The IQ jungle. Medical misinformation (did I miscount the bodies?).

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Here's an interesting article to the effect that the Centers for Disease Control has made it impossible for coroners to report deaths resulting from vaccine reactions since 1979. We have heard about sudden infant death syndrome –SIDS - from that time. What I had not previously read was the contention that sudden infant deaths frequently followed fairly closely after vaccination. That seems to me to be an observation that would be so obvious it would be hard to suppress – I'm going to remain a bit skeptical as I stay tuned.

1979 would have been early enough to affect my first family, all vaxxed to the max and a bit weird.

This is an answer to Masaki's comment on intelligence from last time.

Life is of course not just about IQ. Measured IQ correlates with just about every measure of success in life: financial success, longevity, marital success, staying out of jail, happiness and so on. The only significant measure that no longer correlates is the number of children. It appears that up until 200 years ago there was a strong correlation between intelligence and realized fertility – the number of children surviving until adulthood.

Some people argue that intelligence tests are meaningful only in the context of an advanced society. Jared Diamond claimed that New Guinea natives were just as smart as Europeans, the only difference was that they applied their intelligence to a different domain – that of the jungles in which they lived.

This argument ignores a vast number of other correlations. As Thomas Morton determined in the 19th century (and has recently been proven again despite strenuous opposition from the Marxists such as Gould at Harvard) there is a significant correlation between brain size and intelligence. There is a correlation between the ability to discriminate between different musical tones and intelligence. There is a correlation between the ability to discriminate between closely related colors and intelligence.

There is a correlation between reaction time and intelligence. The smarter you are, in general, the quicker you will be able to push a button when you see a light flash. There correlation is stronger for complex reaction time: choosing and pushing the button that corresponds to the color of the light being flashed.

The bottom line is that whereas intelligence tests like the Wonderlic measure abilities that are applicable in the workplace of an industrial society, and which would not be applicable to a hunter gatherer or early agrarian, these abilities correlate with others that would be applicable to any individual in any situation. It makes sense. As we evolved, we continued to present ourselves with more and more cognitive challenges: how to chip stones, affix axe handles, craft oars and sails, sharpen swords, sew warm clothes, account for loans and so on.

Intelligence tests came into use in the first decade or so of the 20th century. Researchers use indirect methods to estimate intelligence in prior eras. They look at the use of language and mathematics. In particular, they assess the richness of the vocabulary being used. The size of a person's vocabulary, and the ability to appreciate nuances such as the relationship between the words infallible and impeccable that I mentioned last time, correlates highly with measured intelligence and hence with all the other measurements named. The researchers confidently assume that if the correlation is high today, it was equally high in past centuries. The use of language is a pretty good proxy for intelligence.

YouTube, in its ongoing effort to protect you from medical misinformation, took down my recent video entitled The Evolution of What Women Want. I made the observation that fertility is falling throughout the developed world, in correlation with Covid and the rollout of the vaccines. I am not shocked. To me it only emphasizes the corruption of Big Tech, and the value of alternative platforms such as rumble where you can still see it.

On the theory that anybody who wants to know can find out easily, I pretty much stopped including links about fertility in this blog. Here's a typical one from today from an American woman married to a Thai.  She has a strong personal interest for two reasons. First, she has been trying to conceive for seven years without success. Secondly, the Crown Princess of Thailand is in a coma, and much to the consternation of Pfizer the royal family attributes it to the Covid vaccine.  Here is a graphic from her post:

That’s the news from Lake WeBeGone, where things are quiet for the time being.  Eddie, Zoriana and I are going to the 17^th birthday of our ArtTalkers Toastmasters Club tomorrow. 

Graham