7 డిసెంబర్, 2025

"It’s certainly a conspicuous choice following a year in which D.E.I. programs have been dismantled and the party in power..."

"... has been debating how friendly to be with a white nationalist. That may not be what Pantone means by 'peace, unity and cohesiveness,' but I have to imagine it will come up for some viewers.... This white, in particular, strikes me as a little flavorless. It’s the color of cottage cheese and dental floss, of marshmallows and AirPods."

"It reminds me of the clothes I put on when I’m in a rush and the foods I eat when I have a stomach ache.... Personally, I miss Viva Magenta from 2023. An insane choice, but at least it was a choice. Cloud Dancer feels like a product of being too tentative to make a statement in any direction. Which is, of course, its own kind of statement."

Here's how Pantone presents its color:


Who is Callie Holtermann? Given her statements about whiteness, I wanted to know if she is white.

I found this article about her from a few weeks ago: "She Knows What Gen Z Is Thinking/Callie Holtermann, who covers entertainment, internet culture and trends, combs TikTok — and her own conversations with friends — for story ideas" (NYT). There's no photograph of her, but there's an illustration that presents her as a white woman (with an iPhone in front of her face).

And here's her bio page at the NYT, with a clear photograph and a clear statement of what she's there to cover: "I cover a wide range of topics across entertainment, internet culture and fashion, often with the goal of contextualizing social trends. I am especially focused on Gen Z, whose interests and struggles I am eager to reflect in the pages of The Times." That is, she is not there to handle racial matters.

But as a fellow white woman, let me say it was also the first thing I thought about when I saw that Pantone picked white as The Color of the Year. White! Is that some kind of joke?! Talk about things that resonate with racists!

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rhhardin చెప్పారు...

White nationalists are a harmless order. The thinking is that people do better surrounded by people of their own AVERAGE IQ. The system works, no resentment builds up between high IQ and low IQ individuals because they're indistinguishable as a class.

Blacks have adopted it in segregating themselves on campus. Your surroundings are smart people and not so smart people but not by color, if you're in your own group.

Distinguished from white supremacists, who are just wrong because East Asians are smarter than whites on the average.

Ann Althouse చెప్పారు...

What's the average IQ of people who talk a lot about IQ?

Breezy చెప్పారు...

“But as a fellow white woman, let me say it was also the first thing I thought about when I saw that Pantone picked white as The Color of the Year. White! Is that some kind of joke?! Talk about things that resonate with racists!“

It only resonates as racist if you let it. White is a legitimate color in all sorts of venues, particularly in the creative arts. It should be appreciated for its origin, white light, which is made up of all colors. From that viewpoint, it’s a perfect choice.

G. Poulin చెప్పారు...

Jesus H. Christ, when are people going to stop obsessing about this shit and get a life?

Amexpat చెప్పారు...

Do White Nationalist dress in predominately white colors? Aside from KKK robes, I think not. I'd think more darker colors than lighter ones.

The Pantone color of the year looks like something that New Agers would dressin. I think White Nationlists would look out of place if they showed up to a rally dressed head to toe in that color.

rhhardin చెప్పారు...

IQ talkers tend to be science types, not female types.

rhhardin చెప్పారు...

Do you know why men and women have the same average IQ? They put in men-questions and women-questions in the right numbers to get the average for both on the combined test to come out 100.

Eric the Fruit Bat చెప్పారు...

In all fairness, who among us can honestly say we haven't dropped acid and done tai chi in the clouds?

rhhardin చెప్పారు...

A class (say blacks) does worse on the average than say some other class (say whites). Could be Indonesians and Chinese instead. Is it discrimination, as the law is fond of supposing? Or is it genes? The science types go with genes, the female types go with magic dirt. The surroundings of whites are more favorable to achievement than the surroundings of blacks. Actually that theory has been pretty much tested and it doesn't work.

tim maguire చెప్పారు...

If they pick a reddish hue while a Democrat is in the White House, do they fret about how the party in power is embracing communists? Or do they not notice and would prefer that we not notice either?

Just an old country lawyer చెప్పారు...

