2024-05-29 14:01:32
In this article, Steve Sailer argues that the influence of Jews in America is overstated because Jews are *only* overrepresented by 300% on Time Magazine's 2006 list of the 100 most influential Americans.
Jew comprise 7% of the names on the list, even though Jews comprise just 2% of the overall population and only arrived in America in large numbers in the last 100 years, while the list spans the entire history of the United States.
This is hardly a serious, rigorous, systematic, or even adequate warrant for this claim.
Last week, Sailer argued that American blacks' European admixture could only account for a 3 point IQ difference between them and black Africans. His evidence for this is that since the IQ gap between those populations is 15 and American blacks have on average 18% European admixture, then that admixture could only account for a 3 point difference because 15 * 0.18 = ~3.
Obviously IQ and DNA do not have a linear relationship like this. If I am 25% Mexican, could I calculate my height by multiplying the average height of Mexicans by 0.25 and subtract it from other ethnic averages? This makes no sense on its face.
From what I've seen, Sailer is simply not a serious intellectual, in addition to being a Jewish chauvinist.
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