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I don’t know much about being an electrician, but is the babe on the ladder really being pure genius about how to handle high voltage wires?
With the 20th anniversary of the publication of Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray’s The Bell Curve coming up in October, you’re going to be seeing journalistic references to how, of course the concept of IQ has since been thoroughly discredited and nobody cares about IQ anymore and so forth and so on.
But then there’s popular culture, which is more IQ obsessed than ever. My wife channel-surfed past the new CBS show “Scorpion” and remarked to me that the characters gabbed more about their IQ scores than anything else. Now, Grantland has done the hard work of transcribing the opening episode’s dialogue for us:
How Smart Are the Quirky Geniuses of ‘Scorpion’? Let’s Just Ask Them, They Can’t Shut Up About It
SEPTEMBER 23, 2014
by MARK LISANTIScorpion, the relentlessly publicized new drama that debuted last night on CBS, is a show about a ragtag team of misfit geniuses who solve problems that the Government (played with trademark craggy resolve by Robert Patrick) can’t handle on its feeble-minded own. We know that this ragtag team is composed entirely of misfit geniuses because they remind us of this roughly every five seconds of their 44-minute screen time. Even making allowances for the often-awkward stage-setting of pilot episode exposition, these geniuses do a lot of talking about their brilliance. Did you forget this is a show about geniuses? Don’t worry, they’ll drop that in three more times before the next Big Bang Theory promo.
The Scorpion team — excuse us, </Scorpion>, because if you don’t close the markup tag, their bursting-at-the-seam brains will leak out of your television set and onto your rug — runs the TV-supernerd gamut: There’s the handsome-but-socially-maladjusted leader genius, the overweight-and-awkward-OCD genius, the mechanical-engineer-who-seems-like-the-tough-one genius, and the behavior-reading-hustler-in-a-fedora-and-hoodie-underneath-a-leather-jacket genius. Also: There is a waitress (Kat McPhee) whose average-at-best emotional intelligence makes her the Stephen Hawking of empathy by comparison. She has a genius child whose massive intellect she’s ostensibly ill-equipped to nurture, because how is somebody who’s busy refilling that bottomless coffee cup supposed to realize her Lil Scorp is playing an intense game of crypto-chess with salt shakers and napkin dispensers?
So: Would you like to know more about how smart they are? Of course you would. Let’s run down all the genius-talk from last night’s episode, so you’re better prepared to appreciate the dazzling spectrum of quirky savants you’ll encounter next week. …
“We have a combined IQ of 700 and we can’t even pay our bills.” …
“Even with half my IQ, I wouldn’t be dumb enough to believe you twice.” …
“Walter O’Brien is one of the five smartest people alive.”
“Einstein had a 160 IQ. Mine’s 197.” …
“I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but your son is a genius.” …
“Toby grew up penniless, gambled his way through school. Even then, he got his doctorate at the age of 17.” …
“For all practical purposes, I have no right brain. People with high IQ tend to have low EQ. That’s emotional quotient.” …
“You’re the world’s smartest computer guy.”
It’s almost like people don’t really believe what they read in Respectable Journalism, including even the ones who write it.
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What, no Magic Negro on the ragtag team?
That show is racist and should be banned. Obama should bomb it.Replies: @Danindc, @Keith Vaz
Seem’s like a crappy TV show, but it’s loosely based on real life. There is an actual Walther O’Brien who really did hack NASA as a child and was recruited at age 13 by the US government. Sometimes life is more improbable than fiction.
If anything, the real message is that IQ does not equal taste (fo' sho').
Wow, five characters and no token blacks?
She's black.
But don't go away yet. She's immensely believable. In our world of atomic affirmative action, a black female true superstar should inspire some fierce competition from employers. So, where does she work?
At the local science museum.
Then how do we know she's a genius?
Why, she tells us. Over and over.
Sounds very black to me.
(*Anyone else suspect a last-minute revision, after the character was named?)Replies: @The most deplorable one
An no black female computer geniuses. I guess they are all too busy establishing hair shops for African Americans …
That show is racist and should be banned. Obama should bomb it.
Hilarious.
That sounds racist, let’s go get us some free weaves.
“And then Reverend Sharp Bacon came to town and angrily demanded more jobs for the area’s youth, while standing among the smoldering ruins of the town’s business district, recently destroyed by the area’s youth.
In the series, O’Brien recruits other geniuses to help solve complex, global problems.
Steve, you’re a genius trying to solve complex, global problems like third-worldization of the first world through immigration, race denial in policy and academia, and neocon military adventurism. They should make a TV show about you. 🙂
At first glance I assumed that poster had to be an isteve photoshop job. No Big Beautiful Woman of Lesbian Color? No Miguel D’Anconia either? Not even that Brahman (?) chick from “Bend It Like Beckham”, who made it on to “ER”?