"Resonates with white racists."
Yes, I grew up in a small Georgia town, and remember in the early sixties, back in the bad old days of segregation, all the hard core racists would hang out at the local barber shop every December having spirited debates and even taking bets over what Pantone would choose as their color of the year. Seldom would one really resonate with them.

rehajm చెప్పారు...

I am especially focused on Gen Z, whose interests and struggles I am eager to reflect in the pages of The Times

…their own Joe Rogan, ladies and gentlemen…

n.n చెప్పారు...

Diversitism. Albinophobia. Black whores h/t NAACP. Pride and prejudice. Demos-cracy dies in darkness. Progressive liberalism.

J L Oliver చెప్పారు...

I prefer jewel tones. What does that say about me? Greedy bastard!

William చెప్పారు...

White is the color favored by Big Laundry. It's just not practical for everyday use. I wear a white T-shirt on bright summer days and it doesn't make it through the afternoon. If you do some digging, I think you'll find that Tide paid off some people to make this choice.

n.n చెప్పారు...
ఈ కామెంట్‌ను రచయిత తీసివేశారు.
n.n చెప్పారు...

Gen T

Jaq చెప్పారు...

Thank you for driving home with this post exactly how much better my time would be spent today going for a walk and then watching football.

n.n చెప్పారు...

Diversity (i.e. class-disordered ideologies), Equivocation, and Indifference ķDEI). #HateLovesAbortion

Quayle చెప్పారు...

“…..when are people going to stop obsessing about this shit and get a life?”

This is the new morality of their life. Having rejected the 10 Commandments and the beatitudes, this is what we get as morality now. and they must to adhere to it so they feel righteous - so that they feel they are a good person.

narciso చెప్పారు...

Shes a moron, not in a good way

narciso చెప్పారు...

The word of the day is logorhea

narciso చెప్పారు...

We laugh at the silly people, while she saw people burning in subways rats walking the streets and said hohum

buwaya చెప్పారు...

"What's the average IQ of people who talk a lot about IQ?"

Going by Razib Khan, Ron Unz, Curtis Yarvin, etc., its often very, very high. Me, the subject interests me, but my IQ is a pedestrian 128.

buwaya చెప్పారు...

White of any shade is a good color for skinny people like Somalis and Ethiopians. On too many of the rest it makes us look fat.

n.n చెప్పారు...

White is equitable and inclusive of diversity.

narciso చెప్పారు...

Tom wolfe could pull it off with panache

n.n చెప్పారు...

A moron exhibits poor judgment, but is not necessarily stupid. National Socialists of the Diversitist kind, entertained abortive ideation, were; in retrospect, morons who wielded liberal license that was a first-order forcing of their progress. Rest in pieces.

baghdadbob చెప్పారు...

It illustrates how much of fashion and design is a fraud. Oh, Viva Magenta is OUT, Cloud Dancer is IN. Wide lapels were the thing, now they are OUT. Those shoulder pads that you HAD to own in the 80s, in order to be current and fashionable? OUT!

Temujin చెప్పారు...

Oh FFS. Another horribly miseducated white woman declaring her personal shortcomings in the NYT. Someone make it stop. Sometimes a color is just a color. No other issues behind it other than what some designers want to work with in a given year. Deal with it. Use it. Don't use it. No one cares what you do.

(PS. And yes, all of us white enthno-nationalists can proudly wear our white hoods again.)

mindnumbrobot చెప్పారు...

Is everyone at the NYT an insufferable prig? Sheesh.

Also, I don't consider white a color. It's the absence of CMY, or K.

FormerLawClerk చెప్పారు...

It's one more thing to eat the insides out of the left, as they stew in their mental illness. "It's OK To Be Cloud Dancer."

What a bunch of fucking retards.

mindnumbrobot చెప్పారు...

Ann Althouse said...
What's the average IQ of people who talk a lot about IQ?


Here's a clue:
https://youtu.be/LRX9Qkpwxh0?si=Ly3EPLJPL25ccRqs

Maynard చెప్పారు...

What's the average IQ of people who talk a lot about IQ?

Not as high as they want you to think.

boatbuilder చెప్పారు...

So what if you are a black person who wants to wear white clothes?
These people are officially bonkers.

narciso చెప్పారు...

Sound and fury signifying nothing told by a 'credentialed idiot'

Tom T. చెప్పారు...

