Understanding human biodiversity is crucial for showing appropriate levels of empathy to our fellow humans. HBD demonstrates significant variances in group averages. For example, East Asians aren't "too lazy to play basketball", they're significantly shorter on average so only a tiny number are tall enough to play. Much the way it's not "racism" causing the tiny number of black scholars, it's a median IQ of 85 (and that's in the West). You dont get many when you need to get 3 standard deviations to the righthand tail as a bare minimum for a given demographic.
The books on this list are well worth reading, either due to the quality of their scholarship (The Bell Curve is excellent), or to how frequently they're referenced by NPCs arguing against HBD (Gould's "The Mismeasure Of Man" is oft cited but so poorly researched that recent editions of The Bell Curve add a section specifically pointing out why Gould is either retarded or lying).
@Khro_ Do you have a digital version of "The Bell Curve" by any chance? :)
Sure do. Book 16 in this post/pic:
Note that the links in that archived post are direct kikebox links. I also only had an epub of that book at that time and not a pdf.
Here is an archived kikebox of the epub and some links for the pdf format: Tried uploading the pdf to kikebox, but larger files time out for me while uploading from slow internet. Archive is also having (((trouble))) archiving the pdf links, but can get the pdf direct from libgen.
- The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
EPUB (2.5mb): https://web.archive.org/web/20210417200235/https://files.catbox.moe/hurgrq.epub
PDF (39mb):
https://library.lol/main/3bda707e5bd060f627628cd810b48a9a (click "GET" at the top)
https://libgen.li/ads.php?md5=3bda707e5bd060f627628cd810b48a9a (click "GET" at the top)
These are just the ones I have, but there are other versions with different file sizes:
Also related:
- A Tail of the Bell Curve: The Politics of Mental Retardation https://archive.today/4dyBe
Awesome! Thanks for sharing this!
(post is archived)