RICHARD LYNN – MORE HISTORY
New University of Ulster, Coleraine, 1 vi 1978
Dear Chris: Your IQ x speed paper [reporting an IT-IQ correlation of .70, rejected by Brit.J.Psychol.] seemed excellent – quite unexceptionable and the correlations very high. I would suspect that some conventional referees might take fright at the apparently serendipitous collection of subjects. Perhaps you have been a little too honest here and could deal with the matter more briefly (“Ss were 13 volunteers, age range 16-24, IQ range 42-135” etc.). I am sure someone will take it if you float it around. I am sending you a reprint of a recent paper by Jensen giving some data on RT x IQ which may be useful.
Glad you may be able to join us in honouring the master [HJE]. ....It is not necessary to be too sycophantic. ....There is to be a dinner [in London] for presentation of the Festschrift in special fancy binding, perhaps even some speeches, you know one of those Men in Groups occasions which I feel confident will tempt you.
The thoroughness of your notes [on ‘anxiety’] is impressive. Do you by chance have any notes on the personality of the coronary heart disease patient. My thesis that he is unanxious, required by the high incidence in Ireland / low incidence in Japan, is rather sorely in need of actual evidence. Yours – Richard.
PS Thanks for your letter and notes on intelligence which arrived this morning. I don’t think Noel “Creep” Entwhistle [Prof Education, E.LU.] would be sympathetic to retesting the Scottish IQ.
Coleraine, 4 vii 1978
Dear Chris – Very glad to hear of the safe arrival of {my first daughter} Katharine Jane. Parenthood is a lottery but the important thing is that the genes have jumped into a Brand new survival machine.
Did you get my letter of 2-3 weeks ago asking if you would think again about doing the psychology of political attitudes for the Festschrift? If not, would you? Yours ever, Richard.
EUGENICS OK – THOUGH NOT THE NAME!
A new high-tech procedure for preventing horrid handicaps came on stream: replacing 1% of the DNA of a foetus during IVF procedure with the DNA of another woman (BBC, 17/18 ix). Even though this would permanently alter the germ line, there was nothing to worry about, cooed experts wheeled in by MSM. After all, practitioners would all be signed-up professionals with soothing qualifications in ‘medical genetics’ and ‘medical ethics’, the replacements would be hugely job-creative for the white-coated brigades of state-socialists, and the term ‘eugenics’ would never be mentioned. Thus did ‘three parent babies’ win the support of the Guardian’s John Harris (20 ix) – though, again, not by that name since it was just a mitochondrial ‘repair job’ of the kind inevitably required to smoothe the course of human reproduction.... {The case for modern eugenics had been explained
– as “responsible parenting,” in Readers’ Digest and the Telegraph
– in August by Oxford ethics professor John Savulescu – see previous. Yes, you could still be a eugenicist if you had a Labour card or an Oxford professorship! And of course didn’t mention eugenics!}
MULTICULTI ENDING
The failure of the multiculti West’s ‘military’ to get a grip on Afghanistan, thanks to reliance on high-tech gadgets which never did much damage (especially to mosques or whatever caves the Taliban lived in), reached its predictable culmination as treacherous recruits into the Afghan police and army murdered at the rate of one or two per day the Western troops assigned to train them – resulting in turn in American and British desk-generals having to admit they would suspend most forms of close co-operation with Afghastlyloons (BBC, 18 ix).
Apparently the boyish-looking blown-up US Ambassador, Christopher Stevens, 52, unmarried, childless and with gay friends, was a yag who had been selected for Libya (where homosexuality was actually illegal) as part of a US policy of ‘confronting’ Middle East homophobia (WorldNewsDaily, 18 ix). {The new Western imperialism of PeeCee was perhaps meeting its match!}
47%! It turned out that Presidential candidate Mutt Romney had stumbled towards the truth of his non-election when, addressing a private* meeting of Republicans (back in March), he had guesstimated that 47% of America’s multicoloured population were ‘dependent on the government,’ or at least paid no income tax, and thus were his opposition and would never vote for him (Guardian, 18 ix). Whether his ‘dependents’ included those such as old age pensioners (who foolishly believed they had ‘contributed’ to their benefits), military veterans or vastly overpaid civil ‘servants’ was entirely unclear. {In Britain, that full-blown figure would be more like 70% -- or 80% if National Elf Service ‘rights’ were included at American prices of health care.} But still, 47% was a wake-up figure – which would drive otherwise dispirited Democrats to remember to vote for their ‘rights.’