Are they even Ashkenazi? besides, I’m assuming, the dude front and center? [NB: But I wouldn’t know. “All white people look alike to me,” as the taxi driver says in “Ready to Wear”. The genius electrician looks a bit craggy in the face, but I’m squinting.]
IQ is sort of like beauty. A good looking woman doesn’t have to go around telling people she has a thin waist, wide hips, clear skin, and long, thick hair. They pick up on it pretty quickly.
Most of the time when people tell me they have a high IQ I chalk it up to insecurity and deduct a few points from my estimate.
welcome to the smartist era In the hyper-competitive post-2008 economy, the Beta male is winning, or at least the tide is turning. Through stocks, real estate, technology, Wall St. and private equity, Betas seem to be making most of the money these days, while jocks with ‘good people skills’ are putting those skills to use in the low-paying service sector, because after high school no one cares how popular you were. Pop culture reflects the changing values of society. Every month it seems some tech company is being sold or valued at hundreds of millions or billions of dollars, and the high-IQ founders and investors are held in high esteem like yesteryear’s Henry Fords and Andrew Carnegies. But it’s not just instant-rich tech entrepreneurs that are on the top American society’s post-2008 hierarchy of importance; theoretical physicists, economists, programmers, policy wonks, quants and mathematicians – regardless of personal wealth – also occupy a lofty position. In more ways than one, The Bell Curve is not just a science book, but a prophetic glimpse into our future.
In real life very smart people very rarely call themselves smart. And it’s not because they’re more modest than the rest of humanity. Instead it’s because such declarations attract extreme jealousy and hostility. It’s actually safer to brag about wealth, power and success with women than about brains.
I remember a series of promotions for NPR a few years ago where listeners talked about how smart they feel NPR is and how smart they feel listening to it and how it helps them recognize other smart people. Being considered smart is evidently very important to liberals.
That show is racist and should be banned. Obama should bomb it.Replies: @Danindc, @Keith Vaz
That show is racist and should be banned. Obama should bomb it.
Hilarious.
“I guess they [black women] are too busy establishing hair shops for African Americans”
No, the Dominicans have run all of them out of business.
This show may be about geniuses, but obviously it wasn’t written by geniuses.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2766590/Student-raped-teacher-high-school-body-slammed-choked-passed.html
To ma’am with lust.
I’m going to give this ABC show called Black-Ish, which starts tomorrow night, a chance. From the promos it seems to be about some racially confused stuck between the streets and civilization Cosby show types, so the show will probably be littered with Halfrican/mulatto race jokes.
The latest stuff with the NFL has brought this out to me. Take a look at Adrian Peterson's baby mammas and current wife. Bright, light, or white. Jonathan Dwyer's wife is: light and bright (not white). Janay Palmer is medium light. And so on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_Games_(TV_series)
Similar.
My thought exactly. Let’s start a betting pool on how long it will take before one gets added.
This is the Big Bang Theory of procedural crime drama.
Speaking of IQ, any thoughts about how someone was able to get through five rings of security surrounding the White House and actually get inside it? The entire incident suggests incompetence and a lack of engagement and seriousness in the manner in which the White House is being run.
OT, but the subject of Charles Blow comes up here a lot. He came out of the closet a few days ago, sort of. He claims to be bisexual. The article is very rambling and is also about his rape at age 7. I think he is genetically straight but the rape messed him up and turned him bi.
Simple. it was staged.
Yeah, it strikes me as a dumb person’s idea of what smart people are like.
They made a big deal of this on the News Hour earlier. Actually it IS a big deal. How much you wanna bet that the White House security detail has been bellcurved downwards drastically?
OT, but the subject of Charles Blow comes up here a lot. He came out of the closet a few days ago, sort of. He claims to be bisexual. The article is very rambling and is also about his rape at age 7. I think he is genetically straight but the rape messed him up and turned him bi.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2765703/Wesleyan-University-end-male-fraternities-two-alleged-rape-cases.html
In the 70’s comedy cop show Barney Miller, one of the squad was a genius named Dietrich. He seemed to serve as a stand in for the writers, an idealized version of themselves. His cares and outlook were theirs, and he came out on top of the arguments and comedy punch lines 90% of the time.
No tats either.
“What, no Magic Negro on the ragtag team?”
The Big Bang Theory also has no high IQ Magic Negro among the nerds. I am surprised they get away with it in the extremely politically correct society we live in today.
“Speaking of IQ, any thoughts about how someone was able to get through five rings of security surrounding the White House and actually get inside it? The entire incident suggests incompetence and a lack of engagement and seriousness in the manner in which the White House is being run.”