That photo looks like a still from the ending of The 40-Year-Old Virgin. I seem to recall that our hostess liked that movie.

boatbuilder చెప్పారు...

And Althouse, if that was really your first thought, you need to put down your NYT and take a deep breath.

Christopher B చెప్పారు...

I'm guessing nobody notices Kate Winslet in the Tube because she's wearing white.

J Severs చెప్పారు...

I am sure that ANY color can be linked to white nationalism.

planetgeo చెప్పారు...

Since white's Hex code is #FFFFFFF and RGB code is (255,255,255), indicating thar it's a combination of all the other colors, it is the most "inclusive" and "least racist" color of all. Leftists/AWFLs hardest hit.

rehajm చెప్పారు...

There are celebs who can walk amongst because they can look ordinary and not be recognized. I worked out a few feet from Kate Hudson for three weeks, chatting with her on occasion but would never have known unless someone pointed it out to me…

Meade చెప్పారు...

I resonate with High Yella.

Meade చెప్పారు...

I also resonate with Old Yeller.

Scott Patton చెప్పారు...

Don't forget the voiceless labiovelar fricative when talking about white.
I wonder if there's a high correlation between those who talk about IQ a lot and those who are overly enthusiastic about the voiceless labiovelar fricative.

Aggie చెప్పారు...

"...Is that some kind of joke?! Talk about things that resonate with racists!..."

Maye it's what happens when politics infests your life and you're mission becomes a continuous expression of TDS. Or maybe the process is completely random, and God is laughing.

But, we'll always have that new Jaguar commercial.

Achilles చెప్పారు...

Ann Althouse said...

What's the average IQ of people who talk a lot about IQ?

Higher than people who get angry and snippy when a subject comes up and they use snark and personal attacks to shut down the conversation.

One would hope you had an argument to rebut his assertion. I plan on making one.

Joe Bar చెప్పారు...

mindnumbrobot said...

"Here's a clue:
https://youtu.be/...."

Didn't this all turn out go be BS?

Achilles చెప్పారు...

rhhardin said...

White nationalists are a harmless order. The thinking is that people do better surrounded by people of their own AVERAGE IQ. The system works, no resentment builds up between high IQ and low IQ individuals because they're indistinguishable as a class.

This wont work because you still have a distribution within black and white and as you mentioned asian.

What seems to be the real issue here is that there is a minimum IQ that must be sorted out of the overall population, not an average IQ that groups want to achieve.

Instead of sorting out a race you should focus on sorting out dumb people.

Achilles చెప్పారు...

buwaya said...

"What's the average IQ of people who talk a lot about IQ?"

Going by Razib Khan, Ron Unz, Curtis Yarvin, etc., its often very, very high. Me, the subject interests me, but my IQ is a pedestrian 128.

IQ tests were developed by psych/sociology departments.

They understate and overstate based on the biases of those departments.

My hypothesis is that theoretical and abstract thinking are overrated and concrete problems solving is under rated.

People who sit in colleges all their life will score higher. People who go out and do things will score lower. I am quite sure that there are a lot of college professors that would score higher than Elon Musk on the average IQ test.

Meade చెప్పారు...

He loves cottage cheese and dental floss,
And marshmallows and AirPods
These are a few of the things he loves

tommyesq చెప్పారు...

Godwin's Second Law - as an online discussion begins, the probability of the issue under discussion (whatever it may be) being directed to Orange Man Bad within three comments approaches 1.

tommyesq చెప్పారు...

Also, the Left would be shocked at how few people on the right were aware of Nick Fuentes or have ever heard him speak or read what he has written.

Achilles చెప్పారు...

planetgeo said...

Since white's Hex code is #FFFFFFF and RGB code is (255,255,255), indicating thar it's a combination of all the other colors, it is the most "inclusive" and "least racist" color of all. Leftists/AWFLs hardest hit.

That is brilliant.

Achilles చెప్పారు...

tommyesq said...

Also, the Left would be shocked at how few people on the right were aware of Nick Fuentes or have ever heard him speak or read what he has written.

Here is your chance to have an opinion of him with words from his own mouth.

More people listen to Fuentes than listen to Daily Wire by orders of magnitude.

