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A country's top university quality is fairly well predicted by NIQ + population size.
Emil Kirkegaard
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Emil Kirkegaard
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- US Naval Academy: "a white applicant with a 5% chance of admission would have a 50% chance if evaluated as Black, and more than 70% of Black admits would not have been admitted under a race-neutral system" Whites the most systematically discriminated against race.
- We just published a study showing that national stereotypes of intelligence are also accurate. It looks like this.
- Americans are super fat, so many people look for explanations for this, usually something USA-specific like seed oils, or corn syrup.
- In USA, immigrants create a lot of the top companies. But which immigrants though? No surprises there.
- >be old man >go to some public talk >someone happens to shoot the guy talking >immediately seize the moment to claim to be the shooter >police obviously arrest you >once at the police station, volunteer your phone access (?) >warn them it contains child porn >????? I can't wait
- The Wikipedia donation scam. Begs for donations, but actually has 250+ million dollars in the bank, and growing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_…
- To simplify things, the best predictor of divorce is the amount of neuroticism in the relationship. With two women, you get more than average, and with two men, less than average. Consequently, lesbian couples are less stable and gay couples more stable than heterosexual ones.