The White House security team is probably more vibrantly diverse (NAM) under the Obama administration than it was under the Bush administration, hence the incompetence and why it was so easy for the crazy guy to enter the WH.
Steve, I really admire the way you pretty much let any comment be posted, even if it’s not about anything related to the discussion at hand.
The Multiracial half White and half Asian police officer who raped some Black women in Oklahoma City, is being referred to as simply a “White” guy by Blacks on message boards, because he has his White father’s Western last name and not his mother’s East Asian last name.
What a difference a last name makes, just ask George Zimmerman.
The character of Spencer Reid on ‘Criminal Minds’ is another case in point; he’s a super-duper genius with an eidetic memory who functions as a combo walking Internet/Einstein. The show’s scriptwriters frequently, self-consciously push his hyper-intelligence, although I can’t recall them ever assigning an IQ number to it.
This clearly violates the law of pop culture dictating that every other computer nerd or techno-geek is a black man with wire-frame glasses or an alterna-chick with a hipster lifestyle. And almost never an Asian.
You know, just the way it happens in real life.
“Speaking of IQ, any thoughts about how someone was able to get through five rings of security surrounding the White House and actually get inside it? The entire incident suggests incompetence and a lack of engagement and seriousness in the manner in which the White House is being run.”
Simple. it was staged.
They need to bring in an older, wisecracking black janitor who turns out to be a u_fix_it__genius. Plus a gun wielding, transexual Dominican mugger who is stealing their new iPhones, when just before he is going to shoot them, he blurts out that he hacks them for drug lords to make their communications untraceable by the NSA
Walter O’Brien? So Scots-Irish I assume?
God what a miserable show. A common theme, in this
, Big Bang Theory, Numbers, etc. Is that being smart is a handicap. Also note that in the Big Bang Theory especially it is a marker of negative attraction for women. Women love that show particularly that the MIT or Caltech guy has to win that shows waitress. Like this show. What a single mom is a prize?
My bro is a car guy, he pointed out the Ferrari used in the pilot is a death trap for all but those trained in it. Miserable writing lacking in action.
The dog not barking is that neither Bill Gates nor Zuck were ever considered sexy the way say Ahnuld was when he married that other human jaw, Maria Shriver. Adventuresses prefered soon dead billionaires like Donald Sterling to Zuck or Gates. Neither for all their money and power could bag the kind if chick that say, Gavin Newsome did.
Two other shows feature smart guys. James Spader in the Blacklist and Michael Emerson in Person of Interest.
Those guys are depicted … differently. Spaders character is a force of nature always working angles. Emersons created a sort of god. Nice use of Rokos Basilisk too.
The popular culture is conflicted about iq. Women don’t like it in men, its too restrictive of sexy dominance, or it makes Alphas like Spaders character difficult to manipulate.
However, pop culture admits it needs smart people.
The Big Bang Theory also has no high IQ Magic Negro among the nerds. I am surprised they get away with it in the extremely politically correct society we live in today.Replies: @Keith Vaz, @guest007
Of the 6 main TBBT actors, 3 are YKW and 1 Indian. Only 1 is a straight White male (but he could pass as YKW). It was also created by a YKW. There is also an episode where a great physics professor is black with a running gag that he has a much bigger manhood than Howard.
That show is racist and should be banned. Obama should bomb it.Replies: @Danindc, @Keith Vaz
Careful with sarcasm. Low IQ groups will take you seriously and in today’s leftist world…
Those guys are depicted ... differently. Spaders character is a force of nature always working angles. Emersons created a sort of god. Nice use of Rokos Basilisk too.
The popular culture is conflicted about iq. Women don't like it in men, its too restrictive of sexy dominance, or it makes Alphas like Spaders character difficult to manipulate.
However, pop culture admits it needs smart people.Replies: @Anonymous
That easiness to manipulate is the reason the Kardashian mother encourages her slutty daughters to be miscegenationists.
IMHO, Zuck has better than Newsom. I’d prefer Zuck’s Chinese-American M.D. wife over Newsom’s Puerto-Rican lawyer turned Fox Analyst first wife, or his socialite/filmmaker second wife. Also the former will age well while the latter have already had work done before they were 40.
Can’t imagine a guy doing better than Zuck did.
Priscilla Chan, M.D.
Walter Whitey, scorned genius, transforms into alpha male.
“Yeah, science!”
