Best psychology creativity & genius books according to redditors

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u/kaidomac · 70 pointsr/bodyweightfitness

>But how are these 'memories' stored?

It's a similar system to how myelin works. There's a great book on the practical application of that called "The Talent Code" here:

https://www.amazon.com/Talent-Code-Greatness-Born-Grown-dp-0099519852/dp/0099519852

The basic idea is:

  1. Talent begins with ability. If you are in a wheelchair, you cannot run a marathon with your legs, because you do not have the ability to do so. So ability is the first gate.
  2. That is followed by "download speed". Some people pick up certain topics super-fast & we call them "talented" because they can get good at playing the guitar or doing human flagpoles or math really quickly. This doesn't really matter all that much in the long-term, however, because there are plenty of extremely talented people who never get disciplined enough to get good at their particular skill; many talented people are beaten out by less talented people who are harder workers. Again, talent is the ability to do something; if you have a natural aptitude in one particular area & combine that with hard work, then that's a hard combination to beat. That's why you get people like Michael Jordan, who are crazy-amazing because they've got the ability & have put in the time to master their craft & are amazing at what they do!
  3. Next is potential: how far can you personally go? Are you world-record material? Can you beat your personal records? There are limits to everything, such as running a mile.
  4. Next is followed by interest & effort. Putting work into getting good at anything requires a lot of boring hours put in over time, so for the most part, it helps to really love what you're doing so that you'll be willing to slog through the hard parts. Not because most things are overly difficult, but because they are boring. That's why a lot of us use music for our daily BWF & cardio & strength-training routines...work is work, and it takes dedicated time & effort to get better at stuff using work. There's a great video on that called Grit.
  5. Whenever you do something new, you create a new "circuit" in your brain. The more you do it, the bigger & faster that circuit gets. That circuit is called myelin. It's basically like floss that wraps around neural circuits...the more you do a specific activity, the more that floss wraps around, which makes the signal both faster & more accurate. That's why you can tie your shoes without thinking about it in seconds, instead of having to struggle with it like you did when you first started as a kid. People like world-class pianists have huge clumps of myelin in their brain, because they've put in thousands & thousands of hours into practicing & building those physical "circuits" in their brains.

    So the formula goes like this:

  6. Talent x effort = skill
  7. Effort x skill = achievement

    It's no different in the world of BWF, especially given how muscle memory works: lose weight, build up some endurance & strength, and then start mastering the moves. On a tangent, did you ever see that fake Conor McGregor on Youtube? Dude cracks me up!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-srTvXH5bo

    That guy obviously put in a lot of time into mastering different BWF moves. Or in other words:

  8. He had the ability to do so
  9. He made the effort to do so (got in shape, mastered the moves)
  10. He then achieved mastery of those moves & was able to show them off as a result

    It's also important to understand what muscle memory means when talked about from a biologist's perspective versus a neuroscientist's perspective:

    https://www.popsci.com/what-is-muscle-memory

    Basically, what they're finding out right now is that muscles seem to work a bit like myelin in the brain. Per that article, the current working theory is that even as muscles shrink, the muscle cells stick around. In myelin terms, that's why things like addiction are so difficult...you've created a literal, physical pathway for that action, whether it's smoking or drinking or doing drugs, which is partially why it's so easy to fall back into those behaviors...you have a high-speed bullet-train in your brain, ready to whisk you off into those actions at a moment's notice, which is why you have to replace that behavior with something else, which essentially acts as a fork in the road to allow the new behavior to become default, because the old behavior will always exist, physically, in your brain, as myelin.

    Part of what they're thinking now for muscles is that your myonuclei partially contributes to "remembering" what you've done in the past, which means that if you bother to put in the effort now to learn new moves & to master good form, that's only going to benefit you further down the road!
u/CharlesHipster · 22 pointsr/4chan

> IQ is highly dependent on social environnement, family and school education and the subject's personality.

WRONG. That's where you are wrong, kiddo.

  1. Attempts by programs like head start to give blacks highly enriched educational environments have failed to produce lasting changes in their IQ’s relative to whites.

  2. Children of black parents that make between $160K and $200K a year are less intelligent than white children from families that make less than $20K a year. Similarly, the IQ difference between rich black kids and rich white kids is even larger than the IQ difference between poor black kids and poor white kids.

  3. Our society has obviously become much less “racist” over the last hundred years. Yet, the black/white IQ gap is basically the same today as it was in 1918.

  4. Genetic theory predicts that the children and grand children of smart people will tend to be ever dumber until they reach the average IQ level of the population. The children and grand children of smart black parents “regress” in this way to a mean IQ of 85 while the children of smart white parents regress to a mean IQ of 100. The only obvious explanation for this comes from genetics.

  5. Whites have larger brains than blacks. This seems to be for genetic reasons since there are also many other muscular and skeletal differences between blacks and whites that are associated with evolving larger brains and because these brain size differences are present at birth. Larger brains are also associated with being more intelligent. Three lines of evidence suggest that this association is causal: first, genes that are associated with being more intelligent are also associated with larger brains. Second, a person’s brain size changes over time ]predict changes in their intelligence over time](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140304141734.htm). And third, smarter siblings have larger brains their their less intelligent siblings who grew up in the same home as them (this suggests that the relationship can’t be explained by any possible confounding variable in the family environment such as nutrition). So it seems that whites have evolved to be more intelligent than blacks partly by evolving larger brains.

  6. Mulattos (people who have a black and a white parent) have higher IQ’s than blacks but lower IQ’s than whites. A genetic explanation would predict this because half of a mulatto’s genes are black and half are white. In fact, even with in black populations those who have lighter skin (because they have more white ancestors) have higher IQ’s.

  7. The Minnesota trans-racial adoption study, which is the best of its kind, found that at age 17 blacks adopted into upper middle class white homes averaged an IQ of 84, Mulattos averaged 93, and whites 102. Thus, being raised in an affluent white family didn’t boost black or Mulatto IQ just as a (mostly) genetic hypothesis would predict.

