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u/lolweedbro · 8 pointsr/CringeAnarchy

FUCK FUCK FUCK always meant to archive it but was too busy to get around to it

/u/BasedGodfrey did the lord's work though:

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r/StrangeStatistics Archive Links:

https://archive.fo/Y35EQ (The National Institute for Literacy estimates that 47% of adults (more than 200,000 individuals) in the City of Detroit are functionally illiterate, referring to the inability of an individual to use reading, speaking, writing, and computational skills in everyday life situations.)

https://archive.fo/bz1Na (Life-cycle effects for migrants from Iraq and Somalia moving to Finland between the ages of 20 to 24; Iraq immigrant is a net deficit over their lifetime of -690,000 EUR, Somalia immigrant net deficit -951,000 EUR)

https://archive.fo/K4hDQ (Posting Rules)

https://archive.fo/SFDM3 (Rape has increased close to 1700 percent from 1975 in Sweden. this is progress sweaty!!!) - https://archive.fo/6oRwn - https://archive.fo/qBAbr - https://archive.fo/Ml1A5 - [BBC article is a 404] -https://archive.fo/nsKjG (This one is basically useless as archive.fo doesn’t record the map) - https://archive.fo/JBuLF

https://archive.fo/WOwmJ (Half of US Black women have genital herpes. 80% of those infected do not know it. (CDC, 2010) - https://archive.fo/eqUtY

https://archive.fo/DnC5l (47% of Muslims living in the US say that terrorism against military AND civilian targets is sometimes justifiable.) - https://archive.fo/XuVmS

https://archive.fo/YeRjd (Over 46% of male homosexuals report being sexually abused as children compared to only 7% of heterosexuals. Child abuse is possibly a primary factor in the development of homosexuality.) -https://archive.fo/P4IAl - https://archive.fo/Dv6SY

https://archive.fo/CBVFU (MuH DiVeRsItY)

https://archive.fo/L0TFT (Debunking studies (immigration)) [I didn’t feel like archiving the multitude of links in the post, as many were already archived]

https://archive.fo/3FA1K (Black men have much higher estrogen than men of other races)

https://archive.fo/pSdkF (20% of black adults nation-wide cannot read. 40% of Hispanic adults cannot read English.)

https://archive.fo/8Aa0R (The Anti-Sodomite Anthology)

https://archive.fo/Up7I8 (71% of Silicon Valley tech workers are foreign-born.)

https://archive.fo/nbraz (% that believe it's "Very/Somewhat Good" that American Whites will be a minority in 2050)

https://archive.fo/5AFMp ('Five years ago, we published analysis showing that high levels of immigration hurts Republicans in elections, regardless of what position the party takes on illegal immigration')

https://archive.fo/OfZMS (Gonorrhea rates are 30 times higher in African Americans than in Whites. (old CDC study from 2000)) - https://archive.fo/Yf1Ks

https://archive.fo/Vd8kh (The average H-1B immigrant is less intelligent and qualified than the average American.) -https://archive.is/i81rq

https://archive.fo/DLQJK (Women who claim to be willing to date any race are lying and are just as discriminatory as women with explicit racial preferences.) [SSRN study wasn’t able to be archived]

https://archive.fo/BVIQw (Melanin concentration may directly correlate with aggression.) - https://archive.is/NmfF3

https://archive.fo/QFsNR (As many as 50% of rural Afghani men engage in pedophilia.) - https://archive.fo/xYjss -https://archive.fo/5VSpw

https://archive.fo/e5SVN ("A rough estimate reveals that close to half of everybody living in the Arab world is inbred.") - https://archive.is/SFnej

https://archive.fo/3K5BN (Europeans and Asians are subject to more recent evolution than Africans.) -https://archive.is/zX5p9

https://archive.fo/74dsc (Immigration has reduced the average skill level of Americans.) - https://archive.is/JwhM7

https://archive.fo/lj5wR (Of the 30 most deadly mass shootings in America, non-whites committed 36%, a slight overrepresentation.) - https://archive.is/5wE1S - Comments by u/cheesemanwub - https://archive.fo/UMzUr -https://archive.fo/ZiEwP - https://archive.fo/2maAy -https://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2011/03/Black_childabuse_statistics_report_debunks_bias_assumptions.html [404] - https://archive.fo/sqHRT - https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr61/nvsr61_01.pdf#page=8 [Unable to archive] - https://researchbasics.education.uconn.edu [Just linked to homepage(?)] -http://psychology.uwo.ca/faculty/rushtonpdfs/ravensiii.pdf [404] - https://archive.fo/lxtL5 - https://archive.fo/lxwbV- https://archive.fo/Cd6m1 - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2625893 [Another 404] -https://archive.fo/75rTC - https://archive.fo/wMM1p - https://archive.fo/9hWut - https://archive.fo/aUTla -https://archive.fo/oHosX - https://archive.fo/GBJp6 -http://psychology.uwo.ca/faculty/rushtonpdfs/RandRProgressIntell2003.pdf [404] - https://archive.fo/tCHeH -https://archive.fo/LRfBq [unfortunately none of the damn graphs work in archive] - https://archive.fo/X4sFo -https://archive.fo/haFoY - https://archive.fo/6Zrqy - https://archive.fo/GTJEZ - https://archive.fo/h5rjP -https://psycnet.apa.org/search?fa=main.doiLanding&doi=10.1037%2F0022-006X.76.5.893 [unable to archive] -https://archive.fo/piPMT - https://archive.fo/oeHnw - https://archive.fo/3aVLN -https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Crime-Correlates-Lee-Ellis/dp/0123736129 [Didn’t really see a reason to archive this] - https://archive.fo/qCDL6 - https://archive.fo/RyWVd - https://archive.fo/C6hMy - https://archive.fo/gZBeR -https://archive.fo/HPPiq - https://archive.fo/w7n1y - https://archive.fo/9hhRr - https://archive.fo/5l4Qv -https://archive.fo/PTT8j - https://archive.fo/0DfjB - https://archive.fo/ZcXVv - https://archive.fo/IbzAs -https://archive.fo/41ye6 - https://archive.fo/wQ2kz - https://archive.fo/fhdqi - https://archive.fo/LEdXR

