Richwine 'IQ and Immigration Policy'

[Don Dresden]

Fake research like the global warming fraud is embraced by libtards. Legit research earns you a smear campaign if the libtards don't like your results.

The Crucifixion of Jason Richwine
By Michelle Malkin - May 10, 2013

How low will supporters of the Gang of Eight immigration bill go to get their way? This low: They've shamelessly branded an accomplished Ivy League-trained quantitative analyst a "racist" and will stop at nothing to destroy his career as they pave their legislative path to another massive illegal alien benefits bonanza.

Jason Richwine works for the conservative Heritage Foundation. He's a Harvard University Ph.D. who co-authored a study that pegs the cost of the Ted Kennedy Memorial Open Borders Act 2.0 legislation at $6.3 trillion. Lead author Robert Rector is a senior research fellow at Heritage, a former United States Office of Personnel Management analyst and the intellectual godfather of welfare reform. He holds a master's degree in political science from Johns Hopkins University.

Both Democrats and Republicans leaped to discredit the 102-page report without bothering to read it. The Washington Post falsely claimed the study did not take into account increased revenues from amnestied illegal alien workers. It did. Haley Barbour immediately proclaimed that the Heritage assessment of government costs incurred by amnestied illegal aliens was "not serious."

They want to talk gravitas? Let's talk gravitas. Blowhard Barbour is a career politician and paid lobbyist for the government of Mexico who has carried water for open borders since the Bush years. Richwine received his doctorate in public policy in 2009 from Harvard University's prestigious Kennedy School of Government. He holds bachelor's degrees in mathematics and political science from American University. Before joining Heritage in 2010, he worked at the American Enterprise Institute on a dissertation fellowship.

Richwine's 166-page dissertation, "IQ and Immigration Policy," is now being used to smear him -- and, by extension, all of Heritage's scholarship -- as "racist." While the punditocracy and political establishment sanctimoniously call for "honest discussions" on race, they rush to crush bona fide, dispassionate academic inquiries into the controversial subjects of intelligence, racial and ethnic differences, and domestic policy.

Richwine's entire thesis is now online [below]. Part One reviews the science of IQ. Part Two delves into empirical research comparing IQs of the native-born American population with that of immigrant groups, with the Hispanic population broken out. Richwine explores the causes of an immigrant IQ deficit that appears to persist among Hispanic immigrants to the U.S. through several generations.

The thesis analyzes social policy consequences of these findings and uses a model of the labor market "to show how immigrant IQ affects the economic surplus accruing to natives and the wage impact on low-skill natives."

The smug dismissal of Richwine's credentials and scholarship is to be expected by liberal hacks and clown operatives. But a reckless and cowardly pileup of knee-jerk dilettantes on the right -- including former McCain campaign co-chair Ana Navarro and conservative Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin -- have joined the character assassins of the Soros-sphere, MSNBC and Mother Jones in deeming Richwine a "racist." The drooling attack dogs of the far-left blog Daily Kos have now launched a pressure campaign against the JFK School demanding to know "why the school awarded Richwine a Ph.D. and what they plan to do in the future to prevent it from happening again."

No researcher or academic institution is safe if this smear campaign succeeds. Richwine's dissertation committee at Harvard included George Borjas, Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy. The Cuban-born scholar received his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia. He is an award-winning labor economist, a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research and the author of countless books, including a widely used labor economics textbook now in its sixth edition.

Richard J. Zeckhauser, the Frank P. Ramsey Professor of Political Economy at JFK, also signed off on Richwine's dissertation. Zeckhauser earned a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard. He belongs to the Econometric Society, the American Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine (National Academy of Sciences).

The final member of Richwine's "racist" thesis committee is Christopher Jencks, the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at Harvard's JFK School. He is a renowned left-wing academic who has taught at Harvard, Northwestern, the University of Chicago and the University of California, Santa Barbara. He edited the liberal New Republic magazine in the 1960s and has written several scholarly books tackling poverty, economic inequality, affirmative action, welfare reform and, yes, racial differences ("The Black-White Test Score Gap").

The willingness of Republican Gang of 8'ers to allow a young conservative researcher and married father of two to be strung up by the p.c. lynch mob for the crime of unflinching social science research is chilling, sickening and suicidal.

