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Steve Sailer
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Steve Sailer's personal blog at isteve.blogspot.com covers politics and culture. Since 2008, 29 different Hacker News readers have linked it 50 times. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
50mentions?
29HN people?
2008–2023first – last linked?
Most-linked posts?
- /2013/12/overall-pisa-rankings-include-america.html?m=12 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-12-27
- /2014/03/2008-sat-scores-by-race-by-income.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-12-11
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-06-05
What Hacker News says?
Because we all know how pervasive anti-Arab, anti-black, etc, stereotypes are in "pop culture and media." As is well known, Hollywood is full of corporate racist fascist pigs. Which is why we see so many films promoting racism and fascism. I'm sure it's just the same in France. Yes, that was satire. Another possibility - improbable, I know - is that there are actually statistical differences between Frenchmen and Ar…
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on “A Woman’s Story”Submitted Why English speakers dominate sprinting events as a story · 23 points
HN discussionThere's a lot of data on this subject; if you're actually interested in evaluating it as a scientific hypothesis (rather than dismissing it as heresy), this should get you started: http://isteve.blogspot.com/2014/03/2008-sat-scores-by-race-b... The study in question involves the SAT, not formal IQ tests, but the two are highly correlated. [1] You'll also see that the original claim isn't quite supported, as the poor…
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on “Einstein: The Negro Question (1946)”Submitted Shifty-looking sorts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSteve Sailer: thought criminal and smartest pundit you've never heard of. http://isteve.blogspot.com La Griffe Du Lion: rarely posts but highly interesting. http://lagriffedulion.f2s.com
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on “Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?”Submitted Flynn Effect has reversed among British teens as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI gave a link to stereotype threat earlier - http://isteve.blogspot.com/2012/10/john-list-on-virtual-none... And keep in mind, even if the studies were replicable, the studies did not even show that stereotype threat shows up in the real world, or that it causes the one standard deviation gap. What the original study showed was that on a non-meaningful test, if the professor suggests a stereotype, the gap in test sc…
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on “Silicon Valley and Black Coders: Howard University fights to join the tech boom”Submitted The Next Frontier of Economic Efficiency as a story · 1 points
HN discussionComputer programming is one of the most cognitively demanding professions in existence. Ability to program correlates pretty highly with cognitive test scores, such as the SAT Math. If you look at the top scorers on such tests in America, only about 1% are black. The ratio of black engineers in Silicon Valley matches what you would expect based on the test scores. To see it visually, this is the bell curve based on…
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on “Silicon Valley and Black Coders: Howard University fights to join the tech boom”Submitted NYU must become a football powerhouse to keep America out of more wars. as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOn errors in the "abortion lowers crime" study http://isteve.blogspot.com/2005/11/im-shocked-shocked-to-see... overview of freakonomics 2 and how it shouldn't have been surprising that the errors were numerous and more obvious than in the original, due to the authors being less familiar with the topics in addition to selection bias http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2009... Detailed discussion o…
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on “Match.com Acquires Online Dating Site OkCupid”Some social scientists are skeptical of the validity of stereotype threat. John List, in a paper coauthored with Steven Levitt at the University of Chicago, was unable to reproduce it[1]. Some scholars suspect publication bias[2]. Also see another failure to reproduce by the Educational Testing Service[3]. [1] http://isteve.blogspot.com/2012/10/john-list-on-virtual-none... [2] http://isteve.blogspot.com/2010/01/ster…
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on “Girls Who Code”2012, reading: https://isteve.blogspot.com/2013/12/pisa-reading-scores-by-r... 2012, reading/science/math reported separately: https://isteve.blogspot.com/2013/12/overall-pisa-rankings-in... 2015, average of reading/science/math: http://www.unz.com/isteve/2015-pisa-mean-scores-in-perspecti... This is not the stuff of an "educational crisis".
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on “SAT Scores Fall as More Students Take the Test”A rebuttal: http://isteve.blogspot.com/2009/03/bubbles-and-sex.html True, but it's still a great article.
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on “Icelandic logic behind the meltdown ”Poor whites and Hispanics aren't nearly as dangerous as poor (young, male) blacks. There is not another comparable group that manages to commit 27% of murders as 1% of the population. That's a huge ratio. Keep in mind, most black males will never kill anyone. But black males commit a plurality of murders in the US. And 1 in 3 will spend some time in jail in his life. 1 in 7 American black men are in jail at any mome…
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on “Is the shared economy racist?”Steven Pinker agrees with you: http://isteve.blogspot.com/2012/10/pinker-takes-crack-at-exp... But while these theories help explain why the seemingly diverse convictions within the right-wing and left-wing mind-sets hang together, they don’t explain why they are tied to geography. The historian David Hackett Fischer traces the divide back to the British settlers of colonial America. The North was largely settled by…
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on “Tantrums as Status Symbols (2005)”Supply and demand. If I wanted to make labor more expensive, I would do something about the people trying to import cheap labor. http://isteve.blogspot.com/2013/07/a-fourth-of-july-sermon-f...
