just Emil Kirkegaard Things
Should you get off Twitbookgram?
Don't get off until you share this piece though
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Forwarded from House of Wagner
Response to an anti-hbd thread
https://medium.com/@Idek/response-to-a-massive-anti-hbd-twitter-thread-831851dcddf5
https://medium.com/@Idek/response-to-a-massive-anti-hbd-twitter-thread-831851dcddf5
Medium
Response to a Massive Anti-HBD Twitter-Thread
I am going to write this informally and only cite studies whilst responding to them below the citations. Really important note: I will be…
Did NATO ‘betray’ Russia by expanding to the East?
In short, no
https://www.france24.com/en/russia/20220130-did-nato-betray-russia-by-expanding-to-the-east
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In short, no
https://www.france24.com/en/russia/20220130-did-nato-betray-russia-by-expanding-to-the-east
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France 24
Did NATO ‘betray’ Russia by expanding to the East?
The Kremlin claims the West broke a promise it made in the 1990s not to expand NATO, and is now using this claim to justify threats to invade Ukraine.
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Vladimir Putin:
"Russia considers any manifestation of nationalism and xenophobia to be destructive because we are a multiethnic country. We must and we will fight these manifestations, but we must do so using methods that do not simply make it look as if we are doing something, but which really do achieve genuine results."
https://web.archive.org/web/20180514000353/http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/22939
"Russia considers any manifestation of nationalism and xenophobia to be destructive because we are a multiethnic country. We must and we will fight these manifestations, but we must do so using methods that do not simply make it look as if we are doing something, but which really do achieve genuine results."
https://web.archive.org/web/20180514000353/http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/22939
STATISTICAL GENETIC ANALYSES OF NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TRAITS
Https://eprints.qut.edu.au/227852/14/Brittany%20Mitchell%20Thesis.pdf
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Https://eprints.qut.edu.au/227852/14/Brittany%20Mitchell%20Thesis.pdf
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The neural basis of ideological differences in race categorization
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rstb.2020.0139
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#neural #ideology #race
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https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rstb.2020.0139
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
The neural basis of ideological differences in race categorization | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological…
Multiracial individuals are often categorized as members of their ‘socially subordinate’
racial group—a form of social discrimination termed hypodescent—with political conservatives
more likely than liberals to show this bias. Although hypodescent has ...
racial group—a form of social discrimination termed hypodescent—with political conservatives
more likely than liberals to show this bias. Although hypodescent has ...
PCAs do accurately show the genetic differences
https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1009665
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https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1009665
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#PCA #genetics
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journals.plos.org
A spectral theory for Wright’s inbreeding coefficients and related quantities
Author summary Principal component analysis (PCA) is the most-frequently used approach to describe population genetic structure from large population genomic data sets. In this study, we show that PCA not only estimates ancestries of sampled individuals,…
FST and kinship for arbitrary population structures I: Generalized definitions
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/083915v2.abstract
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/083915v2.abstract
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bioRxiv
FST and kinship for arbitrary population structures I: Generalized definitions
F ST is a fundamental measure of genetic differentiation and population structure, currently defined for subdivided populations. F ST in practice typically assumes independent, non-overlapping subpopulations , which all split simultaneously from their last…
Attack On Europe: Documenting Equipment Losses During The 2022 Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, munitions, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list.
Russia - 538, of which: destroyed: 221, damaged: 8, abandoned: 130, captured: 179
Ukraine - 181, of which: destroyed: 70, damaged: 4, abandoned: 43, captured: 64
https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-equipment.html?m=1
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#war #ukraine #russia #europe #equipment
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This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, munitions, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list.
Russia - 538, of which: destroyed: 221, damaged: 8, abandoned: 130, captured: 179
Ukraine - 181, of which: destroyed: 70, damaged: 4, abandoned: 43, captured: 64
https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-equipment.html?m=1
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#war #ukraine #russia #europe #equipment
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Oryx
Attack On Europe: Documenting Russian Equipment Losses During The Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
By Jakub Janovsky, Naalsio, Aloha, Dan, Kemal, and Alexander Black This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded…
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If you are a white man, avoid soy products
Soy food and isoflavone intake in relation to semen quality parameters among men from an infertility clinic
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18650557/
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Soy food and isoflavone intake in relation to semen quality parameters among men from an infertility clinic
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18650557/
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PubMed
Soy food and isoflavone intake in relation to semen quality parameters among men from an infertility clinic - PubMed
These data suggest that higher intake of soy foods and soy isoflavones is associated with lower sperm concentration.
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Don't make the mistake of letting a diet kill sperm
https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/health-and-wellness-articles/dont-make-the-mistake-of-letting-a-diet-kill-sperm
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https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/health-and-wellness-articles/dont-make-the-mistake-of-letting-a-diet-kill-sperm
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www.uchicagomedicine.org
Diet and male fertility: Foods that affect sperm count - UChicago Medicine
The average man's sperm count has dropped steadily over the past 40 years. Can we blame it on the food we're eating?
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The genetics of specific cognitive abilities
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.05.479237v1
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.05.479237v1
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#genetics #intelligence
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bioRxiv
The genetics of specific cognitive abilities
Most research on individual differences in performance on tests of cognitive ability focuses on general cognitive ability (g), the highest level in the three-level Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) hierarchical model of intelligence. About 50% of the variance of…
A systematic review of phenotypic responses to between-population outbreeding
https://environmentalevidencejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/2047-2382-2-13
https://environmentalevidencejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/2047-2382-2-13
BioMed Central
A systematic review of phenotypic responses to between-population outbreeding - Environmental Evidence
Background The translocation of plants or animals between populations has been used in conservation to reinforce populations of threatened species, and may be used in the future to buffer species’ ranges from the anticipated effects of environmental change.…
Ideal Speechmaking Groups for Dissident Rightists
https://counter-currents.com/2022/03/ideal-speechmaking-groups-for-dissident-rightists/
https://counter-currents.com/2022/03/ideal-speechmaking-groups-for-dissident-rightists/
Counter-Currents
Ideal Speechmaking Groups for Dissident Rightists
3,230 words I’ve attended many groups based on a common interest. They were the best gatherings in the world — at least in my opinion –, but they left me feeling a bit unsatisfied. Some groups have a totally structured session with little room for dialogue…
Multivariate genetic analysis of personality and cognitive traits reveals abundant pleiotropy and improves prediction
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.28.481967v1
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.28.481967v1
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#genetics #prediction #intelligence
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bioRxiv
Multivariate genetic analysis of personality and cognitive traits reveals abundant pleiotropy and improves prediction
Personality and cognition are heritable mental traits, and their genetic determinants may be distributed across interconnected brain functions. However, previous studies have employed univariate approaches which reduce complex traits to summary measures.…
Multi-ancestry eQTL meta-analysis of human brain identifies candidate causal variants for brain-related traits
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-021-00987-9
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-021-00987-9
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#genetics #brain
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Nature
Multi-ancestry eQTL meta-analysis of human brain identifies candidate causal variants for brain-related traits
Nature Genetics - A multi-ancestry expression quantitative trait locus meta-analysis of 3,983 RNA-seq samples from 2,119 donors using the multivariate multiple QTL (mmQTL) approach...