Category: Social Sciences

The Females of the Species

Murder in Families

By John M. Dawson and Patrick A. Langan, Ph.D.
BJS Statisticians

A survey of murder cases disposed in 1988 in the courts of large urban counties indicated that 16% of murder victims were members of the defendant’s family. The remainder were murdered by friends or acquaintances (64%) or by strangers (20%).

A third of family murders involved a female as the killer. In sibling murders, females were 15% of killers, and in murders of parents, 18%. But in spouse murders, women represented 41% of killers. In murders of their offspring, women predominated, accounting for 55% of killers.

When a mother killed her own child, the offspring she killed was more likely to be a son than a daughter: 64% sons versus 36% daughters. But when a father killed his own child, the offspring he killed was about as likely to be a daughter as a son: 52% daughters versus 48% sons.

• When a son killed a parent, his victim was about as likely to be the mother as the father: 47% mothers versus 53% fathers. But when a daughter killed a parent, her victim was more likely to be the father than the mother: 81% fathers versus 19% mothers.

Posted by Robert Reis on Sunday, January 29, 2012 at 03:37 PM in Social Sciences
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Re: The New American Divide, by Charles Murray

[submission by Genotype]

Murray’s thesis is higher cognitive abilities lead to greater economic productivity and thus higher salaries. This is merely an update to Ayn Rand‘s update to Horatio Alger’s “rags to riches” legends.

Murray and his jewish employers at AEI have two transparent goals:

1.Describe what anyone with an IQ > 90 can see has happened and continues to happen economically.

2.Gain control of the discourse by eliminating all references to “The Other” from the universe of permitted explanations for #1.

Re: What the Top 1% of Earners Majored In

The undergrad degree data don’t support Murray’s proposed explanation for the Great Divide. Undergrad science and engineering majors that might lead to advanced science degrees are grossly underrepresented in the 1% group. They are so underrepresented that this data alone falsifies Murray’s primary explanation.

“Biology” obviously serves as a proxy for “pre-med.” Humanities majors of the kind that comprise “pre-law” curriculums are heavily over-represented. History, “economics,” and political science are obvious pre-law programs. What to make of zoology and physiology, except failure to make the cut for “pre-med”? Note that mathematics and physics are on the bottom.  Computer science and mechanical/electrical/civil engineering didn’t make the list.

Posted by R-news on Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 06:59 PM in Blogs & Blogging,  Economics & Finance,  Education,  Global Elitism,  Political analysis,  Social Sciences,  That Question Again
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The Relevance of Ethnocentrism

Previously it was shown that intelligence was of practically no relevance to explaining spectacular Jewish success (control of the mainstream media, ZOG, etc.). An alternative proposed was ethnocentrism. This can be examined, too.

The National Opinion Research Center (NORC), at the University of Chicago, has conducted an annual General Social Survey (GSS) of a random, representative sample of Americans from 1972 onward.

In 1996 and 2004, it asked respondents to answer how close they felt to their racial or ethnic group [variable coded as ETHCLOSE]. The 4 possible responses were: very close, close, not very close, not close at all. Assigning these responses values of 4, 3, 2, 1, respectively, Ron Guhname provided the following averages:

Table 1. ETHCLOSE values
Orthodox Jew (3.86), Conservative Jew (3.71), black (3.53), Norwegian (3.36), All Jews (3.31), Mexican (3.25), Italian (3.20), Irish (3.19), Reform Jew (3.15), American average (3.15), French (3.11), Polish (3.04), English/Welsh (3.02), German (3.01), Scottish (3.00), Other Jew (2.92).

