Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "John Stossel" channel.

  1. ​@MorteWulfe There is no such thing as the trap of the bell curve. Bell curve logic describes actual data. The data come first. Either they show this pattern or they don't, and in any case deviate more or less from this pattern.
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  2. This business about "victim" thinking is so odd. It sounds like one of those "think positive" mantras that are the staple of training in sales techniques. The actual classics of the West, like Plato or the Bible, always hold the victim of injustice as the moral superior of the perpetrator of injustice. In Gorgias, Socrates says being the perpetrator is far worse than being the victim, even though the victim suffers more pain -- because the perpetrator exceeds everyone in evil. The Book of Job agrees. Toni Morrison always said she was taught at an early age that she was the moral superior of anyone who discriminated against her. She never flinched. Her father taught her that. If you worry about not being a "victim," you're still thinking about it.
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  3. ​ @pills4bill Tolstoy, actually . . . for his characters. The Russians consider Pushkin the father of their modern literature. Under the law in many US states, Pushkin was 🖤. I'd be more direct, but you know about the cents or 🛳 here.
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  4. ​@mattschrader5047 Not sure what you mean. Real world data never matches the bell curve perfectly, and really deviates greatly when mean and median are far apart. Then there are things that are binary, and form a U-shape with extreme rarities in between (if any). Anything that involves higher mammals responds greatly to the environment, because that is what intelligence evolved to respond to. That's what we then build our individual brains to do.
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  5. ​ @BonRain8734 Oh yeah? Read any of it? America is into fat pay for soft skills. 😂
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  6. ​ @williamsmith8271  Why did my standardized test scores soar when I moved to France and studied philosophy and Ancient Greek in French? 🤔
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  7. If IQ is an individual assessment, why would you measure the IQ of groups? Suppose it is the case that cystic fibrosis is more common in people of northwestern European descent than in people of Mediterranean descent. Do you presume the Irish child sitting in front of you should be treated for cystic fibrosis? Do you presume the Spanish child doesn't need to be tested for cystic fibrosis? Tell me exactly what the purpose of the dubious group score is, and how it should be used.
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  8. ​ @explorenaked  This MESS started with Reagan. You keep wanting more of it. Education, for one, was undermined in California by Reagan, then everywhere else by Reagan. The excuse then was that schools were full of rads and hippies; today, the wokesters play that role. (BTW, Reagan's own kids were in the rad/hippie group.)
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  9. Let's assume this IQ story is true. Why not? We can assume anything that's not logically impossible, for the sake of argument. What, exactly, does that prove about you, yourself? I'm really curious to hear your answer.
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  10. He sounds like a used car salesman.
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  11. ​ @lorenzobarducci8353  💯
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  12. ​ @MadnessMotorcycle  Better take Naledi Pandor seriously.
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  13. ​ @JIMDEZWAV Assange agrees.
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  14. I lived in socialist France under Mitterrand. I was vastly happier than here. It was safe, sane, and 6th graders could study ancient Greek to boot. Lycée gave high school students the opportunity to study the first two years of university mathematics. Their free preschool was considered the best in the world. Gourmet lunches were included.
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  15. @RonaldSkancke  VAT (value added tax) was significant, and everyone supported it because it benefitted everyone. Education tends to florish under real socialism. France and USSR both created tons of top mathematicians, and literacy (ability to read AND reading as a pastime) was high. Mélenchon supports bringing Latin and Greek back to the official lycée program. Just saw a report on an Indian news channel yesterday that the French aren't even romantic (ahem) anymore. It's a lot like America now. No guns, so mass stabbings instead, sometimes even preceded by social media declarations.
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  16. By the way, they still had obligatory universal military service back then, though you could choose certain social service alternatives once you completed the basics. You could be a medic, teach French in Africa, work at an embassy, stuff like that. I think it was 18 months. I forget. Of course university was tuition-free for everyone, even for non-French.
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  17.  @williamsmith8271  Mine have, too.
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  18. Both of these people make vastly more money than they are worth. Read any major European philosopher, psychologist, or sociologist and see what THAT sounds like. It is quite a shock.
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  19.  @bgandjsco1  Could you please clarify? "Group" IQ leads to treating individuals as individuals? How so?
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  20.  @bgandjsco1  I blame individuals for underachievement. For example, this author is your touchstone. My touchstones are Plato and Shakespeare. This is not "IQ." This is my choice. Anyone who can read can make that choice.
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  21. This business about "victim" thinking is so odd. It sounds like one of those "think positive" mantras that are the staple of training in sales techniques. The actual classics of the West, like Plato or the Bible, always hold the victim of injustice as the moral superior of the perpetrator of injustice. In Gorgias, Socrates says being the perpetrator is far worse than being the victim, even though the victim suffers more pain -- because the perpetrator exceeds everyone in evil. The Book of Job agrees. Toni Morrison always said she was taught at an early age that she was the moral superior of anyone who discriminated against her. She never flinched. Her father taught her that. If you worry about not being a "victim," you're still thinking about it.
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  22. Murray challenges the mainstream narrative? This IS the mainstream narrative. As for the kids, they never read anything.
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  23. And so are these two.
