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Not at all so you may be right. I guess I was just thinking that more knowledge makes you more intelligent. In America I would expect skilled immigrants to be b
by dangoldin 18y ago
Not at all so you may be right. I guess I was just thinking that more knowledge makes you more intelligent. In America I would expect skilled immigrants to be bilingual and I think there is some data to show that immigrants tend to be more intelligent on average than the people in the country they left.
Your second point might also be an explanation - parents who want to teach their children a second language might be more caring about education and might contribute a lot of other benefits to the baby.
- pcc 18y agoAs to your first point; there are many counterexamples where the people that remain in their country are as multi-lingual on average as the people who emigrate. I would venture to say that level of ambition, education, opportunity & safety are more the factors influencing who would choose to emigrate and who wouldn't (or for whom the process would be administratively facilitated, since countries usually have profiles of desired immigrants), so I don't think its possible to infer a direct relation between language and intelligence by looking at skilled immigrants.