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Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026

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This was always going to happen with DEI implementations.

We need to have an honest conversation about IQ and IQ subtypes and figure out a way to make it palatable to the masses.

Maybe different nomenclature maybe not so numerical (at least to the public).

People who are word/verbally tilted (I think the term wordcel is a degrading) don't really understand the world like shape rotators (also hate using that word) but we still have an obligation to help them as our fellow man.

Wasn't nearly everything Arday said lies and we have no idea if he had a high verbal IQ or not?

There is a place for the high verbal IQ- they are less good at making machines, but they do understand the world. We don't really know if Arday is among their number or not.

Interestingly enough I think it's those with high verbal tilt who are susceptible to lies and manipulation under specific conditions. The specific conditions being widespread societal belief DEI is a good thing with no tradeoffs and the larger liberal thinking.

Out of all the IQ subtypes, verbal IQ is not necessarily wrapped around truth. It's the ability to move through the realm of words. You can move through the realm of words amazingly but if you don't have the other IQ subtypes that allow you to figure out ground truth then you are at the mercy of those who create your language, media, books, movies, newspapers.

Jordan Peterson is an example. I think his IQ may be high across the board but I think his verbal IQ is off the charts. He's poetic,expansive,complex but he refuses to answer simple questions and sometimes gets tripped up in word games of his own creation. Plus he's chosen the bible as his foundation probably since childhood. So his extremely high verba IQ is contained by this extremely large volume of text the origins and authors and veracity of which we have been arguing about for millennia.

My point wasn't that verbal IQ is a useless or inferior subtype my point is that it has it's limits like all things do.

So it's not about whether or not Arday had high verbal tilt (I would argue its high because it was high enough to get into Cambridge with a little boost from affirmative action, sob story , white guilt and the general current society).

This type of thing is extremely unlikely to happen at MIT or Caltech or any Chinese university simply because admission is based on shutting up and multiplying.

In American schools, affirmative action isn’t a “little boost” but a massive one. It appears to be the same at Cambridge.

Even for the math/logic heavy departments/universities?

Yes

Oh. That's.... Novel. Please do elaborate.

First, see the data in the Harvard discrimination case (ie there is no indication it applied for one discipline and not the other / was massive).

Second, see this paper. https://download.ssrn.com/2026/1/6/6024495.pdf?response-content-disposition=inline&X-Amz-Security-Token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEFgaCXVzLWVhc3QtMSJHMEUCIQCPi3eq6hZdHEVNImNMF2hJBLmgkmE6%2FRT5ZarT9sutVAIgMbPnypMHrtORqkGyYAV1upKV5mPl6rTBVP02gArqE3EqvQUIIRAEGgwzMDg0NzUzMDEyNTciDPb0ZAG4XNnF5jHS3CqaBf2Bnm8V6Wnrp7NgXNhJ7eQAgIFNI2S3gJqpFnU5pNNX3nIA1FTeJKFG59bb%2FGejfzpylYJT4ifb0woX%2FisPJAyo2kwTEVCRICgDMjc%2FyvReLZr9uSoc5oQbCaY4iXGtBmkSPqZXGS4eAx1NvZewg7JtrUtMhCpe74N1QSEtUv9JokiDXCAZuXU5qg4LaGPWOKzRoQpgAmyVz6aCrZQxftJgOP2qDHC1OdJeu5iZzBuMOiOOYLSJZj8VXwgsuocF2uOrUjohJKW%2BbX8t%2BJPht7tiUO5fZcKKZXdJuf7S9OJrU4q6KLmbGAG3EfV%2F0%2BsndQCeWAIYe6UD0hqMUSUgKPbNvXTTGvBY6JQMrtAZkJS2vXXis6ZBWoFYDHDC9jy7jQydjOO4MnbyWPTRr8pR%2Bd6rq%2B%2BXfo14y6HQKrCRZNaVwXwR0ULPl6Wri0qzZ1hZTuA2%2FdcxKSUnz0%2BNjeRYJu%2BC2zlny60DHUFGa%2FC5ZMHRhic7hwaIpPS1VvOKXImKhgPExwbHhJ0R4cktgS59kEUWhx6v4JWlF%2B3nlXRDFsE2V128roh323yPC7Z0OkCs1ETPbUwFKV%2B35HuzELNH4JOutxjbV59X4pYd810hASAgY0AQJzX6UOZR1kPFzdj5D6d3oTuvsnsrcZQw%2B8lPj7Qa0tMtZVabwI%2B%2B09gO7J%2B4Z0LsK5aRv1OlFTpqO6%2BNyC%2FAMtUanvp1RP1EagVz2%2FzDOPbKJIxbaQgUesNu%2BS2OtKnmBlALvlbJZAkcTelglMtTNZxZIyw0Mpmqj5HvG7JgEZg%2FCgaM30i8VA9NqGnKo8z6K0Iytwqnrje1hU5O0iV6wzyvIRq0%2Bn1Qqg9f8zyGrPisc8BN9mhQ2a0m3A%2BwK0u9j1kmmO1AAjDr9oPUBjqxAT2p9Dkhh8adBpycw%2BbSC4va59yLMC3d2eiIW3J9NgFx76FhSgyR%2F8m39jbhZuPBXedLZ9ZGrACdMF4MctNXDv56l1LW4h7Rbh367cpAJ%2F%2Bs%2BwJh8Dd9GFDW2ESkmrGuO4kDjJHyx420S13GzyepdLedbgPcW3IaaQ%2Bnyo2sFeU2mUHBHhdyFybFY0gIlThrdC0%2B%2B6bW6TgRaBeTxwtqJelTGofp6dwPu3MLgN9nxETnPg%3D%3D&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Date=20260816T001255Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Credential=ASIAUPUUPRWEYRCL7CD2%2F20260816%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Signature=a88b601adf4a5f6a83c475949877a85926853b4f09cc176dfa299d5d1a7ad2dc&abstractId=6024495

Estimates about a 12 point LSAT jump for being black in competitive schools. 12 is very large.

Second, see this paper.

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