undead astronauts

before going to korea, i had no idea what a juicy bar or juicy girl was. but now after experiencing them personally, i understand that they’re just a form of hostess club. a form that’s probably less classy than a hostess club in general, but that probably depends on where exactly u go. (more…)

satoshi kanazawa came out w/ a study last week that finds liberals, atheists, and male sexual exclusivity are linked to IQ. kanazawa is an evo psych guy and has some pretty kooky ideas, but his kookiness in this case only extends to how he thinks this came about and not the numbers indicating who has higher IQ.

frankly, i don’t understand the stated evo psych reasoning which says that these views would have hurt our ancestors in the past but now serve to “move the species forward” and are “evolutionarily novel.” well wtf does that mean? just b/c something is new, it’s mostly smarter ppl that will do it? eh, i suppose so, but not a strong argument. so i’m skipping over that. the important thing here is the numbers.

Very liberal IQ (socially, not economically) = 106
Very conservative IQ = 95

Not at all religious IQ = 103
Very religious IQ = 97

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i scored a 68. the defining characteristic of millennials is their heavy usage of technology. see where u fit in this pew research test.

filial chinese are posting wanted ads for rental boyfriends to take home to mom and dad. flarezz, u should look into this.

Her criteria for eligible bachelors were fairly demanding. They should be educated, employed, well-behaved and between 170 and 180 centimeters, or 5 feet 7 inches to 5 feet 9 inches, tall. Glasses — a sign of erudition to her father — a plus. One other thing: “Don’t be too skinny.”

The successful applicant would earn 5,000 renminbi, or $735, for the 10-day home stay during the Lunar New Year holiday, also known here as Spring Festival. Lest candidates get the wrong idea, the woman also wrote: “We will not sleep together.”

i’m sure u could negotiate that last stipulation.

i’ve only recently discovered how many interesting topics these polling companies touch on. here’s a new one from pew.

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past studies have shown that women prefer symmetrical men’s dancing style to non-symmetrical men. a new study shows that testosterone levels affect who the opposite sex is attracted to.

The results showed that women gave the highest attractiveness ratings to men with the highest levels of prenatal testosterone. The men with the lowest testosterone in turn got the lowest attractiveness ratings. “Men can communicate their testosterone levels through the way they dance,” Lovatt told SPIEGEL ONLINE. “And women understand it — without noticing it.”

In women, the link between dancing style and testosterone levels were similar — but the reaction of men was just the opposite. Dancers with high levels of testosterone moved more parts of their body, with their movements being somewhat uncoordinated, while those with lower testosterone made more subtle movements, especially with their hips. The male students found the latter style most appealing…

The men who got the female students hot under the collar danced with large movements which were “complexly coordinated.” But it’s a fine line between hot and not, however: Those men who made big moves but who were less coordinated came across as dominant alpha males — and were unlikely to win women’s hearts. The researchers also found that the size and complexity of the dance moves decreased in parallel with testosterone levels.

i’m not sure it should be surprising to anyone that females are more impressed by males who can perform “complexly coordinated” moves. guys who do those moves are probably bboys and poppers. what guys want may be slightly less clear, but still shouldn’t be too surprising. guys want girls who have a subtle dance and shake their hips. rrrumpshaker anyone? okay, i suppose that’s not exactly subtle. but the hips are sure there. how about nobody?

thought this was amusing.

One feature of the Russian-Chinese relationship seemed especially telling: Cross-border marriages are overwhelmingly between Chinese men and Russian women. Much of this has to do with demographics-Russia has a surplus of women, while China has too many men. But as one Russian woman told me, “Chinese men are kinder and more attentive to their wives. And they usually have more money.”

we’ve seen that chinese men in the countryside were having trouble finding chinese wives b/c of male preference and the 1 child policy, and so went looking for them in SE asian nations b/c of the wealth imbalance. well, the same apparently applies to siberian-russia.

“The Bell curve is a fact of life. The blacks on average score 85 per cent on IQ and it is accurate, nothing to do with culture. The whites score on average 100. Asians score more … the Bell curve authors put it at least 10 points higher. These are realities that, if you do not accept, will lead to frustration because you will be spending money on wrong assumptions and the results cannot follow.” – Lee Kuan Yew, The Man & His Ideas, 1997

“I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that’s the most unlikely thing ever to have been, because millions of years have passed over evolution, people have scattered across the face of this earth, been isolated from each other, developed independently, had different intermixtures between races, peoples, climates, soils… I didn’t start off with that knowledge. But by observation, reading, watching, arguing, asking, that is the conclusion I’ve come to.” – Lee Kuan Yew, The Man & His Ideas, 1997

these quotes would pretty much get any existing american politician voted out of office, but being then leader of an east asian authoritarian city-state enables you to ignore most of your critics if they disagree. i mention lee b/c he is singled out in a new paper on the impact of smart fractions. it says he is the only world leader that has pursued public policy which, in effect, is pro-eugenic in it’s implications. lee actually went as far as favoring polygamy for ppl wealthy enough to afford it b/c of the biological implications (although the idea wasn’t implemented). (more…)

coke zero has an amusing marketing campaign that’s centered around a facial profiler. it looks at ur facebook pics and sends u a person that looks like u. i played around with it and it kinda works.

hat tip to hardocp.

i have recently became aware that liberals exist who have looked at the available data and have become convinced of the reality of hbd. one of these liberals is now struggling to reconcile hbd views and liberalism.

i appreciate this effort b/c i’ve stated previously that if liberals ignore this area of inquiry, they automatically cede the intellectual ground to conservatives and outright racists. i say this even though i’m not a liberal. i just happen to value divergent points of view as long as they are based on evidence and not ignorance, even if that evidence points to reality being pretty ugly. but what of asian-americans that might hold hbd views?

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an entertainment tidbit i found funny is how 2012 is a big hit in china. no, the chinese were probably not more impressed by the effects of the catastraporn movie than other ppl around the world. what made the chinese happy was that they were portrayed as instrumental in saving humanity. (more…)

thought this was interesting. sure, it’s propaganda, but it’s still interesting.

all ethnicities here.

I came across an interesting article on Sankaku (a site that is definitely NSFW in general), but essentially, it says 98% of korean women in their 20s or 30s would go under the knife if they could, with 46% already have it. As this was a face to face survey, it is likely that the number of women who claim their beauty is fake is under-reported for reasons of vanity, with one woman claiming 80% of women have had plastic surgery.

Source: (NSFW NSFW) http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/11/08/98-of-korean-women-want-plastic-surgery-46-have-it/ (NSFW NSFW)

there’s a weekly talk show that features 20 foreign women living and working in korea. they usually have them talking to a few korean celebs, but recently, they brought in 7 foreign guys. the talk ranged from foreign guys having an easier time picking up korean women to getting into universities. the foreign men and women feature ppl from east and west, so u really get a more diverse perspective. check it out if u have some time to kill.

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an online dating site decided to go through their own dating data and see how race affected dating. and of course, anytime data such as this is posted, it’s gonna make some group (or all of them) look racist and/or pathetic.

the data held something that ran counter to my expectations: black women responded more to every race of message sender than any other female groups. that surprised me b/c i had always thought they wanted to date black men. that apparently isn’t true as the data shows something a little sadder…

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