  8. Some IQ sub-tests are more heritable than others. (That is, twin studies show that differences between individuals on some tests are more due to genetic differences between people than others.) The race IQ gap is largest on those subtests with the highest levels of heritability and the only obvious explanation for this is that the B/W IQ difference is caused by genetics.

  9. Versions of genes associated with intelligence differ in frequency between the races in such a way that favors white people.

  10. Egalitarianism isn’t evolutionarily or genetically plausible. We know that the different environments the races evolved in produced differences in just about every physical trait from bone density to height to muscle size. And we know that the large differences in weather and food availability must have caused people to behave differently. The idea that these different environments selected for intelligence with exactly equal pressure seems incredibly unlikely. Similarly, studies have found that the races differ in the frequency of most (or all) genes and this includes genes that affect brain development. So the races possessing any random single gene in the same frequency is unlikely. In order for them to have to same genetic profile with regards to intelligence, which involves thousands of genes, this would have to happen thousands of times. If we assume that that the probability of the races having the same frequency for some gene is 40% (it’s actually much lower) and that intelligence involves 15 genes (it actually involves thousands) the probability that the races would have the identical frequencies for each of these genes is 0.0001%. Given this, the idea that they would have the exact same frequency for the thousands of genes that affect intelligence is basically impossible.
u/TracingWoodgrains · 15 pointsr/TheMotte

I suppose I just don't see his behavior as that of the mindless arsonist and critic. He did try to sincerely make a good game. A niche one, to be sure, and I'm quite certain it wouldn't be to my taste, but nobody makes an Atari 2600 poetry game decades after the console faded from relevance out of cynicism. Nor is the arsonist likely to write a whole book on transferring the joy of games to life. Again, I don't think that book would be thoroughly to my taste, but it strikes me as nothing if not sincere.

As he said: he liked Goose Game. He'd better like games in general, given the amount of breath he's spent praising them and the time he's poured into development. He seems to be genuinely looking to analyze what is remarkable in gaming and apply it elsewhere.

Creation is absolutely harder than destruction, and it sends a much more meaningful signal. That strikes me as a point in Bogost's favor, not against, whether for creating his first game as a labor of love, creating and then destroying a popular entire game just to make a point, or writing a positive book on games as a whole. His works aren't always my style, but they do seem to be about as genuine as creative work can get, and that's my primary request of a creator.

u/xzxzzx · 14 pointsr/science

> but to claim that it's a measure of intelligence is pretty far fetched.

I suggest reading The g Factor to get a better understanding of IQ tests insights and limitations.

To summarize, while it's true that some people are better at certain mental tasks than others, there is a strong correlation between a huge subset of mental tasks. If a person is good at, say, mental spatial manipulation, they tend to be good with language, good with pattern recognition, etc.

u/SoItShallBeWritten · 8 pointsr/redscarepod

Highly recommended if a bit of a slog: https://www.amazon.com/Master-His-Emissary-Divided-Western-dp-0300245920/dp/0300245920/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=

Yes it is an actual mental retardation IMHO, but completely expected from a tyrannical left-brained mediated worldview that can't appreciate context, nuance, duality, shades of grey, or relation and only sees in terms of categories, abstractions, all-or-nothing, and the literal

u/Bukujutsu · 6 pointsr/Anarcho_Capitalism

My perspective on drugs: I like them. I think they can be valuable tools and provide wonderful experiences.

I currently have a good reading list I'm working through for a planned project that will require a lot of LSD. I'm interested in LSD and MDMA psychotherapy to help solve some deep-seated problems (you have no idea how far from normal I am) and for general self-improvement. Fascinating subject, particularly the works by Stanislav Grof.

The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys: http://www.amazon.com/The-Psychedelic-Explorers-Guide-Therapeutic/dp/1594774021

LSD Psychotherapy: Exploring the Frontiers of the Hidden Mind
http://www.amazon.com/Psychotherapy-Healing-Potential-Psychedelic-Medicine/dp/0979862205

LSD: Doorway to the Numinous: The Groundbreaking Psychedelic Research into Realms of the Human Unconscious
http://www.amazon.com/LSD-Numinous-Groundbreaking-Psychedelic-Unconscious/dp/1594772827

Tripping: An Anthology of True-Life Psychedelic Adventures
http://www.amazon.com/Tripping-Anthology-True-Life-Psychedelic-Adventures/dp/0140195742

The Doors of Perception: Heaven and Hell
http://www.amazon.com/The-Doors-Perception-Thinking-Classics/dp/1907590099

Through the Gateway of the Heart (about MDMA)
http://www.maps.org/gateway/

Thanatos To Eros, 35 Years of Psychedelic Exploration
http://www.maps.org/t2e/

Had to do a lot of searching and reading just to find what was worth reading, avoiding pseudoscience and quasi-religion. Oi, this is going to be a lot of work, but that's probably what it will take to sort out the trainwreck of my mind.

u/I_Conquer · 6 pointsr/philosophy

I'm not challenging you - just curious. I know only a very little bit, but only from listening to tidbits here and there. And I've never read Milton.

Cause if I understand correctly, as Christianity was influence by Greek (specifically Platonic, although my understanding is that Judeo-Christianity is rooted more directly in Aristotelian) philosophy the dualistic nature of good and evil was more pronounced. Until then, it was more of a naturalistic perspective where God was 'good' because He was God, and else wasn't necessarily 'evil' exactly, but more just not of God and thus perishable. We can guess that the early Hebrew speakers had a somewhat more holistic viewpoint by their descriptions of the necessity of men and women (in early Exodus), real and not real, blessed and not blessed (Cain), and so on.

The study of Job, which some philosophers (e.g.Richard Holloway) find less than satisfying, suggests that not all who suffer are punished and that the temptation of the righteous (through suffering, anyway) is through some non-God, though not necessarily anti-God, being. The contemporary interpretation has made the temper, the fallen star, and God's enemy all the same; this dark and light, evil and good idea is very intertwined with Greek dualism; although I've heard discrepancies between the natural 'Greek' interpretation and the spiritual 'Hebrew' interpretation of dualism.

If that's so, then while Milton surely popularised the notion of an evil being, and maybe even named him, it would only have been a natural progression of the dualism that later-Judaism and even early or middle age Christianity would have accepted. Even John (in Revelation anyway) and Paul articulate Greek reasoning - Harold Bloom talks about this specifically in his assessment of St. Paul's genius.

