“Prestige is an accident that affects human beings. It comes into being and decays inevitably. No human being exists who possesses an unbroken pedigree of nobility from Adam down to himself. The only exception was made in the case of the Prophet, as a special act of divine grace to him, and as a measure designed to safeguard his true character.
“Nobility originates in the state of being outside. That is, being outside of leadership and nobility and being in a base, humble station, devoid of prestige. This means that all nobility and prestige is preceded by the non-existence of nobility and prestige, as is the case with every created thing.
“It reaches its end in a single family within four successive generations.
Kobe Bryant is an exceptional professional basketball player. His father was a “journeyman”. Similarly, Barry Bonds and Ken Griffey Jr. both surpassed their fathers as baseball players. Both of Archie Manning’s sons are superior quarterbacks in relation to their father. This is not entirely surprising. Though there is a correlation between parent and offspring in their traits, that correlation is imperfect.
Note though that I put journeyman in quotes above because any success at the professional level in major league athletics indicates an extremely high level of talent and focus. Kobe Bryant’s father was among the top 500 best basketball players of his age. His son is among the top 10. This is a large realized difference in professional athletics, but across the whole distribution of people playing basketball at any given time it is not so great of a difference.
What is more curious is how this related to the reality of regression toward the mean. This is a very general statistical concept, but for our purposes we’re curious about its application in quantitative genetics. People often misunderstand the idea from what I can tell, and treat it as if there is an orthogenetic-like tendency of generations to regress back toward some idealized value.
Going back to the basketball example: Michael Jordan, the greatest basketball player in the history of the professional game, has two sons who are modest talents at best. The probability that either will make it to a professional league seems low, a reality acknowledged by one of them. In fact, from what I recall both received special attention and consideration because they were Michael Jordan’s sons. It is still noteworthy of course that both had the talent to make it onto a roster of a Division I NCAA team. This is not typical for any young man walking off the street. But the range in realized talent here is notable. Similarly, Joe Montana’s son has been bouncing around college football teams to find a roster spot. Again, it suggests a very high level of talent to be able to plausibly join a roster of a Division I football team. But for every Kobe Bryant there are many, many, Nate Montanas. There have been enough generations of professional athletes in the United States to illustrate regression toward the mean.
The Son Also Rises | West Hunter
Simple Mobility Models | West Hunter
Simple Mobility Models II | West Hunter
Cochran on it:
In the short run, from one generation to the next, luck plays a big role. In the longer run, the fact that the subpopulation being examined has a different genotypic average, one more likely to result in high status, means that regression to the mean of the general population is slow for the subgroup, essentially caused by gradual change in its average genotype, change produced by intermarriage with individuals who on average have a less favorable genotype. Other than high heritability, the other prerequisite for this pattern is highly assortative mating for moxie. If two groups have different average amounts of moxie, complete endogamy (as in Indian castes) would ensure that the between-group difference would continue indefinitely, disregarding selection.
So is that it? Is this long-term transmission of legacy genetic? It appears that way. The pattern that we see is much what one would expect of a lineage over time if, collectively, the additive genetic components of this success factor was largely passed on from one generation to the next. Indeed, it really shouldn’t be any different. The individual variation is caused by a variety of factors, including environmental “luck”, non-additive genetic effects, developmental noise, and spousal genetic contribution (which may help or hinder). But, the key point, when the whole clan is considered at once, all these sources of variance should more or less cancel out. The only thing that breeds true is the additive genetic variance, and, in any large clan, that should pass on fairly uninterrupted from one generation to the next. The whole clan’s short-term generation-to-generation variance can be caused by variation in local circumstances that may help or hinder the entire lineage. That too should, over the generations, cancel out, in good part. The success of the clan over time is then dictated by its evolutionary fitness and the degree of assortative mating.
Assortative mating is key to perpetuating this process. The more assortative mating there is, the more each clan (which, by the way, is a fitting term in this instance, even for NW European societies, where there are no “clans” in HBD Chick‘s sense) retains the genes for success (or failure) and the slower the regression to mean. Non-assortative mating is the hole through which genes leak out over time, hastening regression and familial turn-over throughout the ages.
https://jaymans.wordpress.com/2015/10/21/regression-to-the-mean/
Let’s start with what regression to the mean is. Above is an illustration of a bell curve. A set of parents that lie out on the curve away from the mean will indeed tend to have children that are closer to the average. Hence, if a set of parents are +2 standard deviations for a trait, their children will be typically some degree closer to the mean.
The first thing to clear up is that regression to the mean operates in both directions. Just as parents +2σ will have children some degree less far off to the right on the curve, parents –2σ will have children some degree less far off to the left. That is, children of parents who are below average for a trait regress up.