Scorpion was born and raised in Ireland
Walter O’Brien (hacker name: “Scorpion”) was diagnosed as a child prodigy with an IQ of 197 and at 13 years old started his company ScorpionComputerServices.com. Scorpion has mitigated risk for 7 years on $1.9 trillion of investments and has invented and applied Artificial Intelligence engines to protect United States war fighters in Afghanistan. Scorpion is now a think tank for hire that provides intelligence on demand as a concierge service for funded challenges through ConciergeUp.com. Since 1988, Scorpion’s team of world class experts partner with clients on a global basis, across industries, to add real measurable value in mission-critical initiatives from planning, to execution, to running the business. Scorpion’s senior management has a collective knowledge of more than 413 technologies, 210 years in IT, and 1,360 projects. Scorpion himself has created over 177 unique technology inventions including ScenGen and WinLocX and is one of the world’s leading experts in the application of computer science and artificial intelligence to solve complex industry challenges.
Scorpion was born and raised in Ireland, and at 16, ranked first in national high speed computer problem solving competitions. At 18, he competed in the World Olympics in Informatics and has ranked as high as the sixth fastest programmer in the world. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence with honors from Sussex University in the United Kingdom. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has certified Scorpion as being of National Interest to the United States economy and granted him an Extraordinary Ability EB 1-1 Visa (also granted to Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill). Scorpion is a frequent public speaker for IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and teaches as a mentor with the Founder Institute, the world’s largest idea-stage incubator, which has helped launch over 1129 companies across 33 countries. Scorpion has worked with the world’s largest mutual fund company, Fujitsu, Microsoft-Trados, Oracle Corporation, Baltimore Technologies, and Critical Path. He has previously served as chairman or board member to companies such as American Environmental Energy, Strike Force Solutions, Talentorum Alliance, Starglobe, Lawloop, Pantheon Energy and Toin Corp. In addition, Scorpion is frequently called on by news media, the government and the federal court system for his technology expertise.
WTF does the company do? After some clicking, I find "Cloud Migration & Admin Services"
I bet his linux admin password is sc0rp10n.
After watching the pilot, it’s my opinion that the key aspect of Elyes Gabel’s character in “Scorpion” is his autism, not his intelligence. Like the characters of Matthew Gray Gubler in “Criminal Minds,” Vincent D’Onofrio in “Law & Order: CI” and Emily Deschanel in “Bones.” (I could go on: “Columbo,” “Monk”…)
In police procedurals, a hyper-intelligent character is very useful in moving the plot along. (This goes back to the original police procedural, Sherlock Holmes.) But a character who is smart, personable AND good looking can come off as phony. Since nobody wants to look at ugly people on TV, the easiest ploy is to make the smart character a high functioning autistic.
@ Lucius Somesuch
After doing some rudimentary google fu;
-Dude front and center is British and of Indian ethnicity.
-Dude in the fedora is Ashkenazi. You may remember him as the kid who couldn’t poop at school yet ended up nailing Stiffler’s Mom in American Pie (1999).
-I couldn’t find much info on the fat guy at the chalkboard, but his first name is “Ari” and he has a background as a stand-up comedian. If I had to put money on it, he’s Ashkenazi.
-The mechanical/electrical genius of the group is the Asian chick. …No, really.
It’s the same crap Hollywood’s been shoving down our collective throat for decades, only a bit less overt. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
I thought he was one of the guys from the band Good Charlotte.
This premise sounded really familiar for some reason, then it finally hit me. It’s the same plot as Little Man Tate (1991) starring and directed by Jodie Foster. That’s all very meta-iSteve.
Isn’t this how Obama was sold to the American people?
“I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is. … He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability — the extraordinary, uncanny ability — to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. … So what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy. … He’s been bored to death his whole life. He’s just too talented to do what ordinary people do.”
“The Bridge,” David Remnick quoting Valerie Jarrett
That’s because it is a crappy show. Right out of the Shonda Rimes playbook of slick&mindless garbage.
If anything, the real message is that IQ does not equal taste (fo’ sho’).
If Grantland, the current supreme sniffer-out of all things cool and uncool, is “on the case”, the show better watch not only its I’s, but its P’s & Q’s.
A lot Jodie Foster’s work is very, uh, Straussian.
Actually, if you watch Big Bang Theory, there are no blacks nerds and one of the main characters is Indian. It’s very HBD-wise when it comes to dating too.
Dude front and center is British and of Indian ethnicity.
That’s one of the jarring things about the show. He’s supposed to be Irish, from Ireland, and he’s so self-evidently not. They really couldn’t find a white actor to play a white guy? I’m sure there must be hundreds of white Jewish actors they could have cast as O’Brien.
Yep. The intruder was a black Hispanic. Maybe the WH staff thought he was one of them.
I’m seeing the ads all over town and I’m giving it a wide berth. The actors ain’t blackish, they are black. This is total pandering to black women who really hate the fact that successful black men (Obama excepted) are almost always married to light or white women.
