(March 6, 2016 at 12:00 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(March 5, 2016 at 11:28 pm)paulpablo Wrote: In relation to the resources question, that's the point I was making. Tool manipulation, the ability to gain resources, forward planning, team work, industry, delayed gratification that comes with forward planning. They point to higher intelligence.
Selling the land you have for instant gratification and resources without forward planning, with no thought about industry, can be signs of low intelligence.
Or desperation. Or being chased off the land by a religious rebellion or autocrat.
There are several possibilities. The fact that you stick to your own, and beg the question in your reply, says much about the (lack of) depth of thinking you've given this topic.
No I do take into account other possibilities, what I'm saying is simply that the things I mentioned are signs of higher intelligence. When people judge the intelligence of other animals it's the same things they look for, how well they use tools, forward planning, use of resources.
So you could say maybe the countries in Africa don't mine their own resources and sell the land to investors for immediate gratification because they are desperate, they don't score well on IQ tests because the tests are bias towards Asians and against Africans for some reason, countries in Asia have something in the land that helped the inhabitants in terms of agriculture, literacy, inventions and technology, the education system in their own country and in America is bias towards them, and the jobs market is also bias towards them. And in terms of crime rates it might just be Asian privilege as to why their reported crime rates are so low in America.
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