I spoke to Alex Kaschuta a few weeks ago, and now the podcast episode is public.
I’m not sure if it was due to nerves or inexperience, but I remember saying a few things that were incorrect:
Fertility of Chinese vs minorities:
I remember saying that the Chinese minorities reproduced more often than the native Han - this is incorrect, it depends on the minority group in question.
I think that what my mind was wandering to was dysgenic fertility within different Chinese groups, and in that case it is true across the board that the Han are less dysgenic if crystalized ability (which is more g-loaded) is used as a measurement.
Fertility of Estonians vs Estonian minorities
It is true that Estonians have higher fertility than minorities, but for whatever reason I said they were African minorities, when the minority groups are typically Russian or Ukranian.
Causes of sex differences in extreme achievement
I walked through my argument on why the math for greater male variance in IQ causing disproportionate male achievement doesn’t work out - Kaschuta mentioned that personality differences can play a role here. I’m not sure what I said in the moment, but intuitively it seems believable.
Most dysgenic countries
I think that when I mentioned the most dysgenic regions, I said something along the lines of “South East Europe is one of the most dysgenic regions in the world, for example, Romania and Montenegro have extremely strong dysgenics”. This is incorrect - it is North Macedonia, not Montenegro that has strong dysgenics.
A nother note - I think I said that America’s IQ is declining by 4.5 points per century… The figure says 3.8, but this is because the 4.5 figure is based on the highest quality evidence - the NLSY datasets.
IQ of South Africa
I remember saying on the podcast the IQ of South Africa is 74 - this was true for one version of my national IQs, but not the latest unpublished version, which has them at 70.76. Becker has them at 68.8.
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Citations of things I remember mentioning
Heritability of IQ by age - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4270739/ and https://gwern.net/doc/iq/2013-bouchard.pdf
Correlation in twins reared apart - https://sci-hub.se/10.1080/03014460903103939
Schooling enhances IQ, not intelligence - https://humanvarieties.org/2022/12/22/schooling-enhances-iq-not-intelligence/
Specific Swedish (I think I said Danish on the podcast) military study I cited as my favourite evidence of education not causing IQ - https://mh19871004.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/the-effect-of-schooling-on-cognitive-skills-carlsson-2015.pdf
Heritability of personality according to self-reports: https://sci-hub.se/10.1037/bul0000017
Fertility of 2nd generation immigrants in Denmark -https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2018/11/fertility-of-immigrant-groups-in-denmark-by-generation/
Heritability of personality in self + peer reports: https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2021/12/heritabilities-are-usually-underestimated/
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On IQ and fertility/dysgenic fertility:
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Why I find the “male underachievement” narrative unconvincing:
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The masculinity by country study:
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On whether Jewish psychological characteristics can explain Jewish eminence:
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Average Jewish IQ: see Cremieux’s meta (110.3) or mine (107).
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On the relationship between cognitive ability and political views: I don’t remember talking about this much, but I probably mentioned that midwit effects don’t really exist with the exception of highly intelligent women being drawn away from conservatism.
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On the question of whether the relationbship between intelligence and political views can affect the power of each political party - it is true that endorsement of the Republican party used to be associated with social status/intelligence even when the academia and media were dominanted by the left, which means that something else must be responsible for the divide.
Based on common sense, it should matter whether certain political beliefs are associated with social status/competence. That said, the modeling starts to get much more complicated when factors such as non-linear associations and interactions between political interest are considered. For example, if political beliefs and IQ/competence/status don’t correlate within the most politically interested people, then the relationship found in the general population wont have an effect
That said, the more I research politics and keep up with current events, the more I see Curtis Yarvin and Spandrell being vindicated - the problem isn’t that hobbits and dark elves are dumb or incompetent, the problem is that the system (Democracy) always leads to the left winning in the long run.
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On the Jewish question - personally I think the Jews are a political sink, but are good for science, technology, and culture. This makes their overall influence neutral in my book. As for Jewish evolutionary group strategy, I think it’s a joke, and Cofnas was right about practically everything in his debate with MacDonald.
Sorry to point out an error in your error corrections, but you are writing that the US IQ is declining by 4.5 or 3.8 points per decade. I think you mean 0.45 or 0.38 (You just had me worried there for a minute).
Link to the debate between Cofnas and MacDonald?