- Http://Www.Amazon.Com/Origins-Worlds-Mythologies-Michael-Witzel/Dp/0199812853[Again, Didn’t See A Reason To Archive]

[There is still a ton of links posted by u/cheesemanwub in the post on mass shootings]

u/-R-o-y- · 6 pointsr/AcademicReligion_Myth

Read this fascinating book. The author goes even further than proto-IO.

u/Ididitthestupidway · 3 pointsr/france

Un peu dans le même genre, ce bouquin sur les mythes (notamment cosmologiques) et leur origines. C'est à prendre au conditionnel mais assez intéressant.

Une critique du Monde (je sais pas si elle est derrière un paywall, si c'est le cas désolé)

u/CorporateState01 · 2 pointsr/mythology

Anything on comp myth really.

https://www.amazon.com/Origins-Worlds-Mythologies-Michael-Witzel/dp/0199812853

u/memento22mori · 1 pointr/ArtefactPorn

There is an interesting book called The Origins of the World's Mythologies by a Harvard professor named E.J. Michael Witzel which provides a great deal of information on this topic. I haven't actually read it yet, I've just read the description and a sample chapter but it's very interesting. I'll attach a link and the description from Amazon below, but what seems to be the major underlying theme of the book is that just like all people came from Africa long ago so too did the World's mythologies.

>This remarkable book is the most ambitious work on mythology since that of the renowned Mircea Eliade, who all but single-handedly invented the modern study of myth and religion. Focusing on the oldest available texts, buttressed by data from archeology, comparative linguistics and human population genetics, Michael Witzel reconstructs a single original African source for our collective myths, dating back some 100,000 years. Identifying features shared by this "Out of Africa" mythology and its northern Eurasian offshoots, Witzel suggests that these common myths-recounted by the communities of the "African Eve"-are the earliest evidence of ancient spirituality. Moreover these common features, Witzel shows, survive today in all major religions. Witzel's book is an intellectual hand grenade that will doubtless generate considerable excitement-and consternation-in the scholarly community. Indeed, everyone interested in mythology will want to grapple with Witzel's extraordinary hypothesis about the spirituality of our common ancestors, and to understand what it tells us about our modern cultures and the way they are linked at the deepest level.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0199812853/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&amp;colid=247VMV2CMXW7Z&amp;coliid=I1HWP702NS4MC7

u/BasedGodfrey · 1 pointr/Strange_Statistics

https://archive.fo/lj5wR (Of the 30 most deadly mass shootings in America, non-whites committed 36%, a slight overrepresentation.)

Apologies for the lack of descriptions for each link. I was in a hurry at the time of archiving all of this, but I did save his comments. I can post these too, if anyone wants.

u/DontAskMyPolitics · 1 pointr/DebateFascism

In South Africa, rape is seen as “a legitimate activity” and committed out of boredom. Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/27/south-africa-rape-study-m_n_788722.html
In South Africa, 7% of men have participated in gang rape. Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/27/south-africa-rape-study-m_n_788722.html
In South Africa, 78% of men have committed violence against women. Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/27/south-africa-rape-study-m_n_788722.html
“Out of the 1500 [chess] grandmasters in the world, only three or four are black.” Source: http://worldchess.com/2015/12/15/the-racial-gap-for-titles-among-american-players/
Only 54% of Black men between 25-34 have high school degrees, are employed, and are not currently incarcerated. Source: http://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/lexingtonreview/?p=36
Unlike all other world cultures, sub-Saharan Africans had no mythologies regarding the stars or night sky. Source: http://www.folklore.ee/rl/pubte/ee/araamat/2009/3berezkin.pdf#page=3
Sub-Saharan Africans are the only group of people without detailed mythology or creation stories. Source: http://www.amazon.com/Origins-Worlds-Mythologies-Michael-Witzel/dp/0199812853
Half of Black women have herpes. 80% who have it don’t know it. Source: http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2010/03/nearly_half_of_black_women_have_herpes.html
1200 people, mostly blacks, die over sneakers every year. Source: http://video.gq.com/watch/sneakerheadz-1-200-people-die-over-sneakers-each-year
35% to 50% of sub-Saharan Africans are inbred. Source: http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/pellissier20120526