Taiwan 13th Smartest in World, 4th in IQ

[crusher]

@Dr_Milker

@sampomixer

This is a fence not a wall.

A wall would obviously work better, but a fence is better than nothing.

The fence on Hungary’s border has so far been very successful in reducing refugees trying to enter Hungary.Hungarian border barrier - Wikipedia

[IbisWtf]

You guys on the “IQ tests are racist” side know that, for example, within the US all IQ tests are standardized, right? And that even within the same nation, from people who grow up in the same culture, the correlation between race and IQ is still there and easy to spot?

Source: http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/PifferIntelligence2015.pdf

The way you guys get up in arms trying to deny a well demonstrated scientific correlation makes it sound as if iq tests were racist because they test white university students from the US against some hobo in Uganda. That’s not how these tests works.

[crusher]

What’s a hobo ?

[Gain]

@crusher

The fence on Hungary’s border has so far been very successful in reducing refugees trying to enter Hungary.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_border_barrier

Hungary is also bar-none the most embarrassing case of democratic backsliding since the establishment of the Union.

Besides, the number refugees have decreased all over Europe.

[sampomixer]

All these figures are completely made up, and I don’t trust any of the data provided. Especially by asian countries.

[sampomixer]

China has superhigh IQ but just spends 27$ per capita on education… yeah seems right…

[OysterOmelet]

Africa’s economic growth rate is now higher than he world average. Guess Africans are now more intelligent than everyone. Damn! Intelligence evolves fast!

[sampomixer]

I guess they don’t even care about these kinds of polls.

[sampomixer]

With some half decent education an average Joe can reach about 100 IQ.

[sampomixer]

At least our personality doesn’t suck so much.

[OysterOmelet]

@finley

@OysterOmelet

The part of Africa that was more advanced was part of the fertile crescent, not sub-saharan Africa.

More-or-less true. However that doesn’t alter the fact that that part of the world (crudely speaking, the bit that had trading and cultural links with Mesopotamia) is now as much of a shithole as sub-Saharan Africa.

In any case, the extreme desertification of that continent was mostly a result of human action (hubris rather than stupidity). The whole continent has a fairly brittle ecosystem, but the band of countries which are now the poorest-of-the-poor really only have themselves to blame for rampant ecosystem destruction.

Oh, so if the Middle East is poor, it’s hubris. If Africa is poor, it’s stupidity. Got it.

@OysterOmelet

There are no big domesticable animals I’m Africa or Latin America to multiply force like there are in Eurasia.

This is a daft idea dreamed up by sunlight-averse academics who have never built anything or put their hands in the soil. Most of the planet’s progress was built upon human labour and (more importantly) human ideas, not sheer brute force. In fact it was the introduction of the plough and draft animals by the Romans which was partly responsible for the massive soil erosion that created deserts.

@OysterOmelet

Furthermore, that those two continents run north south instead of east-west means plant domestication is impossible t9 spread because he climate changes when you move that direction.

Are you serious? Where on earth did you get this from? Apart from the obvious fact that countries are not one-dimensional, most civilisations developed landrace crops for their own unique microclimate. Example: there are thousands of varieties of wheat (or wheat relatives) adapted for various latitudes; some thrive in the extreme north and some will grow in the subtropics.

In any case, the most useful plants in the tropics are trees and grasses, not annuals.

Oh gosh. Yes, I’m sure physiologists never go outside.

If you go North-South, the climate changes. If you go East-west, it doesn’t, for the most part. Amazon.com

[finley]

@OysterOmelet

Africa’s economic growth rate is now higher than he world average.

20% increase on $500 per capita GNP is still a lot less than 1% increase on $50,000.

[crusher]

embarrassing on whose part ?

[finley]

@OysterOmelet

Oh, so if the Middle East is poor, it’s hubris. If Africa is poor, it’s stupidity. Got it.

I was referring to some specific historical events involving the growth of cities beyond the ecological carrying capacity of their environment. The deserts are full of the ruins of once-great cities, and stupid people don’t build great cities. Therefore hubris not stupidity.

@OysterOmelet

If you go North-South, the climate changes. If you go East-west, it doesn’t, for the most part.

I know. So what? Spell it out for me, because it sounds like you’re saying plants don’t grow outside of … I dunno, the latitudes where white people live?

[OysterOmelet]

@finley

@OysterOmelet

Oh, so if the Middle East is poor, it’s hubris. If Africa is poor, it’s stupidity. Got it.

I was referring to some specific historical events involving the growth of cities beyond the ecological carrying capacity of their environment. The deserts are full of the ruins of once-great cities, and stupid people don’t build great cities. Therefore hubris not stupidity.

@OysterOmelet

If you go North-South, the climate changes. If you go East-west, it doesn’t, for the most part.

I know. So what? Spell it out for me, because it sounds like you’re saying plants don’t grow outside of … I dunno, the latitudes where white people live?

Plant domestication cannot spread.

[finley]

@OysterOmelet

Plant domestication cannot spread.

I really have no idea what you’re talking about. What do you mean by “domestication”? People grow useful plants across the entire surface of the globe, excluding the extreme North and South.

[OysterOmelet]

@finley

@OysterOmelet

Africa’s economic growth rate is now higher than he world average.

20% increase on $500 per capita GNP is still a lot less than 1% increase on $50,000.

Who cares. World wealth has been evening out forever now. The intelligence thingy is gonna get out of style.

[OysterOmelet]

@finley

@OysterOmelet

Plant domestication cannot spread.

I really have no idea what you’re talking about. What do you mean by “domestication”? People grow useful plants across the entire surface of the globe, excluding the extreme North and South.

Not the same plants.

[BHL4life]

if Taiwanese have such a high IQ then why do they work unpaid overtime for zero benefit? its a simple equation. work more, get paid nothing extra, and lose free-time. i don’t see intelligent people doing that.

[sampomixer]

maybe people with higher iq but score lower on eq and personality…