Comments on: Links For November 2014

By: Letri

Letri — Sat, 15 Nov 2014 11:56:28 +0000

Not only knitting is useful for enterprising survivalist, it also leads to a more refined command of fine hand and finger movement, which is a useful skill.
Plus, many knitting needles can be sharpened to make for improvised weapons of varying effectiveness.

Any long needle is a very versatile tool.

Your lack of appreciation towards knitting’s practical aspects and the fact that you buy into the unsubstantiated stereotype that paints knitting as “feminine” betrays your lack of rationality.

A proper man should be able to knit himself soft socks, then sneak upon his foes silently and stab them in the jugular with his improvised knitting-needle based stilletoes.

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By: Letri

Letri — Sat, 15 Nov 2014 11:41:49 +0000

semniotic ? Lol.
You should have called yourself the Phalamx, thus avoiding all potential associations (and branding/trademarking issues)

Also, with the kinds of views you espouse with regards to categories of ethnicity and gender roles, one has to wonder why do you characterize your ideological ancestors as “slimy”? Merely because they failed to succeed ?

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 05:55:27 +0000

http://www.unz.com/gnxp/population-genetics-is-a-precondition-for-understanding-evolutionary-process/

For recommendations of population genetics texts, three of which are free.

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By: Geirr

Geirr — Sat, 08 Nov 2014 15:16:01 +0000

If you’re looking for evolution ad equations I think you need population genetics. I believe the classic intro is “The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection”. If you’re interested look at Razib Khan’s blog, http://www.unz.com/gnxp He has a books subsection. There’s a review there.

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By: JayMan

JayMan — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 21:35:29 +0000

@sviga lae:

As briefly mentioned in the comments on JayMan’s and AE, the possibility exists that for the lowest-education/intelligence cohort, the paternity figures will be understated, and thus the female fertility figures still showing a dysgenic trend are the more accurate ones.

I thought about that. The way to check for that is to look at average male vs. average female fertility. If they disagree, someone is misreporting.

There was a slight difference (1.88 for men vs 1.96 for women), however it’s not statistically significant, so whether or not it represents underreporting by men is not clear.

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By: Cauê

Cauê — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 16:32:37 +0000

Not sure why sexual harassment should count as “serious” but physical threats should not.

It seems obvious to me that both can be serious or (more commonly) not.

But the definitions of pretty much everything in this are unclear to me (I’m 80% confident this is not my fault).

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 03:25:59 +0000

I understood what you were trying to do. All I’m saying is that you failed.

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By: CaptainBooshi

CaptainBooshi — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 03:14:09 +0000

I agree that for all ages, the difference is not very substantive, although it definitely is for the younger ages. I was not trying to make that claim, and I’m sorry if it came across like I was trying to defend it. What I was trying to do is show how Scott undermines his own point by misrepresenting the statistics, just like he accused PBS of doing. He completely elides the difference between slight and severe harassment, and that’s not even going into the fact that he says things that are just factually wrong like :”When challenged on it, the article says that by their definition, only “sexual harassment” and “stalking” count as ‘serious” online harassment.” The article is being misleading by focusing on those two in one of it’s quotes, but it clearly mentions all four of the categories that aren’t name-calling and embarassing comments as severe harassment.

Let’s just take what you said as true, that his headline is that the media fabricates statistics. In reality, the worst that can be said of the article he links to is that it exaggerated parts of the poll to give readers the wrong impression and satisfy its headline. He exaggerated parts of the article and the poll to give readers the wrong impression to satisfy his headline. As I said, he undermined his own point by doing the exact same thing he is complaining about. It probably wasn’t even intentional for either of them, they just read what they wanted to see.

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 02:02:39 +0000

In the official severe categories, men get 28 points and women get 29. Technically, “women are more severely harassed than men,” substantively, no. Maybe you didn’t read the study?

The difference between Scott and PBS is that PBS has a headline, and it’s false. Scott gives lots of statistics equal weighting. His headline, such as it is, is that the media fabricates statistics. That’s correct, regardless of how badly he read the statistics.

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By: E. Harding

E. Harding — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 02:01:12 +0000

One of the Big Mysteries of the world is why Ethiopia’s economy is growing so rapidly. It hasn’t reformed nearly to the extent Rwanda has. And its rapid growth is exactly one decade old.

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