Ideology, IQ, and Time Preference
Among intellectual trends, things like group IQ, the genetic component to IQ, and allied topics are one of those areas that is grossly out of fashion right now. Progressives, building upon centuries of blank slatist error, are enforcing the creed of perfect interchangeability among various people groups, a dogma that is necessary to buttress their argument that disparate outcomes between different groups are solely due to "White racism" and "systematic bias."...
... time preference describes an individual’s willingness (or lack thereof) to forgo immediate pleasure or profit in lieu of pursuing goals or activities which provide greater reward later on. High time preference is when a person wants it now, low time preference is the opposite...
Now, there seems to be a fairly strong relationship between IQ and time preference, with greater intelligence generally correlating with lower time preference...
Based upon mine and other observations, the ideological breakdown versus IQ seems to follow two separate patterns for the Right and Left. The Right seems to exhibit a broader range of IQ... The Left, in turn, seems to have a fairly small cognoscenti that clusters in the midwit range (~105-115) and which provides managerial leadership to a much larger sub-100 horde, many of whom are PoCs belonging to ethnicities with lower average IQs as groups...
Every action the American Left takes is grossly reactive and carries with it this panicked psychological overtone of “We have to do something RIGHT NOW!!...
So yes, there really is a palpable difference in the IQ profiles of the two basic White ethneis in this country and their respective clients (which is what is really being modeled using ideology as a proxy)...
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Why the Decline of America’s Average IQ is a Cause for Concern, by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus, The Neo-Ciceronian Times, 21 August 2016:
... What causes problems, however, is when we start talking about the genetic component of IQ... more recent studies in genetics and heritability seem to have consistently found that the genetic component of IQ makes up around 60-80% of this trait...
It’s acceptable to observe that the reason blacks can, on average, run faster than whites is due to genetic variances. However, when you start observing that American whites have an average IQ around 103, while American blacks average around 85, that’s when you get put into the punishment box...
Yet - IQ effects are real. This has been most extensively investigated in recent years by Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen (a psychologist and a political scientist, respectively), culminating in their books IQ and the Wealth of Nations and IQ and Global Inequality. They observed the strong positive correlation between average national IQ and national wealth...
Westerners combine traits of high intelligence, assertiveness, cultural confidence, and creativity which no other civilisational group on the planet can match...
So here’s the point about declining American IQ. The listed number for the USA’s average national IQ is 98 - respectable enough, and in line with many European nations. However, this number represents a decline from the "standard" 100 which represented the average American IQ from around the time when the Stanford-Binet test was adopted in the USA...
... Frankly, the single greatest factor in declining average American IQ is the introduction of large numbers of low IQ immigrants from straggler and basket case parts of the world, especially Latin America and the Middle East...
Ethnogenesis and American Breakup, by Theophilus Chilton, The Neo-Ciceronian Times, 31 October 2023.
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