Daily Wire is entirely a big tech astroturf operation.

buwaya చెప్పారు...

More people also used to watch Katie Couric than read Daily Wire.
Doesnt say much about Fuentes.

Ampersand చెప్పారు...

Less than 1 percent of the population has facial coloration that Pantone's system would characterize as white. Color is used as a substitute for continent of ancestral origin. Odd.

buwaya చెప్పారు...

Watched the Crowder clip. Fuentes is all over the place, and he has an unpleasant affect besides.
But I'm a foreigner, what do I know.

john mosby చెప్పారు...

It’s just some dirty white paint (dirty white paint)
Dirty white paint!

https://youtu.be/tJSRfztl_tc?si=EImmqAaOGCTOuKTD

CC, JSM

buwaya చెప్పారు...

IQ tests were developed for perfectly practical reasons, and they remain very useful for those. Binet started it to ID kids with education problems, and there certainly still are education problems where IQ tests will help. Tracking for instance.
The US armed forces picked up on it in a big way and still uses a developed version, the ASVAB (Hernstein&Murray used ASVAB data a lot in "The Bell Curve"). Also used for tracking in military training.
Many US companies copied the military and used to do IQ testing untill barred for doing so, which is a pity as they ended up using proxies like educational attainment, which is vastly less accurate and enormously costly. And which tends to filter out, for instance, talented 16-year olds.

EAB చెప్పారు...

Maybe they’re pining for those women power white pantsuits…

buwaya చెప్పారు...

As far as practicality, speaking of non-US experience that I know of, ex. IQ tests work very well at ID'ing likely lads for training as diesel mechanics and welders.

Josephbleau చెప్పారు...

"What's the average IQ of people who talk a lot about IQ?"

Certainly high, high iq people know that it is real, low iq people are insulted and don’t think it is worth considering as an issue.

You might claim that if you talk a lot about iq it means you have the capability to use words in argument and would have a higher iq.

The social justice people who argue that there is no such thing as iq still have high iqs, they are advocates, not member of the class.

The main thing about iq is that it values certain types of thinking and critics argue that there are other things like hard work, sports, character, and manual dexterity that are important too. A problem is that people with high iq are sometimes very proud of it, and that is unattractive.

Jersey Fled చెప్పారు...

Roughly 25% of new cars sold in the U.S. last year were white. How’s that for yer social trend Callie.

Maynard చెప్పారు...

Achilles,

IQ tests were developed by the US military.

Wince చెప్పారు...

"Who is Callie Holtermann? ...That is, she is not there to handle racial matters."

It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.

narciso చెప్పారు...

There is no real consideration of thought just rote renunciation

Lazarus చెప్పారు...

The story behind the story: how a company nobody had heard of created another meaningless thing for us to pay attention to and argue about.

Pantone sounds more like a biscuit company and if it were they'd be worth more of my time.

narciso చెప్పారు...

https://www.malone.news/p/sunday-strip-overvaxxer-derangement?

Achilles చెప్పారు...

buwaya said...

The US armed forces picked up on it in a big way and still uses a developed version, the ASVAB (Hernstein&Murray used ASVAB data a lot in "The Bell Curve"). Also used for tracking in military training.

Maynard said...

Achilles,

IQ tests were developed by the US military.

I think it was more that they were adapted by the US military.

And the ASVAB was not like the college IQ tests. I don't have my results handy but I remember the general outline. The topline ASVAB score was a percentile. When I first got the results I was disappointed because I thought 99 was below average.

There are about 10 subcategories with spatial awareness being the only one I remember off the top of my head. There was something about math and something about electrical.

The army uses General Technical score to determine whether you can do a variety of things like go to OCS. You had to score 110 on the GT to go to OCS so my retard section leader had to study to retake the test.

The results of the ASVAB were made available to the people doing psych evals for us when we were trying to get into volunteer units and get clearances. That caused problems for me.

buwaya చెప్పారు...

Pantone is an important company in printing and all sorts of color reproduction - computer graphics, film processing, paint, fabric dyes, etc. It defines color matching standards globally. The color of the year thing is just a marketing frill.

buwaya చెప్పారు...

ASVAB was used as an IQ test equivalent by Hernstein&Murray because its just as "g-loaded" as the Binet-style tests.