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  24. That's who you have to brag on? I'd say the Prime Newtons podcast has done more for the world.
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  25. @drunkenskeptic6633  The Nubians were Pharaoh for a little over a century around the time of Homer, who referred to them in the Illiad and the Odyssey as "Ethiopians," i.e., people with sunburnt faces. You never read literature? Greek gods used to visit the Nubians, meaning that they were seen as akin to the Greeks.
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  26. ​@ericarn Whites have nothing going for them anymore, so they have to pull out this. That was always how race functioned. That is is purpose. In the UK, the different social classes function like races.
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  27. ​ @matane2465 Those aren't races.
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  28.  @PrezVeto  No, actually, everything is not a social construct in the same sense. Ethnolinguistic groups have observable criteria that distinguish them and do not depend on racial ideology. Justin E. H. Smith wrote about the rise of the modern concept of race around the time of Shakespeare's late plays. We know from ancient Greek sources, notably Homer, that no such idea existed back then. The Nubians ruled Egypt at the time, and the Greeks saw no "racial" difference. They assumed color was from the sun.
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  29.  @PrezVeto  I like how you combined "culture" and "education," which are two distinct things. It is impossible to devise a test that is "unaffected" by education, and culture, in turn, affects educational practices. Education begins at birth, and by age 7, all human children have acquired the core grammar of their first language. This in itself changes the very architecture of the brain permanently. It is only then that you can attempt to test "IQ." But by then, a child's brain is profoundly changed. But that's not the only time you find profound changes in response to the environment: adolescence is another. As it turns out, a person's fundamental cognitive abilities aren't typically discernable at 7 but at about 27. The kids whose cultures valued cultivating calm concentration and who read an extra hour or two per day and who learned more than one language and more than one alphabet over a period of two decades have very different brains than those who did not. All of the stuff you're spouting belongs to a time when it was wrongly believed that we were born with all of our neurons. Oops.
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  30.  @UniverseExp91  The opposite is true. Ethnic groups are distinguishable objectively, based on ancestral tribal migrations and ancestral languages. Race is something that was made up in the 16th century in Western Europe. Even the Russians found it dubious: hence, Pushkin.
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  31.  @PrezVeto  You have better things to do? Why does that sound like the most dubious thing you've said in a string of dubious things?
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  32.  @MsGreenmermaid  No, it didn't, actually. The modern concept of race did not exist before the Early Modern period (circa 1500) in Europe. Justin E. H. Smith is the person to read on that. You must have never read the Illiad or the Odyssey with any attention if you think modern racialism has always existed. Racism and in-group chauvinism are not the same thing.
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  33.  @PrezVeto  How do you explain the studies that show that at most half of intelligence is genetic, not anywhere near 80%? Or the fact that the methods used to assess the relative contribution of genes and environment to cognitive talent appear to change in favor of genes in adulthood, when one should expect the exact opposite if the methodology were sound --- at least until late adulthood at any rate? One interesting conjecture is that what we inherit is a fascination with learning, as an activity, rather than any preset template for what we learn. But then, childhood IQ doesn't mean much. And you can kill the desire to learn in a young person, can’t you?
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  34.  @MsGreenmermaid  Biases, yes, based on any highly visible characteristic. That is true.
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  35. @PrezVeto  Right. You've got nothing to respond with. I knew that. For those who might mistakenly believe this person's use of Big Words and snide tone mean he actually knows something, read up on adult neurogenesis. The NIH has a series of important articles on the topic in its free library. Some of the most important parts of the brain generate new neurons throughout life, unless the person is suffering from some form of dementia. The popular accounts usually use the phrase "brain plasticity." If you go that route, be sure to pick something by an actual neurologist.
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  36.  @JaneFleesTexas  If you want a good laugh, try to find the IQs of famous people. The IQ cult then goes on to estimate them for people who never took one, like Einstein and da Vinci! They expect the readers to be so smart that they do not spot circular logic. Horoscopes of famous people make more sense. At least birth dates were actually recorded. 😅🤣🤣
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  37.  @danklordsupreme8864  The humans that exist today did not originate separately at all. We originated in eastern Africa and spread throughout the world.
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  38. Question: Is Murray poor? Is Stossel? A person who challenged the mainstream narrative is in jail in the UK.
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  39. In the meantime, if you watch math videos, pretty soon you'll see that most of the instructors are Nigerian.
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  40.  @draoi99  Prime Newtons?
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  41. ​@draoi99 Oh look who doesn't like math. "Soft skills," huh?
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  42. All someone has to do to gather support for a presidential campaign is to say they are "anti-woke." If I were a cryer, I would start weeping now.
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  43. Let's say that "white people" have "higher IQs." Let's assume so, why not? It's for the sake of argument. What does that prove about you, yourself? I'm really curious to hear your answer.
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  44. Pro-Palestine demonstrators blocked the Golden Gate Bridge at that hour just yesterday.
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  45. The Golden Gate Bridge was occupied at that hour.
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  46.  @braddeal6445  Strange how the problems are not quite the same once you get away from the 5⃣ 👀.
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  47. No one hates intelligent women of any background as much as white women do.
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  48. He was stranded there.
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