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Re: Newsflash: Results of the 2008 California Standardized Test

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From: Herman Rubin
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:26
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In article <5439a656-21d1-4d08-829e-5c01820c7364@f36g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>,
foolsrushin. <dolomite8@hotmail.com> wrote:
>On 24 Aug, 08:39, Day Brown <daybr...@daybrown.org> wrote:
>> Herman Rubin wrote:

>> > Unfortunately, most of the religious support those
>> > who are unintelligent reproducing. =A0

>> In a one man/one vote system, its [?] the logical path to power.

>> This is born out by Bouchard's longitudinal study of identical twins
>> adopted out at birth to different parents, who at adults, nevertheless
>> tested out with personality and talent tests such that it was easy, well =
>> past the 0.05 level [fuckwit!], to determine who the twins were.

>> Conversely, unrelated kids adopted by the same set of parents were no
>> more like each other as adults than a random grab off the street.
>> Bouchard found twins even adopted similar religions no matter what
>> religions their parents had.

>> Recently, I've suggested that since girls will get pregnant anyway to
>> become welfare queens, that we subsidize them using fertility clinics to
>> have progeny with much more promise. This would reduce the premature
>> birth rate and save taxpayers money in the first 9 months. Never mind
>> the return on investment in education later on.

>> The silence from the fundies ranting about the depravity has been just
>> deafening. Sociologists, psychologists, and liberals have been quiet as
>> well. Yet I would point out to all of them, that if they want their own
>> retirement funded, they [had?] better get a eugenics program going,
>> cause [?] the dumb fucks now being bred [?] are not going to make
>> enuf [?] money to support the entitlement programs. Education is
>> necessary, but not sufficient.

>> As the test scores show.

>And Day Brown, of course, is God's gift to the rest of us! Does he go
>around with a menacing bull terrier on a silver leash, one wonders. If
>he had been given a second choice, wanting to improve the quality of
>our community, would he have chosen to be born at all?

The strength of the results obtained in the Minnesota
Twin Study even surprised the researchers.  In many
cases, twins raised apart were more like each other
than raised together.  An explanation for this is that
twins raised together deliberately come up with ways
to distinguish themselves.


>A strange things about twins, none in our family, is that they often
>simultaneously experience events - death, birth pains, for example
>telephone each other at the same time in a crisis?

Popular beliefs, not authenticated.
-- 
This address is for information only.  I do not claim that these views
are those of the Statistics Department or of Purdue University.
Herman Rubin, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
hrubin@stat.purdue.edu         Phone: (765)494-6054   FAX: (765)494-0558
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Subject: Re: Newsflash: Results of the 2008 California Standardized Test
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