/lit/ - Literature

>>7090792
Correct observations, questionable conclusions. The psychology section is the most interesting part to me. He really nails the psychology of the "progressive" activist and voter better than anyone has dared do since. It's probably his fault nobody says it the way he did but at least we have the manifesto.

>>7070976
Don't get me started on The Mismeasure of Man. The Bell Curve isn't perfect but that supposed rebuttal is a total hatchet job that would never have passed peer review if it had been a scientific paper. Gould's a smart guy but he's one of a set of academics who have publicly made no bones about social justice coming before the truth, mad it's amazing that anyone would trust him to be honest on this topic. Human intelligence isn't even tangentially related to his field of expertise, so it's pretty much like having a theological library by Dawkins and Black Science Man.

>>7070972
>neither race nor intelligence are well defined
This is another big open secret and believing it gives you away as a layman. The genetic markers for sub-Saharan Africans are extremely well defined and are substantial to the point at diabetes medications have to be tailored to the specifics of black physiology. The genetic difference between Sub saharans and every other group on earth is several times greater than the difference between the blondest Scandinavian and the Indian in the furthest reaches of the amazon.

As for intelligence, the factor "g" is the real measure of overall ability to succeed in a civilized society, but IQ correlates quite well to g and is much easier to measure. Gould spends a lot of time denigrating IQ but leaves out the correlation that makes it relevant.

Btw separate twin studies show similar outcomes for black kids who grow up poor and black and those adopted by a rich white family. The lowest poverty-tier of white and Asian kids outperforms the black students from households making $200k + on the SAT. I'm no advocate for Jim Crow but we're all anonymous here. Let's be real.

>>7039285
The lifestyle or the novel? Lifestyle's chill but I worry about the book.

>>7039420
I'd personally call it close enough to vsporwave for government work.

>>7040340
Top kek nope it's one of the quieter colonias in DF near a good high school. One day imma get some from that there Japanese Lyceum.

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>>7040767
Top-tier former beta feels.