ETHCLOSE captures the core of ethnocentrism and will have to do in the absence of better data on representative samples. Jews, on average, are more ethnocentric than whites. Now let’s look at the proportions among whites, by year:

Table 2. ETHCLOSE answers for whites (percentages)
1996: very close (33.9), close (41.2), not very close (18.9), not close at all (6.0)
2004: very close (39.5), close (36.3), not very close (19.6), not close at all (4.7)
Average: very close (36.5), close (38.9), not very close (19.2), not close at all (5.4)

In the data, Jews are coded as white. Assume that all Jews who say they’re not very close to Jews are lying, in reality very close to their group. This gives a population having a size of about 3.3% of the white population that is very close to its ethnic/racial group, whereas at least 30% of whites are very close to their ethnic/racial grouping. In other words, the number of ethnocentric whites considerably exceeds the number of ethnocentric Jews. We’re dealing with some crudeness, but in spite of making some assumptions that favor those who explain spectacular Jewish success in terms of ethnocentrism, we have to conclude that this couldn’t possibly be an explanation.

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Posted by J Richards on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 01:59 AM in Education,  European Nationalism,  Social Sciences,  That Question Again,  White Nationalism
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A small anecdote and some reflections on race and culture

by John Ray

A few days ago I went in to a private hospital to get my hearing tested and a hearing-aid prescribed. I’ve already got one plastic eye lens so a computerized ear comes next. That’s ageing for you.

Greenslopes private hospital, impressive though it is, does however have one of those murderous automated car-parks. You have to deal with a machine to get in and out. And it is not easy. I got so frazzled trying to get the machine to let me out that I left all the documentation from the audiologist on top of it when I could finally drive away - a fact I did not realise until I arrived home.

So what to do? One thing I was NOT going to do was negotiate that accursed machine again. So I just thought to myself that some kind person would find my documentation and take it to the audiologists - who would return it to me. And that is exactly what happened. I received it in the mail today.

Now isn’t that nice to live in a largish city and still get treated with village courtesy? But it is no coincidence. I trust my fellow Anglo/European-Australians to be like that: generally, good kind people. And that’s because the Australian population is still overwhelmingly white. You would have to go to Eastern Europe to find a whiter country.

Of course, it sounds racially-bigoted when it’s said just like that. But for several years now, to attribute Australia’s friendly civility to race has been mainstream sociology, albeit somewhat inconveniently so for the almost universally Left-leaning sociologists themselves. In Ottawa in December 2001, Robert Putnam, a left-leaning American political scientist at Harvard known for his research into racial homogeneity, launched a new set of findings on racial diversity and trust. They ran contrary to his own expectation, and to the two theories prevalent in this field, namely Contact Theory, whereby groups gain trust through inter-mixing, and Conflict Theory, whereby the groups do not gain trust of each other but turn inward to themselves as sources of trust. However, even though they did not suit him ideologically, and he certainly hesitated about making them public, Putnam was man enough to publish his findings.

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Posted by Guest Blogger on Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 03:24 AM in Social Sciences
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A theory on trust and phenotypic diversity in Europe

Thus swyved was this financieris wyf

Browsing through the news in England last week, I came across an article detailing the latest relationship woes of Boris Johnson.  First some excerpts, then a theory:

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Posted by Dasein on Sunday, July 18, 2010 at 01:41 PM in Genetics & Human Bio-Diversity,  Social Sciences
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The Bear’s Lair: The costs of political impossibility

Gordon Hanson, presenting his new book “Why Does Immigration Divide America” at the Institute for International Economics Thursday, referred to a restrictionist policy on illegal immigrants as “politically impossible.”  The Wall Street Journal Friday made the same reference in relation to Congress potentially shutting down Fannie Mae’s economy-threatening derivatives operation. Why are apparently plausible policies “politically impossible” and what are the economic consequences of this?

For more, go to the “Great Conservatives” website link below:

http://www.greatconservatives.com/pages/6/index.htm

Posted by karlmagnus on Monday, October 3, 2005 at 09:22 AM in Economics & Finance,  Social Sciences,  U.S. Politics
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The Bear’s Lair: Housing’s froth and bubble

Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan referred this week to “froth” in the U.S. housing market; others have debated whether it is a “bubble” at least on the two coasts.  Whether froth or bubble, the secular rise in house prices over the last 5 years has made long term changes in American life, most of them for the worse.