The western world often contrasts this post-Greek, Judeo-Christian dualism with the decidedly more holistic philosophies of eastern spiritualism and philosophy. I can only imagine that while we tend to contrast them (by virtue, I think, of our English language, with all its capacity to describe differences) the easterners see them as two sides of the same coin.

u/SecretChristian · 6 pointsr/LSD

Not specifically about LSD, but good:


Anything by Aldous Huxley (Doors of Perception in particular)

About LSD and great:


LSD: Doorway to the Numinous



Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD

u/vholecek · 5 pointsr/satanism

The short answer: The Satanic Witch is a thing that exists ;)

u/Paranoid_Android3 · 5 pointsr/DebateAltRight

Anyone that's read much of The g Factor will immediately dismiss the notion that Jensen was some racist crank. You can borrow it here, not sure how that works.

u/JasonUncensored · 5 pointsr/satanism

Yeah, but I prefer it that way.

Read The Satanic Witch sometime(even if you're a gentleman) and you'll learn a great deal about managing(and manipulating) people's expectations of you.

u/topgirlaurora · 5 pointsr/Wicca

This is one of a pretty good series on all things occult.

u/imjustanape · 4 pointsr/Anthropology

That is exactly what I am interested in doing! So since I have spent quite a lot of time thinking about this I believe I can help. As for what to read: I started with Your Inner Fish because it brings human evolution back to when we first got out of the water and explains very, very early brain evolution and development of the brain in utero. Also an easy read. Next I have been tackling "Evolution of the Human Brain" by Lieberman (can't find an amazon link for it, sorry). I'll admit it is not an easy read and it is not impeccably edited but I believe all the facts are there and it is very comprehensive. You can learn a lot from this book. I will also suggest The Brain. Now, I can't speak to the quality of this one because it has just come out, but the guys who wrote it are incredibly smart and I expect nothing but great material from them.

As for schools: you must know now that it really all depends on the person you want to work with. They could be anywhere in the world. I mentioned before, this is my thing, so I can tell you that the schools I have interest in because they have one or more people researching this area are: UC San Diego, George Washington U, possibly NYU if you can tie it into neuroscience and work with the medical center, then there are people abroad as well if that's something you would consider.

Hope that helps.

edit: the book is called "Evolution of the Human Head" not Brain.

u/GuitarGreg · 3 pointsr/Psychonaut

Check out Stanislav Grof. Him and his wife wrote a book about Holotrophic Breathwork. Additionally Grof has been labelled the Godfather of LSD by Hoffman as he did countless LSD-assisted psychotherapy sessions in Czechoslovakia in the 60's, before it was banned as a substance. LSD: Doorway to the Numinous contains some tough material but is thoroughly engaging. This isn't directly related to Holotropic Breathwork but reading it gives you an appreciation for the depth to which Grof understands the human psyche. He has many other books as well.

Another guy you want to check out is Wim Hof.

u/Peril_0us · 3 pointsr/Jung

I just opened reddit for the first time today, nd this is the first post I see. I spent the majority of yesterday researching this very topic so this is highly synchronistic for me.

On Jung's deathbed he had some relatively apocalyptic visions for the future. All that being said, it seems to me that Jung's work was very much informed by this transition. In fact, he may in fact have been the Herald of this coming age.

Our spiritual life is dead. Hence Nietzsche's proclamation that God is dead. The coming age should see a reinvigoration of the spirit. Instead of our spiritual life being determined by mass religions, by clergy, and by the collective, there will be a responsibility of the individual water bearers for said spiritual life.

I found this text yesterday and was quite enthralled... It's available on Kindle Unlimited, and I found it quite interesting even if it doesn't necessarily align with Jungian Orthodoxy:

ARS NOVA: Understanding the Alchemical Mystery in the Age of Aquarius

u/Rain12913 · 2 pointsr/AcademicPhilosophy

A great book on writer's block is 'The Midnight Disease' by Alice Weaver Flaherty. It investigates the link between neurology/psychology and creativity, with a particular focus on writing. There's a whole chapter specifically on writer's block. The author is a neurologist who has bipolar disorder and, obviously, is a writer. It's an amazing read, I'd highly recommend it.

http://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Disease-Drive-Writers-Creative/dp/0618230653

u/PatricioINTP · 2 pointsr/books

I know of a book on neurology and writing if that counts! A mesh-mash of various non-fiction done by a neurologist who was also a psych patient.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Midnight-Disease-Writers-Creative/dp/0618230653

u/cellux · 2 pointsr/Psychonaut

LSD Psychotherapy is for people who are well-versed in the jargon of psychotherapy and psychology. If you don't belong to that group, I recommend Realms of the Human Unconscious (recently re-released under the title Doorway to the numinuous)

Edit: You can decide if LSD Psychotherapy is ok for you by reading these excerpts from the book. If you can understand those excerpts, then I recommend LSD Psychotherapy as it goes much deeper than the other book.

u/Boxcar_Overkill · 2 pointsr/AskThe_Donald

I don't think life is completely fair, just as it's not fair to short people, people that are unattractive, etc. But the question is, is the "unfairness" the primary cause of the problems in the African American community or is it something else?

This is difficult to talk about, and I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. There are certainly many very smart people of every race and each individual has to be judged on their own merits.

But many of the problems facing the black community may be explained by that graph. That is a horrible thought but that doesn't make it an untrue thought.


The gap exist, even when one controls for socio-economic status. I'm not saying the SES isn't relevant, only that it doesn't explain the difference. Roughly speaking, caucasians in the poorest 1/5 of the country score about the same as African American's in the richest 1/5 of the country. So I don't know that your "redneck" analogy is accurate, or at least I would ask for evidence.

Here is a 2nd hand graph taken off researcher Arthur Jensen's book showing the effect of SES on IQ. The same stats exist for SES and SAT scores.

