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Posted by JayMan on Tue May 1 12:05:24 2012, in response to Re: HBD -- Farming and Inheritance, posted by SMAZ on Tue May 1 11:42:17 2012. You're not exactly being very helpful in investigating this. It sounds more like you don't want to believe it. Is it best to dismiss what I'm saying out of hand rather than examine it?Even those IQs are still higher than those in most parts of America. Not really. They're mostly comparable to the regions of reduced average IQ in the States (e.g., Appalachia), in good part because the people in many of these areas descend from one of these low-IQ areas of Europe (in this case the Northwestern British Isles). As has been pointed out repeatedly, lower IQs in those regions in 2012 have to do with 20th century migration patterns and brain drain, not 14th century farm economics. They have, and I've proven that wrong. Again, seems highly intellectually unkosher of you to dismiss the effects of centuries of farm economics. >>Here's a question, how was life for the average Joe in Southern Italy in these times? What was the traditional farm in Sicily like? In the Middle Ages? It sucked. Just like it sucked everywhere else. The devil is in the details, my friend. Precisely how things sucked and for who makes a world of difference as to who was more successful in leaving descendants to the present day, which is what we're interested in. |
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