The Punished Epistemologist

(Kirkegaard, Piffer and Dutton 2023) analyze the cyclical polygenic scores of civilisation and the subsequent correlation with outcomes, there’s a direct correlation with Roman success and genetic edu3/edu4 scores, after the Republican era, large declines start to occur Recent decline is likely explains by disassortative sampling, central Italy scores lower than north and samples from medieval were more north shifted than the strictly central Italian modern samples

Oh and btw, you guys’ source for the Greek from (Antonio 2019), shows 65 percent of the 48 samples from imperial Rome were from east med, this does not just mean Greek, it also means Maltese, Cypriots (genetically Anatolian), and Anatolia, most of this gene flow as (Lazaridis 2023) distinctly notes, is Anatolian 1-3rd century, not pure Greek, although this is irrelevant as said before, as Greeks back then were heavily Anatolian and Levantine shifted, even compared to today. You forgot the rest of the sample for obvious reasons, as you’re scheming nepotists who will defend South Euros, no matter what the genetic evidence says. 33 percent approx of that sample was LEVANTINE and 2 from North Africa plus 2 Iron Age italic clustering individuals. Oh in his own words you retard: “Such as Greek, Maltese, Cypriot, and Syrian” In reference to the genetic clustering of imperial Romans, give it up

Individuals such as Nassim Taleb, have infamously rejected IQ’s predictive validity predicated upon the presumption of a fall-off effect. That IQ after a certain level has no effect size for social and other outcomes. Theoretically, this is unintelligible, IQ tests are simply tests with questions related to arithmetic, vocabulary, processing speed, etc, basic concepts that everyone agrees to be indicative of intellectual development, and scores are based on how many correct you get. Hypothetically, the mean 100 IQ of a group averaged could be 40 out of 60 answered correct on the ravens matrices, and a 120 IQ could be 50 out of 60 (for arguments sake). How does answering more correct questions suddenly without any mediating cause drop off out of nowhere? A magical assumption has been laid out that when someone starts to score higher and accurately answer more complex questions, suddenly the benefits of their intelligence erodes, when in reality there’s nothing that physically changes between an iq of 100 and 120 besides the number of questions answered correctly, the numbers aren’t magical, they are just statistical calculations of this outcome. But in reality, it’s the opposite! Complex questions measure (g) at higher rates and have stronger associations with intelligence, questions with low complexity can have the risk of a ceiling effect, but harder questions solve this, discriminatory power and separation in item response theory is greater at higher level IQ questions. It would thus make sense that separation in outcomes would be larger at the top than at the bottom, not less, as the separation in cognition is more discriminatory and measured as a much stronger effect. And this is what we see, not only is IQ correlated with income in a linear fashion, but the correlation actually increases at the top Replicated in both Finaland and Norway, very egalitarian societies

(Lynn & Becker 2019) display a compilation of studies correlating NIQ levels with various modes of behavior One of them, (Schmitt et al. 2007) analyzes the correlation between IQ and big 5 personality traits. What does he find? He finds a 0.52 strong correlation between IQ and conscientiousness. “IQ measures nothing, it’s just a construct” No, IQ measures general intelligence (g), and this factor is indicative of human brain development and the capacity to conceptualize reality in a relevant/rational manner, the higher capacity to discern concepts, logic and the to correlate functions towards their designed endpoint. Intelligent people are thus better at understanding consequence, which makes them comprehend the importance of a low time preference and facilitates conscientiousness as a behavioral trait

(Piffer et al) analyzed the genetic evolution through polygenic scores of northwest Europe from 700 to the 1850s What did he find? - The proportion of individuals with a 1850 level EA of the tpp 5 percent was 6x greater than the original year 700 sample - the proportion among top 1 percent samples was 10x higher! Strong refutation to leftists who claim that it takes 100s of thousands of years for evolution to develop, which (Akbari et al. 2024) and the basics of the Neolithic transition/revolution have easily refuted

“The Irish used to score IQs similar to blacks, race differences in IQ are meaningless” (Warne 2022) meta-analytically analyzed the over time correlation between Irish IQ from 1920-2022 When all studies are put together, there is NO Irish increase in IQ over the last century!

“Why should we deport blacks, what have they ever done to you” Blacks in US have murder rates so high in cities, that even the most dangerous countries in the world can not compete. You are statistically more safe in Haiti than in a black neighborhood in Oklahoma City