Jamie చెప్పారు...

Fuentes is all over the place, and he has an unpleasant affect besides.

I'm with buwaya on this. I'd never heard of him until a couple of weeks ago thanks to a post herein, and when I listened to a few of the clips about him from various sources, I discovered to my great sorrow (because of that unpleasant affect) that I'd have to go to the original sources and listen more. Ugh.

When he's being interviewed, he acts one (unpleasant but at least surficially reasonable) way. When he's alone with his fans, he acts another (and even more unpleasant) way. My personal conclusion is that he's not worth my time nor anyone else's. He's like Ibram X. Kendi for white boys. It seems to me that making a case that young white men have been discriminated against has been done more ably and less, well, grossly by others, including Trump himself - a man not noted for his restraint and gentility.

Jamie చెప్పారు...

And now I expect that my bona fides as an AWF, though not an AWFL, will come into play, because Fuentes gets my ick going and I'm a woman.

Eva Marie చెప్పారు...

Skin color:
The preference for lighter skin has nothing to do with race and everything to do with wealth and class. Before modern tools like Google and LinkedIn, one of the main indicators of family wealth - and therefore marriageability - was skin color. Darker skin suggested more time spent in the sun, meaning the person (male or female) was likely a manual laborer or at least did outdoor chores. Lighter skin, on the other hand, implied that the person had enough money to employ servants and avoid outdoor work.
The “pale skin = high status” idea goes back thousands of years in many cultures (ancient China, India, Europe, parts of pre-colonial Africa, etc.) and originated long before modern concepts of race existed. It indicated that you didn’t have to work in the fields, that you had money, that you were good marriage material.

Rabel చెప్పారు...

It's not white white, it's a paler shade of white - RGB: 240, 239, 235.

The high IQ people like Joe Biden and myself should have picked up on this.

Peachy చెప్పారు...

Off-white. total cowardly bullcrap.

Peachy చెప్పారు...

Fuentes - LOL. For ass-clowns.

Eva Marie చెప్పారు...

IQ:
Thomas Sowell, in books like Intellectuals and Race and Ethnic America, documents how IQ scores among various ethnic groups in the United States have risen over generations, often shifting from below the national average to above it. For instance, Eastern European Jewish immigrants scored poorly on early 20th-century Army mental tests - averaging around 85, similar to or below Black Americans at the time - due to language, cultural differences, and poverty. Within decades, their scores surged above the national average as they integrated into the prevailing culture. Similar patterns emerged for Italian, Polish, and Irish immigrants, whose initial low scores improved over time, paralleling the broader “Flynn effect” - a global rise in IQ scores of about 3 points per decade across populations, driven by better nutrition, education, and environmental stimulation.

Peachy చెప్పారు...

Jamie - you are correct. Fuentes is not worth anyone's time. I'll add my opinion is The left killed Charlie Kirk, filled the void with lies and ushered in a fraud replacement.

john mosby చెప్పారు...

Rabel: "It's not white white, it's a paler shade of white "

And so it was that later
As Pantone's ads took flight
That her face, at first just ghostly
Turned a paler shade of white

CC, JSM

hombre చెప్పారు...

Everything is leftist propaganda with the NYT mediaswine. Some Party is debating how friendly to be with a white nationalist? Good lord! What absolute bollocks!

Achilles చెప్పారు...

Jamie said...

It seems to me that making a case that young white men have been discriminated against has been done more ably and less, well, grossly by others, including Trump himself - a man not noted for his restraint and gentility.

The point about Fuentes is the natural result of what happens when you treat white men in a racist fashion and you ignore what he has to say even when he brings up valid points.

I challenge anyone to actually find something in that video that he said and disagree with it honestly.

But notice that you and buwaya couldn't do that even here. You had to say "well this other stuff is bad."

But all of those white men between the ages of 15-40 feel like as he does and when you just brush off what he is saying with this "he is just icky" bullshit you just increase his popularity with that group.

Achilles చెప్పారు...

Peachy said...

Fuentes - LOL. For ass-clowns.

This is how democrats win used to win. It is retards like this pissing on millions of people they have been discriminating against for decades. BushRomney repulbicans have just been wrong about everything for decades.