It's not clear whether or not anything can be done about all of this. But if there is, that would seem like it would be the first thing we should do, because none of the other issues are going to go entirely away if that one isn't solved.

u/TheConnections · 2 pointsr/changemyview

Wow. Well I apologize for being lazy and posting an unreliable source. However I think you wasted your time "debunking" that article. Firstly, both of your sources are the same thing. Secondly here and here: "http://www.metabolismjournal.com/article/S0026-0495(01)73890-5/abstract" are two more reliable sources. The purpose of these studies are to explain why African American men are at a dramatically higher risk for prostate cancer.

That was not my main point anyways. My point was "pseudo-science" is called when it involves racial differences, even if the reasoning is sound.

> IQ is heritable. It is also influenced by numerous other factors, as listed in your wiki link, such as access to education, health, nutrition, pollution, socio-economic status, etc, etc, etc.

Of course it is. It is influenced by environment and also genetics.

> There is a shitton of studies showing this. However, there is not a single credible study which remotely concludes in any way that race and IQ share a causal relationship.

Have you heard of The Bell Curve and The g Factor?

> Never heard of the guy. Sounds interesting. I'll look into it.

Oh are you familiar with most human genetics professors? Yes, do look into it. I provided you two sources.

> But that doesn't mean big brains = big smarts.

It addresses that in the article

u/MiaVisatan · 2 pointsr/languagelearning

Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else https://www.amazon.com/Talent-Overrated-Separates-World-Class-Performers/dp/1591842948

The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How https://www.amazon.com/Talent-Code-Greatness-Born-Grown/dp/0099519852

Outliers: The Story of Success https://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0316017930

u/[deleted] · 2 pointsr/GreatApes

If you're really interested read "The g factor"

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0275961036?pc_redir=1408889026&robot_redir=1

Then tell your friends who say it's all whitey's fault to shove it.

u/knowone572 · 2 pointsr/AskReddit

I remember picking up a self-scoring IQ test at a Barnes & Noble a few years ago... These booklets are mad cheap

u/apathy641 · 2 pointsr/math

This is an interesting read. I got it at an AMS/MAA conference.

u/WitchDruid · 2 pointsr/witchcraft

The Following list is taken from the Witches & Warlocks FB page. (This is Christian Day's group)

Witches and Warlocks Recommended Reading List
This is a collection of books recommended by our admins and participants in the group. Books must be approved by the admins so if you'd like to see one added to the last, please post it in the comments at the bottom of this list and, if it's something we think is appropriate, we'll add it! We provide links to Amazon so folks can read more about the book but we encourage you to shop at your local occult shop whenever possible! :)


BEGINNER'S WITCHCRAFT BOOKS

Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft
by Raymond Buckland
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0875420508

Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America
by Margot Adler
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0143038192

Grimoire of the Thorn-Blooded Witch: Mastering the Five Arts of Old World Witchery
by Raven Grimassi
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1578635500

The Inner Temple of Witchcraft: Magick, Meditation and Psychic Development
by Christopher Penczak
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0738702765

The Kybalion: The Definitive Edition
by William Walker Atkinson (Three Initiates)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1585428744

Lid Off the Cauldron: A Wicca Handbook
by Patricia Crowther
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1861630328

Mastering Witchcraft
by Paul Huson
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0595420060

Natural Magic
by Doreen Valiente
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0919345808

Natural Witchery: Intuitive, Personal & Practical Magick
by Ellen Dugan
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0738709220

Old World Witchcraft: Ancient Ways for Modern Days
by Raven Grimassi
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1578635055

The Outer Temple of Witchcraft: Circles, Spells and Rituals
by Christopher Penczak
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0738705314

Power of the Witch: The Earth, the Moon, and the Magical Path to Enlightenment
by Laurie Cabot
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0385301898

Solitary Witch: The Ultimate Book of Shadows for the New Generation
by Silver RavenWolf
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0738703192

Spirit of the Witch: Religion & Spirituality in Contemporary Witchcraft
by Raven Grimassi
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0738703389

Witch: A Magickal Journey
by Fiona Horne
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0007121326

Witchcraft for Tomorrow
by Doreen Valiente
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0709052448

Witchcraft Today
by Gerald Gardner
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0806525932
The Witches' Craft: The Roots of Witchcraft & Magical Transformation
by Raven Grimassi
http://www.amazon.com/dp/073870265X
The Witching Way of the Hollow Hill
by Robin Artisson
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982031882

WITCHCRAFT HISTORY AND RESOURCE BOOKS

Aradia or The Gospel of the Witches
by Charles Godfrey Leland
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982432356

Encyclopedia of Mystics, Saints & Sages: A Guide to Asking for Protection, Wealth, Happiness, and Everything Else!
by Judika Illes
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0062009575

The Encyclopedia of Witches, Witchcraft and Wicca
by Rosemary Ellen Guiley
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0816071047

Etruscan Roman Remains
by Charles Godfrey Leland
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1494302519

The God of the Witches
by Margaret Murray
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0195012704

The Weiser Field Guide to Witches, The: From Hexes to Hermione Granger, From Salem to the Land of Oz
by Judika Illes
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1578634792

ADVANCED BOOKS ON WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

Blood Sorcery Bible Volume 1: Rituals in Necromancy
by Sorceress Cagliastro
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1935150812

The Deep Heart of Witchcraft: Expanding the Core of Magickal Practice
by David Salisbury
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1780999208

Teen Spirit Wicca
by David Salisbury
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1782790594

Enchantment: The Witch's Art of Manipulation by Gesture, Gaze and Glamour
by Peter Paddon
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1936922517

Initiation into Hermetics
by Franz Bardon
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1885928122

Letters from the Devil's Forest: An Anthology of Writings on Traditional Witchcraft, Spiritual Ecology and Provenance Traditionalism
by Robin Artisson
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1500796360

Magical Use of Thought Forms: A Proven System of Mental & Spiritual Empowerment
by Dolores Ashcroft-Nowick and J.H. Brennan
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1567180841

Magick in Theory and Practice
by Aleister Crowley
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1500380679

The Plant Spirit Familiar
by Christopher Penczak
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982774311