The latest stuff with the NFL has brought this out to me. Take a look at Adrian Peterson’s baby mammas and current wife. Bright, light, or white. Jonathan Dwyer’s wife is: light and bright (not white). Janay Palmer is medium light. And so on.
“IMHO, Zuck has better than Newsom. I’d prefer Zuck’s Chinese-American M.D. wife over Newsom’s Puerto-Rican lawyer turned Fox Analyst first wife, or his socialite/filmmaker second wife. Also the former will age well while the latter have already had work done before they were 40.”
You don’t see many Puerto Rican women or Hispanic women in general dating/married to male nerds. Probably because of the low IQ of the average Hispanic woman, she would be considered too ditzy for most male nerds to have a conversation with.
The Big Bang Theory also has no high IQ Magic Negro among the nerds. I am surprised they get away with it in the extremely politically correct society we live in today.Replies: @Keith Vaz, @guest007
But the writers of TBBT know to make the HR people black. I am surprise how they get away with it.
-Dude front and center is British and of Indian ethnicity.
-Dude in the fedora is Ashkenazi. You may remember him as the kid who couldn't poop at school yet ended up nailing Stiffler's Mom in American Pie (1999).
-I couldn't find much info on the fat guy at the chalkboard, but his first name is "Ari" and he has a background as a stand-up comedian. If I had to put money on it, he's Ashkenazi.
-The mechanical/electrical genius of the group is the Asian chick. ...No, really.
It's the same crap Hollywood's been shoving down our collective throat for decades, only a bit less overt. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.Replies: @Marc
“Dude in the fedora is Ashkenazi. You may remember him as the kid who couldn’t poop at school yet ended up nailing Stiffler’s Mom in American Pie (1999)”.
I thought he was one of the guys from the band Good Charlotte.
“deduct a few points from my estimate”: you go around estimating people’s IQ? Why? How do you calibrate your guesswork?
lol was that intended as parody? how many times did you receive homework assignments through locker vents?
If as many Americans who read The Bell Curve also read the late Stephen Jay Gould’s response to it, namely The Mismeasure of Man, this IQ idiocy would have vanished from popular culture. Gould busted his chops trying to deliver a bit of scientific literacy to the moron classes, but as my granny said, You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink.
LOL
The Irish pub owner who fell for the English priest in Ballykissangel [spoiler alert!] was handy with electrical equipment, but killed herself in an accident much like the one shown above.
My wife thought that was the weirdest non-sequitur finale to anything she’d ever viewed, until I suggested it might have been suicide. Lightbulb time!
“I find it funny that Silicon Valley’s answer to the PC police’s complaints that there are not enough Hispanics and African Americans in Silicon Valley is to hire more workers from South Korea, China, India, etc lol.
Do all Nonwhites look alike to the Silicon Valley elites ?
Of course we guess each other’s IQs all the time. It’s usually not a number, but more of a rough, subconscious estimate, just like how we estimate people’s looks, social skills, prestige, etc. And I agree, you deduct a bit if they’re bragging about their IQ, although you mostly revise your estimate of their social skills.
Or is there?
“Walter O’Brien” has left a mighty light footprint on the Interwebs, and what there is is mostly related to “Scorpion”
Do all Nonwhites look alike to the Silicon Valley elites ?Replies: @Reg Cæsar
When would they ever see one?
“I’m seeing the ads all over town and I’m giving it a wide berth. The actors ain’t blackish, they are black. This is total pandering to black women who really hate the fact that successful black men (Obama excepted) are almost always married to light or white women.
The latest stuff with the NFL has brought this out to me. Take a look at Adrian Peterson’s baby mammas and current wife. Bright, light, or white. Jonathan Dwyer’s wife is: light and bright (not white). Janay Palmer is medium light. And so on.”
I compare a Black guy’s preference for lighter skin more Mixed Race women over very dark Sub Saharan women to White guys who have a preference for the blondest most Aryan looking White women and rarely to never date brunette White women who look similar to Jennifer Connelly, Marisa Tomei, Mila Kunis, Catherine Zeta Jones, etc.
Or a Southeast Asian guy who has a preference for light skin Southeast Asian women over dark skin Southeast Asian women.
A lot of guys have a preference for the lightest women of their race.
Well, Big Bang Theory just started its eighth season without a black main character in sight. All the black extras tend to have jobs as bureaucrats, same as in real life.
Creating a TV show with no black main characters is easy – Friends, Seinfeld, Frasier, and half-a-million others. Blacks and whites don’t watch the same TV shows, anyway, so no one cares. BBT isn’t going to get more than a few black audience members if it had a black star, and it would lose quite a few whites as it sacrificed any sense of reality.
Check out the third-rate Christmas movie derivative from the first-rate Curious George series on PBS. (When I tried to post the title, I was nailed for “spam”. Hmmm… was it that controversial?) The resident “genius” character is one Dr Wiseman*.