These are serious people doing serious work. The crucifiers of Jason Richwine pretend to defend sound science. But if it is now inherently racist to study racial and ethnic differences among demographic groups, then it's time to shut down every social sciences department in the country.

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[ham]

Once upon a time you might be sent to concentration camp if you called the bluff on say the theory that aryans originated in a giant cave under the north pole or something...not much has changed...only the costumes, but not the tune or the decor...

[Martin Eisenstadt]

Richwine's mistake was not getting 15 buddies to write it up for him. If anybody commented negatively he could just claim that's how they do it at Princeton, tell them about his neat camping trip to Yosemite, then run for Congress.

[ham]

You're avenged buddy...let those racist bigots know that we can fight back...and we will...



Did any of you fascist turds say anything about laughing last, perchance?

[Fort Bragger]

The whole ethnicity self-pity business is based on emotion. Research be damned, everyone is equal. The sample is biased, research is biased, etc. etc.. Certain ethnicities under perform despite being born with the ability to succeed. They are not being discriminated against. They are simply lazy-assed useless because it is part of their culture and their parents taught it to them.

IQ is a reflection of nature AND nurture. An underachieving culture of the type that would generate immigration would most certainly have a lesser IQ or else they would have cumulatively figured out a way to cease being economic losers. Do they have the ability to have higher IQs? I suspect they do but culturally are too lazy to crack a book or get off their ass.

[Don Dresden]

Certain ethnicities under perform despite being born with the ability to succeed. They are not being discriminated against. They are simply lazy-assed useless because it is part of their culture and their parents taught it to them.

Reminds me of that old one about the Jewish and Puerto Rican kids growing up in the same New York neighborhood. When the Jewish kid leaves the house for school his mother yells, "Do you have your books?" When the Puerto Rican kid leaves the house his mother yells, "Do you have your lunch?"

[Armando Ramos]

Reminds me of that old one ..."Do you have your lunch?"

Ha ha, that is an old one. Today she would yell "Do you have your government school lunch program meal ticket and your EBT card?"

[Martin Eisenstadt]

The Heretic at Heritage
Pat Buchanan | May 14, 2013

Jason Richwine, the young conservative scholar who co-authored the Heritage Foundation report on the long-term costs of the amnesty bill backed by the "Gang of Eight," is gone from Heritage.

He was purged after The Washington Post unearthed his doctoral dissertation at the JFK School of Government.

Richwine's thesis:

IQ tests fairly measure mental ability. The average IQ of immigrants is well below that of white Americans. This difference in IQ is likely to persist through several generations.

And the potential consequences of this?

"A lack of socioeconomic assimilation among low IQ immigrant groups, more underclass behavior, less social trust and an increase in the proportion of unskilled workers in the American labor market."

Richwine defended his 166-page thesis before Harvard's George Borjas, Richard Zeckhauser and Christopher Jencks, who once edited The New Republic. But while his thesis was acceptable at Harvard -- it earned Richwine a Ph.D. -- it has scandalized the Potomac priesthood.

Our elites appear unanimous: Richwine's view that intelligence is not equally distributed among ethnic and racial groups, and is partly inherited, is rankest heresy. Yet no one seems to want to prove him wrong.

Consider Richwine's contention that differences in mental ability exist and seem to persist among racial and ethnic groups.

In The Wall Street Journal last month, Warren Kozak noted that 28,000 students in America's citadel of diversity, New York City, took the eighth-grade exam to enter Stuyvesant, the Bronx School of Science and Brooklyn Tech, the city's most elite high schools. Students are admitted solely on their entrance test scores.

Of the 830 students who will be entering Stuyvesant as freshmen this fall, 1 percent are black, 3 percent are Hispanic, 21 percent are white -- and 75 percent are Asian.

Now, blacks and Hispanics far outnumber Asians in New York. But at Stuyvesant, Asians will outnumber blacks and Hispanics together 19-to-1.

Is this the result of racially biased tests at Stuyvesant?

At Berkeley, crown jewel of the California university system, Hispanics, 40 percent of California's population and an even larger share of California's young, are 12 percent of the freshman class. Asians, outnumbered almost 3-to-1 by Hispanics in California, have almost four times as many slots as Hispanics in the freshman class. Another example of racial bias?

