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Both Singapore and Hong Kong are basically cities. That's like talking about the IQ of London/New York. They also have extensive air-conditioning.
by zazaraka 7y ago
Both Singapore and Hong Kong are basically cities. That's like talking about the IQ of London/New York. They also have extensive air-conditioning.
- fastball 7y agoSingapore and Hong Kong were cities before AC existed.
- octohedron 7y agoWasting your time with these pseudo-scientists, all they want to hear is that their cold weather genes are superior.
- ceejayoz 7y agoWas anyone IQ testing their populations for academic research before AC existed, though? I'm skeptical of the IQ heat idea - it'd be readily demonstrable if it existed - but the numbers available, particularly outside the US/Europe, are largely current/recent, not from pre-1950s.
- octohedron 7y agoWhat are you talking about? Italians score higher than northern Europe in all IQ tests. Maybe you have northern Europe ancestry and can't accept you're not the best white super advanced human? :(
- ceejayoz 7y ago1. I don't believe the heat idea. Nor the superior genes one. 2. That doesn't make "these cities existed without air conditioning" a good argument in this thread. Yes, they did. No, that doesn't debunk the heat/IQ linkage idea.
- octohedron 7y agoTrying to come up with more excuses to feel superior due to your northern European heritage? Sorry pal, smartest people are Asian and many times brown.
- zazaraka 7y agoThe fact that inside the USA, northern states have on average a higher IQ than southern ones, is that a racist fact too related to European heritage? > A paper recently published in the journal Psychological Reports concludes that of the 48 contiguous United States, those with cooler average temperatures tend to have populations with higher IQs. https://psmag.com/education/a-compensation-for-cold-weather-higher-iqs-25414 https://psmag.com/education/a-compensation-for-cold-weather-...
- octohedron 7y agoNice one with that article from 2010, I remember when that study came out and it's obviously flawed and one of the reasons why so many people ITT have agreed with this "heat-iq correlation". As everyone knows, the world is big, only ~4.3% of people live in the US. Unfortunately for you, the US it's not the center of the world. By the way, I couldn't care less about a study correlating the whitest and darkest states in the US, a country that shines in racism, academics in there probably go out of their way to make brown people look bad, like that pseudo scientist James Watson. Quoted from your article: > the ancestors of Swedes and Norwegians who were clever and resourceful enough to survive in that harsh climate passed down those heightened mental abilities to their descendants. That's really funny, since the smartest people in the world are Asians and Italians. What northern Europeans are superior though, in the US mostly, is assuming they are better. Going out of their way with mental models to consider themselves superior.