She’s black.
But don’t go away yet. She’s immensely believable. In our world of atomic affirmative action, a black female true superstar should inspire some fierce competition from employers. So, where does she work?
At the local science museum.
Then how do we know she’s a genius?
Why, she tells us. Over and over.
Sounds very black to me.
(*Anyone else suspect a last-minute revision, after the character was named?)
I am going to have to deduct 15 points from my original estimate of your IQ.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
– The problem is that most black Africans range between medium to very dark brown in skin tone, have short nappy hair (it isn’t straight) and have negroid facial/physical features (compared to say, Indian women, who can sometimes look like a Caucasian woman with a tan, or Ethiopian women, who have Arab paternal ancestry). Having a preference for “light skin” when most of one’s race is quite dark-skinned (like blacks) is distorted and flawed. It penalizes and insults black women, ignoring the vast majority of women in one’s ethnicity.
The U.S. American media worshipping a Louisiana Creole descent mixed-raced woman like Beyoncé is really aiming for rare, exceptional women (who, by the way, is a great singer, so I’m not insulting her and just pointing out a fact). Outside of small Carribean nations such as Puerto Rico (Quadroon) and the Dominican Republic (Mulatto) who had mixed-raced ancestry (Spanish male/Black female ancestry), most black women aren’t mixed. Most black women in Haiti, Jamaica and most sub-Saharan African nations are more likely to resemble Naomi Campbell, Oluchi Onweagba or Lupita N’yongo (who actually look like pretty black women). Of course, the ugly ones look like Alek Wek.
Seinfeld did at least one episode totally around the IQ test. George got Elaine to take his. I think she eventually got 140.
Libertarian tech mogul Peter Thiel says the GOP needs to bolster its ranks with smarter people in Congress.
During an extensive interview with The Daily Caller, the PayPal founder and author of the new book ”Zero To One: Notes On Startups, Or How To Build The Future” discussed his 2012 financial support for then-Senate candidate Ted Cruz.
“Well, I think he’s very smart,” Thiel said of Cruz, who is now the junior senator from Texas. “I think one of the challenges we have in the Republican Party is … our representatives, our senators, are somewhat lower IQ than the people on the other side. So I think there is something to be said for getting some really smart people in there.”
“I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is. … He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability — the extraordinary, uncanny ability — to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. … So what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy. … He’s been bored to death his whole life. He’s just too talented to do what ordinary people do.”
“The Bridge,” David Remnick quoting Valerie JarrettReplies: @dcite
Hilarious. He’s just too dumb to do what ordinary people do. What the hell has he ever read? Or written although he was supposed to be editor of Harvard Law Review. LOL. He was born into a CIA connected family and was chosen for the current position because they needed a black so they could blame any oppositon to “his” policies (he doesn’t run anything) on race.He took acting lesson from Harry Lennix so he could at least act presidential. Lennix thinks he’s stupid and doesn’t like him despite being black-ish.
She's black.
But don't go away yet. She's immensely believable. In our world of atomic affirmative action, a black female true superstar should inspire some fierce competition from employers. So, where does she work?
At the local science museum.
Then how do we know she's a genius?
Why, she tells us. Over and over.
Sounds very black to me.
(*Anyone else suspect a last-minute revision, after the character was named?)Replies: @The most deplorable one
I think you replied to the wrong reply.
I am going to have to deduct 15 points from my original estimate of your IQ.
A post-post edit brings spam lectures. Some coder needs his Wechsler waxed.
” Most black women in Haiti, Jamaica and most sub-Saharan African nations are more likely to resemble Naomi Campbell, Oluchi Onweagba or Lupita N’yongo”
Cape Verde stands out from the rest of Sub Saharan Africa. A high percentage of Cape Verdean women are what African Americans would call a High Yella or a Red Bone. But that is because there was a lot of racial miscegenation between the Portuguese and the native Black population there.
Cape Verdeans on average have more Caucasian admixture than African Americans. Most Cape Verdeans are Mulattos like Dominicans and not 80 percent Sub Saharan African like the average Black American.
“Creating a TV show with no black main characters is easy – Friends, Seinfeld, Frasier, and half-a-million others. Blacks and whites don’t watch the same TV shows, anyway, so no one cares. BBT isn’t going to get more than a few black audience members if it had a black star, and it would lose quite a few whites as it sacrificed any sense of reality.”
Most Blacks will not even get the jokes on “The Big Bang Theory”, it will go right over their heads. Nerd culture is completely different from the culture you see in “World Star Hip Hop”.
Sure, they might laugh, but they are only doing that to remain cool.
