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I knew or would have a very good guess for 11 out of 25. And I’ve read all Steve’s output (minus the stuff on baseball and gridiron) since 2017.

It’s a hard quiz!

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I could’ve been a judge, but I never ‘ad the Latin… I never ‘ad the Latin to get through the rigorous judging exams. They’re very rigorous, the judging exams, very rigorous indeed. They’re noted for their rigor. People come out of them saying, “My God, what a rigorous exam!” And so I become a miner instead. I managed to get through the mining exams. They’re not very rigorous. They’re no rigor involved really. There’s a complete lack of rigor involved in the mining exams.

They only ask you one question. They say, “Who are you?” And I got 75 percent on that.

--Peter Cook, "Beyond the Fringe"

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14. Raj Chetty

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And once again, Steve has to imply that everyone's tax returns are sitting on a server farm at Harvard.

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You must work for the IRS to get so wee-weed up about this. There's nothing inaccurate in the question, which wasn't written by Steve in any case.

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The question was a repeat on an inaccuracy that Steve keeps doing even though he knows the reality of the situation. With Steve's phrasing, it would be easier to justify the IRS ending its cooperation with Chetty. And Steve does not like Chetty's research because it does not cover the same issues that Steve covers.

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"What famous researcher has provided Steve hours of content w access to anonymized tax returns?"

Does not in any way support your complaint

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Chetty does not have access to anonymized tax returns. Chetty and his research staff have access to the actual IRS databases by being able to run scripts on those databases that produce aggregated results. No one's anonymized tax return is sitting on a server farm at Harvard. However, one's state returns are sitting on the databases on the IRS where Chetty's coders were given the design of the databases and then, wrote scripts that run on the IRS's actual system.

That is a world of difference that Steve seems intent on ignoring.

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I'm not sure you know what the word "access" means. From The statement on the quiz and things Steve has said in the past, this is approximately what I assumed the situation was. No one ever brought up where the servers were located. BTW, the implication of what you wrote "wrote scripts that run on the IRS's actual system" is that the IRS has a single database and that Chetty's people ran scripts on it. If that is true, it is horrifyingly irresponsible of the IRS to do that. What is more likely is that the IRS did a data ETL into an anonymized database structure that was optimized for querying. Whether this was a server owned by the IRS or Harvard I could not say. If instead they let Chetty's group run queries on the IRS live transactional system, that's bonkers

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9. There were many ways to donate to you. Most were only available in the US so I ignored them. I think another one was bitcoin. I seem to recall there was also a mailing address for paper checks.

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and you could leave a bag of flaming dog poop on the porch of one of his critics

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2. Turkish Islamist movement in the Poconos: leader Fethullah Gulen. I don’t if he runs test prep though: would that be Khan Academy (founded by an Indian Muslim)?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sal_Khan

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25. STANCIL

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Now we need an answer sheet so we can check our answers and say “Right! Now I remember!”, just like Jeopardy!

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1. “nigga”

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I got all of them right.

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What's one of his favorite bands?

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Ramone’s, Talking Heads, The Clash

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Such trivia. Why not ask the really important questions about what he stands for and the important insights he has had concerning the social consequences of human biodiversity over the years?

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Feel free to draw that up hotshot

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I was able to answer exactly one of those questions. Number 14. I'd love to know the answers to the rest of them.

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I will respond w the answers soon.

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Steve Sailer Quiz

1. Long ago, John Derbyshire called Steve the “smartest _____ I know” - Gink

2. What was the name of the Turkish Islamist movement that runs test prep centers in the Poconos? Gulenists

3. Steve coined this term regarding the rabble rousing done by autogynephiliacs? World War T

4. From what neighborhood in Chicago does Steve’s family hail from? Austin

5. Steve coined this term to define his ideology. Citizensism

6. What slur did John Podhoretz use to describe Steve after his Katrina article (spelling counts) reprllent

7. What was Steve’s legendary nickname for Podhoretz? Jpod the Lesser

8. What was the name of Steve’s first book? Half blood Prince

9. How many ways can you donate to Steve? Over or under 8.5? Over. Way over

10. What is name of band that sought permission to use Steve’ childhood photo on their album cover? Sudden Death of Stars

11. What was internet address of his work prior to moving to Unz? Isteve.blogpost.com

12. What is the mascot for the University Steve attended as an undergrad? Owl

13. Is Steve a fan of LeBron James? Why or why not? Yes. Grew up w no dad. No major crimes. Good dad, loyal husband to high school sweetheart.

14. What famous researcher has provided Steve hours of content w access to anonymized tax returns? Raj Chetty

15. What is Steve’s favorite type of architecture? Golf course

16. What magazine published Steve’s first piece? National Review

17. What is Sailer’s first law of female journalism? Come the Revolution, the journalist herself will be considered hotter-looking

18. Finish this Sailerism: Invade the world, Invite the world, …. In hock to the world

19. Whose blog did Sailer read that led to the backlash on the UVA rape hoax? Richard Bradley

20. Who was Steve’ classmate at UCLA that became super successful Trans CEO? Martin now Martina Rothblatt

21. What type of market research did Steve do in Chicago? Consumer

22. Who are the two white cornerbacks starting this week due to the Steve’s constant haranguing of NFL defensive coordinators? Riley Moss and Cooper DeJean

23. Name one of Steve’s favorite bands? Ramones, Talking Heads, The Clash

24. Steve’s twitter avatar is from which course? Bonus- which hole? Cypress Point 18th hole

25. What is the go to discount code for free shipping from Passage Publishing?

STANCIL

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I'm a senior fan of the Talking Heads and the Clash myself. Does anyone under 50 remember them?

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Yes. They are hugely popular bands.

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I, for one, am looking forward to the day when our institutions of higher learning will be granting degrees in 'Sailer studies.' Fethullah Gulen, in his typical shrewd way, will be offering test prep in advance of this development.

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This is the "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" of the dissident right.

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I would say I know a little less than 50%. 25 questions is too long for me to do off the top of my head on a computer. It's too tempting to start using search engines to cheat. I'm sure Han Chinese in Mainland China do things like that, are in contact with fluent English speaking Han Chinese in places like Hong Kong and Singapore to ace the English SAT entrance exams, I noticed that a lot of these Mainland Chinese students here at U Chicago don't speak very good English once they are here.

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I attended the S S book signing tour on Sheridan Road here in Chicago - saw and met so many bright younger people. I'd like to get on lists, network with the organizers to plan and support similar events. I'm at U Chicago Hyde Park where I was born, raised, returned. It's a tough place to leave.

I'd particularly like to meet in person Daniel S who wrote for the Chi Thinker.

Regards

J Ryan

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I Bing-ed "Turkish Islamist movement that runs test prep centers in the Poconos?"

First hit. Can't make this up, from the NY Post:

***SAYLORSBURG,*** Pennsylvania — The influential Muslim cleric lives quietly in a gated 26-acre compound in the Pocono Mountains, where he prays, works, meets admirers and watches from afar as terrorism accusations that have landed him on Turkey’s most-wanted list unfold in court.

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