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Btw I don't think the China thing is actually true unless genius means something like top 20%. I would imagine genius meaning something closer to top 1%.
by alexmlamb2 10y ago
Btw I don't think the China thing is actually true unless genius means something like top 20%. I would imagine genius meaning something closer to top 1%.
- rijoja 10y agoYes 20 % of China's population is roughly the population. So it's a fancy way of saying that China is five times as big as the U.S. Which it is! The real interesting comparison lies elsewhere. Also we have to take into account that we can not use the same tests on intelligence on both populations.
- alexmlamb2 10y ago"The real interesting comparison lies elsewhere. Also we have to take into account that we can not use the same tests on intelligence on both populations." I actually think that intelligence test questions have highly correlated difficulty when given to people from different cultures (even more different than US/China). I.e. there's broad agreement in terms of what questions are hard/easy.