Protection and Reversal Magick
by Jason Miller
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1564148793
Psychic Self-Defense
by Dion Fortune
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1578635098
The Ritual Magic Workbook: A Practical Course of Self-Initiation
by Dolores Ashcroft-Norwicki
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1578630452
The Roebuck in the Thicket: An Anthology of the Robert Cochrane Witchcraft Tradition
by Evan John Jones, Robert Cochrane and Michael Howard
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1861631553

The Satanic Witch
by Anton Szandor LaVey
http://www.amazon.com/Satanic-Witch-Anton-Szandor-LaVey/dp/0922915849
Shadow Magick Compendium: Exploring Darker Aspects of Magickal Spirituality
by Raven Digitalis
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003VS0N5K
The Tree of Enchantment: Ancient Wisdom and Magic Practices of the Faery Tradition
by Orion Foxwood
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1578634075
The Underworld Initiation: A journey towards psychic transformation
by R.J. Stewart
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1892137038

HERBALISM, CANDLES, INCENSE, OILS, FORMULARIES, AND STONES

A Compendium of Herbal Magic
by Paul Beyerl
http://www.amazon.com/dp/091934545X

Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs
by Scott Cunningham
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0875421229

The Enchanted Candle: Crafting and Casting Magickal Light
by Lady Rhea
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0806525789

The Enchanted Formulary: Blending Magickal Oils for Love, Prosperity, and Healing
by Lady Maeve Rhea
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0806527048

Incense: Crafting and Use of Magickal Scents
by Carl F. Neal
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0738703362

Magickal Formulary Spellbook Book 1
by Herman Slater
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0939708000

Magickal Formulary Spellbook: Book II
by Herman Slater
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0939708108


SPELLCASTING AND SPELLBOOKS
Crone's Book of Charms & Spells
by Valerie Worth
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1567188117

Crone's Book of Magical Words
by Valerie Worth
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1567188257

Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells
by Judika Illes
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0061711233

Everyday Magic: Spells & Rituals for Modern Living
by Dorothy Morrison
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1567184693

Pure Magic: A Complete Course in Spellcasting
by Judika Illes
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1578633915
Utterly Wicked: Curses, Hexes & Other Unsavory Notions
by Dorothy Morrison
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0979453313
The Voodoo Hoodoo Spellbook
by Denise Alvarado
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1578635136

The Voodoo Doll Spellbook: A Compendium of Ancient and Contemporary Spells and Rituals
by Denise Alvarado
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1578635543


THE ANCESTORS AND WORKING WITH THE DEAD
The Cauldron of Memory: Retrieving Ancestral Knowledge & Wisdom
by Raven Grimassi
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0738715751

The Mighty Dead
by Christopher Penczak
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982774370

Speak with the Dead: Seven Methods for Spirit Communication
by Konstantinos
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0738705225
The Witches' Book of the Dead
by Christian Day
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1578635063
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TAROT

78 Degrees of Wisdom
by Rachel Pollack
http://www.amazon.com/dp/157863408

u/lavender_ · 2 pointsr/TwoXChromosomes

First, I have to ask, what is the significance of potatoes and oatmeal?

Now for suggestions:
If she has a mac or a light colored laptop you could get her one of these

I don't know what a child life specialist is, but this book was awesome

This book looks cool

A wallet/coin purse with her favorite disney character



u/lectrick · 2 pointsr/AskReddit

I read this book and all the blind people interviewed in there say that they never dreamed in vision.

How did they know what "vision" was? They all had near-death experiences where they could see quite vividly. The lack of dreaming in vision was cited as evidence that something strange was actually occurring.

u/Samwise2512 · 2 pointsr/AstralProjection

You might want look up Dr Kenneth Ring's research documented in his book "Mindsight"...in it he describes people blind from birth having NDE's (and OBE's as part of these) and describing visual like sensory phenomena, even though they have never used or been able to use such a sensory modality once before in their lives.

https://www.amazon.com/Mindsight-Near-Death-Out-Body-Experiences/dp/0595434975

u/jmeehan11 · 2 pointsr/politics

Crime by Race
Because of the obscure way in which the FBI reports the race and ethnicity of offenders, we had to make several approximations. First off, Hispanic data is separated from race data and is broken down to "Hispanic" or "not Hispanic" for the entire dataset. While it is safe to assume that most Hispanics were classified as white because of the colour of their skin, we didn't want to make any assumptions. To figure out the percentage of Hispanic offenders and separate it from the white, black, asian etc. race categories, we used Census data on how Hispanics identify themselves racially. Not surprisingly, the vast majority of them identify as white, and very few consider themselves black. Given the very low percentage of black Hispanics, we counted "Some Other Race" as white. Another problem with the FBI dataset was the vast number of "Unknown" reported offenders. Because we couldn't make any reasonable assumptions about the race of the unknown offenders, we used the arrest tables as a proxy for the distribution of crime by race.
https://www.fbi.gov/...n-the-u.s.-2014
http://www.census.go...-04.pdf#page=15

2014 City Crime Data:
City data from the U.S. Census Bureau: http://www.census.gov
City Crime data from the FBI: https://www.fbi.gov/.../tables/table-6

Historical Crime
http://www.ucrdatatool.gov/

Unemployment
http://www.bls.gov/c...013.pdf#page=43

Poverty and Welfare
http://cis.org/Welfa...tive-Households
http://www.cam.ac.uk...-prevents-crime
http://www.dailymail...sity-study.html

Single Mothers and Divorce
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss.htm
https://www.census.g...a/families.html

Intelligence
http://www.amazon.co...e/dp/0275961036
http://www.sciencedi...160289610001340

Genetics
http://www.ncbi.nlm....pubmed/18212819
https://www.soc.umn....aspi_SCI_02.pdf
http://www.ncbi.nlm....pubmed/25082653
http://www.ncbi.nlm....cles/PMC4369574
http://www.antonioca...Beaver_2013.pdf
http://www.ncbi.nlm....pubmed/16801953
https://en.wikipedia...Warrior_gene.22
http://www.ncbi.nlm....cles/PMC2756753

Spanking Prevalence
http://www.childtren...toward-spanking
http://www.nbcnews.c...hildren-n221171
http://www.scienceda...90924231749.htm

u/hitssquad · 1 pointr/teslamotors

College is not a way to increase one's long-term income unless one wants to become an academic. See: https://www.amazon.com/Factor-Science-Evolution-Behavior-Intelligence/dp/0275961036

