(March 5, 2016 at 1:08 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(March 5, 2016 at 9:06 am)paulpablo Wrote: I don't know what the Stanford Binet tests are, I just used a google search to find the results. They seemed like they might be accurate to me because I thought the results are pretty much reflected in other signs of IQ.
Stanford-Binet is the test with which IQ is determined.
Me, I think you're using IQ and intelligence interchangeably when they are not the same thing at all.
(March 5, 2016 at 9:06 am)paulpablo Wrote: Like Asian countries are at the top, Asians earn more than most in America, tend to do better in school, Asian countries have a history of innovation when it comes to language and inventions and so on, high life expectancy, low crime rate.
In comparison to say, the lower countries on the chart like Ethiopia with huge levels of poverty, high crime rate, corruption, high illiteracy, not much recent innovation in terms of technology.
A lot of these differences can obviously be put down to purely economic differences but I'd be willing to bet that the differences in economy can be put down to how a country performs in ways that can be expressed through intelligence, like technology, arts, finance, law, language and so on.
I'm not saying the results are all perfect or that they are due to genetics either.
I think your analysis is deeply flawed because it makes no mention of things like natural resources, location on trade routes, history of the locale where the nation is and many other factors that have absolutely nothing to do with the native intelligence of the people living there.
It's not an analysis, it's just an observation. You have one part of the world where the inhabitants achieves high on IQ tests, a history of innovation, highly dominant in the technology market and the people from these places occupy high IQ jobs and achieve high comparatively to others in school tests, along with a long lifespan, good economy, relatively good crime rate.
And as for natural resources, Chinese companies are mining in Africa, which leads me to believe there must be at least some natural resources that are lacking in China that are't lacking in Africa. There are some theories that say a lack of resources is actually a cause of some groups of people developing higher intelligence, without environments rich in immediate resources people have to develop forward planning, agriculture, tools and so on.
And then you have countries around central Africa that are basically the opposite, high crime rate, bad economy, not much innovation in recent history, no significant technological discoveries or significant technological market, they score low on the IQ tests, altogether that to me would point to the fact that maybe the inhabitants have lower IQ.
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