25 years ago Herrnstein & Murray published The Bell Curve, wherein Chapter 14 on Ethnic Inequalities in Relation to IQ, the authors cautiously state that “Some ethnic differences are not washed away by controlling either for intelligence or for any other variables that we examined. We leave those remaining differences unexplained and look forward to learning from our colleagues where the explanations lie.”
This statement presented both an invitation for inquiry and a scientific challenge that Dr. Richard Lynn took upon himself to further study. In what may be his most compelling and prescient work, the now 89-year-old Lynn delivers a powerful data-driven argument that will be exceedingly difficult to refute. The book is also edited by Dr. Edward Dutton, who is a rising researcher and author in the field of evolutionary psychology.
The missing part of the IQ argument:
With the subject of IQ receiving a great deal of attention again in the past few years, some have focused solely on IQ as being the determining factor in predicting life and group outcomes. However, the IQ argument has a significant explanatory deficiency in that there are also compounding personality factors at the group level that have not been fully studied. This is precisely where Lynn’s stunning new research presented in this book comes in to complete the puzzle.
Psychopathic Personality is perhaps better described as being anti-social along with chronically dangerous, risky, or destructive behaviors. The APA officially defines it as “Antisocial Personality Disorder” and lists 11 identifying features (condensed):
1. Inability to sustain consistent work behavior
2. Failure to conform with social norms or lawful behavior
3. Irritability or aggressiveness
4. Failure to honor financial obligations
5. Failure to plan ahead, impulsivity
6. No regard for truth, repeatedly lying
7. Recklessness regarding one’s own or others’ safety
8. Inability to function as a responsible parent
9. Failure to sustain a monogamous relationship
10. Lacking remorse
11. The presence of conduct disorder in childhood
According to the vast body of data gathered by Lynn, there are indeed clear, consistent, and predictable patterns of psychopathic personality disorders for each ethnic group studied. In the Introduction chapter, Lynn states that he first took on the research in 2002, but that his early proposal of psychopathic personality as an explanation for racial differences in a number of social problems which could not be fully explained by just group intelligence differences, was largely ignored. With this book, Lynn states that he is presenting a fuller case for racial differences in psychopathic personality, and that this, along with intelligence, accounts for the persistent racial differences in a number of serious social problems.
Book Organization:
The book is organized into 16 Chapters, with 12 of the chapters focusing on separate geographic regions; United States, Canada, Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, Northeast Asia, South Asia and North Africa, The Caribbean, Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Inuit, and Latin America.
Lynn presents only the psychopathic personality features where there is reliable data available for each region. These personality features include, but are not limited to: Conduct Disorder, Crime, Intimate Partner Violence, STDs, Illegitimacy, Work Motivation and Commitment, Altruism, Moral Understanding, Delay of Gratification, etc. Lynn’s supporting data is presented in 140 numbered Figures and Tables distributed among the relevant chapters.
Each chapter receives a “Conclusions” paragraph wherein Lynn briefly summarizes the psychopathic personality features that were notable for the region and where the studied region measures versus the other studied regions.
Lynn also includes a voluminous number of source References on pp 261 – 321 along with Appendices on pp 323-330 featuring international data on homicide rates per 100,000 listed by nation, and corruption rating by nation from the Corruption Perception Index (CPI)
Lynn, as always, remains dispassionate with his findings, choosing to pursue answers to the difficult questions and amassing the supporting data over choosing an easier, ideologically-friendly research subject that would endear him to his peers in academia and to our media and political elites. Ever the scientist, Lynn lets his data do the talking and he avoids making claims or conclusions beyond what the available data suggests.
Closing out the book, the final three chapters present the evidence for the genetics of psychopathic personality along with evolutionary explanations for its origins and racial variances. Lynn presents robust evidence from a number of studies that psychopathic personality traits are indeed heritable with a strong genetic basis, just as intelligence is. Lynn also expands on the “Cold Winter Theory” of human evolution when ancient populations migrating to the northern regions of Europe (Caucasoids) and Northeast Asia (Mongoloids) encountered very cold winters, but in relatively stable and predictable ecologies. This favored selection pressures for conserving resources, planning ahead, solving novel problems, group cooperation for hunting and settlement, higher investment in nurturing children through winters, and several other new traits that would lead to pro-social behaviors. Whereas moving towards the warmer tropical climates, with the availability of food sources year-round, the selection pressures for such behaviors was much weaker as they served less advantageous purposes in such ecologies. This is not to say it is all-or-nothing argument, rather the argument is that there’s clear and consistent behavior variances between populations whose origins can be traced to these differing ecologies.
So why should you read this book?
In this current age, Western leadership has chosen a fast-track direction towards multicultural globalism as its native populations delay their reproduction age while simultaneously falling below replacement levels. Western nations are also moving to erase their concepts of national identities and borders, and encouraging the importation of millions of migrants from around the globe in the benevolent belief that all humankind can fully assimilate and meld together as one to produce a better, more equitable, more prosperous, and safer society.
Is this belief likely to happen? Are all humans innately equal in their cognitive and behavioral capacities to build and/or maintain a prosperous and safe industrialized society? If not, what therefore are the long-term consequences and liabilities for the advanced, industrialized West for pursuing such a direction? Is demographic change or demographic replacement just an arbitrary artifact that we should not question, or could it fundamentally and irreparably alter the West socially, politically, and economically so that it will begin to dysgenically resemble the less advanced societies that its future populations migrated from?
These are very profound and critical questions that receive some possible answers in this book, and the answers suggested by Lynn’s data are often unsettling. Like an SOS message in a bottle cast off of a listless and foundering ship at sea, will this important book be read in time by our elites to help right the mighty ship of the West, or will it be lost to the wind and waves of egalitarian globalist ideology?
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