* I am white with ancestors from Wales via another country that does not start with U.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Big_Bang_Theory_characters
Dr.[17] Amy Farrah Fowler (Mayim Bialik) (has appeared in 95 episodes total, 89 credited as main cast) is a neuroscientist (which corresponds to Bialik's real-life Ph.D.), and Sheldon's love interest in the series. She has a Ph.D. in neurobiology, with a research focus on addiction in primates and invertebrates, occasionally mentioning such experiments as getting a capuchin monkey addicted to cigarettes or starfish addicted to cocaine
Most Blacks will not even get the jokes on "The Big Bang Theory", it will go right over their heads. Nerd culture is completely different from the culture you see in "World Star Hip Hop".Replies: @The most deplorable one, @dixie
I suspect that the jokes on The Big Bang Theory would go over the heads of whites* who are 1SD above the mean, which includes about 84% of whites as well.
Sure, they might laugh, but they are only doing that to remain cool.
* I am white with ancestors from Wales via another country that does not start with U.
Black characters tend to be added in movies, which due to cost have to have wide appeal (think the computer nerd in the Mission Impossible movies) or in shows which cross the racial divide, like medical dramas and police procedurals. In sitcoms…not so much. Then there’s commercials, of which pretty much every other one has black actors, unless it’s for a SWPL product, like Apple.
Most Blacks will not even get the jokes on "The Big Bang Theory", it will go right over their heads. Nerd culture is completely different from the culture you see in "World Star Hip Hop".Replies: @The most deplorable one, @dixie
You might need to be a real-life PhD to star in it, e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Big_Bang_Theory_characters
Dr.[17] Amy Farrah Fowler (Mayim Bialik) (has appeared in 95 episodes total, 89 credited as main cast) is a neuroscientist (which corresponds to Bialik’s real-life Ph.D.), and Sheldon’s love interest in the series. She has a Ph.D. in neurobiology, with a research focus on addiction in primates and invertebrates, occasionally mentioning such experiments as getting a capuchin monkey addicted to cigarettes or starfish addicted to cocaine
Walter O'Brien (hacker name: "Scorpion") was diagnosed as a child prodigy with an IQ of 197 and at 13 years old started his company ScorpionComputerServices.com. Scorpion has mitigated risk for 7 years on $1.9 trillion of investments and has invented and applied Artificial Intelligence engines to protect United States war fighters in Afghanistan. Scorpion is now a think tank for hire that provides intelligence on demand as a concierge service for funded challenges through ConciergeUp.com. Since 1988, Scorpion's team of world class experts partner with clients on a global basis, across industries, to add real measurable value in mission-critical initiatives from planning, to execution, to running the business. Scorpion's senior management has a collective knowledge of more than 413 technologies, 210 years in IT, and 1,360 projects. Scorpion himself has created over 177 unique technology inventions including ScenGen and WinLocX and is one of the world's leading experts in the application of computer science and artificial intelligence to solve complex industry challenges.
Scorpion was born and raised in Ireland, and at 16, ranked first in national high speed computer problem solving competitions. At 18, he competed in the World Olympics in Informatics and has ranked as high as the sixth fastest programmer in the world. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence with honors from Sussex University in the United Kingdom. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has certified Scorpion as being of National Interest to the United States economy and granted him an Extraordinary Ability EB 1-1 Visa (also granted to Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill). Scorpion is a frequent public speaker for IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and teaches as a mentor with the Founder Institute, the world's largest idea-stage incubator, which has helped launch over 1129 companies across 33 countries. Scorpion has worked with the world's largest mutual fund company, Fujitsu, Microsoft-Trados, Oracle Corporation, Baltimore Technologies, and Critical Path. He has previously served as chairman or board member to companies such as American Environmental Energy, Strike Force Solutions, Talentorum Alliance, Starglobe, Lawloop, Pantheon Energy and Toin Corp. In addition, Scorpion is frequently called on by news media, the government and the federal court system for his technology expertise.Replies: @Anonymous
Scorpion’s team of world class experts partner with clients on a global basis, across industries, to add real measurable value in mission-critical initiatives from planning, to execution, to running the business.
WTF does the company do? After some clicking, I find “Cloud Migration & Admin Services”
I bet his linux admin password is sc0rp10n.
So how was it? I’ve been seeing on Twitter that it’s so “honest.” I take that to mean “anti-white.”
Basically, you want a tragic flaw in your super smart character, right? Partly, that’s because it’s boring watching Superman stop a 7-11 robbery, partly it’s because this lets the viewers feel superior to the super smart character.
