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"The Extinction of the Dark Elves" is my favorite of your essays. But could you correct the math errors? I want to recommend this essay to some of my smart friends, but I can't when it has obvious numerical problems. So, please fix:
1. You divide the world's population of 8B into whites (800M or 10%), smart whites (80M or 1%), based smart whites (53M or 0.33%), and healthy based smart whites (40M or 0.25%). But 0.33% of 8B is not 53M, it's 27M. And 0.25% of 8B is not 40M, it's 20M.
2. You then give a possible range for the dark elf population of 10M to 99M. But by your definition it really couldn't be more than 50M.
3. You write "Particularly, dark elves have fallen from near 10% of the world 2 centuries ago to just over 1 in 1000 people today." Based on the table overlaying the graph "Dysgenics and Global Dark Elf Percentage", I'd say that the years 1825 and 2025 had 7% and 1 in 400 (0.25%) dark elves, which is close.
4. You continue "Previously, more than 10% (assuming only living around whites) of a dark elf’s neighbors were fellow dark elves. Now, about 1 in 1000 neighbors are another dark elf." The world is geographically segregated by race (there are no dark elves in China, India, or Nigeria, so they are not our "neighbors"), intelligence (income stratification by housing costs), politics (red and blue states), and many other factors. So, even if globally just 1 in 400 people are dark elves, that doesn't mean that only 1 in 400 of dark elves' neighbors are dark elves. To adjust for racial segregation alone - not even including income or political segregation - you can use the ratio of dark elves to whites. Based on reading numbers off your graph:
Dark Dark Elves /
Year Whites Elves Whites
1825 22% 7% 32%
2025 14% 0.25% 1.8%
That is, if the whole world is now 0.25% dark elves, and whites are 14% of the global population, and we mostly live around whites (which is still true in US suburbs), then 0.25% / 14% = 1.8% of our neighbors are dark elves, which is 1 in 60. Again, this doesn't even consider income and political clustering. So, the change in our neighbors hasn't been from 10% dark elves to 1 in 1000. It's been from 32% to 1 in 60. This is horrifying and catastrophic enough, so just use the real numbers. This won't make any difference to innumerate people, and it will make your article more credible to your target audience.
I tried to post a comment after an article on sociobiology.org but pressing the "Post Comment" button did nothing (with both Microsoft Edge and Brave browsers.) And it didn't even let me type in all of my 2500 character comment.
can you paste the comment here so I can test with it?
"The Extinction of the Dark Elves" is my favorite of your essays. But could you correct the math errors? I want to recommend this essay to some of my smart friends, but I can't when it has obvious numerical problems. So, please fix:
1. You divide the world's population of 8B into whites (800M or 10%), smart whites (80M or 1%), based smart whites (53M or 0.33%), and healthy based smart whites (40M or 0.25%). But 0.33% of 8B is not 53M, it's 27M. And 0.25% of 8B is not 40M, it's 20M.
2. You then give a possible range for the dark elf population of 10M to 99M. But by your definition it really couldn't be more than 50M.
3. You write "Particularly, dark elves have fallen from near 10% of the world 2 centuries ago to just over 1 in 1000 people today." Based on the table overlaying the graph "Dysgenics and Global Dark Elf Percentage", I'd say that the years 1825 and 2025 had 7% and 1 in 400 (0.25%) dark elves, which is close.
4. You continue "Previously, more than 10% (assuming only living around whites) of a dark elf’s neighbors were fellow dark elves. Now, about 1 in 1000 neighbors are another dark elf." The world is geographically segregated by race (there are no dark elves in China, India, or Nigeria, so they are not our "neighbors"), intelligence (income stratification by housing costs), politics (red and blue states), and many other factors. So, even if globally just 1 in 400 people are dark elves, that doesn't mean that only 1 in 400 of dark elves' neighbors are dark elves. To adjust for racial segregation alone - not even including income or political segregation - you can use the ratio of dark elves to whites. Based on reading numbers off your graph:
Dark Dark Elves /
Year Whites Elves Whites
1825 22% 7% 32%
2025 14% 0.25% 1.8%
That is, if the whole world is now 0.25% dark elves, and whites are 14% of the global population, and we mostly live around whites (which is still true in US suburbs), then 0.25% / 14% = 1.8% of our neighbors are dark elves, which is 1 in 60. Again, this doesn't even consider income and political clustering. So, the change in our neighbors hasn't been from 10% dark elves to 1 in 1000. It's been from 32% to 1 in 60. This is horrifying and catastrophic enough, so just use the real numbers. This won't make any difference to innumerate people, and it will make your article more credible to your target audience.
comment should post now lmk pls. will address substance tomorrow
I just posted it successfully, although I still had to break it into two comments because there seems to be a 2000 character text limit.
ok, I expanded the char limit to 20,000 and added an inbox feature so you can easily see replies to your comments