I run two businesses, and there is no way I would ever hire anyone with a college degree.

u/cyprinidae · 1 pointr/DebateReligion

My analogy is one way for the theist to kinda explain the mind/brain relationship. Obviously It wasn't meant to provide proof. The only type of evidence theists and atheists have to work with are people who report near death experiences (NDEs). An interesting book that might offer you some proof is Mindsight: Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences in the Blind. As the title states, it deals with NDEs of blind people. Once the blind people "cross over" it seems that they are able to observe their surrounding and can give detailed visual accounts of their surrounds during their NDE. I'm not saying this is proof of a soul or afterlife but it's definitely interesting. Thanks

u/RedHermit1982 · 1 pointr/DebateAltRight

> Placing something on a spectrum doesn't invalidate the application of categories, in this case race, to spots on said spectrum

The application of categories (taxonomy), in general, isn't invalidated. What's invalidated is the use of race, which is primarily defined by a narrow set of phenotypes, in particular skin color, as the method for defining these categories because it obscures greater genotypical similarities between groups and also has less predictive power than groupings based on other genetic differences, such as clines and clusters.

Even if you use continental origin based on AIMs to match self-identified race and ethnicity with most recent ancestry, that doesn't yield a grouping that has any utility whatsoever as a unit of analysis for biology and genomics.

For example Michael Jackson's daughter is self-identified black. So is Barack Obama. Both have one white parent and one black parent, but Obama looks black and Paris Jackson looks white, like really white. Blue eyes and everything. You could trace both of their genetic ancestries to Africa and group them on that basis, and it would match their SIRE 100 percent, but if you put them in the same environment, same SES, etc., Paris Jackson would be treated like a white person.

> By this reasoning you can't distinguish between red and green because there is no clean dividing line as you move through the electromagnetic spectrum from one to the other.

I would say that this is a clever bit of sophistry were it not for the fact that it's totally unoriginal and I've heard it used so many times that it has become cliche.

It's a false analogy. Color is defined by one specific property, i.e. wavelength, that is fixed and uniformly agreed upon to be a set value 510 nm. Phenotypes are influenced by thousands upon thousands of different alleles, most of which—particularly the ones for intelligence— have not even been identified. Even skin color involves hundreds of genes.

A difference on the electromagnetic spectrum between green (510 nm) and red (650 nm) is not analogous to the genetic difference between any given population, even defined in the most narrow sense, i.e. clines, much less in a broad sense using archaic 19th-century folk taxons like Caucasoid, Mongoloid and Negroid.

The genetic difference between any two groups or individuals is less than 10 percent, so a more accurate analogy would be a comparison of two different shades of green at 510 nm and 515 nm, which would be indistinguishable.

> The far ends of the spectrum can't interbreed

Yeah, isolation-by-distance is a thing but it hasn't existed as a phenomenon for long enough to actually result in substantial differences between say Native Americans and Bantus, except for certain specific climate-related adaptations, like sickle-cell anemia.

> So if you want to throw out race because of this you'd have to throw out species too.

No, I don't have to throw out the concept of species or the concept of subspecies but in order to apply the taxonomies in a useful way, biology requires a non-arbitrary genetic threshold for defining them, and race doesn't meet this criteria (between 17 percent and 25 percent genetic difference). Again, there is only one subspecies of Homo sapiens. It's called sapiens and like it or not, we're all part of it.

> It means exactly what I think it means, it's a ratio between genetic and environmental variation. So, yes, it changes in different environments

OK, so if you understand it so well, then you also understand it only applies to differences between individuals in the same population with the same environment and it can't be generalized to apply to average group differences between populations.

To do so is a misapplication of the concept in the same way that Rushton abused r-K selection, using it in a way that no respectable biologist would.

As I already noted elsewhere in the thread, Mackintosh, the author of "IQ and Intelligence," notes that at the lowest SES, heritability approaches zero.

And even Rushton and Jensen, the most vociferous proselytizers of hereditarianism, had to acknowledge: "A high heritability within one group does not mean that the average difference between it and another group is due to genetic differences, even if the heritability is high in both groups."

Of course, that didn't prevent them from trying to push this argument over and over and over and coming up short each time when their theories were put to the test by other more scrupulous researchers.

In fact this statement by Jensen directly contradicts his earlier statement in which he critiqued Lewontin's seed and soil analogy. Jensen said in 1970 that a high heritability increases the probability that genetics play a role in average group differences. And repeated this claim in his 1998 book.

So what happened in between 1998 and 2005 that caused Jensen to qualify his statement?

In a little more than three decades, we see Jensen walk back his position from "differences in IQ are mostly genetic" to "differences in IQ are about half and half" to "differences in IQ are partially genetic but in some unquantifiable amount that can't be 100 percent falsified with existing research methods.

Respectable scientists like Wicherts don't a priori rule out the role of genetics in between-group difference, but that's just good science. In other words you retain a healthy amount of skepticism until empirical evidence can tell you with a degree of certainty the cause of an observed phenomenon.

Race reductionists use this uncertainty to keep the dream alive much like creationists.

> If I control for environment tightly enough to yield a high heritability and I still have a gap, then a large chunk of that gap is likely due to biological factors not the environment.

Now we are getting into the limitations of social science. What I find most ironic about "race realism" is that many of its proponents frequently malign the social sciences as not "real science," yet the entirety of the argument is based on a few psychologists that I can count on one hand all drawing from the same tainted well.

This disdain for the social sciences also manifests in an inability to actually understand social science methodology and interpret the results of research accurately. It also causes them to erroneously assign equal weight to studies that make highly speculative claims that fail to achieve consistency with the bulk of scientific literature (Lynn and Rushton) as studies that do (Nesbitt et. al)

And here's the rub: You're never going to be able to control for the social effects of blackness, such as stereotype threat, stigma and institutional racism/discrimination. And to dismiss those factors offhand as irrelevant or non-existent is unscientific.

