David Bessis
@davidbessis
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Rogue mathematician. "The product of mathematics is clarity and understanding." — Bill Thurston https://t.co/l95RHuWz2S
Joined January 2012
What I found: not only is the slide misleading, but the whole trope around "twins separated at birth" being a viable scientific strategy is broken beyond repair. Full story here: https://t.co/QfaJIoblwA
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The most hilarious comment on my Substack piece😂! Reads like a parody of McCarthy-era movies with people freaking out about commies.
What I found: not only is the slide misleading, but the whole trope around "twins separated at birth" being a viable scientific strategy is broken beyond repair. Full story here: https://t.co/QfaJIoblwA
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Guy admits he accused me of IQ denialism without having the faintest idea what my views are, just because some dude he knows had replied to me🥳!
@davidbessis @notadampaul it does, since I literally have no clue who you are and merely replied because I saw someone I follow reply.
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@davidbessis @avidseries @paulg @cremieuxrecueil It’s wild the amount of effort and resources people like you expend to try maintain the illusion of the blank slate Just say you think intelligence is delivered by God or something. It would be less pathetic
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This guy must have read a bad LLM impersonation of my book, because I absolutely don't think it's all socioeconomic. Honestly, this is getting tiring🥱.
I stopped reading this guy's book called "Mathematica" about 10 pages in; woke bullshit. Of course, he is a blank slater. and he "wants" to believe it's all socioeconomic blah blah.
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@ilinxing @davidbessis Here's what ChatGPT said. I posted your essay and the response from Cremieux. I think it thinks I wrote your essay because I didn't clarify, but anyway: Short version: his response is 80% rhetoric, 20% substance, and even the substantive bits are a lot less “settled” than he
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So apparently @cremieuxrecueil thinks my post is "idiotic and obviously slanderous" and is offended that I labeled him a "hereditarian" (which he says is "another lie".) That's funny because @slatestarcodex called him a "hereditarian" 2 days ago and that didn't cause a meltdown.
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Sure😉!
@cremieuxrecueil @Meaningness @davidbessis The bottom line is critiques of twin studies, not just MZA studies, but all studies that find genetics are important for IQ etc. are motivated by leftist politicial ideology masquerading as just doing science. They don't want their belief system (the blank slate) undermined.
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When I stumbled upon the @cremieuxrecueil visual, I initially found it disturbingly persuasive—no surprise it got 3.5M views. It was shocking to me, but it seemed legit. Then I noticed some cracks, dug, and went down a three-month IQ heritability rabbit hole.
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The third crazy thing: the authors of the orange study (Minnesota) pulled a dog-ate-my-control-group excuse to withhold critical fraternal twin data (they had collected this control group because it could have validated their claims—or disproved them.)
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The second crazy thing: the author of the purple study (Shields) explicitly advised *against* drawing blanket conclusions about the heritability of IQ, because he knew his data was biased (most of his twins grew up in two branches of the same family).
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The first crazy thing: the yellow dataset (Burt) is known to be a fabrication. I have no clue why @cremieuxrecueil decided to include it, as the Burt fraud is one of the biggest and most documented scandal in the history of science. https://t.co/7VpZ8A2xpP
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This viral post by @paulg was based on a visual by @cremieuxrecueil. Taken at face value, it seemed to prove that IQ is almost entirely determined by genes. But when you look at the actual sources, you realize that this conclusion is fundamentally wrong.⤵️
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Meta-analysis is a technology that transforms chicken shit into chicken sandwich — and it's unreliable.
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At the risk of repeating myself, it blows my mind that this thing doesn't make it to the front-page of every single media, on a monthly basis, if not every week or every day. https://t.co/l66erXuImR
Argentina... Please explain the physical law that makes a falling knife stop falling in mid-air.
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When no-one is interacting with your content, except the right people🙂...
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"Please explain the physical law that makes a falling knife stop falling in mid-air." (that was quite possibly my first viral content on this site)
How the UN Projections Hide Demographic Collapse The UN just released 2024 fertility forecasts. @davidbessis has a great🧵 showing the absurdity of how they always predict things stabilize. "Please explain the physical law that makes a falling knife stop falling in mid-air."👇
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@xhorva PS2: for some reason, people perceive this topic as politically-coded. This is a major mistake. A genuine phenomenon is going on that is massive and global. No-one knows when and how it will revert, and it already represents an anthropological shift of biblical proportions.
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No, we're not going extinct any time soon. But, yes, fertility continues to crash worldwide like a falling knife.
Here are the newest statistics on births and the TFR. Turkey is now reporting monthly data as well.
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