It is a good thing nobody even cares what these people think anymore. Jeb Jr. got fewer delegates in 2024 with twice the money that Jeb Sr. spent in 2016.

Achilles చెప్పారు...

Jamie said...

Fuentes is all over the place, and he has an unpleasant affect besides.

It seems to me that making a case that young white men have been discriminated against has been done more ably and less, well, grossly by others, including Trump himself - a man not noted for his restraint and gentility.


Trump is the nicest person the Republicans have run with in decades. All Trump did was act in public as or more disagreeable than he did behind the scenes.

Compare this to career pols like Romney or Desantis who put on a nice genteel public face and treated people differently behind the curtain.

Trump is too nice to the political class.

Clyde చెప్పారు...

When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. When the only lens you view life through is that everything is racist, then that is the only thing that you will see.

Clyde చెప్పారు...

In the words of the immortal Sergeant Hulka, "Lighten up, Callie."

TobyTucker చెప్పారు...

I thought it was common knowledge that white nationalists greatly prefer the wearing of Hawaiian shirts. As for DEI policies, they're plainly discriminatory and I don't understand why the EEOC hasn't had a field day filing cases against any company or organization that espouses them.

Leora చెప్పారు...

Who elected Pantone to select the color of the year? It's definitely a 21st century kind of thing - started in 1999. Obviously a very successful marketing campaign.

rhhardin చెప్పారు...

Sowell is the black that everybody agrees is genuinely super-smart. That's consistent with US blacks having an average IQ of 86. Rarity in the super-smart tails.

Other known really smart blacks like Glenn Loury and John McWhorter are being pandered to a bit. They'd be unremarkable as whites.

wildswan చెప్పారు...

I think IQ tests don't tell us much except who will be good at technology and math because they measure pattern recognition in space.

IQ is measured by the Raven matrices. This is the latest and the greatest and the most unbiased method of measuring intelligence - they say. It measures pattern recognition of shapes in space. Using this measure Asians score highest at 108 on average, whites are 100 and blacks score 85. But is pattern recognition of shapes in space the only kind of intelligence or is it just a kind of intelligence which is very widespread in European and Asian culture? What about sounds in time. Suppose we had IQ tests based on pattern recognition of sounds in time? Such a test would result in those good at music coming out on the top. Does anyone think that blacks would be at the bottom? Jazz was invented by the blacks and what is jazz? Isn't it a set of sound patterns that get "turned around," "turned backward," "stretched out," and so on. It is a paradigm of what blacks are very good at on average. And some whites would be good at this kind of test - think of The Art of the Fugue. That's as European as you can get and it's all about pattern recognition of sounds in time. But still, you know, we wouldn't be dominant.

In America, we have Europeans - good at pattern recognition in space, good at science and technology; w have blacks good at pattern recognition of sounds in time, good at music. We have the indigenous peoples who developed the foods which now represent 65% of the world's agricultural output. They recognized plant forms and their changes. Among us all, we had all that which makes a culture great and we were the first on the moon because of that.

I grew up amid the left-over divisions from past eras and broken social bits and I never accepted them as nature and I never will.

PS That doesn't require me to be stupid about scammers, grifters, the decadent, the neurotic, the greedy and all those types who have weighed on my life since it began - and they're still here and still nasty.


Jim at చెప్పారు...

I wonder if these insufferable twits get as tired of going on and on and on about race as I do listening to them.

buwaya చెప్పారు...

"patterns in space" is just the type of problem set to which the underlying ability, theoretically "g", is being applied. Raven matrices is just a style of problem that us handy to use in a prepared printed test. Entirely different sorts of problems have been used, among them straight neurological reaction time.
"Sounds in time" (music) has been tested. As it happens musical ability is very "g-loaded" as well, that is it overlaps highly with other cognitive tests.

buwaya చెప్పారు...

Race is fascinating. It is an easily detectable leftover of the history of human genetics. I got sucked in in 1995, when I bought the founding book on that, Cavalli-Sforza's "The History and Geography of Human Genes", led there by his article in the Scientific American. Of course that is way obsolete now, its such a fast moving field.

buwaya చెప్పారు...