Even if you control for SES and differences remain, it doesn't necessarily follow that the basis of those differences is purely genetic.

As anthropologist John Ogbu observed, there is a difference between "caste-like minority groups," such as blacks who immigrated involuntarily and voluntary immigrants like Chinese and Jews who carried with them a culture of self-respect..

In the social sciences, one could conceivably construct an experiment in which you compared the educational outcomes of half-black white-presenting students from similar backgrounds as half-black black-presenting students, and measure the effect of the appearance of blackness on social outcomes. But it would be hard to get a big enough sample size and to replicate.

I much more prefer the relatively straightforward (and falsifiable) tales that genetics tells. Namely that variation within species is very small.

The only way to test differences between races in a concrete falsifiable to determine how much is genetic would be to identify all or most of the thousands of genes that contribute to intelligence and to define get a massive DNA sample that is representative of the various population clusters that exist within the black and white races. Then you would have to compare the samples for allele frequency.

The cost of doing this is prohibitively expensive at the moment even as GWAS costs go down. But given the overall low variation between population groups, the default position has to be that differences in IQ are mostly, if not entirely, environmental.

u/SatanicGopher · 1 pointr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

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It is a little over $4 if you buy the used one.

I hope you have a great cakeday!
You are awesome for being on here for so long!

I bestow upon you the title of "Elder"

u/jakefromstatefarm10 · 1 pointr/rickandmorty

I know what the anthropologists say but I really do not believe them in the slightest.

I can't really seem to find anything to back up "adopted children perform less well in school" theory so the study is pretty conclusive it's simple biology.

If you really think it's not biological still then you did not actually read anything I posted in an unbiased matter.

Also:

Source 1: http://www.jbhe.com/latest/index012209_p.html

Source 2: https://lesacreduprintemps19.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/why-ses-does-not-explain.pdf

Source 3: Is from this book (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve) page 288

Source 4: Is from this book (https://www.amazon.com/Factor-Science-Evolution-Behavior-Intelligence/dp/0275961036/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1453624876&sr=1-1&keywords=the+g+factor) page 358

u/anarrayofcharacters · 1 pointr/PhilosophyofScience

This isn't really the examples you're asking for but a chapter in David Bohm's Science, Order, and Creativity has some interesting discussion about this exact topic.

u/Marmun-King · 1 pointr/videos

I initially followed the principles of Stoicism, which is a philosophy that's very close to the principles of CBT. So my first resource was /r/Stoicism, where you can find things like this and this that have direct correlation with CBT principles. Greek and Roman literature might be hard to get into, but there are very readable translations and the principles are applicable.

Of course, not everyone is interested in philosophy, so my recommendation would be to find something along the lines of Judith Beck's Cognitive Therapy, or other similar resources that are based on research. I can't really recommend else because I haven't read much from other authors.

But in general I would recommend reading about cognitive biases in general, along the lines of this, this, this, or this. Being conscious of how everybody thinks might help you see some negative spirals in your life, and can help you change the environment that might lead you to that negativity.

But again, professional help can be very useful, so definitely consult a professional who is maybe better for you. Good luck!

u/Invisible-War · 1 pointr/satanism

LaVey wrote a whole book on it. The Satanic Witch is useful for both sexes and includes an extensive suggested reading list that should be seriously considered by anyone interested in delving into Deep Satanism.

u/tanvanman · 1 pointr/shrooms

I feel ya, man :) It sounds like you're really serious about self-exploration, and I gotta commend that. I think when we read about the successes in psychedelic therapy we hope that one trip will be the panacea we need. It's only natural. However, as we're all wound differently, we all need to unwind uniquely, and that involves a lot of confusion and discomfort as we disentangle from everything we've been told, and thought, we are.

I don't know just where you're at, so forgive me if I'm stating the obvious for you. Do you know that the ego is terrified of change? It seems to want predictability even if its predictable schtick is painful. So it doesn't surprise me that your trips feel very unstable. The ego is your habitual world orientation, and ego-lessness is a total reorientation and disidentification. This process is probably already happening in you, but you can only see it in retrospect, as the ego seems to really act up when you start sniffing around to see what it really is.

So as much as I'd like to tell you the one thing to do to make it all come together, you're probably going to have to do some digging to discover the nature of ego, fear, mind etc. You'll probably want to explore something like spirituality (in the broad sense of the word) in whatever ways you're drawn to. Some kind of meditative or contemplative practice is really helpful so that you're more able to be with your experience as it directly presents instead of through the filters of conditioned mind.

Anyway, I'm rambling here. As for the psychedelics, maybe start reading up on the therapeutic literature out there. Stan Grof's LSD: Doorway to the Numinous and Neil Goldsmith's Psychedelic Healing might be good places to start.

As for the spiritual side, you'll have to figure out what you like. I think some of the more helpful ones out there are Mooji, Rupert Spira, Adyashanti, Douglas Harding.... Galen Sharp's What am I? is one of my favourite books for self-exploration, but who knows what will resonate with you?

Anyway, good luck with your explorations. This is challenging work, but the greatest thing a person can explore.

Oh, and I almost forgot...

> With that sort of level, am I to expect strong visuals or... I mean... what's gonna happen?

I don't know. That's the point. Prepare your set and setting, and then let the medicine show you what it needs to show you. It very well could have visual elements, but not necessarily. It might reframe memories and make "important things" seem trivial. Sometimes there's a humbling chapter of the journey where there's an atoning for ways that you've wronged people, and sometimes it can even be a more collective sense of grief and healing. Rest assured, though, the clearer you see the more you realize it's all motivated by love. I'm sure it sounds corny, but it really starts to come across like everything you've ever had to go through (and your current curiosity) are based in a profound love that you're beginning to discover. It can be a very powerful practice to just start to sit and cultivate the feeling of love - not love for anything in particular, just unspecific, undirected love.

u/ELS_BrigadeWarning · 1 pointr/ferguson

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>In a Raven Standard Progressive Matrices test, the subject is tested with patterns and geometric figures which are culture-independent and a computer calculates the score.
http://books.google.com/books/about/A_question_of_intelligence.html?id=5ggRAQAAIAAJ

>These tests correlate significantly (over .50) with IQ
http://www.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/reprints/1996reviewRushton.pdf

>And as expected, despite having no cultural bias, they continue to show the large, measurable, and significant intelligence gap between Whites and Blacks.