Meantime, the race-slumping Republicans had not been inspired by Mutt’s ill-thought-out ‘tea-partying’ – as witness the half-hearted applause for Mutt at the GOP National Convention. America looked set to continue under Obama to become a half-Spanish country. Already, Miami was Spanish-speaking,** with occasional shops displaying signs reading ‘English spoken here.’ One Hispanic big cheese appeared on the BBC’s World Service to celebrate the take-over of southern USA (19 ix, 01:05) and to explain what Whites could do as they lost their country’s economy, constitution [free speech already a joke], worldwide authority [as Mueslis ran wild] and language: “No problem,” said he, “they can just go to Canada.”
*Evidently infiltrated – yielding another gem that would displease left-idealists, that Mutt believed the Palestinians did not want peace with the Israelis.
**And the Speccie’s rich boy Taki reported that, flying in to ‘Nueva York’ from Greece, he had not heard English spoken in 24 hours – partly due to his maid and her boyfriend who had not learned a word of English (apart from “allo”) in their ten years in the Big Papaya.
THANK YOUR EUROPHILES!
A nice tribute to European civilization and its handsome recovery from two World Wars came in the Guardian from Nigerian half-Black Remi Adekoya who – while admitting the USA offered more to the really stinking rich – rightly reckoned modern Europe “the closest pace to paradise on earth” (19 ix). {He might also have admitted that the USA had also paid Western Europe’s defence bill for 75 years and won the Cold War (with the help of its Star Wars ruse and Mrs Thatcher’s ‘Iron Lady’ intransigence). But the point was good. The countries of the EU attracted immigration from just about everywhere. Whether the immigrants were of higher IQ than the Hispanics pouring into America remained to be investigated – since PeeCee forbade concern with let alone expenditure on such questions....}
MULTICULT ILLUSION TAKES ANOTHER BEATING
The lunatic West (led mainly by old bag Hitlery Clinton and Britain’s diplomat-poseur, failed Tory leader [broken by PeeCee] William Hague) got the come-uppance that it had been asking for in Syria as its own arming of Syrian ‘Arab Spring’ Solunni rebels (via Qatar and Saudi) was matched by near-daily flights delivering arms to ophthalmologist President Assad (via Iraq, dominated by Shitites thanks to American insistence on demakrazy) (Guardian, 20 ix). Fighting in Syria’s main cities of Aleppo and Damascus continued to be intense – a fine result of Western idealism! Still, after a year of fighting and destruction, President Assad felt able to appear on television greeting guests at a party along with his youthful, pretty and gracious London-based wife.
SINNER REPENTING
Sixteen years after the publication of The g Factor, fat silver-haired educationocrat Sir Michael Wilshaw (head of HMG’S ‘Ofsted’), probably emboldened by Minister Michael Gove’s faint moves to restore educational standards, crept out of his hole and criticized mixed-ability classes (apparently suffered by English pupils for 55% of their teaching hours) – even calling such classes a “curse” unless they were [magically] accompanied by mixed-ability teaching (Daily Mail, 20 ix). The needs of “bright” kids should be addressed, said Wilshaw, who had spent his working life hiding his light under a bushel. Whether he had ever read TgF was unknown.
Wilshaw -- apparently resolved to make a mark before retirement -- further offended ‘teachers’ by suggesting they might be rewarded according to ability and effort – with reduced pay rises going to holidayers who “bunked off from school at 3-o’clock.”
MUESLI TERROR WORKS WONDERS
Massed Muesli mobs of the third world so terrified supposedly freedom-supporting France that the country closed many of its embassies and schools in godforsaken areas and set 500 riot police to protect the building of Charlie Hebdo (the French equivalent of Private Eye, but more daring) which had developed a line in Islamophobia and given some currency to pictures of Princess Kate undressed ooops Mahomet buggering his 8-yr child bride.
On Britain’s BBC2, pretty East African Muslim defector Ayaan Hirsi Ali popped up to note that the Christian West lifted no finger when its people were raped and murdered by Mueslis – but she herself, the West’s supremely presentable critic of Islam, had no proposal for demolishing Muesli mosques and businesses let alone for stripping Mueslis of welfare benefits or returning them to their own blighted countries.
