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I hope you really mean "emigrants", so smart people leaving their home countries, leaving the aging population that was not capable of going abroad. And I thin
by erikb 9y ago
I hope you really mean "emigrants", so smart people leaving their home countries, leaving the aging population that was not capable of going abroad.
And I think people downvote because they assume you mean "immigrants" being stupid and thereby decreasing the average IQ in countries with lots of immigrants.
The second statement I would also downvote, but until I'm convinced of the opposite I assume you mean the first.
- John_KZ 9y agoAh, that makes sense. I did mean emigrants. Emmigration and immigration have no correlation with IQ regardless. The lever of education sometimes does dictate who migrates (due to legal requirements or financial motivation for example), but the paper requires only basic arithmetic so it wouldn't have much of an effect anyway. At this point I'm used to getting downvoted for no obvious reason so I don't even bother to ask why.
- erikb 9y agoMy experience is also that the randomness increased over the recent years. That also means sometimes I get 40+ points for something that wasn't even worth one upvote in my opinion.