Nobel prizes actually track staggeringly well with the wealth of the country the recipients did their work in — the more wealthy, the more likely the country is to have a decent scientific research prioritization.

They even more strongly track with having the appearance of a owning a dick. Like, to the tune of ~20:1 men over women. Only a fool who misunderstands science would assume unadjusted crude rates from such a source could be used to infer anything about the base populations. Like, one would almost have to be purposely and maliciously ignorant of basic statistics and inference to not immediate see this.

OK, let’s talk statistics.

Did I ask you to talk statistics? No, I told you to take a fucking class in statistics because you’re a fucking know-nothing about statistics. If you knew anything about statistics, you wouldn’t have rattled off some data and called those statistics. You’d have recognised that there’s a lot more to drawing conclusions than assuming correlation between two variables. So don’t “talk statistics”. It just cements the fact that you’re an idiot.

Now, why don’t you take my advice and learn something about experimental design, controls, and confounding variables before you open your fetid piehole again, you goddamn dipshit.

This whole argument feels to me like the argument about IQ — where it’s a product of how many Western conventions you know, and thus a non-Western audience (like African bushmen) would be rated very low because they aren’t Western, and thus treated as though they’re unintelligent by racists who don’t realize IQ only measures IQ, not intelligence.

OK, let’s talk statistics. There are 1.5 billion Muslims in the world and 15 million Jews. Two Muslims have won Nobel Prizes in the sciences. I would be willing to bet that a very conservative estimate of the number of Jews who have won Nobel Prizes in the sciences is 50 (I can name 20 in physics alone off the top of my head, including 3 who I have taken courses from: Emilio Segre, Steven Weinberg, and Julian Schwinger). Now the implication in Karmacat’s comment is that there are a number of Muslims who should have been awarded the prize but, for whatever reason did not. So far I note that he/she has failed to name as many as 10.

Re Raging Bee @ #20

Actually, I look forward to a Brayton post involving Libertarians, knowing that the Fairfax flipper will be along with a nasty comment. He’s entirely predictable in that regard.