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and insert his own propaganda in the middle of the show a special news report notice came up then peter jennings announced bush would be making a major announcement on iraq then bush and powell came in and bush summarized what powell had said yesterday at the un he spent about 20 minutes in all the administration would have known the content and timing of today s show because it is broadcast live and or in the morning in many markets such as oprah s home base in chicago this was in such bad form i couldn t believe it i called harpo studios in chicago to let them know and they said they had received a lot of phone calls i said oprah should tell her audience what happened and that i thought bush was purposely interfering with her show they commented they didn t know what the reason was and in any case there was no way to prove anything academics for justice made the same assertion today oprah winfrey started a two part series focusing on the impending u s war on iraq about halfway through the show the broadcast was pre empted by coverage of pres george bush with colin powell at his side reading a prepared statement on iraq the coincidental timing of this pre emptive press statement raised immediate questions about the motives of the white house war strategists students of the civil rights movement will recall an incident in 1964 when activist fannie lou hamer sat before a live television audience and gave a riveting account of the oppression she and other blacks faced in the south president lyndon johnson was so convinced of the power of her appeal to undermine his own political racial agenda that he hastily called a press conference to pull cameras away from hamer s impassioned revelations the pre emption of winfrey s show today should be seen in the same light oprah s audience is a vast and powerful but largely apolitical force of middle class white women it is likely that most did not watch colin powell s live testimony at the u n yesterday in fact it is likely that this huge audience was being oriented to the issues of the iraq war for the first time the first 30 minutes of the show was decidedly anti war and highlighted not only worldwide unanimity in opposition to the war but presented many of the heretofore unheard voices of ordinary people speaking forcefully against bush s motives undeterred by the alleged attempt to stop part of her february 2003 anti war shows from airing oprah made one last ditch attempt to stop the war in march 2003 just 48 hours before the war the began oprah aired an anti war show that included michael moore and the following shocking video shortly after the show aired harvard law grad ben shapiro condemned the show calling oprah a dangerously powerful political force shaping the views of millions with her ignorant views and wacky reasoning in fairness shapiro was really young at the time however canada s most respected media critic john doyle of the globe and mail praised the show as an act of extraordinary intelligence from oprah doyle wrote at a time when the consensus in american television is that everybody should pull together and support the men and women in the u s military what oprah winfrey did was outright subversion in the last week clear channel worldwide inc america s largest radio conglomerate and a company looking for a break from the u s government has been organizing pro bush and pro war rallies and then reporting on them a nashville tv station has been charging local advertisers to take part in an on air support the military campaign and gloating about the profits that s just the tip of it in normal circumstances the perspectives oprah presented would not be notable but in the contemporary context they were amazing the decision to invade or not invade iraq was arguably the most important test of the courage integrity and intelligence that america s leadership has faced in the last half century and the fact that oprah passed this test speaks very well of her qualifications to be president this blog is moving to pumpkinperson com 29 monday sep 2014 posted by pumpkinperson in uncategorized 9 comments i created 2 blogs pumpkinperson com for horror and brainsize wordpress com for iq but it s really not possible to run more than one blog successfully if you also want to have a career and a life so despite all the great momentum that i ve been lucky enough to have here thanks to all of you on friday i had my greatest number of readers in history i think in the long run it makes more sense to continue blogging at pumpkinperson com because that blog is far easier to find than brainsize wordpress com also halloween is only a month away and that blog has a darker vibe my latest post is on the intelligence of indian americans estimating the iq of billionaires the homeless from ethnic demographics 27 saturday sep 2014 posted by pumpkinperson in uncategorized 30 comments tags african americans ashkenazi jews bill cosby billionaires ethnicity forbes 400 homeless oprah sara blakely validity generalizations according to an article in the new york times jewish americans have higher iq s than other americans there s an old saying if you re so smart why aren t you rich so we should expect great wealth to be especially common among ashkenazi americans given their iq s despite being 2 of the u s population jewish americans are an astonishing 35 of the 400 richest americans this implies that u s billionaires are 1 67 standard deviations more jewish than the general u s population assuming this jewish over representation was caused by the high level of jewish intelligence we can estimate the average billionaire iq to be 2 9 sd above the u s mean or roughly iq 143 to understand the math see here i would expect billionaires at least the generation that made the wealth to be extremely smart given that from a darwinian perspective intelligence is the mental ability to adapt any situation to your advantage in addition the rise of computer geeks many of whom are billionaires and probably have iq s pushing 170 a couple microsoft billionaires reportedly scored perfect on the old sat iq 171 though such claims tend to get exaggerated is another reason to expect billionaires to be super smart on the other hand 143 is incredibly high given that iq only explains about 16 of the variation in income other factors like luck hard work ambition good looks charisma special talents connections etc also matter a lot for example sara blakely claims she flunked the lsat yet became the youngest self made female billionaire largely because oprah loved the footless pantyhose she created blakely is hardly an outlier dr bill cosby was never a billionaire but he was one of 400 richest americans back in the early 1990s and he claims to have scored 500 on the old sat iq 85 cosby s obviously way smarter than iq 85 and probably smarter than iq 115 in my humble opinion the sat is biased against kids from lower socio economic background but a good scientist can not throw out data arbitrarily if we assume that iq s on the forbes 400 range from 85 cosby to 170 microsoft we might estimate that the average iq would be about 130 a lot lower than what we d expect from the extreme levels of jewish over representation as the hyper educated blog commentator pincher martin noted focusing on only jewish representation can be misleading when trying to estimate the iq of high achievers it s much wiser to look at other ethnic groups too big brained oprah is