I can't tell if Hanania is trolling or if this is a testing the waters way of coming out. As far as I can tell he is not openly gay but he is obsessed with his own apparent intellect. Prediction: Hanania comes out of the closet before August.
The doofus look is part of his cover. He will be all GQ when he comes out. As an aside, I never noticed that GQ is made up of two of the sacred letters but I feel better about my inability to ever pull that look off now.
'The results of cognitive stratification and IQ-advertising are therefore bad enough to have destroyed the value of whole domains of the arts and academia, and in the domain of public policy the results have been simply disastrous. Over the past four decades the dishonest fantasy-world discourse of non-biological political correctness has evolved to dominate the intellectual arena of whole nations – perhaps the whole developed world – such that wrong and ridiculous ideas have become not just mainstream, but compulsory.'
There are some great articles elsewhere on the site too... Edward Dutton has done a paper disputing the Savannah hypothesis but I can't find a publicly accessible copy unfortunately.
The problem of the current expert class seems to be that it's set up to optimise and reward intelligent mediocrity.
As an aside, some practices of the radical progressive left appear similar to practices of the early Catholic church; selling DEI programs to corporations to help absolve them of 'systemic injustice' reminds me of the church selling indulgences to wealthy individuals to help absolve their sin and reduce their time in purgatory. Something Luther effectively truth-bombed in the Reformation which made him pretty unpopular with them!
I'd recommend the Youtube channel of Dr Jordan B Cooper (a Lutherian pastor and professor of Theology) who covers this well plus his own takes on philosophy and modern matters, without trying to overdo it with Christian ideology which others do and is quite tiresome...
The problem here, to actually take this line of thinking seriously, the heterosexual dating market is now almost completely broken. So 95% of straight men have very few available girls, those that are interested in any men other than the first 5% in other words, and of those, a great portion are other race, or are same race but only looking in the 95% because they already have went and had a child with another race, again because of how broken the market is. So, ROI in terms of passing on genes (without race mixing which is counter productive at least from this kind of Darwinian logic) isn’t great for straights anyway.
You know what is both ghey AND stupid.... this study. I lost a few IQ points looking at it. Thanks for writing about it as I’m sure I never would have seen it otherwise andcould have lived without seeing it.
Our national (government) organ, the CBC, has been a bastion of homosexuality for decades, if not forever (I am not old enough to remember forever.) I am unsure if this reality applies to the US NPR, but there is a certain proportion of homosexuality in performing and artistic circles, which considers average "normal" citizens less "sophisticated", until it is time for donations.
From this window I can see the origin of the initial claim, with the understanding that most "artistic" types are likely not sophisticated in calculus and statistical arguments.
You realize they pay for those tweets right? They don’t actually have that many followers. There are bots that can be hired to increase likes on these stupid posts. It’s gay.
My impression is that “hacking the algorithm” is more likely than bit farming in the case of this and similar tweets. You generate replies and quote tweets (people showing how Hanania is being facile, or why if they go meta), and if this is among users with various interests then the tweet in question gets pushed to basically everyone’s “for you” feed. So anything “divisive by being half smart half stupid” is going to have legs. Hanania does this.
Right, if the study were from after 2012 it would be confounded by the trans stuff. If you are white and straight kid in a lot of schools being “queer” is just shrewd, plus a false panacea for as you say higher depression
I can't tell if Hanania is trolling or if this is a testing the waters way of coming out. As far as I can tell he is not openly gay but he is obsessed with his own apparent intellect. Prediction: Hanania comes out of the closet before August.
Ha - Relying on stereotypes (gays are good at managing appearance in person and in photos), I wouldn’t put money on it.
The doofus look is part of his cover. He will be all GQ when he comes out. As an aside, I never noticed that GQ is made up of two of the sacred letters but I feel better about my inability to ever pull that look off now.
Your comments made me laugh. Thanks!
