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Realist's avatar

Thanks for the excellent article on intelligence and social status.

"There are two such studies, both of which found that intelligence is the key predictor, along with being poor to begin with (we might add, not having communism)."

Merit is essential in the level of social status one obtains, at least in a just society. And communism is anti-merit.

"One idea is to construct a set of very varied questions concerning nothing in particular on the surface."

This is intriguing.

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Cassian's avatar

At the moment, seems like intelligence research is just held back by data. More should be done to acquire testing scores from third world countries, if they exist.

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Timothy Kasuka's avatar

I agree. Anyone have any ideas on where I can find any newish data on African IQ scores? As far as when the tests were administered. Ideally from the 2010s until now.

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Realist's avatar

"At the moment, seems like intelligence research is just held back by data."

That is somewhat true, but there are also those who are not fond of reality.

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Cassian's avatar

There will always be those who never accept it, but half the arguments I hear against Lynn is just "muh equatorial guinea" and other copes about low quality data. If we had high quality data for Africa, it would bolster the argument more, and also allow more research into correlations.

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Realist's avatar

"If we had high quality data for Africa, it would bolster the argument more, and also allow more research into correlations."

I agree it should, but I question whether it would.

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Michael Watts's avatar

> In general though, each state orders them hierarchically, so that the nation unit is split into a number of first-order administrative divisions, then these split into second-order divisions and so on, and even if units have different names, they are still in the same level of the hierarchy.

Well, maybe. I think it's pretty common for cities to outrank the counties/provinces to which they notionally belong. You might expect the governor of New York State to be more important than the mayor of New York City, but in fact it's the other way around. As far as the administrative divisions go, though, New York City is (mostly) contained within New York State despite that.

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Daniel's avatar

Man, can I ask you to take a look at this?It claims conservatives don't have good mental health https://medium.com/3streams/do-conservatives-really-have-better-mental-health-perhaps-not-4d6e829d17d5

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DeepLeftAnalysis🔸's avatar

Large geographic differences in intelligence between neighboring countries seems to either cause conflict, or be a result of conflict (brain drain, malnutrition).

- Somalia has a gap with Kenya.

- Sudan (Islamic) vs South Sudan (Christian).

- Northern Nigeria (Islamic) has a gap with Southern Nigeria (Christian).

- Yemen has a massive gap with Saudi Arabia.

- Afghanistan has a gap with Iran.

- Syria has a gap with Turkey.

- Tibet has a gap with Beijing.

- Malaysia has a gap with Thailand.

- Ukraine vs Poland.

I suspect that IQ gaps in these regions could be ameliorated with increased security.

This map also indicates that mass Mexican or South African immigration would be preferable to mass Indian immigration, and not much different from mass Chinese immigration (non-selective).

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Michael Watts's avatar

> Tibet has a gap with Beijing.

How are we attributing that to an intelligence difference? Tibet was taken by the Manchus as part of their general program of conquering outside of China; it's basically impossible to say an intelligence difference caused the conflict then. The conflict now is a pretty straightforward affair of having deep and longstanding cultural differences.

(Also, where are you seeing data on Tibet?)

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Random Musings and History's avatar

Chinese perform much better on PISA than Latin Americans do, though.

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Luke's avatar

International Tard Patrol

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