To clear up some additional confusion, let’s look at what causes regression to the mean. The root of the phenomenon goes back to behavioral genetics, or more broadly heritability. Human traits have several components that contribute to trait variance. They are:
As we’ve seen before, we know that A is typically 50-60%, D 10-20%, C is 0%, and E the remaining 20-30%.
The key fact is that for the transmission of a trait from parent to child, only A and C carry over to the next generation. But, as we know, C is 0; so that only leaves A. The rest, including non-additive heredity (which is basically fortuitous combinations of alleles) and whatever remaining “non-genetic” factors that constitute E (and all the things that comprise that, see Environmental Hereditarianism) are essentially luck. And since we can’t expect lightning to strike twice (as improper as that metaphor is), regression to the mean happens because luck goes away.
Look At This Wedding Photo. Look At My Brothers Mates. Were Just Poor, Average MEXICANS. We're Not White And Wealthy Like I've Tried To Portray Us. What Am I Talking About? What I'm Talking About Is The Fact That My Father Unfortunately And Unwisely Married And Had Children With A MEXICAN* Then 2 Of My Brothers (Steven And Gery) Followed Suit. My Father Had Superior Genes (Genes That Led Him To Have A High IQ And High Athletic Ability), But He Wasted Those Genes** On An Inferior MEXICAN Then 2 Of My Brothers Did The Same (Had Children With MEXICANS That Were Even More Inferior). Now Look At My Father's Descendants. They're A Motley Crew Of Mix Matched, Multiracial, Mutts That Lack His Intelligence And Athleticism. See That UGLY NIGGER? I Have NO IDEA Who He Is. But I Have An Idea Of How He Wound Up With My Niece****! I'll Tell You How In A Second! But Before I Tell You, Let ME Tell You This - I Want Nothing To Do With That Couple And Their Mongrel Child And I'm Angered, Ashamed, And Embarrassed By The Fact That My Niece (Who Didn't Know Her Grandfather Very Well Or Her Father Very Well) Tainted My Father's Bloodline By Having A Child With That Inferior African (NIGGER)!
(See That Hispanic Looking Boy Standing By Himself At My Nephew Dallas's Wedding? That's The Boy Diane Went To Guatemala To Adopt. Diane Has One Biological Son And Wanted Another, But Was Unable To Conceive (Likely Because Of Her Older Age) So Her Catholic, Compassionate, Sympathetic, Mothering Mind Decided To Adopt A Child From A 3rd World Country!)
http://vengeanceizmine.blogspot.com/2014/07/thirty-three.html
http://methalashun.blogspot.com/2014/05/devils-pi.html
TO BE CONTINUED...
See That Hispanic Girl Next To David. That's His 2nd Or 3rd Latina Girlfriend. After First Meeting Her In Redondo I Told Him To NEVER Again Bring That MEXICAN Around Us! And He Told ME She's Not MEXICAN and I told him, "I don't give a damn what she is. Don't bring that MEXICAN around us again." He Recently Moved To Texas, So I Told Him That He Should Moved To Mexico With His MEXICAN Girlfriend And MEXICAN Family Since He's Right Next To Mexico! I Hate MEXICANS. https://www.instagram.com/nativemeadow/ Here's His Oldest Son. He Seems To Have Tarnished My Father's Line Of Descent As Well. How? By Marrying And Procreating With A Piece Of Shit Mexican!
https://www.facebook.com/katy.dagampat
Secondly, My Father Would NEVER Support The Anti-TMT Movement. Why Does Katy Have An Anti-TMT Logo Surrounding My Father's Face? Because She's Been Associating With My Aunt Leimomi's Family For The Past 20-Years (A Family That My Father, Mother, And Siblings Have No Tie/Connection To) And That Social Group Has Influenced Her To Associate Herself With That Cause (Katy Wants To Be Accepted By Them (Katy Is The Only Person In My Family To Associate With My Aunt Leimomi's Family)). Thirdly, See The Mexicans Katy's Pictured With In These Photos? Those Are People That She Works With At The Church She Currently Works At. In Elementary, Junior High, High School, And After High School The Majority Of Her Friends Were EAST ASIAN (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) And Filipino. But I Guess She's Phased Out Of That Asian Phase.
*From A Young Age I've Repeatedly Told My Mom, "Dad Should Have NEVER Had Children With You!" Why? because She's Not My Dad's Equal Intellectually, Athletically, Etc.
Hey, allow me to repeat something to you all. If you spent time around my mother and siblings you'd soon realize that we're NOT MEXICAN at least not culturally MEXICAN And if you'd spent time around my father you wouldn't have known what to make of him because he FIT NO CATEGORY (he wasn't Hawaiian or Filipino culturally; culturally he was WHITE, but he knew Black culture and Mexican culture well and could blend in and be accepted by both).
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