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| Why Most Serial Killers Are White Men Buried under mounds of sociological data, certain quantities hole up waiting to be unearthed. Inconspicuous, they require a bit of digging to expose them. With analytical shovel in hand, La Griffe uncovers criminality distributions for white, black and Hispanic men. He offers two recipes for reducing the black/white incarceration ratio. Volume 9, Number 2, May 2007 Intelligence, Gender and Race Politics, Imprisonment and Race Sex Differences in Mathematical Aptitude Cognitive Decline: The Irreducible Legacy of Open Borders Smart Fraction Theory II: Why Asians Lag Closing the Racial Learning Gap Assessing the Ashkenazic IQ How to Optimize Productivity with a Multiracial Workforce: The Theory of Differential Cutoff The Effect of Urban Flight on IQ Distribution The Smart Fraction Theory of IQ and the Wealth of Nations Dogs, Runners and the Distribution of Human Attributes Pearbotham's Law Racial Disparities in School Discipline Diversity and Excellence: Are They Compatible? The Case of the Uncounted Ballots Aggressiveness, Criminality and Sex Drive by Race, Gender and Ethnicity The Color of Death Row The Politics of Mental Retardation: A Tail of the Bell Curve IQ Matters Prodigy and his friend Jesse join Mentor to discuss Prodigy's approaching college choice. Together they solve the mystery of how an otherwise unremarkable college managed to produce eight Nobel Prize winners in 21 years. Prodigy and Jesse come up with novel estimates of the Ashkenazic Jewish IQ. Volume 2, Number 8, August 2000 Educating a Black Elite Thousands of blacks in the US have IQ scores above 130, many more above 120. A war is raging over who will hire them and who will educate them. In the corporate board room where the bottom line rules and fear of litigation lurks around every corner, the need to diversify is overriding. It is a cost of doing business. But nowhere is diversity more alive than on the college campus. University faculty are true believers. Diversity on campus is like God at a revival meeting. Academics recruit minorities with the passion of evangelists, but diversity does not come easy. Industry and universities face the same obstacle: the appalling lack of minority talent. In this essay we examine how one university deals with this issue. Volume 2, Number 7, July 2000 The Death of Meritocracy The noise has subsided, and with passions contained we look back at Prop 209 and Hopwood. Our goal: to check for compliance with the law. To help, we developed tests capable of exposing violations in exquisite detail. But when we saw admissions data from the medical schools of the University of California and the Law School at the University of Texas, we found noncompliance so blatant that simple inspection revealed it. Butchering a steer with a scalpel, however, does have its moments. Under Prop 209, the UCLA Medical School admitted 51 blacks and Hispanics in 1997. The chance of that occurring without the use of preferences was 1 in 10364. (There are about 10100 fundamental particles in the universe.) Volume 2, Number 6, June 2000 Analysis of Hate Crime Bias-motivated crime has unique characteristics. As in heterosexual rape, victims and offenders come from different groups. Unlike rape, however, hate crime is reciprocal. Each group can prey upon the other. Though not obvious, these singular aspects incline the data in a unique way. The sizes of victim and offender groups influence victimization rates in a way that is often more significant than intrinsic group bias. Methods are developed for interpreting hate-crime statistics. They are applied to recent FBI data. Volume 2, Number 5, May 2000 Standardized Tests: The Interpretation of Racial and Ethnic Gaps The interpretation of standardized test scores is full of traps that news media, politicians and interested citizens commonly fall into. Racial and ethnic gaps, and particularly their trends, are not always what they seem. A perceived gap decrease can really be an increase, and vice versa. In this essay we show how to make sense of test-score data. Examples are taken from Maryland (MSPAP) and Texas (TAAS) statewide exams, the bar exam and the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) Exam Part I. A coherent pattern emerges. Volume 2, Number 3, March 2000 Some Thoughts about Jews, IQ and Nobel Laureates A dialogue between an eleven-year-old prodigy and his mentor leads to a conjecture on the achievements of Ashkenazic Jews, and an estimate of the mean IQ of the Nobel laureates. Volume 2, Number 2, February 2000 Black Athletes: Can Whites Measure Up? One of the under-celebrated sagas of human biodiversity in the last quarter of the twentieth century is the emergence of the black athlete. His primacy is so conspicuous in some sports, that at the highest levels of competition other racial groups are all but invisible. In this essay, La Griffe du Lion analyzes the black-white athletic ability gap and shows how to measure it. We introduce the notion of an athletic quotient or AQ, and estimate black-white AQ gaps. Methods are developed to show how AQ can be used to make predictions ranging from the most probable racial makeup of a high-school basketball team to the probability that a randomly selected white can run faster than a randomly selected black. Volume 2, Number 1, January 2000 Affirmative Action: The Robin Hood Effect. In this essay La Griffe du Lion models the effect of affirmative action on the income of whites, blacks and Hispanics. It is shown that on average a black worker, between the ages of 25 and 64, earns an extra $9,400 a year because of affirmative action. Hispanics also benefit to the tune of almost $4,000 a year. However, being a zero-sum game, white workers pay an average of about $1,900 annually to foot the bill. Volume 1, Number 4, December 1999 Crime in the Hood. Violent victimization of whites by blacks is modeled in a racially mixed inner-city neighborhood. Its evolution is traced from the first black to move in, to the last white who moves out. The probability of a white being violently attacked is developed as a function of a neighborhood’s racial composition. It is shown to increase nonlinearly, approaching unity as a neighborhood becomes predominately black. Volume 1, Number 3, November 1999 The Color of Meritocracy. In a society based on meritocratic principles, a pattern of color will emerge that reflects the distribution of human attributes among racial and ethnic groups. Such patterns have developed in America in professional sports. In other areas, however, we have been more circumspect. In this essay, La Griffe takes a mostly dispassionate look at how to calculate, by race and ethnicity, the outcome of any competition in which group abilities differ. We focus on cognitive differences, saving other group variations for later consideration. Depending on where in the culture wars you stand, the method can be used to test claims of equity or inequity. Illustrations are provided that range from the promotion of police officers to law school admissions. Volume 1, Number 2, October 1999 Women and Minorities in Science. Prospects for women and minority doctoral scientists in engineering and other math-intensive areas are examined. A calculation of the ethnic-gender profile of this segment of the workforce is made for U.S. citizens and permanent residents. Rank ordering on mathematical reasoning ability predicts that women will top off at approximately 27 percent of this market. Similarly, rank ordering predicts almost 99 percent of math-intensive doctoral jobs will go to whites and Asians of primarily Chinese, Japanese, Korean and South Asian descent. Asians will continue to be represented in these fields well beyond their numbers in the general population. A study of the math-intensive academic marketplace predicts that women will top off there at about 22 to 23 percent. Volume 1, Number 1, September 1999 |
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