To: poconopundit
[How can this IQ data explain that the United States is way down on the list of High IQ nations?]
In fact, when you take out the effect of the roughly 25% of the US population that is black or Hispanic, you end up with a US average that is probably higher than every European nation. It’s not the average that gets you a Microsoft or a Boeing, but the guys at the very top. A high average is just an indicator that you have a higher and more numerous top end than the guys with a low average. We have the advantage, thanks to Europe’s antipathy to Jews, of housing more Ashkenazi Jews than exist in Israel.
24 posted on
11/01/2019 6:11:47 PM PDT by
Zhang Fei
(My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
To: Zhang Fei
Good analysis. I suspect there are a lot of farmers in China who have never seen an IQ test, so I’m not sure how the average worked out for them.
Another story for your intellectual amusement — H.L. Mencken Predicted Donald Trump.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3453208/posts
Some very nice discussion about the intelligence of the public — from the 1920’s.
Cheers.
26 posted on
11/01/2019 7:10:19 PM PDT by
poconopundit
(Will Kamel Harass pay reparations? Her ancestors were black Slave Owners in Jamaica.)
To: Zhang Fei
“” “” It’s not the average that gets you a Microsoft or a Boeing, but the guys at the very top.”” “”
It seems like Boeing run out of smart guys and who do you think work at Microsoft? Many aren’t Americans.
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