Recently I published some hate facts about why the races in South Africa have different levels of wealth and achievement. I presented graphs showing IQ differences between races. Now I am presenting data specific to South Africa, and I will show that if anything, non-blacks are currently underemployed in South Africa compared to blacks.
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Professor Jordan Peterson has more than once said a person with an IQ below 83 is pretty much unemployable. Assuming normal distributions of IQ and a standard deviation of 15 for all groups, we can estimate an unemployment rate based on average IQs for the races. Using Warburg's figures, with pumpkinperson's potentials in parentheses, we have mean IQs of:
- White 94 (100)
- Indian 86
- Coloured 83
- Black 65 (80)
Using Infogalactic's z-table to estimate, we get the following unemployment rates if we assume all under-83 IQ people are unemployed and all over-83 IQ people are employed:
- White 23% (13%)
- Indian 42%
- Coloured 50%
- Black 88% (58%)
These figures are all 2 or 3 times the official unemployment rates from Stats SA:
- White 6.6%
- Indian 12.9%
- Coloured 22.9%
- Black 31.4%
What gives? I hypothesise a combination of under-reported unemployment by Stats SA (because as Friedrich Nietzsche said: "Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.") and employment of lower IQs than those proposed by Peterson. The reason I doubt the unemployment figures is that the white unemployment rate is similar to the unemployment rates in most First World Countries, but emigrés from SA to there report that it is easier to find work there. The reason I dispute Peterson is that I know for a fact many people in South Africa are employed merely to give them a job, not to expect anything productive from them. Anyone who doubts this just needs to drive past some roadworks, and then tell me how intellectually challenging it is to stand on the side of a road waving a red flag at every car that passes.
If we back calculate from the official unemployment figures, we can get an "official" IQ cut-off for employment.
- White 71 (77)
- Indian 69
- Coloured 72
- Black 58 (73)
The three non-black races correlate well, around 71. I postulate that the border for employability in South Africa is somewhere between IQ 71 and IQ 83 for non-blacks. But what of our outlier? Is it an outlier if it covers 80% of the population?
If the black employment cut-off IQ is in reality closer to the norm for the other races, then their unemployment rate is much higher than the official rate; disproportionately more compared to the other races. This is possible, if there are many more blacks not looking for work (if you stop looking for a job, you stop being officially unemployed), as well as if there are large rural segments who weren't included as unemployed because of the nature of their lifestyles.
Another possibility is that BBEEE and Affirmative Action have led to large disproportionate over-employment of blacks compared to non-blacks. This is definitely possible - of those flag wavers I mentioned, I have yet to see a non-black one.
Yet another is that blacks are now closer to pumpkinperson's potential IQ than the other races. This would be the popular option with the establishment, since it implies blacks were treated even worse under apartheid than is commonly believed. Or that the post-apartheid government treats them better than non-blacks...
Incidentally, Warburg used the same analogy before I did: Getting rid of whites is as dumb as listening to Nongqawuse. And Peterson gives a mechanism for Diversity + Proximity = War: Diversity leads to inequality; unequal people in proximity leads to violence.
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