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Are you saying people in Europe, north America, and Russia are smarter than people in the rest of the world?
by sanswork 10y ago
Are you saying people in Europe, north America, and Russia are smarter than people in the rest of the world?
- redfieu 10y agoAcross East Asia birth rates are also well below replacement levels. A lot of the world's population growth is coming from rapid increases in Africa.
- sanswork 10y agoI mean the fact that you went and registered a throwaway to head down the path you're intending to gives away what you are really thinking.
- k__ 10y agoHow does they say this? Smarter people get fewer children. IQ is inheritable. This only says we get more and more dumber people around the world in general. Maybe parts of the world with more births get the m faster than the rest, but still everyone gets them.
- sanswork 10y agoThe OP said they are concerned with birth rates in those countries and they replied to the question why with a post about IQ.
- zolytan 10y agoI think this stems from the idea that smart people are having less children in those countries, not that those countries have smarter people. Who do you think is more likely to have 7 kids, an engineer or an unemployed person in rural Alabama?
- StavrosK 10y agoSmarter, better educated, the result is the same.
- coldtea 10y agoNo, he is saying that they have worse "nutrition" and less "butts in school", which increased the population's IQ in the past century. So if they predominate (and developed countries diminish) the general IQ might go down too.
- danbruc 10y agoThey are if you are willing to accept IQ scores as a proxy, the Wikipedia article for »IQ and the Wealth of Nations« [1] has a world map of average IQ scores. This whole topic is of course highly controversial because in some sense it is right around the corner of racism. There is substantial debate about the accuracy of the data, the magnitude of the effect, nature vs nurture, appropriateness of measuring IQ, biases in the methodology, the direction of the causal relation and so on. But if you stay away from the details behind the effect and just look at the measured data, you see an unequal distribution of average IQ scores across the globe. The effect may not be as large as the referenced book claims, but the difference has been confirmed by critical responses albeit with reduced magnitude. It is pretty hard if not impossible the get an unbiased picture of this topic, so I will leave it at this and ask you to dive into the rabbit hole yourself, I don't want to accidentally spread false claims because I am certainly no expert on this. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_the_Wealth_of_Nations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_the_Wealth_of_Nations