Reddit reviews Human Intelligence

I’m curious: How many men that say things like this are, in fact, geniuses? This guy is referring to a normal distribution on a bell curve but leaves out the fact that males fall more into the two outliers “exceptional” and “intellectually disabled” than females. Interesting how he doesn’t say, “the intellectually disabled are overwhelmingly male” to offset his comment about men’s intelligence. It’s females who fall more to the center, meaning they are, on average, MORE intelligent than men. So, therefore, the stereotype about sex-based intelligence should be the opposite.

Women are destroying academia? Hmm:

• 80% of high school dropouts are boys
  
• 80% of all classroom discipline problems are boys
  
• 70% of students with learning disabilities are boys
  
• 80% of students who are behaviorally disordered are boys
  
• 44% of college students are male (nearly 60% of master’s programs are now women)
  
• If you buy into sex-based differences in intelligence, then you have to accept the above numbers as normal.
  
  The most comprehensive take is by Earl Hunt. But you don't even have to read up on the subject to blow arguments like this out of the water.

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>Yeah, I'm going to want a source for that claim.

>The consensus in the field is that intelligence and race are not correlated, and that any claimed differences are due to factors correlated to (but not caused by) race, such as access to proper nutrition, healthcare, and education (for more on this, I would suggest [Human Intelligence by Earl Hunt](http://www.Human.com/ Intelligence https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521707811/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_lLbxzbX9PJQXQ)). Controlled for those factors, there is no difference in measured intelligence between racial groups, which makes sense since the genetic differences between racial groups are tiny relative to inter-individual genetic variance. Here's some further reading on the subject.


>Edit: Ooh, lots of downvotes but no replies and no cited sources. Guess people allergic to reality around here. Racism has never has had a grounding in facts, sorry.

And here's a link to the thread.

HBD

Darwin’s Enemies on the Left and Right Part 1, Part 2 (Blog Post)*

The History and Geography of Human Genes (Abridged edition) – Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
The 10,000 Year Explosion – Gregory Cochrane
Race, Evolution, and Behavior – Rushton
Why Race Matters – Michael Levin

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Intelligence and Mind

The Bell Curve – Charles Murray
The Global Bell Curve – Richard Lynn
Human Intelligence – Earl Hunt
Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence – Robert Sternberg
A Conflict of Visions – Thomas Sowell
The Moral Animal – Robert Wright
The Blank Slate – Stephen Pinker
Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature – Murray Rothbard (essay)

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Education

Real Education – Charles Murray
Inside American Education – Thomas Sowell
Illiberal Education – Dinesh D’Sousa
God and Man at Yale – William Buckley
Weapons of Mass Instruction – John Taylor Gatto
The Higher Education Bubble – Glenn Reynolds

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I think this is the meta-analysis that's cited in the book Human Intelligence by Earl Hunt, which is what I was pulling from.