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Posted by JayMan on Tue May 17 00:45:44 2011, in response to Re: Why Socialism Doesn't Work In America (not that it can't), posted by SMAZ on Mon May 16 18:58:24 2011. >>>>The score that Richard Lynn initially obtained for Italy that he reported in IQ and the Wealth of Nations no doubt comes from northern Italy. His subsequent research has shown that within the country, there appears to be a decline of at least 5 IQ points as you from north to south. Southern Italians seem to have greater North African admixture, as do all Southern Europeans (~10% for the Portuguese, for example).That hardly matters. I wouldn't say that, a mere 7 points in terms of average IQ seems to separate most continental Europeans and the Celts and their descendants in Appalachia, and we see how that works out (although a level of selection within country may have lowered their scores a bit).... The fact remains that when it comes to IQ, no people on Earth exceed that of the residents of Italy except for those in five East Asian countries/entities. I wouldn't say that either. It's safe to say that Italy as a whole is roughly comparable to the rest of Europe in IQ. Your analysis about Northern and Southern Italy is also widely off the mark since the majority of African and Middle Eastern immigrants to Italy are concentrated in the North. Considering that immigrants are about 7.5% of the Italian population as a whole, they are probably more than twice that % in the north which makes the north much more genetically African than whatever latent genetic material Southerners may have from the Saracens of 700 years ago. You're correct, upon looking into it I found that genetic analysis seems to indicate minimal admixture of North Africans in the south. That said, the people need not have North African admixture to score a few points lower in average IQ (as the Scots and Irish demonstrate). In any case, small differences in average IQ doesn't rule out larger differences in typical behavioral traits. Native Americans, and by extension Latinos, who have higher IQ's than American Blacks (~90 vs 85, respectively) still perform much more poorly than their IQ's alone would suggest (even considering mostly Mestizo Latinos like Mexicans, as opposed to more Mulatto ones of the Caribbean). |
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