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I am not wrong. IQs of groups change. Neither are you wrong. IQs of individuals are predictive of their individual success. In support of your point, I don’t care how much time Jane Goodell spends with gorillas, they’ll never approach a human-level of intelligence. We humans are off the charts. The missing link is between us and non-human animals. I hate Charles Darwin and other evolutionists who argue that some groups of us are more evolved that other groups of us.

To return to my point (IQs of groups), nobody questions that a diet deficient in protein, and even in calories, contaminated water, and inadequate sanitation result in stunted human physical and mental growth; and, so, can keep an entire group down.

The open questions are: (1) how important is upbringing (prior to school), (2) early schooling, and (3) a vigorous, free market economy? The progressive left thinks they can use Head Start and Pre-K to make up for single-parent, welfare-dependent families. No.

That’s not the way white ethnics rose up in this country early during the 20th Century. And, that’s not what enables eastern Europeans to quickly catch-up to northern Europeans in IQ since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

If I may continue, over in Germany, they administer a test to incoming students to primary school. Can they read and do they know their numbers? Basically, the children of ethnic Germans do well on these tests and are placed in the second grade. They learn to read and their numbers at home, whether through some kind of formal education or simply from the culturally-rich environment provided by their families.

The ethnic Turk and Arab children, no, they don’t do well on the entrance tests and are placed into the first grade. It is very infrequent that any of the second group of children catch up to the German kids.

But. does their poor performance mean Turks and Arabs are genetically-inferior to Germans? Possibly, if this were all the evidence we have. But, taking all the evidence into account, the poor performance means the Turks and Arabs are socially-dysfunction. Their families are seeing to their youngsters starting to learn while at home.

If you love your children, make sure they are brought up in a culturally-rich, physically- and mentally invigorating household.