aardvark2
10mo ago
GWAS underestimates effect. If we can fully sequences embryo's genome, we can also factor number of less rare mutations in selection, even without any GWAS; this will raise IQ, as rare mutations are much more likely to be harmful, that is why they are rare, though they are very difficult to discover (as human genome is approx same magnitude as number of humans)
aardvark2
10mo ago
for readers not familiar with Russian memes: «the arrow [of the oppression] doesn't turn» is about who oppressing whom, and once it was established, the oppressed cannot become the oppressor no matter what.
aardvark2
10mo ago
Yes, it's how psychiatry works.
And Soviet state was dismantled from inside by CPSU members not activists spreading leaflets.
aardvark2
10mo ago
I want to get Tinder data before Tinder stops working in Russia, but i cant get working https://account.gotinder.com/data returns 404. Does it even work?
aardvark2
10mo ago
I want to get Tinder data before Tinder stops working in Russia, but i cant get working https://account.gotinder.com/data returns 404. Does it even work?
aardvark2
10mo ago
Russia also has declining birthrates, so the population ratio might very well be constant.
No it wasn't constant. In 1991, it was 3:1 but it soon became 4:1, as Ukraine both had less TFR and negative net migration. Russia's ethnic minorities (esp. Muslims) have greater TFR.
aardvark2
10mo ago
By all accounts ugly people are attracted to each other too.
what do you mean by that?
aardvark2
10mo ago
Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore are richer than China.
This is not good comparison, esp. the latter two. These cities are population sinks, compare them say, to Shanghai, low TFR higher GDP per capita, in constrast to more inland regions in mainland China.
Breeder's equation (which, as Greg Cochran noticed, somehow doesn't have a wikipedia article)
is that regression to the mean is used too often as a thought-terminating cliché to allow that speaker to arrive at their preconceived conclusion.
or how does it look to people who don't understand regression to the mean?
aardvark2
10mo ago
Russia had positive net migration for most all post-1991 years, first a large fraction of that was ethnic Russians repatriating, now it's mostly Central Asian Muslims, both gastarbeiters and permanent setllers. ... of course, streams in and out are quite different in IQ etc.
aardvark2
9mo ago
Thanks! It worked for me this time, I probably wouldn't have tried it for 3rd time if not your message. Still somewhat disappointed that received messages (even those still visible in normal account) not available.
Do you want a huge population of Afghans,
probably not a good example of genetics, this country is worse than African poor and one of 2 (IIRC) countries than still do have wild poliomielitis. They probably could do about as well as Albanians given better circumstances.
Why can't the US fill the ranks of its army if its GDP is so high?
on the other hand, does it need to?
On all conventional measures of strength, NATO was far ahead of the Taliban.
So US Army did won against Taliban. Army doesn't decide what happens after this.
aardvark2
9mo ago
What if the teacher would be teaching the flunkies, dropouts, and mis-behaving kids at the asian school, and the honors students at the all black school?
Such use case does not exist in practice. Martina Navratilova once made a restaurant for vegetarian lesbians. Britain had many of either category, but intersection is small.
aardvark2
9mo ago
They exist in large number if you want to pick a few bad Asian American students and a few good Black students. But how many teachers in real life had to work with a class made of 25 of the former and at same time, with a class of 25 of the latter?
aardvark2
7mo ago
SMBC increases presence women and non-whites relative to real life. What is not left-wing about SMBC?
I agree about latter point: mainly nerd/tech stuff with little politics.
aardvark2
7mo ago
produce articles and books that will never be read
ok, some books are never read, but say, wikipedia articles, are read a lot and the right already lost this years ago.
aardvark2
7mo ago
Russia proper
could you please use 'internationally recognized territory of Russia' instead.
aardvark2
7mo ago
if Finland today attacked Russia to try and recover Karelia (this happened around the same time as the creation of Israel) people's sympathies for them would be nowhere near the level they have for Ukraine, and rightfully so.
how does that work with Azerbaijan fighting for the land which independent country of Azerbaijan never controlled prior to 2023/2020?
aardvark2
7mo ago
such as Ukrainian women merrily living their best Tinder lives in Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic.
It might be their pre-war wish, isn't an argument that integrating hostile Palestinian women would be easy.
aardvark2
7mo ago
Given that we can measure Big-5 personality traits and IQ in mere hours at most
Of these, only IQ, and people are often reluctant to be measured. If someone gets a high score on IQ test, they almost certainly have high IQ. If someone gets a high score on personality test, this also could mean they are high IQ liar and decided their intelligence to get result wanted by test presenter.
aardvark2
7mo ago
If we ever had a perfect legal system that always caught every criminal (or even say, 99.99%), then the use of those proxies would immediately become pointless, as you could instead just check whether they've been convicted.
Perfect legal system with catches people for past crimes, but not future ones? Then proxies still remain useful.
That's fanstastic graph, I didn't think it could drop so fast.
Looks like most of job was done before Bukele?why do you single 2022 year and not year when Bukele entered office?
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