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on “The Fall of the American Worker”I understand what you're saying, I'm just suggesting that your message might get more traction if you phrase it differently, or consider what his motivations might actually be. The guy has donated $1.5 billion to fund scholarships for minority students in the U.S., $750 million for vaccines in Africa, and many other initiatives that I can't remember right now. The idea that he is a white supremacist is laughable. He…
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on “The Real Problem with Waiting for Superman”Yep! I think you are referring to the SAT data. Fortunately, we have data to test our beliefs: http://isteve.blogspot.com/2014/03/2008-sat-scores-by-race-b...
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on “New York’s Single Test for High School Defined My Life”Steve Sailer has a reponse up on his blog: http://isteve.blogspot.com/2009/11/gladwell-strikes-back.htm... He has another explanation of his point here: http://isteve.blogspot.com/2009/11/pinker-v-gladwell-on-nfl-... Overall, I think Sailer's critique is quite valid: What Berri is doing, in effect, by using his "per-play" measure is comparing quarterbacks taken at the top of the draft (most of whom get a lot of play…
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on “Malcolm Gladwell's response to Steven Pinker's review of his new book”A few other things: I should start by pointing out that your premise is flawed. I don't hate any ethnic group. I appreciate human diversity. Differences between human groups are real, and they appear to be somewhat genetic. I was actually surprised to see how few race-y books I'd added to the wishlist. There's a sort of illicit thrill to buying something that you can't read in public. By the way, if you're intereste…
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on “Obama: I will be the Democratic nominee”Here's an explanation for why foot speed and intelligence are inversely correlated: "Upper body strength is relatively equally distributed between the races, but footspeed most definitely is not. So, tailbacks, wide receivers, and defensive players have a need for speed, so they are disproportionately black. I haven't checked recently, but in most recent years since Jason Sehorn's retirement, none of the 64 NFL star…
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on “NFL player IQ by position”Allen, everything from that domain is autokilled. Try it yourself. Here's one you can submit: http://isteve.blogspot.com/2007/01/reasons-for-being-cheerfu...
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on “Ask HN: Objecting to stories being killed”Yes. But the article is question doesn't seem to be about politics: http://isteve.blogspot.com/2009/07/medias-bias-toward-englis...
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on “Ask HN: Objecting to stories being killed”I just tried submitting another article from his blog and again it was [dead] by the time I was redirected to the 'new' page, i.e. a few milliseconds. Here it is: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=686436 Try posting something from his site yourself, like this one: http://isteve.blogspot.com/2007/01/illuminating-map.html
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on “Ask HN: Objecting to stories being killed”There's also politically correct censorship going on, amazingly. This morning I submitted this: http://isteve.blogspot.com/2009/07/medias-bias-toward-englis... . It was dead on arrival, marked [dead] immediately, presumably because that blogger is "divisive" and "racially insensitive". Please read that and judge for yourself if it is interesting.
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on “Ask HN: Objecting to stories being killed”Income does not really explain white-black gap in IQ. Blacks from families with >$200k/year income do about as well as whites from families with income <$20k/year. SAT test is not IQ test but it's probably highly correlated. http://isteve.blogspot.com/2014/03/2008-sat-scores-by-race-b...
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on “James Watson's Nobel Prize Medal Will Be Returned to Him”Salon's take on billionaire lobbying : http://www.salon.com/2013/05/16/billionaires_partner/ "In April, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg unveiled FWD.us, a quasi-dark-money outfit created to give Silicon Valley a greater political presence in Washington. It has already raised $25 million." Sailor's take : http://isteve.blogspot.com/2013/05/mark-zuckerbergs-save-bil... "I mean, if America's tech billionaires and m…
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on “The talented Mr Green: How FWD.us lost the tech moral high ground”It's not the case. Citation another commenter posted https://isteve.blogspot.com/2013/12/overall-pisa-rankings-in...
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on “What STEM Students Need to Know”For what it's worth here's a citation proving counter to the statement...I stole from another commenter. https://isteve.blogspot.com/2013/12/overall-pisa-rankings-in... As someone who grew up in a poor immigrant family where the first generation was uneducated and spoke no English...I always find it insulting when low education is attributed to not having money. Not just myself as a counter anecdote, but 10 out of 1…
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on “What STEM Students Need to Know”
