/lit/ - Literature

>>17571272
>cynical doubter of the progressive movement,
well he sure was proven wrong

>It's easy to recognize two reasons why my impression that New Guineans are smarter than Westerners may be correct. First, Europeans have for thousands of years been living in densely populated societies with central governments, police, and judiciaries. In those societies, infectious epidemic diseases of dense populations (such as smallpox) were historically the major cause of death, while murders were relatively uncommon and a state of war was the exception rather than the rule. Most Europeans who escaped fatal infections also escaped other potential causes of death and proceeded to pass on their genes. Today, most live-born Western infants survive fatal infections as well and reproduce themselves, regardless of their intelligence and the genes they bear. In contrast, New Guineans have been living in societies where human numbers were too low for epidemic
diseases of dense populations to evolve. Instead, traditional New Guineans suffered high mortality from murder, chronic tribal warfare, accidents,
and problems in procuring food. Intelligent people are likelier than less intelligent ones to escape those causes of high mortality in traditional New Guinea societies. However, the differential mortality from epidemic diseases in traditional European societies had little to do with intelligence, and instead involved genetic
resistance dependent on details of body chemistry. For example, people with blood group B or O have a greater resistance to smallpox than do people with blood group A. That is, natural selection promoting genes for intelligence has probably been far more ruthless in New Guinea than in more densely populated, politically complex societies, where natural selection
for body chemistry was instead more potent.

>That is, in mental ability New Guineans are probably genetically superior to Westerners

>>17408263
>us alpha males

>>17391768
>They make models, gather data, use evidence, and make arguments based on that. U
how much predictive power do these models have

>>17364980
>The north didn't even want to start the war anyway,

> the fact that Trump wants to take cover away from 630,000 Ohioans who took up Obamacare last year, and if he gets away with it, some of those poor souls are possibly going to die
>, the fact that Trump wants to get mining and oil drilling going in all the National Parks, MAGA, MSM, the fact that next he’ll get somebody to shave off Abe Lincoln’s beard at Mount Rushmore,
>the fact that OoJ stands for obstruction of justice, which is something Trump gets up to all the time,
>, the fact that Trump called Melania a “monster”
when she was pregnant, and maybe she is a monster, but he’s one to talk, big fat bully, “grab ’em by the ——,” the fact that the idea of a makeover scares the heck out of me, the fact that I’m too shy for that kind of thing,
>the fact that I had a bad dream about Trump last night too,
>w, the fact that sometimes it feels like this whole country’s got Stockholm Syndrome, like we’re all held prisoner, the fact that I wonder how many people dream about getting along with Trump, Democrats too, the fact that I’ve had dreams like that, handcuffs, strong-armed,
>he fact that Trump’s wall will impact on wildlife on both sides, but I don’t think he cares about things impacting on animals,
>the fact that Trump said Melania better lose all
the baby weight within a week of giving birth, or else
>the fact that Trump is always assessing women and commenting on them like he’s some great expert on beauty
>r, the fact that Trump likes steak, the fact that we’d all be better off if he ate less of it, the fact that red meat makes people aggressive, and then they go on a gun rampage or press the nuclear button or something,
>the fact that apparently Trump can’t golf well at
all,
>the fact that Trump’s always talking about terrorism but maybe he’s the terrorist,
>Trump will call Muslims bad names
>the fact that I think he’s a big bully, coward, mean guy, third rate, just like Trump, “Sad!”
>the fact that you don’t have to know anything about molecules to know that water is in love with itself, but in a good way, not like Trump
>the fact that I don’t think I can listen to Trump anymore, I just can’t take any more of him,

>there are literally no examples of contemporary art in this thread

>>17208677
>stars are about sex

>>15375914
what did u learn bro

>>15116846
im bad at math sry