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Anonymous Sun 07 Jun 15:15:47 2020 No.11770857 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11771280

What are some things that sound like pseudoscience but actually aren't pseudoscience? I'll start: the importance of digit ratio.

>A number of studies have shown a correlation between the 2D:4D digit ratio and various physical and behavioral traits.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digit_ratio

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jun 2020 15:18:10 No.11770864 Report

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>Tfw you have femine digit ratio

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jun 2020 18:20:14 No.11771280 Report

Quoted By: >>11771288

>>11770857
That it is okay to consider a positive divergence in a magnetic field

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jun 2020 18:24:55 No.11771288 Report

Quoted By: >>11771751

>>11771280
Yes magnetic monopoles as topological defects and all that. That's okay but it's not really something that sounds like pseudoscience.

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jun 2020 18:26:12 No.11771292 Report

Quoted By: >>11771793

Humans exist in racial subcategories with measurable differences in genetic intelligence potential, on average.

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jun 2020 20:42:24 No.11771751 Report

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>>11771288
Good, than we should be able say that longitudinal waves can exist in the electric field as well

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jun 2020 20:54:35 No.11771793 Report

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>>11771292
According to a mostly arbitrary measure of intelligence that fails to capture the intricate, holistic nature of the human brain and is usually tested with a set of questions you can easily train for, either directly (autists who literally take IQ tests over and over) or indirectly (our education system fosters and privileges logical, abstract thinking above all).
In the case of black people, by lumping together e.g. migrant blacks coming from war-torn or otherwise failed states with stable, educated blacks you'll obviously arrive at a lower average score since these tests are far easier if you've had a proper education. Thus your conclusion relies on an argumentum a fortiori and probably shouldn't be taken as serious science. Pic related.

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jun 2020 21:58:32 No.11771999 Report

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>>11771793
Firstly, academic achievement(getting As) isn't representative of IQ. The Chinese have IQs comparable to whites, maybe 1-2 points higher, yet achieve much, much more academically. You talk about how IQ tests can be trained, yet your source uses academic scores, which can be trained even harder than IQ tests. Secondly, it's very well documented first generation immigrants, and second generation ones, achieve more academically. You'll notice many prominent scientists and mathematicians were from first-second generation immigrant families, Feynman for example. Comparing even immigrants from war torn countries to settled people academically is disingenuous.

>our education system fosters and privileges logical, abstract thinking above all
Abstract thinking is the most predictive measure of success in white collar occupations.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jun 2020 07:22:16 No.11773419 Report

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>>11771793
xd, fuck niggers. Cope harder.
>>11771999
Nice trips dude. We'll tag team him. You beat him down with stats and i'll call him a faggot.

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