The 2009 Programme for International Student Assessment, PISA, which measures the academic ability of 15-year-olds worldwide, found the U.S.A. falling to 17th in reading, 23rd in science, 31st in math.

Yet, Spain aside, not one Hispanic nation, from which a plurality of our immigrants come, was among the top 40 in reading, science or math.

But these folks are going to come here and make us No. 1 again?

Is there greater "underclass behavior" among Hispanics?

The crime rate among Hispanics is about three times that of white Americans, while the Asian crime rate is about a third that of whites.

Among white folks, the recent illegitimacy rate was 28 percent; among Hispanics, 53 percent. According to one study a few years back, Hispanics were 19 times as likely as whites to join gangs.

What about Richwine's point regarding "social trust"?

Six years ago, in "E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the 21st Century," Robert Putnam, author of "Bowling Alone," wrote that after 30,000 interviews he found that ethnic and racial diversity can be devastating to communities and destructive of community values.

In racially mixed communities, Putnam wrote, not only do people not trust strangers, they do not even trust their own kind.

"People living in ethnically diverse settings appear to 'hunker down,' that is, to pull in like a turtle ... (to) withdraw even from close friends, to expect the worst from their community and its leaders, to volunteer less, give less to charity and work on community projects less often, to register to vote less, to agitate for social reform more but have less faith they can actually make a difference, and to huddle unhappily in front of the television."

With the immigration bill granting amnesty to 12 million illegals, an open door to their dependents and a million new immigrants each year, almost all from the Third World, America in 2040 is going to look like Los Angeles today. Yet, it was in L.A. that Putnam found social capital at its most depleted and exhausted.

If Richwine is right, America in 2040 will be a country with whites and Asians dominating the professions, and 100 million Hispanics concentrated in semiskilled work and manual labor.

The issues Richwine raises go to the question of whether we shall survive as one nation and one people.

If our huge bloc of Hispanics, already America's largest minority at 53 million, is fed by constant new immigration, but fails for a couple of generations to reach the middle-class status that Irish, Germans, Jews, Italians and Poles attained after two generations, what becomes of our "indivisible" nation?

Rather than face this question, better to purge and silence the Harvard extremist who dared to raise it.

[jamesc1]

The answer is-JOBS-JOBS-JOBS

The service and manufacturing sector MUST be required to produce many more jobs HERE. If they are unable or unwilling to create jobs here the governement MUST create them, as did F.D.R.

It is said that government does not create jobs. The depression ended when we employed 10 million young men in world war two, while at the same time creating millions of jobs making things that go bang or causes them too. We went from a sleepy, slow moving country to the golden age of the middle class. {after the war}

Now is this the best way to make jobs? no, but if WE the people keep sending our jobs to China, Mexico, etc. etc.etc., then the government MUST step up. No jobs, no work, no money, and you will get young people dealing and taking drugs and being thieves.

It was the government that exported the jobs trying to get China to help oppose Russia. We then exported more to India trying to get them to help oppose the rising China.

I see no hope that American Industry will create the millions of jobs necessary to keep people employed. They are too greedy and too self satisfied with where their money is coming from and the present system.

We can make jobs or we can build prisons for millions of young people. You'd be surprised how much better people can behave when they have money in their pockets, money honestly earned, and adequate for their needs.

[Fort Bragger]

The answer is-JOBS-JOBS-JOBS

The service and manufacturing sector MUST be required to produce many more jobs HERE. If they are unable or unwilling to create jobs here the government MUST create them, as did F.D.R.

The American advantage is skilled human capital. So who are the immigrants? Human flotsam and jetsam. Thinking that America is going to be a better place by bringing the third world here is ridiculous.

The jobs thing is a problem. Through human rights, labour, environmental and other bullshit regulation, we have sent all the jobs overseas where they have no such thing. In boom times the debt was out of control and under Obama it is stifling. Welcome to Cyprus. It looks like the constant borrowing and printing of money is needed to maintain the status quo without creating any jobs. Without the Fed printing outrageous amount of money, the deflation would be amazing. With printing of money at close to Zimbabwe levels there is almost no inflation. Cool!