and your point is?

that the quotes obviously don't give the full context they were posted in but that doesn't mean they are misrepresenting your position. seriously, learn to read - that one was as obvious as it could have been...

it wasnt, but i wont disturb you in your parallel universe, where labelling people is some kind of argument
us being superior to africans in one way or another is not an opinion, its a fact

Most skeptics would usually rather die than accept that there are strict correlations between Race, IQ, and the average standard of living of a civilization.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/race-iq-and-wealth/

It takes a very materialistic mindset to measure human happiness in stuff.

Which cultures have higher suicide rates?

Its not that correlations don't exist, it's that you have to have a very simplistic understanding of the material to think they are meaningful. Iq tests are much more bullshit than people realize.

I think the big hidden variable which is creating this correlation is school-attendance and technology.

the intellectual potential of an individual might be determined by a certain percentage from his or her genes. but like a muscle, the mind must be exercised to reach its potential.

a kid growing up in the industrialized countries spends the defining first 18 years of his or her life going to school where the brain is constantly exercised by high-quality, high-complexity material and teaching. as opposed to the backwoods schools they might have in africa...

moreover, living in a high-tech society with complex forms of organisation is certainly more stimulating to the brain. compare this to someone who grows up in a third-world country. for example as a sheperd, interacting with only the same 20 people from his local tribe day in day out and with "heating the tent with camel dung" as the scientific highlight of his life. to me, it is obvious that the former lifestyle will naturally lead to a higher measured IQ than the latter.

in this sense, I think that modern, industrial societies cause a higher IQ population, and not the other way round. as low as I think of african/middle eastern societies and their people, I honestly dont think that a "genetically lower IQ" is the reason.
I'm a supporter of the wealth-makes-IQ hypothesis.

Ampoo, the champion eugenics needs.

Triple butthurt kill. I hit a truth nerve.



Technology and upbringing accounts for only 15% of IQ differences. Read the article.

This post was edited by EndlessSky on Jul 11 2017 08:22pm