Pantone's system of specifying color being a global standard (an unusual case of a commercial company doing this) leads them to some silly marketing things.

Achilles చెప్పారు...

rhhardin said...

Sowell is the black that everybody agrees is genuinely super-smart. That's consistent with US blacks having an average IQ of 86. Rarity in the super-smart tails.

Other known really smart blacks like Glenn Loury and John McWhorter are being pandered to a bit. They'd be unremarkable as whites.


There are tribes in Africa, I want to say the Igbos, that do better in math than whites.

Achilles చెప్పారు...

That caveat must be made almost anyone who moves to the US recently from another country that was not subjected to the US public education system does better at math than whites that are in our public education system.

We have a generation of children who will have a permanent reduction in IQ because of what we did to our children during COVID.

buwaya చెప్పారు...

I've been saying so for years, and I have two "white" sons (ok, they are 1/8 Amerind) so I have serious skin in the game. So to speak. And complaining about US schools, for their many sins, which to be fair affects everyone.

narciso చెప్పారు...

Constructivist educational standards like those mandated by standardized test have set back a generation

buwaya చెప్పారు...

It's still worth reading "The Bell Curve" as it does a great job of explaining IQ. IQ predicts (is highly correlated with rather) most sorts of human ability ever valued by anyone, including what we would normally think of as separate personality factors, like curiosity and emotional understanding.

buwaya చెప్పారు...

Other peoples public educational systems can be worse than those of the US in fact. Do not assume. My uncle (by marriage) was involved for many years in an international comparison series of math and science, TIMMS. I suggest you look it up. The US does worse than it should given how much it spends on this, but its hardly the wprst.

narciso చెప్పారు...

Want to guess where those standards originated

buwaya చెప్పారు...

TIMMS 2024 data is here - I recommend the SPSS data (if you have SPSS, PC version is free
https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/
https://timssandpirls.bc.edu/timss-landing.html

buwaya చెప్పారు...

TIMMS 8th grade results summary
https://timss2023.org/results/math-achievement/

Short highlights
US 517
Singapore 615
Japan 591
England 552
Germany 524
Spain 498
France 484
Brazil 400

Achilles చెప్పారు...

buwaya said...

Other peoples public educational systems can be worse than those of the US in fact.

I don't doubt it. Our system was patterned after Prussian education systems after all.

Fortunately our education system is so reprehensible that its removal is inevitable.

Achilles చెప్పారు...


buwaya said...

TIMMS 8th grade results summary
https://timss2023.org/results/math-achievement/

Short highlights
US 517
Singapore 615
Japan 591
England 552
Germany 524
Spain 498
France 484
Brazil 400


I do have to point out that the US keeps people in 8th grade that every other country removes from school before they take this test.

Somewhere between grades 8-12 about half the students need to go learn how to poor concrete or weld pipes. After 12th grade most people should have found a trade/planned having their first kids.

narciso చెప్పారు...

But there are only 175 countries

effinayright చెప్పారు...

This explains that yellow old man Grampa Simpson yelling at white clouds.

How dare they taunt us!!!

buwaya చెప్పారు...

No, they dont remove them, they are sorted out into different progams, each country is different, in Spain everyone is in the same program till sixteen, and the "smart ones" do an extra two years of the bachillerato, while the rest mostly go voc ed.
Germany sorts into different schools earlier. TIMMS tries to get a valid sample from all tracks.

buwaya చెప్పారు...

Those are just the ones that participate in TIMMS. There is also PISA, which overlaps a lot and has more countries but is not focused on math&science.

Meade చెప్పారు...

I looked it up. Pantone describes my skin color as neither white nor black but as a medium shade they call Tobacco Brown. I think Median Melanin Meade would be a more appropriate name but they didn’t ask for my opinion.

I feel blessed to have an IQ below 150. Above 150 and Im afraid my neuroticism would be off the charts, based on anecdotal observations I’ve made over the years.

dicentra63 చెప్పారు...

The Pantone Color of the Year for 2025 was Chocolate Mousse. BROWN.

catter చెప్పారు...

Ate there even ten major named categories of colors? Just cycling through them, something white-ish could come up every decade. Is there a year since 2016 in which the Callie Holtermanns of the world wouldn't have found it problematic?

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