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Category Archives: IQ
Life Is An IQ Test
The dumb die young. REPORT: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – A 3-year-old boy found a handgun in his mother’s purse and fired just one shot that wounded both his parents at an Albuquerque motel on Saturday, police said. According to investigators, … Continue reading
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Africa, Asia Have Enormous Room For Improvement, Latin America Not So Much
Latinos (average IQ of 90 in America) are already performing as well as can be expected given their human capital. We should not expect them to do much better than they already do in the United States. They will be … Continue reading
WP: Why don’t black middle-class families enjoy the same level of economic security as their white counterparts?
The average black IQ in the United States is 85. That’s the highest average black IQ in the world because American blacks, on average, are 25% white. The average latino IQ in the US is 89, the average white IQ … Continue reading
Genetics and intelligence differences: five special findings
From Nature.com, the latest research on genes and IQ: Intelligence is a core construct in differential psychology and behavioural genetics, and should be so in cognitive neuroscience. It is one of the best predictors of important life outcomes such as … Continue reading
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IQ Correlates With Goodness
Not all high IQ people are moral, but high IQ people are more likely to empathize, to understand the benefits of cooperation, and to the see the future more clearly. In the 2014 movie, A Most Violent Year, about an … Continue reading
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WP: The paradox of oil- and gas-rich African nations: Plenty of natural resources, but still in need
The Washington Post reports: In her ongoing work about daily life in Angola, Ghana and Kenya, among other countries affected by the oil and gas activities, photographer Nicola Sacco has sought to understand the impact on youths and their local … Continue reading
No Welfare Without Contraception
If we could keep those with IQs under 90 from having kids, most of our problems would be solved. Here is some wisdom from down under: NO contraception, no dole – that’s the view of an ex-Labor Minister who believes … Continue reading
The Science Of Us
From comments to Steve Sailer: * Let’s accept that 80% of our current problems are caused by 20% of the population. But getting rid of that 20% presupposes that our problems were so bad that same was merited, right? Okay … Continue reading
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WP: Ebola’s lessons, painfully learned at great cost in dollars and human lives
The Washington Post misses the most important lesson of Ebola and AIDS and gonorrhea and the like — stupid people do stupid things and the more stupid people you let into your country, the more stupid the results. WP reports: … Continue reading
Airline safety correlates strongly with the average IQ of the home country of the airline
You really don’t want to fly Air Asia (a low-cost Malaysian airline) or Malaysia Air or Egypt Air or Iran Air or Air Zimbabwe. Instead, fly a white or a North-East Asian airline. It’s not a coincidence that Malaysia keeps … Continue reading