From Audacious Epigone:
In terms of physical appearance, do you think you are more attractive than average, average, or less attractive than average?:
The white distribution approximates a normal one. The non-white distributions display various levels of Lake Wobegon effect.
Race: Above Avg / Below Avg / Diff
White: 28 / 25 / 3
Black: 44 / 14 / 30
Hispanic: 40 / 17 / 23
Others: 33 / 17 / 16
We’re told society pedestalizes whites while causing people of color to feel bad about themselves. The data say otherwise.
White humility, reasonableness, realism, and/or self-loathing is a massive social factor in contemporary America, but it’s almost inconceivable in the Current Conversation.
If whites tend to be pretty good at honestly evaluating their strengths and weaknesses, while nonwhites tend to be narcissistic and, in the case of blacks, megalomaniacal in a sort of His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, CBE, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular sort of way … And nobody is allowed to point out the races’ respective biases, how can any outcomes other than mass delusion ensue?