Great post. After a while of pleasant internet meandering on the topic I found this article:
Medical Hypotheses: Clever Sillies - Why the high IQ lack common sense
http://medicalhypotheses.blogspot.com/2009/11/clever-sillies-why-high-iq-lack-common.html
There are some real gems in it, including:
'The results of cognitive stratification and IQ-advertising are therefore bad enough to have destroyed the value of whole domains of the arts and academia, and in the domain of public policy the results have been simply disastrous. Over the past four decades the dishonest fantasy-world discourse of non-biological political correctness has evolved to dominate the intellectual arena of whole nations – perhaps the whole developed world – such that wrong and ridiculous ideas have become not just mainstream, but compulsory.'
There are some great articles elsewhere on the site too... Edward Dutton has done a paper disputing the Savannah hypothesis but I can't find a publicly accessible copy unfortunately.
Thanks! Will give it a read - sounds like they were a few years ahead of me in diagnosing the problem with our current expert class
There's another good article on his blog here:
http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-head-girl-syndrome-opposite-of.html
The problem of the current expert class seems to be that it's set up to optimise and reward intelligent mediocrity.
As an aside, some practices of the radical progressive left appear similar to practices of the early Catholic church; selling DEI programs to corporations to help absolve them of 'systemic injustice' reminds me of the church selling indulgences to wealthy individuals to help absolve their sin and reduce their time in purgatory. Something Luther effectively truth-bombed in the Reformation which made him pretty unpopular with them!
I'd recommend the Youtube channel of Dr Jordan B Cooper (a Lutherian pastor and professor of Theology) who covers this well plus his own takes on philosophy and modern matters, without trying to overdo it with Christian ideology which others do and is quite tiresome...
Darwin would say that stupidity is not being resourceful enough to perpetuate your genes. Being gay is the epitome of stupidity. Gay is sad☠️
The problem here, to actually take this line of thinking seriously, the heterosexual dating market is now almost completely broken. So 95% of straight men have very few available girls, those that are interested in any men other than the first 5% in other words, and of those, a great portion are other race, or are same race but only looking in the 95% because they already have went and had a child with another race, again because of how broken the market is. So, ROI in terms of passing on genes (without race mixing which is counter productive at least from this kind of Darwinian logic) isn’t great for straights anyway.
You know what is both ghey AND stupid.... this study. I lost a few IQ points looking at it. Thanks for writing about it as I’m sure I never would have seen it otherwise andcould have lived without seeing it.
True. That’s what unserious Friday posting is for
Could we look at this in a Canadian context?
Our national (government) organ, the CBC, has been a bastion of homosexuality for decades, if not forever (I am not old enough to remember forever.) I am unsure if this reality applies to the US NPR, but there is a certain proportion of homosexuality in performing and artistic circles, which considers average "normal" citizens less "sophisticated", until it is time for donations.
From this window I can see the origin of the initial claim, with the understanding that most "artistic" types are likely not sophisticated in calculus and statistical arguments.
i would rather be stupid
I don’t even know what to say. Why in the world would anyone even try to make this point? It is childish. I don’t mean you, Igor or Brian
Hanania's tweet got 2.5 million views. Like I said, it's a "troll" - he tweets a lot of obviously facile stuff because it drives engagement.
You realize they pay for those tweets right? They don’t actually have that many followers. There are bots that can be hired to increase likes on these stupid posts. It’s gay.
My impression is that “hacking the algorithm” is more likely than bit farming in the case of this and similar tweets. You generate replies and quote tweets (people showing how Hanania is being facile, or why if they go meta), and if this is among users with various interests then the tweet in question gets pushed to basically everyone’s “for you” feed. So anything “divisive by being half smart half stupid” is going to have legs. Hanania does this.
Life hack: Choose smart, and then just pray the gay away. Not sure why more of them don’t take advantage of this convenient, free option.
I thought prayer could make one smarter? So you could be straight, and then pray to become smarter
Because it is both convenient and free. Who wants to do something if it's not going to be awkward and expensive?
Right, if the study were from after 2012 it would be confounded by the trans stuff. If you are white and straight kid in a lot of schools being “queer” is just shrewd, plus a false panacea for as you say higher depression