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Anonymous SFG said...

'Odds ratio' (OR) is the likelihood of something occurring in one group relative to another. If men are three times more likely to get engineering degrees than women (meaning 75% of engineerng degrees go to men), men have an OR of 3 vis-a-vis women for an enginering degree and Larry Summers is out of a job.

So your odds ratio of 9 means white people are 9 times more likely to be highly educated than nonwhites in Mexico. Of course, this doesn't prove genetic racial differences, only that Mexico is racist.

It would explain the short and brown illegal immigrant population; from what I understand the people sneaking over the border are the people at the bottom of the Mexican social pyramid who have been displaced due to social problems on their side.

3/5/07, 4:38 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

What skull reconstruction, that's a picture of Geddy Lee!

3/5/07, 5:54 AM

Blogger Steve Sailer said...

So, she belongs to the race of Randian Metalheads?

3/5/07, 6:39 AM

Blogger Michael Farris said...

"from what I understand the people sneaking over the border are the people at the bottom of the Mexican social pyramid who have been displaced due to social problems on their side"

At least until the early 90's (no idea what's going on now). The bottom of the social pyramid had all they could to keeping their heads (barely) above water. There was no way they could afford the reltively expensive process of crossing the border safely and making it to a destination where there was work.
Those who crossed were those from lower (but by no means lowest) class with middle class ambitions and no way to fulfill them in mexico.

3/5/07, 7:24 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

More good stuff here:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/palanthsci/message/29309

3/5/07, 11:01 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Let's try that again...

3/5/07, 11:07 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Mexico's elite is a political elite. Mexico is country where who you know is much more important than what they know. Neopotism is chronic and anti-competitive forces backed up by the Government keep the system in place. This is true for ligitamate businesses as well as the drug and illegal alien trade.

In the US business types look down on Government types. In Mexico it is the other way around.

I had hoped when the PRI monopoly was cracked 6 years ago that things would change faster but change and fast are not words that quickly come to mind when one thinks about Mexico.

3/5/07, 11:11 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Go easy on the old Sicilian lady. She was considered attractive back in her day. ; )

She doesn't look too odd. I swear I've met old Sicilian ladies that look like her.

Mexico might become less of an issue; I've heard that birthrates over there are dropping very quickly. If that is the case, we'll eventually see fewer and fewer illegal immigrants. Also, I hear that the more generations a Mexican family has been in the U.S., the closer their birthrate comes to ours. It's possible that Texas may never have a Hispanic majority.

~ Risto

3/5/07, 3:03 PM

Blogger Michael Farris said...

She doesn't look that odd, if I didn't know where she was supposed to be from I would have guessed southern (or southeastern) europe.

3/6/07, 1:49 AM

Anonymous Arch Wiebe said...

The apparent "Indianization" of Mexican immigrants is a phenomenon I noticed in the mid to late 1990s. Before then, a Mexican over here (i.e. not a rich tourist) was nearly synonymous with a very Mestizo looking type, usually medium skin tone, usually loud, cocky and macho. The pure Indians are a different tribe from the Mayan-looking types, short, quiet, oftentimes not literate in Spanish much less English. They do not have the Mayan or Toltec looking features at all.

Earlier, such people stayed in Mexico, I suspect, because they were in effect serfs. Globalization has uprooted them for better or worse, and they can not blend into American culture just as they didn't blend in to Mexican mainstream culture in 400 years.

They seem much less dangerous than the loud, cocky, swaggering mestizo of old, but that could be a dangerous illiusion. It does seem like they are more or less immune to schooling, much like the Roma, who are usually dyslexic and who possess a staggering propensity to (usually nonviolent) crime. I don't know that the Indios are horribly crime-prone, and I suspect their ineducability lies in other characteristics than "dyslexia". Perhaps good old low IQ. I just don't know.

The correlation between educaltional success and Europeannesss in Mexico is probably little due to "Racism" and much more to low educability but there peobably is some level of resistance against highly capable individuals who look more Indian or nonwhite.

In my opinion, it's in everyone's interest to first get Mexico's huevos in our fist by securing the border and making illegal residency here economically untenable, then "negotiating" from a position of strength for reforms that are needed within Mexico to accomplish the goal of having Mexicans work in Mexico on a productive basis. Currently though we are in no position practically or morally to do that.

3/6/07, 2:40 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

That woman looks like most people from Sicily and southern Italy. I live in NJ, trust me on this one.

3/6/07, 3:26 PM

Anonymous Henry said...

Steve probably only mixes with WASP-types.

3/7/07, 12:19 PM

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