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Category Archives: IQ
NYT: A Brooklyn School’s Curriculum Includes Ambition
Winnie Hu reports: There are just three blocks between the housing project where Kareem Butler lives and Mott Hall Bridges Academy, where he is in seventh grade, was named a scholar of the month and plays on the basketball team. … Continue reading
LAT: IN RUSSIA, EARLY AFRICAN AMERICAN MIGRANTS FOUND THE GOOD LIFE
LATIMES.COM: Officials actively recruited skilled foreign laborers and professionals, Blakely said. About 18,000 Americans answered the call to work in the 1930s, he said. Among them were several hundred African Americans who traveled to the Soviet Union, including dozens who … Continue reading
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Bethlehem Movie 2013
At the beginning, the Arab teen protagonist seems to have an IQ of about 90. He gets a shoddy bulletproof vest and has a contest with a friend to see who is the most courageous and will get shot first … Continue reading
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The Manifold Blessings Of Ethiopian Jews
Richard Lynn writes in his book, The Chosen People: A Study of Jewish Intelligence and Achievement: Jewish children scored much higher than the other three groups on verbal ability, about the same as the Chinese on reasoning and numerical abilities, … Continue reading
The Chosen People: A Study of Jewish Intelligence and Achievement by Richard Lynn
Richard Lynn: “Many studies have shown that crime is predominantly committed by the less intelligent. Probably the main reasons for this are that the more intelligent have a better understanding of the costs of crime, and since they generally have … Continue reading
Jews, Gypsies And The Chinese
Kevin MacDonald writes in his review of Yuri Slezkine‘s book The Jewish Century: Slezkine imagines that the Gypsies and literate middleman groups like the Jews or Overseas Chinese differ not in intelligence but only in whether they express their intelligence … Continue reading
You Can’t Raise Your Kids’ IQ
From FoxNews: Researchers found that parental socialization had no detectable influence on children’s intelligence later in life. “Previous research that has detected parenting-related behaviors affect intelligence is perhaps incorrect because it hasn’t taken into account genetic transmission,” study author Kevin … Continue reading
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Poverty Lowers IQ
The news media love stories about things that lower IQ, such as poverty. Here’s a report from 2013: Poverty and all its related concerns require so much mental energy that the poor have less remaining brainpower to devote to other … Continue reading
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Why Is Africa A Disaster Zone?
On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: “African hospitals just can’t handle Ebola. And why is Africa so poor? Because of corruption. The brain power is there.” The average IQ in sub-saharan Africa is 70, which alone is enough … Continue reading
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Smart People Can Be Cruel, But Only Smart People Can Create A Good Prosperous Society
Hong Kong has about the highest IQ of any nation, so when they riot, they don’t loot. Same with Japan and Korea. Not so much with African countries and the Philippines, etc. Chaim: “High IQ or not, the Japanese were … Continue reading