The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 27,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 10 sold-out performances for that many… [Read more…]
January 2, 2011
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers About 3 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year. This blog was viewed about 29,000 times in 2010. If it were the Taj… [Read more…]
July 29, 2010
Rebecca St. James is the archetypical Good Christian Girl of today’s contemporary Christian music/film industry. She is the role model to chaste teen Christian girls, and the fantasy of every Christian man (Indeed, in this case, the difference between the secular man and the Christian man is that a secular man will fantasize about having… [Read more…]
June 10, 2010
Charles Murray, champion for general intelligence, defender of gender and racial differences of IQ scores, surprisingly argues that the SAT should be abolished. His argument involves three premises: Achievement test scores predict first year college GPAs better than SAT scores. The rabid focus on SAT by students, parents, schools, and the coaching industry is harmful.… [Read more…]
October 25, 2009
I’m surprised to have found a video clip of a lesson, by the great jazz/fusion guitarist Al Di Meola, with an open HBD-related aside. You have to scroll to around minute 2:35 to hear the comment in its context. In short, Al Di Meola states that Asians and European Caucasians are unlikely to be able… [Read more…]
October 21, 2009
The following article is likely hard to find; so I think it is good to post it here. From BrookesNews.Com: Nazism is Socialism* Friedrich August von Hayek BrookesNews.Com Monday 19 October 2009 Published in the spring of 1933 Incomprehensible as the recent events in Germany must seem to anyone who has known that country chiefly… [Read more…]
October 21, 2009
Australian anthropologist Peter McAllister posits that modern homo sapiens are physically wimpy compared to our neanderthal and ancient predecessors. From Reuters: Modern man a wimp says anthropologist Wed Oct 14, 2009 10:24am EDT By John Mehaffey LONDON (Reuters) – Many prehistoric Australian aboriginals could have outrun world 100 and 200 meters record holder Usain Bolt in… [Read more…]
September 26, 2009
Here’s an illuminating BrookesNews article on market crashes and efficiency reproduced below: Stock market crashes and market efficiency Gerard Jackson BrookesNews.Com Monday 21 September 2009 The share market crashes that reverberated around the world confirmed the prejudices of many (some of whom are paid to know better) as to the irrationally of markets. There was… [Read more…]
September 5, 2009
I’ve been thinking about cognitive ability tilt lately. Most IQ and aptitude tests look at verbal, mathematical, and sometimes spatial ability. People generally tilt towards one ability—e.g., more verbal than mathematical—and the type of ability tilt influences one’s choice in studying future academic disciplines. The current GRE measures both verbal and mathematical ability (the writing… [Read more…]
August 18, 2009
I found an article on how children’s working memory capacity predicts their school performance years later. It says: In her latest research Alloway gave working memory and IQ tests to 98 children aged 4.3 to 5.7 years in full-time preschool education. Recently, six years on, she revisited the children, now aged 10 and 11, asking… [Read more…]
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