Comments by "Spring Bloom" (@springbloom5940) on "Bongino on Chicago violence: 'It's time to let cops be cops'" video.

  1. +3lightsteps The problem is tribal culture that encourages violence as rite of manhood. Add to that the 'no snitching' institution and they are a complete write off. Until people are willing to make reports and press charges, there is nothing whatsoever, the gvt can do to help them. It starts with seeing the thugs off to jail. Then the gvt can step in to see that they are rehabilitated, or kept there. No parole or probation for violent offenders and ZERO TOLERANCE for violations - one strike and you go back to maximum security to fulfill your sentence, plus the maximum for whatever busted you back. But the best thing they can do, is bring back work farms for habitual criminals. 'Hoe the row, cause you only eat what you grow' instills the sense of responsibility, accomplishment and self-worth, that was lacking.
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  2. +Zipon GJ Then why do poor whites still score 1 or more std. dev. higher? Sorry, but the poverty excuse is no less pseudoscience than the race marker. Genetics determines the ceiling and environment is what the ladder is built from. When your group has a lower potential combined with poor environment, you dont stand a chance.
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  3. +88Gibson LesPaul Thats some super edgy rhetoric. Of course you cant backup up a word of it, because that's not how super edgy rhetoric works.
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  4. +Zachary Walker Every living thing wages war on its neighbors and to some degree, most enslave their neighbors, too.
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  5. +PowerTuber 3.0 The neuron difference between the highest and lowest number you posted, is ~0.1%, placing it in the realm of statistical irrelevancy. Neurons are formed by activity, just like muscles. Every time you have a unique experience, or perform the same task, in a different way, you form new neural pathways and stimulate neuron formation. The greatest impact on cognitive neuron formation, in a population, is native language - the more complex a language and the more it engages other parts of the brain, the more pathways are mapped by its use. Also, the term 'average' is completely inadequate and skews perception. In population statistics, we use ordinals, not averages, because they reflect what is 'normal', where the largest sample falls, not the difference between the lowest and highest samples. There is no such thing as an 'IQ test'. There are batteries of tests that measure different attributes and the relationship of those individual scores to each other, is how IQ is derived. For example, someone who is a math savant, with no mechanical reasoning or spatial relationship skills, will score lower than someone who scores the average, across the board. We see this with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Therefore, methodology is paramount to validating population groups' 'IQ' scores. Sub Saharan 'average IQ' might be 70, but on what scale? Who performed the testing and was the compiled battery matched to the population? Would an Asian accountant fare very well, where they have to determine if something is tasty, or poison, by pure rationale? Could they properly gauge the risks? Would they know the difference between the wind and a predator? These skills are predicated on high level reasoning and not simply by experience. You cannot give population groups in fundamentally different environments the same test and directly compare results - someone with no use for calculus, is not 'dumber' than someone who knows it because they have to. Furthermore, 'IQ' is a nominal measure. A score is only relevant, within its nominal group and the scale is skewed to place 100 as the 75th percentile - 75% of a group has an IQ of 100, be the group a gaggle of Anglo-Saxon astrophysicists, or a room full of rainbow mix toddlers. That means that 100 today, is not the same as 100 a generation ago, or a generation from now. This is a very complex subject with a lot of internal controversy. It doesn't need the BS that comes with being a virtue signal or political cudgel, as well.
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