Category Archives: IQ

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

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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

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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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