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Posted by SMAZ on Tue May 1 12:15:27 2012, in response to Re: HBD -- Farming and Inheritance, posted by JayMan on Tue May 1 12:05:24 2012. 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).No, it's because the smart people in Appalachia leave. Those smart people bring up the average IQ in the areas where they move to. NYC is composed mostly of people from areas that you describe as low IQ, yet it has one of the highest IQs in the nation. Can this be because the smartest people from all over the place move here rather than something magical in the water? They have, and I've proven that wrong. Again, seems highly intellectually unkosher of you to dismiss the effects of centuries of farm economics. It seems even more intellectually unkosher of you to prefer going with ridiculous "data" from when the population was a tiny fraction of what it's been in the last 100 years and where historical comparisons would be impossible over the well-known and documented historical, economical, social and demographic phenomenons of the last 6-10-15 decades. 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. The plague, bad sanitation, TB and wars sucked for everyone. |
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