still america s only black billionaire hbd has a sleazy reputation because back in the 19th century hbd people were very mean to blacks and women saying they were poor and powerless because they had small brains we now know there are incredibly brilliant and big brained people in all large races and genders and i find it absolutely fascinating that the only african american on forbes list of the 400 richest americans is arguably the biggest brained member of both her race and her gender from an evolutionary perspective this makes perfect sense because brain size tripled in 4 million years of human evolution because only our biggest brained ancestors were typically adaptable enough to acquire enough resources to survive today we have a social safety net so even small brained people survive but the big brained oprah has acquired orders of magnitude more resources wealth than most most americans it s almost like you need some kind of rare biological advantage to become a billionaire according to this new york times article ashkenazi jews might have iq enhancing genes associated with certain diseases and according to pumpkinperson oprah has a stratospheric brain size helping her to compete with the greatest ashkenazi entrepeneurs back in 1993 when you only needed about 330 million to make the forbes 400 list of richest american bill cosby was the only african american to qualify but big brained oprah was making money at record speed and cosby advised his young friend to always sign her own cheques she took this advice and the next year with a net worth of 340 million she had dethroned him as the only african american on the list today you need over a billion to make forbes 400 and with a net worth of nearly 3 billion oprah remains the only african american on the forbes 400 though the 2014 list hasn t been released yet but should be published any day now estimating the iq of the forbes 400 from african american under representation if african americans are 12 of america but 0 25 of the forbes 400 then that means that the forbes 400 is 1 6 sd less black than america as a whole does that mean that the forbes 400 is 1 6 sd more intelligent than america as a whole of course not because the correlation between iq and sub saharan ancestry is small and oprah is probably a lot smarter than the average billionaire because she has far greater brain size and cultural influence and overcame adversity and very humble origins to achieve her wealth in such a competitive and improvisational field if there were a perfect negative correlation between iq and african ancestry within the u s then the 12 americans who are black would all be in bottom 12 of american iq below 83 and thus have an average iq around the 6 ile iq 77 but in reality the average african american has an iq of 87 perhaps higher in the younger generation raised in the post civil rights era so they score only 13 points lower than the u s mean of 100 on average though some blacks score in the stratosphere not 23 points lower this implies that if it were possible to measure race on a continuous scale african ancestry would correlate 0 57 with iq 13 23 but since iq only correlates 0 85 with general intelligence and socially classified race probably only correlates 0 9 with actual ancestry we need to divide 0 57 by 0 85 and then 0 9 to see that african ancestry has a true g loading of 0 75 thus the fact that u s billionaires are 1 6 sd less african american than the u s as whole suggests their average level of g is 2 13 sd higher than the u s average but since even good iq tests typically have only a 0 85 g loading we multiply by 0 85 suggesting a mean iq of 1 81 above the u s mean iq 127 two conflicting estimates based on ashkenazi over representation i estimate the forbes 400 to have a mean iq of 143 but based on african american under representation i estimate it to be 127 let s split the difference and assume the average self made billionaire has an iq around 135 of course my analysis involved all members of the forbes 400 not self made members only but since the children and spouses who inherit billions are virtually always the same ethnicity as those who made it the ethnic distribution of the former just reflects the ethnic distribution of the latter several decades ago even though trust fund babies cognitively regress precipitously to the mean note that an iq of 135 is similar to the iq of 130 i estimated above for the forbes 400 based on the sat scores of cosby and microsoft billionaires based on the 0 4 correlation between iq and income you d expect people who are on average 5 sd in income to be 5 sd 0 4 2 sd in iq iq 130 it s also worth noting that u s presidents who live the life style of a billionaire despite earning only six figures in office seem to have an average iq around 130 estimating the iq of the homeless although african americans are 12 of the u s population they are 38 of the homeless this implies the homeless population is 0 93 sd more african american than america as a whole dividing this figure by 0 75 and multiplying by 0 85 see above suggests the homeless has a mean iq that is 1 054 sd below the u s average roughly iq 84 indeed a study in the canadian journal of behavioral science stated in the complete sample of homeless individuals a full scale iq score of 84 3 was reported this is significantly lower than is estimated for the normal population indeed 19 2 of the sample scored in the extremely low range having iq scores less than 70 our findings are consistent with previous reports of iq in homeless samples which ranged from the low average seidman et al 1997 to average range louks smith 1988 using the same iq test as used in our study wasi solliday mcroy and colleagues 2004 studied a sample of homeless shelter residents in the united states and found a mean full scale iq of 83 7 with 20 scoring in the extremely low range this finding is very similar to that found in our u k sample an average iq of 84 for the homeless is consistent with pumpkinperson s law average iq varies 8 points with every ten fold increase or decrease in financial success three figure income earners the homeless average iq 84 four figure income earners part time minimum wage average iq 92 five figure income earners middle class average iq 100 six figure income earners future millionaires average iq 108 self made deca millionaires average iq 116 self made centi millionaires average iq 124 self made billionaires average iq 132 self made deca billionaires average iq 140 if you made your money in stem add 10 iq points to the expected iq of your income if you made your money in a low brow occupation like selling pantyhose perhaps subtract 10 points from the expected iq for your income and obviously there is enormous variability within each economic class with some homeless people being smarter than most self made billionaires jewish ancestry the iq of nobel prize winners 26 friday sep 2014 posted by pumpkinperson in uncategorized 97 comments tags agriculture ashkenazim iq nobel prize winners validity generalizations one of the most innovative ways to estimate the iq s of nobel prize winners and other elite groups has been to observe the percentage that are jewish or partly jewish since high iq is disproportionately common among ashkenazi americans any achievement that selects for high iq should also indirectly select for jewish ancestry so all else being equal there s some mathematical formula that allows ones to estimate a group s average iq ...