>To date, despite claims that IQ tests are biased, not one single intelligence test has ever displayed equal scores for Blacks and Whites; one must either make the test so difficult that nobody can manage to get the questions correct or so easy that everyone obtains a perfect score to show testing equality, yet that would make the test meaningless and invalid.
http://charlesdarwinresearch.org/Intell03Ravens.pdf
http://charlesdarwinresearch.org/Intell00Ravens.pdf
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>Trillions of dollars have been spent in attempt to erase this Black-White IQ gapand all have failed.
http://books.google.com/books/about/A_question_of_intelligence.html?id=5ggRAQAAIAAJ
http://www.charlesdarwinresearch.org/2006 PSnew.pdf


>In fact, "public schools now spend more per capita on black children than on white." Also, "Contrary to environmentalist predictions, intervention beginning at age three makes no difference to the intellectual development of blacks [into adulthood]."
http://www.amazon.com/Why-Race-Matters-Michael-Levin/dp/0965638359

>The famous Milwaukee Project which spent $14 million in attempt to prove that the IQ gap could be removed with improved environment ended with the principal investigator "convicted and imprisoned for large-scale abuse of federal funding for private gain. Two of his colleagues were also convicted of violations of federal laws in connection with misuse of project funds… However, the project received uncritical acceptance in many college textbooks in psychology and education."
http://tinyurl.com/ygneat8 (Google)

>As Albert Einstein famously wrote, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." All of the excuses for Black underachievement have been refuted ad nauseam yet egalitarians refuse to budge, persisting that race doesn't exist and that this gap is the fault of White racism.
http://menghusblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/understanding-human-history.pdf

>Egalitarians often suggest that White racism lowers Black self-esteem and causes an inferiority complex. However, "Past research indicates that black adolescents consistently have higher self-esteem than white students. Other research demonstrates that self-esteem has positive effects on academic achievement. However, black students have lower academic achievement than white students while concurrently exhibiting higher self-esteem."
http://web.archive.org/web/20100722165055/

>Indeed, even the psychologist Claude Steele who coined the term "Stereotype threat" (anxiety or concern to conform to a negative stereotype) admitted that it does not explain the gap between Whites and Blacks through personal email. One study reports that "research is widely misinterpreted… as showing that eliminating stereotype threat eliminates the African American-White difference in test performance."
http://tinyurl.com/cpnt8q6

>IQ gaps between Whites and Blacks are observable at the age of three, prior to cultural influences or potential effects of racism.
http://www.amazon.com/Why-Race-Matters-Michael-Levin/dp/0965638359

>Blacks mature faster than Whites
http://www.charlesdarwinresearch.org/Race_Evolution_Behavior.pdf

>The IQ gap reflects this; the gap is 0.7 standard deviation (1 SD is 15 points) at early childhood, 1 SD at middle childhood, and 1.2 SD into early adulthood.
http://www.amazon.com/Factor-Science-Evolution-Behavior-Intelligence/dp/0275961036

>About 37% of Blacks have an IQ below 80, while only 9% of Whites do. Blacks are 6x as likely to have an IQ of 70 or less as Whites, 12% of Blacks compared to 2% of Whites. Half of Whites have an IQ over 100 (average) but only 16% of Blacks do. Only 1% of Blacks have an IQ over 120, but 9% of Whites do.
http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/retard.htm

>The ASPM gene of Chromosome 1 has been shown to effect brain morphology and defects lead to smaller brains and low IQ.
http://hmg.oxfordjournals.org/content/13/5/489.abstract

>A new ASPM allele arose in Eurasia and has been suspected at increasing intelligence and has been demonstrated to be absent in Blacks.
http://www.pnas.org/content/104/26/10944
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/309/5741/1720.abstract

>The MCPH1 gene of Chromosome 8 with alleles known as "microcephalin" partly determine brain size and morphology
http://hmg.oxfordjournals.org/content/13/11/1131.short

>Beneficial alleles are common in Eurasians but rare in Blacks. The MCPH1 and ASPM gene correspond with the development of hand-crafts and the development of sophisticated cities which were common in Eurasian populations but unheard of in sub-Saharan Africa.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/309/5741/1717.abstract

>The DCDC2 gene of Chromosome 6 effects brain morphology and the ability to read.
http://www.v-weiss.de/majgenes-full.html

>One alelle results in dyslexia
http://www.pnas.org/content/102/47/17053

>"The allele frequency of the A allele rs2274305 of the dyslexia-gene DCDC2 is about 0.28 among Eurasians and 0.99 among Yorubas from Nigeria, about 0.80 among African-Americans."
http://www.v-weiss.de/majgenes-full.html

>The DTNBP1 gene has also been linked to intelligence, specifically the rs:760761, rs:2619522 and rs:2619538 alleles. For rs:760761, 18% of Whites carry the T allele, which takes off 8 IQ points, compared to 37% of Blacks. For rs:2619522 carrying the G allele takes off 7 points, and is found in 18% of Whites and 35-36% of Blacks. The rs:2619538 T allele increases IQ by 6.5 points and 61% of Europeans carry it vs 67% of Blacks.
http://www.behavioralandbrainfunctions.com/content/3/1/19
http://www.halfsigma.com/2007/11/dtnbp1-gene-and.html

u/J-B-D · 1 pointr/Libertarian

Do you want to post the link again? Sure beats quoting a passage from it that proves your straw man?

Here I'll post it too.
https://www.amazon.com/Factor-Science-Evolution-Behavior-Intelligence/dp/0275961036

u/someguy92614 · 1 pointr/relationship_advice

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u/satanic_hamster · 1 pointr/CapitalismVSocialism

> Which is?

The ones I directly linked to in his thread. The collected academic papers of experts put together by Nyborg, the summary of the entire field by Haier, the work on the g factor by Jensen, I even directly linked to the American Psychological Association which makes the same claim.

When the APA comes out and takes your stance on the issue, I'll 100% retract my claim.