What?? Nearly every normal hetero white guy would kill for any one of these brunettes, or a girlfriend or wife who looked like any of them. A lot of white guys prefer darker (hair and skin) over lighter. A lot of white guys are attracted to Asian women because they are feminine and intelligent. Now, I will admit, it is highly unusual for a white guy to have any attraction to black or Afro-Hispanic women. People have posted stats from dating websites which show white guys go for Asian women over any other category and go for black women the least.
LULz. One do read the strangest things here.
There is zero comparison between black male preference for light skin, and white guys with blonde fetishes. The two are completely different, and the latter is really exaggerated, while the former is very real.
I am going to have to deduct 15 points from my original estimate of your IQ.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
Murphy’s Law at work. After a number of attempts were blocked, of course the one that finally gets through is the one where I bumped the wrong button. Fat Fingers on Phone Syndrome.
A post-post edit brings spam lectures. Some coder needs his Wechsler waxed.
Very true. Gould was right.
While we’re on the subject of new TV shows, my mother-in-law is in town.
The Bad: She watches the worst television imaginable.
The Good: She brings pie.
So, last night I was cutting myself a piece of black raspberry pie and mother-in-law’s watching The Mysteries of Laura on NBC. It’s another new cop show starring Debra Messing (“Grace” from Will & Grace). Here’s the plot description from Wikipedia.
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lolz. Yeah, that’s what I said.
This show was “The Narrative” incarnate. Imagine Steve, Roissy and Vox Day getting together to write a parody of current network entertainment. The end result would be The Mysteries of Laura.
-The show opens with two white guys mugging a black guy
-Laura Diamond tazers the white guys
-The writers repeatedly shame men for being attracted to beauty
-Laura Diamond harshly blows off her Match.com-proxy date because he’s short
-The writers shame men for not joyfully going along with divorce rape
-Random moments of hilarity with the alpha-ex-husband
-Laura gets her groove back (with the help of her “magic negro” partner, of course) by setting a honey trap for a Ted Bundy-esque serial killer who preys on vulnerable divorcees
-The Ted Bundy-esque serial killer makes a few “cougar” and “lonely cat lady” jokes while he’s strangling our protagonist with her own scarf
-Laura Diamond fights back and knocks the aforementioned serial killer out, bare handed and without the benefit of super powers, even though he’s roughly 6’3″ with an athletic physique
-All of Laura Diamond’s buttkickin’ fight scenes are chock full of Schwarzeneggerian zingers that would make McBain blush
If this is all just an elaborate ruse/prank a la “Fake Salon Twitter”…. hat’s off.
If this is honestly what passes for entertainment these days… that’s absolutely terrifying.
“delia ruhe says
Gould busted his chops trying to deliver a bit of scientific literacy to the moron classes, but as my granny said, You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink.”
Gould was a hack, a liar, and a poseur.
Hey where’s Morgan Freeman?
“What?? Nearly every normal hetero white guy would kill for any one of these brunettes, or a girlfriend or wife who looked like any of them. ”
LULz. One do read the strangest things here.
There is zero comparison between black male preference for light skin, and white guys with blonde fetishes. The two are completely different, and the latter is really exaggerated, while the former is very real.
The commenters here live in an alternate universe in which TV shows with no black characters are against the law.
Yes, it’s bad. But not *that* bad.
I like TBBT. We’ll know when it’s jumped the shark when they introduce a Neil de Grasse Urkel character. That’s a couple of seasons off.
Priscilla Chan, M.D.Replies: @Bill
What do you like best? The chunkiness? The shudder-inducing visage? Perhaps the propensity for mindless memorization does it for you?
“He was born into a CIA connected family and was chosen for the current position because they needed a black so they could blame any opposition to “his” policies (he doesn’t run anything) on race”.
+1. My cosmopolitanist-in-denial ex-GF and I came to the same conclusion about Barry O back in 2007, yet she still was glad to see him elected.
I think he was looking at the Priscilla Chan from the movie!
The 197 IQ thing is utter nonsense. There aren’t enough people in the world for anyone to have an IQ that high.
Since IQ isn’t a direct measure of intellectual horsepower, but is rather a ranking, a person in the 1/7Bth percentile would have an IQ of 194. The top 10 would be 194, 193, 192, 191, 191, 190, 190, 189, 189, 189.
That is, assuming that it’s even possible to come up with a way to differentiate between people with a 190 IQ and a 194 IQ.
197 isn’t possible until the planetary population exceeds 10B.
7B people normally distributed (we’re in trouble already) with a mean IQ of 100 and a stdev of 15 puts 10,714 on the planet with an IQ of 170 or above. And even that’s stretching it, since it would probably take a bunch of those people sitting around and coming up with questions to differentiate them from the 165 IQ folks.
Replace brunette with east asian then. Are all these white guys who find black haired and black eyed east asian women more attractive than blonde or brunette caucasian women, suffering from a racial inferiority complex?