In America, Sillary Clinton (though in charge of bombing Mueslis throughout the Middle East) decided on some appeasement by issuing governmental condemnation of the film ‘The Innocence of Muslims.’ {With ‘freedom-loving’ friends like this, the West was evidently doomed – though plenty of people would doubtless welcome Islam’s permission of polygamy, low taxation, gun availability, anti-Semitism and its suppression of adultery, burglary and yaggery.}
PUSSY-CAT PATRIOTS
Britain’s ‘Army’, which had been feminized and had run away at Basra and never seemed to kill anyone at all, took in its stride the sudden birth-giving of one of its soldierettes in Afghooniland -- a Fijian who had not realized she was pregnant till her baby popped out and who then ‘needed’ an entire medical team to be flown out from Oxford (picking up an incubator in Cyprus on route) to handle a situation unfamiliar to regular Army doctors (presumably recruited in the bad old pre-feminoid days) (Sun, 21 ix).
Apparently the Blair-decreed feminization of the ‘Army’ had in the previous few years yielded 170 pregnancies among British soldierettes (BBC World Service, 21 ix, 01:00) – while astonishingly motivated [Was it opium?] troops banned from demolishing the Taliban wandered around with sand in their eyes, mouths, bott*ms and p*nises waiting to be blown up by Muesli roadside bombs.
Lt Col Andrea Lewis, commanding officer of the Bastion Role 3 Hospital, said: “This was unique but my team is well rehearsed in the unexpected and adapted brilliantly. We are all delighted at the outcome.” The new mum had been deployed to Afghastlyland in March and managed to pass all the (feminized) pre-tour fitness tests including marches with a full pack and a run.
BRITISH POLITICS FINISHED
As Britain’s party-political conference season opened (providing pseudo-activity, dinners and hanky panky to help fill the gap as the country’s parliamentarians remained on semi-perpetual holiday from the crumbling, mice-infested Palace of Westminster), Spectator editor Fraser Nelson observed that the parties were now so boring that they no longer used seaside resorts to provide cheap accommodation for ordinary members but instead preferred big cities like Manchester and Birmingham. Why? Because, for example, at the Tory conference, only a quarter of seats would be claimed by members – the rest going to well-paid PR gurus, hacks, union leaders, eurowallahs and frontpersons for special interest groups who could afford colossal hotel bills.
Another reason was the sheer boredom of modern politics (apart from occasional revelations of Liberal shit-eating, Conservative mother-and-daughter sex and Labour MPs paying for private education for their sprogs). Apparently, Britain’s political parties were the least popular in Europe. Thus Labour had to depend on primaeval trade union leaders (themselves and their astronomic salaries voted for by only small minorities of the workers in the industries which they ‘represented’) and the LibDims and Conservatives depended on off-shored millionaires. Thanks to a generation of growing peecee tyranny, nothing of consequence could now be said by politicos or their dwindling number of voters about:
* Race All parties were 100% ‘anti-racist’; and cowed voters knew race was too dangerous to discuss or joke about.
* Immigration All parties had gone along with mass third-world immigration – now being followed by Eurpean gypsies.
* European Union All but some 50 Conservative MPs (out of 630 MPs overall) went along with it
* Crime Since Blacks and Paks were substantially over-represented in crime, this topic too required careful handling.
* Punishment All parties opposed the death penalty (which was anyhow forbidden by the EU) and shooting burglars.
* Health Noticed that most proven medical incompetence and sexual derelictions were of foreign origin? Forget it!
* Education All parties (bar the same 50 Tories) had gone along with comprehensive ‘education’ for a generation.
* Defence All parties backed the Afghan war with Muesli crazies but declined to punish traitors or blow up mosques.
* Foreign aid Aid (the most generous in the world) to nuclear-armed India and Pakistan had wide support among MPs.
* IQ Intelligence was no explanation of anything or a guide to action – contrary to what Richard Lynn and I had shown.
Social ‘science’ blasted
A review of:
Richard LYNN & Tatu VANHANEN (2012), Intelligence: a Unifying Construct for the Social Sciences -- London NW10 : Ulster Institute for Social Research. ISBN 978-0-9568811-8-2. Pp. xiv + 530.