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Posted by karlmagnus on Monday, May 30, 2005 at 09:55 AM in Economics & Finance,  Social Sciences,  U.S. Politics
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Robert Nisbet

Conservative sociologists are as rare as hen’s teeth.  I ought to know—being one of them. Robert Nisbet is probably the best known example of one.  Like conservatives generally, he was appalled by the gradual growth of State power over the last century and pointed out how the State had supplanted and destroyed local community-based organizations and ways of doing things.  And I agree that a lot of that did happen.  As Steven Chapman, put it:-

“Could it be said that it is precisely the rise of the State - i.e. Statism - that has led to the erosion of community/society? Think of it this way: a community or society is, traditionally, an informal thing, depending for its existence on goodwill and mutual dependence among a group of people, however large or small. In a traditional society, everyone needs to stay on pretty good terms with their neighbour because, after all, you never know when you’re going to need him/her. Then the State comes along, and tells you that, when the going gets tough, you can rely on it to get by. This new state of affairs relieves you of the ‘burden’ of maintaining the high degree of goodwill and mutual self-interest which maintains a community/society, and furthermore, because the state is a system rather than a person, no expenditure of goodwill on your part is necessary to get what the State is offering. All you need to do is fill out the relevant forms and provide the relevant supporting documentation to prove that you’re entitled to the State’s goodies.”

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Posted by jonjayray on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 at 10:06 PM in Social Sciences
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America: Onwards & Upwards

In a time of war the American public remains sober and ready to bear any burden.

Well, you know my theory of punishment.

Posted by leslie on Sunday, November 21, 2004 at 11:54 PM in Social Sciences
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A Practical Step for Restoring Civil Society

“From the 60s in the Netherlands, we have seen we were almost too tolerant. We accepted almost everything here in Holland,” said Gerard Van As, a member of Parliament. “They call the Netherlands almost a breeding place for criminal organizations.”
Foxnews, November 16, 2004.

In the late ‘80s I moved from a quiet and homogenous part of the country to attend a university in Louisiana. Needing money I began working the evening shift at Kinko’s Copies, in downtown New Orleans. I was in for a shock.

I witnessed many disturbing crimes - including armed robbery. In another incident a man whose throat had been cut – ear to ear – stumbled into the store begging for help. I told him the ambulance was coming, he then weakly raised his arm, extending his open hand, and said, “God bless you”, and then he fainted from blood loss.

But watching a man defecate in the street shocked my middle class sensibilities the most:  he yanked his trousers off, squatted, and then, appeared to wipe himself with his own bare hand; I stood stunned as I watched this.

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Posted by leslie on Friday, November 19, 2004 at 05:49 PM in Social Sciences
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How One Thing Leads to Another

A recurring theme amongst activists everywhere is “how do we meet our objectives?” Especially in eugenics, there is a great deal of angst about not being able to plan a movement and implement it. Therefore, I have spent a great deal of time thinking about how humans adopt their current ideologies and how to bring about change in the face of other activists pushing against our objectives. My conclusion is there is no simple plan of action, the best one can do is keep fighting for what one believes in, and hope for a break your way.

A new book addresses the issue of how change comes about: Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads To Another by Philip Ball, 2004 (available from Amazon.com for $17). Ball builds upon the field of emergence, complexity theory and self-organization. This field of research uses computer models, physics, and pattern matching to see if mathematical models can be used to tease out how cultural and political change comes about and how humans as well as gas molecules and snowflakes come upon taking on the patterns and shapes that they do. In essence, there are often times a hidden order, pattern, or mathematical model that underlies nature and human society. In understanding these patterns, as activists, we can better understand how change comes about.

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Posted by Matt Nuenke on Wednesday, November 17, 2004 at 08:12 AM in Social Sciences
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