By: Chris BRAND (2012), in IQ & PC
By 1985, it was not only known to, but pretty readily demonstrable by differential psychologists that general intelligence (g) was, after sex, the most important variable in human life. It correlated with a wide range of variables including literacy, numeracy, socio-ecomic status (SES), marital choice, musical taste, liberalism, irreligiosity, sense of humour, leadership, interests, voluntary migration, military rank, response to psychotherapy, supermarket shopping ability, talking speed, procreative restraint (Van Court & Bean -- though disputed by a postwar generation of epidemiologists), infant survival and adult longevity.
It correlated substantially with educational and occupational achievement even when parental SES was controlled for (contrary to the fond beliefs of sociologists). It was sometimes predictive of these variables – notably forecasting children’s later rise (or fall) as adults from their fathers’ SES. Wilson & Herrnstein had put the cherry on the cake by showing IQ was a key factor in law-abidingness (formerly doubted by a generation of criminologists).
In Intelligence: a Unifying Construct for the Social Science, Richard Lynn (U.Ulster) and Tatu Vanhanen (U.Tampere) (of 2002 IQ & the Wealth of Nations fame) fortify the thesis of IQ’s importance by putting together their data on national IQs with figures routinely calculated by armies of state-funded statisticians (themselves IQ-disdaining) in modern times on national wealth, creativity, incorruptibility, health, security, democratization and general well-being.
Because group averages bypass the unreliability of data from individuals, correlations zoom impressively from .35 to .65. And the fact that L&V’s IQ data were collected around 1985 mean that they are now plainly predictive of the latest international survey figures from WHO, UNICEF, OECD, UNDP, WDI, Freedom House, Newsweek etc. Whereas the ‘science’ of economics reliably fails to predict or explain anything, IQ can claim a century of success.
Not that L&V are much concerned actually to demonstrate causation – and certainly not to casual readers or critics. They simply take the very reasonable line that national good fortune is largely associated with IQ but that other factors such as mineral wealth, tourism, foreign investment and avoidance of communism have an independent if much smaller statistical role to play.
Yet L&V’s voluminous tables and references and tireless repetitions will enable other scholars to pursue more exotic enquiries – assisted by the book’s helpful scattergrams which would, to attentive scholars, enable pinpointing of the often quite small number of countries that contribute particularly to its .65 correlations.
Yes, there are also discoveries here. The most notable is perhaps that clean water and sanitation are correlated. strongly with national IQ yet not with prosperity or ‘equality,’ leading L&V understandably to the suggestion that IQ is the main causal factor on these variables and that improvements in them will be unlikely to raise IQ. (Any second edition could analyze the correlation between democratization and IQ in view of the failure of the West’s enforced democratization of Egypt, Tunisia and Libya.}
Amusingly, L&V also report that national IQ is associated with observed walking speeds and with the speed with which service is delivered at post offices.
Engagingly, the book concludes with a convenient summary of the ‘out of Africa’ thesis as to how racial differences in g arose evolutionarily as escaping Africans encountered cold weather – though rather ignoring that if high IQ had actually developed among Bushmen and South Sea islanders ‘evolutionary psychology’ would promptly have put this down to the fierce selection pressures of finding water twelve feet underground and of navigating the Pacific without a sail.
Finally, the boot is put firmly into the social ‘scientific’ rump – if with insufficient attention to the pathetic inadequacies and frauds of ‘social anthropology.’ Why: the remarkable assiduous work of L&V over a decade might one day persuade the West’s lately pro-mixed-ability-teaching educationists to resume their one-time enthusiastic acknowledgment (in Cyril Burt’s days) of the importance of differentiation according to IQ.
S*D MULTICULTURALISM!
Contrary to the policy of intellectual Jews for the West, Israel was making rapid progress with the building of a 170-mile barrier along its entire border with Egypt (Sinai) to help keep out the armed Muesli insurgents which had been a predictable result of the West-backed ‘Arab Spring’ (D.Telegraph, 22 ix).
MINISTER AGAINST MULTICULTI
Unimpressed by the multicult imperative to respek dose of udder faifs, like in freedom, a Pakistani government minister (for railways – a big deal for Pakiland since the British-built lines were the only functioning technology they had, apart from, just possibly, their China-funded nuclear devices) put a price tag of $100K on the head of the American film-maker of the unseen but much-rioted about ‘Innocence of Islam’ (Sun, 23 ix).
{It was worth remembering that the rise of Hitler in liberal Germany, which had imprisoned him for a while, had taken just ten years.}
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